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LL Few people are aware of the existence of a small hostelry near Slyne Head, on the west coast of Ireland. The coal- black rocks and precipitous promontories of that desolate region render the scenery imposing; and the storms, which are fre- quent. form a spectacle that is nothing less than magnificent. The whole force of the Atlantic breaks against those aw- ful cliffs, and the half-wild inhabitants of the region will tell you that. in win- ter, the spray is sometimes dashed 300 feet in air. Fishing is almost the sole occupation of the natives. The nearest railway station is at Westport, thirty miles away, whence the explorer must travel either on foot or upon the dilap- idated ‘‘jaunting-car’? that serves as a stage, and is driven by Pat Maguire, who is also the proprietor of the inn. But explorers are as few as snowflakes in June; and for several years previous to the date of this Story, Dr. Griffith Gramery had been the only visitor. The doctor was not a comely man. He had a big, square head, covered with grizzled red hair, which stood upright; thick eyebrows hanging far down over a pair of small but extraordinarily piercing eyes: a large nose and mouth, and a broad, short chin. His head was set low down upon bread shoulders: his arms were long, but his body rather small and short. The peasants held him in superstitious awe and respect, be- lieving him to be in league with Satan, probably because he bad once or twice j exercised upon them a remarkable mag- netizing power that he possessed. But as all his dealings with them had been | beneficent, they mingléd their awe with affection. A man may be hand-in glove with the evil one, and yet avery good fellow at bottom. This season, Dr. Gramery arrived, as usual, abeut the Ist of October; but he explained to Pat Maguire that a young lady and gentleman, friends of his, would come on the 7th of the month, and would expect Pat to be at Westport railway station to drive them over. The doctor, it seems, had met Mr. and Mrs. Roger Mowbray in London during the previous season, and had sung the praises of Slyne Head eloquently that the young couple—they were in their honeymoon— had promised to come over and spenda So week there. They proved as good as their word, and on the evening of the appointed day they drove up on the jaunting-car, and were cordially wel- comed at the inn door by the doctor. The moon was close to the full, and the air soft and mild. After supper the three friends strolled out on the cliffs; and Roger Mowbray and his wife both confessed that they had never seen so grand a Sight. The rocks are full of caves, some midway in the face of inac- cessible precipices, some so low down as to be covered at high water. The coast everywhere jagged and _ irregular. Slyne Head itself is a beetling pinnacle of rock, overhanging its base, which is 400 feet below its summit. The party made their way thither and sat down to contemplate the prospect. The ocean, rising in its vast sweep to the horizon, was luminous beneath the moon; and where the surf broke on the ragged teeth of the rocks far below it looked like great drifts of snow against the blackness. ‘‘How glorious and terrible it is!’ exclaimed Mrs. Mowbray. ‘‘After this, I can understand and almost believe in all the legends of ghosts and hobgob- lins that Ireland is famous for !”’ ‘“‘None but spirits of light and love- liness should become visible to you, fair lady,”’ said the Doctor. Who had a courtly, chivalrous way with women, which, partly on account of the odd con- trast with his ugliness and eccentricity, made him a favorite with the sex. ‘‘But the people hereabouts are certainly very superstitions: and, to confess the truth, I have occasionally amused myself by playing off afew juggleries upon them. They take me for a magician: and it keeps them from bothering me when I want to be undisturbed. I have only to make afew cabalistic passes, and they run as if the devil were after them.”’ ‘T recollect your alluding, in London, to your powers in that direction,’’ ob- served Roger, ‘‘You promised to give us an illustration some time. What more fitting time could there be than this ?”’ “Oh, I wish you would, Dr. Gramery !’ exclaimed Mrs. Mowbray. ‘‘I never saw anything of that sort.”’ “And I faney your husband doubts whether anybody ever saw anything of the sort,’’ returned the doctor, laughing, and fixing his brillianteyes on the young man’s face. ‘He is askeptic.’’ “Say an agnostic,’’ rejoined Roger, with a smile. ‘I will believe what I see.’ “Tf that be your only stipulation, I coul® easily astonish you,’’ the Doctor answered. ‘‘The eyesight and all the senses are readily deceived. Moreover, 3 is g unless lam much mistaken, yours isa’ temperament that lends itself to such impressions. I should expect to be more successful in deceiving you than your wife; though she looks half a_ spirit already, while you have the thews and sinews of an athlete.”’ ‘Well, all I can say is, lam prepared for the test,’’ replied Roger, still smiling, though with somewhat of an effort. The Doctor’s eyes had a singular sparkle. It was difficult to look away from them. For a full minute, the Doctor remained silent and immovable, gazing in a pre- occupied manner at Roger Mowbray, who gazed back at him. Mrs. Mowbray, meanwhile, had become interested in watching the flight of a great sea-bird, which, after poising itself in air ona lovel with their position, suddenly swooped downward, and alighted ona rock, surrounded by waves, near the foot of the cliff. “Look at me!’ abruptly cried the Doctor, in a sharp, imperious tone, springing to his feet. ‘‘I am going to jump down the precipice, and stand be- side that sea-fowl. Look! Roger Mow- bray, Pmiof!? Roger started up with a gasp of horror and amazement. ‘‘Good God! the man is killed!’ he cried out in a wild tone. He stood gazing fearfully and breath- lessly over the cliff, peering downward as if following the descent of a heavy body through the air.” But after a mo- ment he raised himself, trembling and aghast, the sweat standing on his fore- head. ‘It’s amiracle !’’ he said, husk- ily; ‘such a thing was never known! he fell 400 feet, and now there he stands at the bottom, nodding and waving his hand! Merciful heaven! what a thing to see !”’ “Why, Roger!’ exclaimed his wife, half laughing and half alarmed, ‘‘how absurdly you act! Anyone would think you were crazy! What are you talking about the Doctor being down the cliff, when he has not moved a foot away from you? Why, what’s the matter with VOU 2/7 Her husband paid not the slightest at- tention to her. He continued to stare down at the rock on which the sea-bird was seated. emitting ever and anon inar- ticulate ejaculations. 5 ‘‘He does not hear you, Mrs. Mow- bray,’’ remarked the Doctcr, speaking aside to her. ‘‘He is in what may be termed an abnormally imaginative state, in which one mistakes fancies for facts. He really believes that I jumped off the cliff and alighted on that rock; and noth- ing that you could say to him would change his conviction. Curious, is it not 2’? ‘But what is the cause of it? never like this Pp? eried He was she, be- “Can laid before! coming more and more alarmed. nothing be done? Roger!’ She her hand on her husband’s arm, but he moved away from her. ‘‘He doesn’t know me!’ she exclaimed, in terror. “Ob, what shall I do 2’? ‘“‘My dear Mrs. Mowbray.”’’ interposed the Doctor, smiling comfortably in the moonlight, ‘‘give yourself no uneasiness; it is the simplest thing in the world. Your husband is partially asleep—that is all. A certain portion of his brain—that which discriminates between truth and imagination—has temporarily ceased to operate; it has been inhibited, to use the scientific term; or, if you want another phrase, your husband is in a hypnotie trance. Of course, you have heard of hypnotism, and you are aware how com- monly it now practiced. and how amusing some of its manifestations are. It also has the advantage of being en- tirely harmless. -The trance can be broken as easily as it can be induced.”’ “Oh, but I don’t like Roger to be hyp- notized ’’ she protested, still agitated. “I want him to know me and hear me! Please make him come back to me, Dr. Gramery.”’ “Your word is law, my dear lady,’ said the good doetor, with perfect amia- bility. He turned to the young man, and, drawing him a little to one side, ap- peared to whisper something in his ear. Then he clapped his hands sharply to- gether, and called out, ‘‘Hello, Mowbray! Here we are!’’ Mowbray glanced up, yawned, passed his hand over his forehead, and then, looking at the Doctor with evident per- plexity, said: ‘‘Aren’t you wet? How did you get up here again ?”’ Ld. ‘“You see,’’ said the Doctor the next morning, after they had talked and laughed a good deal over the event of the night before, ‘‘Shypnotism is the real ex- planation of all the marvels of magic and enchantment that we read and hear about. The magician’s first act is to hypnotize the spectator, or spectators; that done, they will see—imagine they see—any miracle he may choose to sug- gest to them.’’ ‘Do you mean to say,’?’ demanded Roger, ‘that he can put more than one person at a time into the trance ?’’ “‘A hundred as easily as one; and per- haps a thousand more easily than a hun- dred. Why not? Consider the phenom- ena of panic—the unreasoning fear that seizes upon a multitude, though each separate man of the crowd, if alone, would have retained his presence of mind: or look at the wild enthusiasm or rage to which an eloquent orator can arouse a vast audience, though any one member of it would listen to him coldly. So I doubt not it would be easier to hyp- notize a large assemblage than a single individual; and the Eastern jugglers seem to do it. You have heard of the famous Indian Basket Trick, as it is called? There an audience of any num- ber of persons severally and collectively witness a transaction that their reason assures them is preposterously impossi- ble, at the same time that their eyesight eonvinces them it takes place. What is the explanation? Simply, that they are all hypnotized before the trick is per- is formed; and then, of course, the ‘trick’ is reduced to merely inducing them to believe that something is done which is really not done at all.’’ ‘“‘After my experience of last night, I don’t feel like disputing anything you say, Doctor,’’ observed Roger Mowbray. “But I should like to know how aman can hypnotize a crowd of people, and also how they can recover from the trance without recognizing that they have been in it.’’ “If the conditions be favorable, noth- ing is more easily performed than hyp- notism,’’ the doctor replied. ‘‘Simply to fix the attention fora few moments is often sufficient; and any juggler can do that. I hypnotized you last night only by inducing you to look intently at me for sixty seconds. Then, as to your see- ond point, the trance may be of various degrees, from light to profound. The light trance is sufficient for complete self deception, and the transition from that to waking is so easy as not to be perceived.’’ ‘I certainly believed I saw you jump over the cliff,’ said Roger, “and after I came to, 1 still could hardly persuade myself that you had not doneit. Rachel, here. says she spoke to me; but I didn’t hear her. But is it not rather alarming that such a power as you possess should exist 277 ‘Indeed, if I didn’t know the doctor was a good man. I shouldn’t feel safe for a moment,”’ Rachel said. “Luckily, I am harmless,’’? remarked he, with a peculiar smile. ‘‘But there’s truth in your sugestion, Mr. Mowbray. Hypnotism might give terrible powers. If I had told you, last night. to jump over the cliff. you would have done it, or if, while you were still in the trance, 1 had commanded you to do, or to see. or mot to See, a eéertam thing at a certain future time—say, at 5 o'clock this afternoon—you would have obeyed punctually at the appointed hour, without any further action on my part.’’ ‘“‘Dear me!’ said Rachel, with a nerv- ous laugh, “I remember you whispered something to Roger last night. before you woke him up. What did you tell him to do ?’’ “You said a person could be ordered ‘not to see’ anything,’’ broke in Roger. “Do you mean that a concrete object could be rendered actually invisible to one in the hypnotic trance ?’’ “Certainly ?° . replied the Doetor. ‘“Anything that is told to the patient, he is bound to believe. If I were to tell you that the big tree yonder had been dug up and carried away, it would im- mediately become invisible to you; and neither your sense of touch nor any other means could persuade you that there was anything there. But 1 see this conversation is distressing Mrs. Mow- bray; let us change it. Do you know, Mr. Mowbray, that you bear a strong re- semblance to your late father 2’’ “T have been sometimes told so. But I was not aware that you knew him.”’ ““Yes, I knew him well, many years ago, when we were both about your age. Afterward, circumstances separated us. When I met youthe other day in London the likeness startled me; it was asif a buried generation had come to life again. Your father’s wife was a Miss Clayton, I think 277 ‘Yes, that was my mother’s name.”’ “Ah! I was not thinking of her as your mother. I do not trace her features in you. However, that is neither here nor there. Thinking over those old days has recalled another person to my mind— one John Felbrigge. I fancy you have never heard of him.’ , ‘I think I femember the name,’’ said Roger, ‘“‘but I never saw him. Unless I’m mistaken, my father and he w2re not good friends.’’ “They were friends until, for some reason, they had a bitter quarrel, and parted. It was the general opinion that Felbrigge was in fault. He was certainly a cross-grained fellow, whereas your father was always very suave and en- gaging. The quarrel occurred before your father’s marriage, and the occasion of it, 1 think, was Some affair of the heart. Naturally, Felbrigge would get worsted there! ‘*What became of this inquired Rachel. ‘“‘He was a student, and after the quar- rel he devoted himself to abstruse re- searches. and lived on the Continent, and afterward in India. He ought to have died long since, I suppose.”’ “The woman in the case was not my mother, was it 2?’’ asked Roger. “She was not the lady your father mar- ried, I think,’’ the Doctor replied. el was probably some earlier affair; he was a dangerous man,’’ he added, laughing. **Now that I recollect, the other woman’s name was Mercy—yes, Mercy Holland. You never knew of her?’’ Mig Felbrigge Cal Mowbray shook his head. “No. of course not!’ said the Doctor. **And what interest have these old stories for you young people? Come, I have some- thing to propose! What do you say to our taking our luncheon with us, and spending the day down on the rocks? There are some curious caves I want you to see; and there is a romantic legend about one of them. Shall we go?’’ The others willingly consented, and they made their preparations and set eut. Instead of climbing to the top of Slyne Head, as on the previous evening, they descended to the shore, above which the stupendous crags hung asif about to top- ple over. Ina crevice of the rocks, just above high-water mark, the Doctor picked up afragment of chain with a handcuff attached to it. It was but slightly rusted, and evidently could have been left there but a short time before. Mowbray and his wife were much interested in the dis- covery, and speculated as to how it could have got there. ‘Ts there ajail anywhere in this neigh- borhood?’’? Roger inquired. “None nearer than Galway, that I know of,’’ replied the Doctor. ‘ButI believe there have been some evictions going on in this neighborhood, and this handcuff may have been put on a pris- oner who escaped. He must have had assistance in freeing himself from his fetters, however. This handcuff, as you see, shuts by aspring, and can be opened only by taking two hands toit. The per- son to whom it was attached could not unfasten it unaided. It is certainly odd that the fugitive should have shaped his course in this direction. In these thinly settled regions concealment is more diffi- eult than in cities.” ‘‘What a strange feeling it must be to be fastened toachain, and know that you can’t get away,’’ observed Rachel, examining the steel manacle with curi- osity. ‘People get used to even that.’ re- joined the Doctor; ‘‘and after all, we are all fettered in some way, though the links may be invisible.’ He put the relic in his pocket, and they continued their journey along the beach. The way was rough and tortuous, the boulders lying irregularly, and the pebbles of which the beach was composed offering a slippery and wearisome foothold. They were nearly an hour in going no more than a mile: but they were rewarded at the end of their journey, by coming to a large cave, hollowed out in the seaward extremity of a promontory that formed one of the natural divisions of the beach. It’s mouth was only about seven 6r eight feet in diameter; but inside it expanded intoachamber of fair size and height, draped with’sea-weed, and pervaded by the clean, salt smell of thesea. The day had been somewhat close and oppressive, and the coolmess of the cave was grate- ful, after their arduous walk. The in- terior was lighted up by the rays of the declining sun, for it was already after- noon. Using a large flat stone as a table, they unpacked their basket and lunched at their leisure. The Doctor was in capital spirits and made himself highly agree- able. He related many stories of his own past life and adventures; he had traveled in all parts of the world and had lived several years in Northern India, where he had seen strange sights., Finally the conversation got around to the spot where they then were, and the traditions connected with it. ‘And, by the by, one of the best yarns is about this very cave,’’ he remarked. ‘“*Many years ago a powerful noble lived near Slyne Head and he married a young and beautiful woman. For a time, all appeared to go well: but finally the hus- bantl became suspicious of the attentions to his wife of a neighbor of his who was Visiting him. He watched, and his sus- picions were confirmed. He concealed his emotions, whatever they were, and on some pretext invited his wife and the friend to this cave. He had had an iron ring fastened to the rock at the back part of the cave, with a chain attached to it. Pretending to be in sport, he induced them to let him fasten this chain around them, and then, telling them to be happy together to their heart’s content, and re- plying to their shrieks and entreaties only by peals of laughter, he bade them farewell and left them. The tide was rising, and astorm was coming on. A couple of hours later the cave was sub- merged, and the lovers were, of course, drowned. What do you think of that legend, Mrs. Mowbray? Would you like to know what the young people said to each other, when they were left alone, and the first wave threw its spray over them?’’ “It is fearful to think of,’’ said Rachel, with a shudder. ‘*Was it really this very eave?’’ ‘Undoubtedly; and if you want any further proof, the ring to which they were chained still hangs to the rock behind you. See—the sunlight has just reached it!’’ Rachel turned witha start, and then all three approached the ring and examined it. It was hanging to a bolt driven into the face of the solid rock, at the furthest extremity of the cave. It was about seven inches in diameter, and appeared to be at leastan inch in thickness, though it was bearded with green seaweed and roughened with rust and limpets that an exact estimate was difficult. At all events, it looked strong enough to hold an ox, much more a pair of terrified lovers. Beneath the ring was a shallow ledge, forming a rude seat, and Rachel, who was fascinated by the picturesque horror of the,thing, sat down upon it. The setting sun shone on her charming face, and gave it the semblance of a rosy blush. Her husband thought she had never looked more lovely. The Doctor took the handcuff from his pocket, and passed the chain through the ring, fastening it by springing one of the links over another. ‘‘That will enable us to realize the situation better,’’ he re- marked, turning to Roger with a smile, and putting the handcuff in his hand. ‘Imagine Mrs. Mowbray to be the lady in question, and you the wicked earl.’’ so ‘‘Shall I manacle you, Rachel?’’ asked her husband, playfully. She held out her wrist at once. ‘‘Do!’ she said; ‘‘I am not afraid.’’ ‘‘Don’t be too sure of your nerves,’’ put in the Doctor; ‘‘it might give you a turn’? ‘“‘Oh, my husband will not desert me,”’ she replied. ‘*Put it on, Roger.’’ He slipped it on and fastened it. ‘“There—now you are a prisoner,’’ said he. ‘‘And now all you have to do is to im- agine that you are to stay here until this time to-morrow,’’ the Doctor added, ‘when some fisherman, perhaps, will discover your drowned and bruised body. You are looking for the last time on yon- der setting sun. Do you hear the plung- ing of the surf? In another hour it will be at the mouth of the cave; an hour more and it will have filled it tothe roof. You will be alone, and death will come slowly and frightfully. You will struggle and strain, and tug at your fetters; the steel will cut into your flesh, but you can not break it. The cold water will creep slowly to your knees, your waist, your throat! You will scream—ah! what [CONCLUDED ON EIGHTH PAGE. ] The Michigan Tradesman AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. P. I. D. Jones succeeds Jones & Shel- don in the grocery business at 331 West Bridge street. Samuel B. Ardis has put in a grocery stock at McBain. I. M. Clark & Son fur- nished the stock. D. H. Lord has engaged in the grocery business at Petoskey. I. M. Clark & Son furnished the stock. Halliday cery store at Mulliken. Son furnished the stock. & Crane have opened a gro- i. M. Clark & Heath & Holt have engaged in the gro- cery business at Sparta. Olney, Shields & Co. furnished the stock. Means had sold his gasoline business to the Grand Rapids Tank Line Co. is denied by both parties. The report that W. J. Mes T. M. Weeks (Mrs. A. A.) has engaged in the grocery business at 256 Plainfield avenue. I. M. Clark & Son furnished the stock. J. D. F. Pierson has added a line of drugs to his grocery business at Kitchi. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. fur- nished the stock. D. H. Meeker, formerly engaged in the drug business at Alba, will engage in the drug and stationery business at Perrinton. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. furnishes the drugs and Eaton, Lyon & Co. the stationery. AROUND THE STATE. Shelby—Bennett & Reed have opened a meat market. Lawton—Rogers & Sears have engaged in the drug business. Weston—E. B. Lee has bought W. E. Converse’s hardware stock. Charlevoix—Roswell Mudge has opened a fruit and confectionery store. Manistique—S. Schuman has opened a merchant tailoring establishment. Homer—Dorsey & Clark succeed Os- born & Clark in the meat business. Coopersville—E. F. Tuxbury succeeds M. R. Griffin in general merchandise. Frankenmuth—John Rupprecht suc- ceeds Wm. Dodenhoff in general trade. Mt. Clemens—F. Wolf & Son sucteed F. Wolf in the boot and shoe business. Rockford—E. B. Lapham has seld his restaurant and bakery to C. R. Shaffer. Mulliken—Whelpley & Sebring have begun the erection of a grain elevator. Traverse City—Jas. Moore will engage in the agricultural implement business. Millbrook—Richards & Preston have put in a stock of carriages and harness. Charlotte—Houck & Perkins have dis- solved partnership, Mr. Perkins retiring. Hickory Corners—Bissell & Flansburg succeed Hogg & Bissell in the drug busi- ness. Charlotte—Lewis & Geo. F. Gardner have opened a_ second-hand furniture store. Lapeer—The clothing store of Smith & Himes has been closed on chattel mort- gage. St. Clair—Conger & Jones succeed A. & W. H. Conger & Co. in the notion bus- iness. Muskegon—T. D. Curtis has opened a new and second-hand store at 59 Pine street. Conklin — Geo. M. Miller, of Big Springs, will build a store here this season. Howard City—D. N. Cornell has opened a meat business in the W. W. Quick building. Owosso—Dr. J. W. Kirtland has sold his drug stock and it has been shipped to Lakeview. Eaton Rapids —H. W. opened a music storein V. shoe store. Conklin—Henry Miller & Co. are build- ing a tin shop in the rear of their hard- ware store. Pontiac—Allison & Merritt are suc- ceeded in the jewelry business by John- son Allison. Carson City—Dunn & Goolthrite succeeded by Dunn & Co. ware business. Allegan—Chas. Young has sold his drug and wall paper stock to L. M. Wat- son, late of Bessemer. Cloverdale—M. J. Goss and George Mosier, of Prairieville, contemplate en- gaging in general trade here. Coopersville — Mr. McNaughton suc- ceeds Lillie & McNaughton in the agri- cultural implement business. Big Rapids—C. B. Lovejoy has removed his grocery stock to the building just north of Joslin’s clothing store. Grattan—John Giles, the Lowell gro- cer, will puta grocery stock in the store formerly oceupied by P. Stocking. Kalamazoo—John Shean, formerly en- gaged in business here, has opened a grocery store at Aurora, Nebraska. Charlotte—The First National Bank has foreclosed its chattel mortgage on the general stock of C. C. Haslett & Co. Cadillac—James Johnson has bought an interest in John Garvin’s meat bus- iness. The firm name is Garvin & Johnson. Potter has J. Bower’s are in the hard- Muskegon—A. C. Perigard, who form- erly conducted a grocery at Port Sher- man, has removed his business to 19 Bar- clay street. Delton—Fred Woodhams, of Prairie- ville, has purchased the harness shop of C. H. Ruggles. Mr. Ruggles will move to Pine Lake. Traverse City—J. H. Lampson has purchased his brother’s interest in the cigar and confectionery firm of J. H. Lampson & Co. Evart—W. M. Davis is erecting a two- story brick block, 33x100 feet in dimen- sions, and will use it for his furniture and harness business. Charlotte—Dennie & Blowers, proprie- ters of the Lovett street meat market, have dissolved partnership. Mr. Dennie continues the business. Muskegon—John Torrent, who owns a one-quarter interest in the dry goods firm of Nathan Platt & Co., has asked for the appointment of a receiver. Scottville—Stearns & Mack are put- ting up a two-story building, 25x100 feet in dimensions, into which they will move their stock of general merchandise. Hancock—Stephen Carkeek assigned his grocery stock, after chattel mort- gaging same for its full value to his wife and book-keeper. Liabilities, $10,000; assets, $1,000. Ovid—R. N. Thompson has bought T. C. Broadbent’s interest in the grocery firm of R. N. Thompson & Co. The bus- iness will be continued under the style of R. N. Tompson. - Roekford—The firm of C. N. Hyde & Co., produce dealers, has dissolved, W. H. Hyde continuing. C. N. Hyde has taken charge of Arthur Meigs & Co.’s lumber business at Chase. Big Rapids—F. O. Vandersluis, who has been in the dry goods business here for twenty years, has disposed of his stock to E. C. Morris, who will continue the business at the old stand. Cheboygan—F.C. McDonald has sold his grocery stock on Third street to Thomas Frawley, of the late firm of Frawley Bros. John Frawley sueceeds to the bus- iness of the late firm at the old stand. Edmore—L. M. Mills purchased the undertaking stock of Carl Johnson at chattel mortgage sale and has removed his Blanchard furniture stock to this place, placing the same under the man- agement of Geo. D. Lunn. Muskegon—N. Friedman has men at work altering the interior of his store. He intends to open up his cloak depart- ment up-stairs. Access to the upper stories will be had by means of a stair- way which is being put in midway of the store. Schoolcraft—John Earl has assigned his elevator business to Addison Brown. It is quite a surprise to all except those who knew he was holding alarge amount of wheat on which there has been a de- erease in price in two months of about 30 cents a bushel. It is claimed that out- standing receipts call for about 12,000 bushels, and an inventory is being made to find the shortage. The estimated amount on hand is about 8,000 bushels. Ear] recently sold five horses for $1,100 and they have been delivered. His lia- bilities are unknown. His assets consist of the elevator, valued at $3,000 anda house which cost $7,500. He has been making money on arising market, but the fall wiped it completely out. For two months ne has been very nervous and has been unable to sleep nights. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Amble—Shaw & Merchant’s mill has begun operations. Lake Odessa—A_ bed-spring has begun operations here. Martiny—A. J. Acker has begun the manufacture of honey boxes. Six LakesgA. Pixley has sold his mill here to parties in Grand Rapids. Manistee—N. R. Smith has engaged in the lumber commission business. Kingsley—Case & Crotser have shut down their sawmill for the summer. Ludington—Adolph Jensen is erecting a planing mill near the depot/and dock. Cedar Run—Norris Norris’ shingle mill has begun operations for the season. Onekama — The Onekama Lumber Co.’s sawmill has shut down indefinitely. Fremont—Chas. Gibson’s stave factory now furnishes employment for forty men. Six Lakes—Curtis & Co. are building a sawmill in connection with their shingle mill. Eaton Rapids—The Steiglitz cigar fac- tory estate has been closed out to H. P. Webster. Martiny—Swift & Clark contemplate ‘moving their shingle mill to the Upper Peninsula. Kingsley—H. P. Whipple contemplates moving his sawmill to the northern part of the State. Muskegon—Tke Thayer Lumber Co. is building a new shingle mill, 160x24 feet in dimensions. Edmore—A. H. Farnam has commenced to move his shingle mill machinery to the Upper Peninsula. Ionia—The Ionia Lumber Co. expects to have its mill ready to commence oper- ations early this week. Martiny—The Geo. Collins Co.’s shingle mill has shut down, having exhausted its supply of shingle logs. factory Dorr—Gray Bros. are putting up a building to be used as a planing mill as soon as the machinery arrives. Carson City—The organization of a stock company to fit up and operate a table factory is under advisement. - Orangeville—Andrew Barrett’s saw- mill burned May 25, with all its contents. The engine was owned by Jas. Richards. Detroit—The R. C. Mudge Paper Cloth- ing Co., is going toremove to Port Huron, and do business with a capital of $75,000. Benton Harbor—The Benton Harbor Canning Co. has contracted for 300 acres of tomatoes for this season’s operations. Lansing — The Potter Manufacturing Co.’s new furniture factory, at South Lansing, will be ready for business early in the fall. Big Rapids—McElwee & Moore have built two charcoal kilns at their mill, and others will be constructed as fast as the work can be done. Saginaw—The N. & A. Barnard Co. began running nights last Monday. It handles nearly all of its output this season in the yard trade. Ludington—Pardee, Cook & Co. will spread a mammoth broom to the ‘breeze, because their mill has been cutting 191,000 feet daily, on an average. Comstock—The Kimble Engine Works has put in a new 35-horse power boiler and is arranging to build an addition to its shop, 25x60 feet in dimensions. Kingsley—The shingle and saw mill of Dr. M. S. Brownson burned last Friday. There were also about 75,000 shingles and a lot of shingle bolts destroyed. Chippewa Lake — James McAllister, machinist for the Chippewa Lumber Co., has applied for a patent in this country and Canada on an engine of new device. Charlevoix—F. E. Wood and J. B. Par- sons have formeda partnership under the style of F. E. Wood & Co., for the man- ufacture of candy for the wholesale trade. Ionia—Thad. Preston and others con- template inaugurating another overall factory, employing fifty operatives. The armory building will be fitted up for the purpose. Owosso—Rundell & Fuller, of Bay City, have opened a factory for the man- ufacture of a patent mop-handle and handles for small tools. They employ several hands. Whitehall—Oleson & Degan, flour and feed dealers, contemplate the building and equipment of a three-story roller- press mill, if an $800 or $1,000 bonus is raised for them. Harriette—Morgan & Jourdan’s saw- mill has begun running. Mr. Clinton, also, has his mill in operation. J. R. Beagle, formerly from Owosso, has his store open for business. Bay City—Large quantities of oak are being shipped to the local ship yards from points on the Flint & Pere Mar- quette. From Coleman twenty car loads were shipped last week. East Saginaw—It is understood that the mission of W. R. Burt to England was successful, and that the salt syndi- eate is a fixed fact. Salt is selling slowly, and stocks accumulating. Allegan—F. E. Lindsley, of Decatur, has purchased the interest of Mr. Sprague, in the lumber business re- cently run by Visner & White, and the, firm name will now be Haynes & Linds- ley. Flint—The Genesee County Ceropera- tive Creamery Co. is doing a very satis- factory business, making about 1,000 pounds of butter daily, all of which, except the supply for the home market, is sold in New York. Big Rapids—L. W. Bowen, past year traveling salesman Chippewa Lumber Co., for the for the has taken a posi- tion with the Lansing Lumber Co., at Lansing. Mr. Bower will be general manager of the business. Saginaw—Arthur Barnard is about to erect a nail keg factory near his sawmill, and will ship the stock in car lots in bulk. Hardwood will be used for the heads, but any kind of lumber can be used for the staves, and a large amount of what is now refuse can be utilized. East Saginaw—Manufacturers are bas- ing all caleulations on a cut on this river nearly if not quite 200,000,000 feet less than that of last year, or not to exceed 700,000,000 feet, and if the conditions at many other points are as reported, it ought to exert an appreciable effect upon the lumber market. It is claimed that unless we have a second section of the deluge, the greater number of the mills will have practically shut down for the season by September 1.- If this shouid result, it will prove greatly to the dis- advantage of general business by reason of the throwing out of employment of about 3,000 employes. STRAY FACTS. Muskegon—Thomas Barry & Co., own- ers of the City of Muskegon, have sued the Muskegon Booming Co. for damages of $20,000, on the ground of interference with navigation, leading to the destruc- tion of the boat. Bay City—The steamer F. & P. M. No. 2 took out acargo of salt Saturday for Chicago. It is several years since salt was shipped from this river to Lake Michigan ports in any considerable quan- tities, owing to rail competition. Manistee — Parties interested in the lumber and shipping interests of the city have decided to raise $15,000 to dredge a channel in the Manistee river, seventy feet wide and fourteen feet deep. At a meeting held last week Messrs. Canfield, Peters and Sands signed $2,000 each, Dempsey $1.000, the State Lumber Co., $750 and the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, $1,000 Bay City—It is reported that H. W. Sage, whois one of the largest lumber and salt manufacturers here, intends to donate $300,000 to Cornell university for a library, and that if the college loses the $1,000,000 involved in the MeGraw-Fiske litigation, which is considered probable, Mr. Sage will add $200,000 for the library building. He has always been a warm friend and patron of the university. East Saginaw — The Tobacco River Lumber Co. recently sold the balance of a tract of timber on that stream to D. Hardin, one of the company, for $32,000. It is estimated that there is left on the tract 2,500,000 feet of good white pine, and about 1,000,000 feet of hemlock, ash, etc. Some shingle timber will also, no doubt, be seeured. The company orig- inally bought this tract on an estimate of 55,000,000 feet. It cut 60,000,000 feet and then sold the balance, as stated, for $32,000. The purchaser will make a good thing of it, as the lands are val- uable for farming purposes after the tim- ber has been all removed. The Tobacco River Co. has 18,000,000 feet of logs to be manufactured, and has 7,000,000 feet of unsold lumber on hand, which, when all disposed of, will close out its bus- iness. Bank Notes. Frank L. Fuller, the Cedar Springs banker, was in town last Wednesday. THE TRADESMAN has heretofore called attention to the exceptional open- ing afforded for a savings bank on South Division street, about midway between Monroe street and the city limits. Un- less the field is occupied by an organized bank by midsummer, a private bank will be‘ opened there by C. J. Church, the Greenville banker. ee Purely Personal. E. Fallas has completed his two cot- tages at Bay View and returned home. B. L. Desenberg, the Kalamazoo gro- cer, has gone to Europe, where he will remain until September. Frank Hamilton, of Traverse City, was in town over Sunday on his way home from Chicago, whither he went early in the week with his wife and niece. Dr. Chas S. Hazeltine has launched his new steam yacht onSpring Lake. M.S Goodman, who steered the craft on her initial trip, says she is a ‘‘beaut.”’ Lewis Cass ‘Bradford, the Baldwin grocer, is getting to be quite an author- ity on knotty legal questions, owing to the proximity of his store to a justice shop. A. B. Gibsen, formerly of this city, but for the past two years with R. Steller, at Iron River, has taken a position in the drug store of Fred. D. Paquette, at Lud- ington. Eli E. Dryden, formerly designer for the Phenix Furniture Co., has returned from Columbus to take the same posi- tion with anew company soon to be or- ganized. a Evidently Struck It Rich. The following dispatch, from Helena, Mont., will cause the Grand Rapids stock- holders of the ‘‘Big Ox’’ no small satis- faction: The Big Ox Mining Co. struck a mam- moth rich vein of gold, silver and lead ore, while sinking a shaft at the foot of the mountain, ata depth of thirty feet. Secretary Simpson and Mr. Hand made an assay of the ore, and it went $48 in gold, $19.32 in silver, and $22.80 in lead; total, $90.12 per ton. The company is also sinking a big shaft from the top of the mountain down 350 feet, where they are certain to encounter immense bodies of rich ores. The late find clinches the fact that the “Big Ox’ is surely a bonanza. ——-> From Michigan to Manitoba. The Philadelphia Ledger says that, “aecording to a telegram from Toronto, the emigration agent in Ontario of the Manitoba government ‘has’ been in- structed by the Premier of Manitoba to visit Michigan and Wisconsin, and re- port on the condition of the farmers in those States, with a view to commencing a vigorous emigration campaign there. It is said that a great many are anxious to move out of Manitoba.’ ”’ a A ete ce eee Unmistaken Identity. ‘*How do you know that man Massachusetts?’’ of a fruit deale of his shop. ‘“‘Easy enough,’’ was the confident re- ply; ‘the bought a banana here yesterday and went through it for bones before he would eat it. is from Inquired the reporter r, aS a Stranger went out [ee Pectiaity a Postponement. At a meeting of the Entertainment Committee of the Grand Rapids Merean- tile Association, held Monday evening, the question of postponing the picnic was discussed, when it was decided to refer the matter to the Association, at its meeting this evening. 2-2 Michigan Iron Ore Production. The shipments of iron ore from the mines in the four ranges of Northern Michigan this year are expected to ex- ceed 5,500,000 tons, and may equal 6,000,- 000 tons. Last year the shipments amounted to 5,023,279 tons. Z Gripsack Brigade. Master Albert Escott accompanied his father, G. H. Escott, on his trip to the Straits last week. A. F. Peake, President of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, was in town Monday on his way to Muskegon. In. Stewart McConnell, formerly of this city, but now located at Detroit, is visit- his parents at Ludington. B. F. Emery has engaged to travel for John A. Talman & Co., of Chicago, cov- ering the trade of Northern Michigan. Shelby Herald: ‘John McIntyre was in town yesterday. If he makes any more threats against the life of the ed- itor of this paper, we will have him put under bonds to keep the peace.”’ The Bennett House is the name of the house Wil! J. Jones has identified him- self with at Mt. Pleasant. He has asso- ciated himself with his father-in-law, H. B. Irish, the firm name being Irish & Jones. Stephen Sears is telling a good story on Red Headed Dave Smith, anent his prize dog. Those who have not heard the yarn would do well to ask Steve to repeat it—to which he is not particularly averse. Cheboygan Tribune: The writer heard aecommercial traveler say, last Monday, that Cheboygan was the liveliest town, so far as business was concerned, that he had struck in Northern Michigan, and that for business it was ahead of Mar- quette, which was the liveliest place in the Upper Peninsula. Max Mills is nearly frantic over the non-receipt of another invitation to de- liver a Fourth of July oration at Blanch- ard. The Blanchard people have with- stood fire, drouth and famine, but they are frank enough to admit that another onslaught of eloquence such as they re- ceived last Independence Day would depopulate the entire township. Commenting on the item in last week’s paper relative to John MelIntyre’s fish pole, the Shelby Herald remarks: ‘‘This was copied by THE MicniGAn TRADES- MAN, and by dint of inquiry it has been learned that his inability to account for the possession of the elegant fishing rig is, no doubt, due to the fact that he car- ried just such an outfit from John Scol- lay’s store, at Reed City, on his last visit there; and Scollay is still alive to the fact that he has not as yet received one in return.’’ Cass Bradford requests THE TRADESMAN to state that this is the sec- ond rod McIntyre has stolen from him. Landlord Barney, of the Occidental Hotel, has renewed his invitation to the Grand Rapids traveling men to hold their annual picnic at Muskegon and partake of a banquet at his hotel. The plan, so far as outlined, is to leave on the early morning train; arrive at Muskegon at 8:30; take the Van Raalte to the mouth of the Lake, where an opportunity will be given for fishing and witnessing a drill by the life-saving station; a ride on Lake Michigan, returning to the Occi- dental at 2 p.m. fora banquet. At the close of the dinner, the Van Raalte will earry the party toInterlaken Park, where dancing, rowing, fishing and bathing will be in order until time to leave for home on the evening train. This programme may have to be changed, to conform to exigencies which may arise. a The Michigan Cigar Co. hasin prepara- tion a new brand, which will be styled ‘‘Trio.”? The label will contain facial representations of the three proprietors of the company. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. —_— PRR RD Rare Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. yo SALE—AT PINGREE GROVE, KANE CO., ILL., seven miles west of Elgin on main line of railroad, a good store and business, with full stock of general store goods; whole value about $4,700; postoffice in store; reason for selling, failing health. J. B. Shed- den, Proprietor. 441 OR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF LUMBER, SHINGLES, ete., in a thriving village in Central Michigan. For particulars, address Lock Box 10, Lakeview, Mich. 440 OR SALE—FULL SET OF HARDWARE FIXTURES, including shelving and drawers; also full set of tinners’ tools. Address 438, care Michigan Tradesman. 438 OR SALE—DRUG AND BOOK STORE IN SOUTHERN Michigan; invoice about three thousand. Ad- dress W. F. Hahn, Jeweler, Lansing, Mich. 436 7Z‘OR SALE— ONE CHAPMAN PORTABLE SODA fountain, marble top, double draught tube, ready for use; no generatur to buy; price $60, will sell for $30. ‘Azor Thurston, Grand Rapids, Ohio. 43. OR SALE—IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN—STOCK OF drugs, medicines and fixtures, valued at $1,200; daily cash sales, $15; also store building, storehouse and residence combined, valued at $800; reasons, other business. Address, No. 420, care Michigan Tradesman. HELP WANTED. SS DRUG CLERK—ENCLOSE references from last employer. Address *; D. Paquette, Ludington. 433 SITUATIONS WANTED. ye TED—-SITUATION AS BOOK-KEEPER BY MAN of eight y« ars’ experience, who is familiar with general mere handise. Address A. E. Chambers, 95 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 407 MISCELLANEOUS. ry\O EXCHANGE—I HAVE A NEW, BRIGHT, WELL- selected little stock of hardware to exchange for atarm or city real estate. Address No. 401, care Michigan Tradesman. 401 HAVE SOME FIRST-CLASS PROPERTY, WELL improved and nicely located, in South Dakota; also some other property to exchange fora —_ wot goods. J.C. McKee, 23 Fountain St. y= ,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT SoH Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. OR SALE—GO@D RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF the most pleasant streets ‘on the hill.” ‘Will ex- change for stock in any good institution. Address 286, eare Michigan Tradesman. 286 OR RENT—A TWO STORY 24x30 BRICK STORE centrally located on Main St. in a lively manu- facturing town in Northern Michigan, upper story fit- ted for living rooms; good opening for boot & shoe, clothing, hats and caps and gents’ furnishing goods, or for grocery business. Campbell & Underwood, 95 Monroe St. Grand Rapids Mich. or N. C. Weter, Mance- lona Mich. 427 V 7 ANTED—SEND A POSTAL TO THE SUTLIFF COU- pon Pass Book Co., Albany, N. Y., for samples of the new Excelsior Pass Book, the most complete and finest on the market and just what every mer- chant should have, progressive merchants all over the 214 country are now using them. OF A SERIES OF PICTURES REPRESENTING COFFEE CULTU WATCH FOR THe ee -CURING COFFEE cone uncuresramann CHASE & SANBORN. OUR COFFEES HAVE A NATIONAL a REPRESENTING THE FINEST CROW JAVA and MOCHA, AL BRAND COFF Ei or ee ae all others in its richness and delicacy of flavor. Justly calle he Aristocratic Coffee of America. Always packed whole roasted (unground) in 21 air-tight tin cans. CRUSADE BLEND ‘oryiend aromatic hig eiads coffees. Warranted not to contain a single io bean, and guaranteed to suit your taste as no other coffee will, at a moderate price. Always packed whole roasted (unground), in 1 Ib. air-tight parchment packages. RETAIL CROCERS selling our coffees. What it has done for them it will do for you, samples to CHASE & SANBORN, BROAD STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Tell us that their coffee trade has doubled and trebled since buying and Send for j | HERBERT T. CHASE, | Representative for | Michigan and Northern Ohio, | GRAND RAPIDS. Western Department: 80 Franklin St., Chicago. Merchants, YO WANT THIS CABINET 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 UN, THE 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-]b 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, OIG. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. a ro ee ncn scHt0 ROUSE 'SHOES Pecan of Our Factory at Dixon, Ill. In view of the fact that we have GREATLY INCREASED our FACILITIES for MANUFACTURING in OUR THREE FACTORIES and owing to the PECULIAR and CLOSE COMPETITION existing in MICHIGAN, C. M. Henderson & Co. have concluded to MAKE A DECIDED CUT ON VARIOUS LINES of our goods, which will ENABLE ME to make it to YOUR ADVANTAGE to purchase your stock NEARER HOME the coming fall season. Our LADIES’ FINE GOAT, DONGOLA, GLOVE and OIL GRAINS to retail at $2, and FINER GRADES of GOATS and DONGOLAS, which consumers can buy at $2.50 and $3.00, together with the MEDIUM PRICED lines of MEN’S CALF, DON- GOLA, and KANGAROO Shoes of our own make, and all having the MERIT of SOLIDITY and STYLE—with satisfaction guaranteed—will be worthy your } CAREFUL CONSIDERATION. Our heavier grades of SPLIT, GRAIN, KIP, VEAL, and CALF BOOTS are UNEQUALED, and the ‘‘Celebrated Red School House Shoes’? AS USUAL takes the ‘‘First Place.’ G. M. HENDERSON & GO., Chisago. Headquarters for the Celebrated Wales Goodyear Rubber Goods Factories: | Willard H. James, Fond du Lac, Wis. Salesman for the Lower Peninsula. Dixon, P. O. address, Morton House, Grand Rapids, Mich. fil. Chicago, Il. We furnish electrotypes of our Specialties to Customers. 294 ® 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; ank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint; Hiram DeLano, ‘allegan; Secretary Qeuaaiiee on Insuranee—Geo. B. Caldwell, Green- ville; W.S. Powers, Nashville; Oren Stone, Flint. Committee on Legislation—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; H. A. Hydorn, Grand Rapids; H. H. Pope, Allegan. Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, East Saginaw; H.B. Fargo, Mus- kegon mmittee on Transportation—James Osborn,Owosso; = F. Conklin, aoa Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle dLoan Associations—Chaun- - Buildi an ee ce ae Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids; cey Strong, age pare W. E. Crotty, Lansing Local Secretary—P. J. Connell, Muskeger. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The following auxiliary associations are op- erating under charters granted by the Michi- gan Business Men’s Association: No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A. President, J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W- Hastings. No. 2—Lowell #8. M. A. <. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 3—Sturgis B. M.A. President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. No. 4—Grand Rapids Mm AL President, se J Herric! k; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. 5— Muskegon B. M. A. President, Jobn A. Miller; Secretary, Cc. L. Whitney. President, N thease tii No. 6—Alba cw AL _W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—_—Dimondale B. M. A. President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. Ne BL East] . 8—Eastport B. M. A. President, Fr. = ‘Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. >. 9—Lawrence B. M. A. . av. i. Kelly, ere H. M. Marshall; Seers B. M. a eee ow. J. Clark; Secretary, - A. L. Thompson. President. F . a 0—Harbor Spr Wo.11—Kingsley B. MAL i President, H. P. Whinple: Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop. No. 12—Quincy B. M. A. President, C. McKay; Secretary, These No. 13- nap RB, M. President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, = iy: Austin. ee No. 14—No. Muskegon B, M.A. President, 8S. A. Howey: Secretary. G. C. Havens. No. 15— Boyne City & MA President, ~ R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. o. 16—Sand ‘Lake B. M. A. President, :. v. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco. No. t7—Plainweli B. M. A. President, < H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. 18—Owosso B. M. A. President, on Todd; Secretary, S. Lamfrom. No. 19—Ada B. M. A. President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel. No. 20—saugatuck B. M. A. t, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps. No. 21—Way Jand B. M. A. _H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt. Presiden President, C ss mac 22—Grand Ledge B. M.+ President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clarke. No. 23—C rson ¢ ity B. M. President, eS A. Rockafellow: Secretary, C. 24—Morley Bb. M.A : President, 3 ry Thurkow; Secretary, W.- H. Richmon : No. 25—Palo B. M. A, President, H. D. Pew: Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson. No. 26—Greenville I. M. AS President. A. C. Satterlee: Secretary. E. J J. Clark. No 27—Dorr 8. M. President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L.N N. Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, z G. Dozer. eee ee No. 29—Freepert = President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. No. 30—Oceana B. M oe ‘ President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E Houghtaling. No. 31—Charlotte a3) MEL AL President, a J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury. No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A. —— yw. = Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson. 33—Charlevoix BK. M. A. President, = ‘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—lihaca B. President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, ey W. Moore. No. . 38—Scot BE. MM. | President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, Dp. Ww. ein No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. President, W. S. Willer; Secretary. Er. W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton on Rapids Be mM AL President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmett. No. 47 3 kenridge B. Mw. A. President, C H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner. a. A. G. Bailey. A. io heesebrough. M. A. John M. Everden. No, 42—Fremont R. M President, Jos. Gerber; Secretary C . J. Rathbun. “No. 43—Tustin B. M. A. President, Frank J. Luick; Secrete ary, J A, Lindstrom. No. 44—Reed City B. M President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. o. Smith. No. 45—Hoytv ille B President, D. E. Hallenbeck No. 46—Les ca A President, } Wm. Hutchins; Sec via B. M. . Gould. oe. 47—Flint M. U. _ Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham. As O. A. Halladay. President, W. erce; Se No. Pg nee B. M. A. President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. cee elias lc a No. 49—Leroy B M. President, A. Wenzell: Secretary. weal ite. No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. President, A. O. Wheeler: Secretary a Grannis. ee i dln No. 51—Cedar Springs B. A. President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary ,W Co Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. President, A. S. Kedzie; Secretary, E. D. Vos. No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. _ Pe 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 R. M. A. President, L. S. Walter; Secretar3,C.= Plakely. No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen. No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S$. | E. Neihardt. No. 61—Hartford B. AL President, V. E. Manley: Secretary, I. B. Barnes. No. 62—East Saginaw M. A. President, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mulholand. No. 63—Evart B. M. A. President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell. Neo, 64— Merrill B. M. A. President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton. No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8. Blom. No. 66—Lansing B. M. A. President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles. No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A. President, W. L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield. No. 68—Allegan B. M.A President, H. H. Pope; Secretary, -. VanOstrand. No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison. No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, —— a Lee; Secretary, W.S. Powers. . 11—Ashley B. M. A, President, ee ane: Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck. No.7 72—Edmore B. M. A. No, 73—Belding B. M. A. SS AL L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster. ‘oe, 24 Davison M. U. President, J. F. Cartwright; | Sec retary. L. Gifford. No. 7 President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus. No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. President, S. S. McCamly: Sec retary, Chauncey Str Strong. No. 7 7 ‘South ‘Haven B. M. A. President, E. wood; Secretary, “a Ross. vo. Caledonia B. M. A. President, is 0. Seibert: Secretary. J. W. Saunders. No. 79—Ha-+t Jordanand so Arm B. ™. A, President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison. No. 80_Bay City and W. Bay City R. M, A. President, F. L. Harrisen; Secretary. Geo. Craig. No. 81—Flushing B. M. A. President, L. A. Sh Secretary, A. E. Ransom. No. —Alma B M. A. President, B. S. W a Secretary, M. E Pollasky. No. 83—Sherwood B. M. A. President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. R. Mantes No. 84—Standish B. M President, M. Angus; Secretary, D. W. cites: No. 85—Clio B. M. A. President J. M. Beeman; Secretary, C. H. May. \. — Millbrook and aa B. M. A. Ho. Se. T. . Preston; Secretary. H. P. Blanchard. “UNDERGROUND” INSURANCE. Timely Warning From the Chairman of the State Insurance Committee. GRAND Rapips, June 3, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR StR—I note the following in the last issue of THE TRADESMAN: Norway—O’Callaghan Bros., whose mill was burned last summer, have failed to get any in- surance, because the eompany which took the risk proved to be worthless. Taking the above as a text, I have prepared a list of the insurance companies doing an ‘‘under- ground” business in this State, for the protec- tion of business men and members of the B. M. A. These companies evade our laws in solicit- ing business in Michigan, make no statement to our Insurance Commissioner, pay no tax upon their premium receipts, and do business in ev ery way to arouse our suspicion regarding their financial responsibility and business integrity. They have no recognized attorney or agent in the State, against whom you can bring action in ease of loss, and by following them to their home office you frequently find them unknown and bankrupt. It is the duty of the Insurance Com- missioner to prosecute “and, if possible, prevent such companies from doing business in ‘the State. We commend his efforts in this direction heretofore and feel confident he will look to our interest wherever evidence can be furnished him of the violation of the law by any company. Much insurance is written and being written by so-called ‘‘undergrounders,”* which is not worth the paper itis written on. The following list includes the principal offenders in this respect: Continental Mutual Insurance Co., Michigan City, ind. a Mutual Insurance Co., Kittan ning, ae Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Pierre, Dak. . irginia State Insurance Co., Alexandria, Va., Capital City Mutual Fire, Columbus, Ohio. Millers’ Mutual Fire, De Pere, Wis. Knoxville Fire and Marine Insurance Knoxville, Tenn. Mountain City Fire and Marine Insuranee Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. Merchants’ Insurance Co., Fairmount Insurance Association, phia, Pa. Southern Home Insurance Co., Shreveport, La. Fire Association of New York, New York. Co., Decatur, Ala. Philadel- Armstrong Mutual Fire Insurance Co., New York. Central Manufacturers’ Mutual, Van Wert, Ohio. Osbkosh Mutual Fire, Oshkosh, Wis. Citizens’, Evansville, Ind. Indiana, Arlington. Indianapolis, Ind. Nashville, Tenn. Gro. B. CALDWELL, Chairman Insurance Committee. —- & <> Ludington Organizes a B. M. A. A considerable number of the representative business inen of Ludington met last Friday even- ing for the purpose of organizing a Business Men’s Association. Warren A. Cartier was elec to act as chairman and O. J. served as secretary pro tem. Brief addresses were made by C Wing, O. J. Graves and the editor of THe TRADESMAN, who introduced the following letter from the President of the Manistee B. M. A.: ted (sraves MANISTEE, May 27, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DeEaR S1k—Your letter of May 25, in regard to organizing Ludington, received. In reply, would say that our Secretary, Mr. Granis, is out of the city at present. If he returns in time. will have him write vou. giving details of benefits derived through onr Business Men’s Association. I will say this much, that it was through the Association’s efforts that we have two furniture factories, running good shape, employing about hands, and good prospects of two or more fur re factories, to start as soon as the buildings can be put up: besides other improve- ments too numerous to mention. Nou town can affurd to be without a Business Men's Association, if it wants to grow. Yours truly, A. ©. Wheeler, Pres. After further discussion of the subject, it was resolved to organize on the basis of $5 member- ship fee. when a set of by-laws in conformity thereto was adopted, the following gentlemen being accepted as charter members: Thos. Stout, F. C. Ewing, P. Mendelson, Chas. F. Sawyer, F. L. Aubery, G. H. Blodgett, Ed. P. Andrew, C. C. Ward, O. J. Graves, E. C. Rohn, H. E. Freeman, in j. E. Dorr, Jno. S. Woodrufl, Jas. E. Danaher, H. Aldrich, Thos. R. Lyon, L. K. Baker, H. A. Scott, Geo. N. Stray, John A. Sherman, Geo. P. McMahon, Fred E. Gary, F. N. Latimer, F. J. Dowland, Adam Drach, R. P. Bishop, Frank O. Dunwell, 8H. D. Woodward, A. EB. Smith, HV. Huston, Warren A. Carter, A. E. Cartier, L. ( A. Gebhardt, H. B. Smith, fol- G. Wing, J. Election of officers resulted as Waldo, C. VY. Roussin. lows: President—Chas. G. Wing. First Vice-President—Warren A. Cartier. Second Vice-President—L. K. Baker. Secretary—O. @. GTAVes. Treasurer—Augustus D. Woodard. It was voted to apply for a charter from the State Association. The organization starts out under flattering auspices and will, undoubtedly, accomplish great good for its membership and the City at large. ———__— -4 << Association Notes. rhe Cincinnati Retail Grocers’ Association has voted to set outalunch to the members who attend the regular meetings hereafter. Fremont Indicator: President F. H. Smith, of the B. M. A., appointed a committee last Friday to look up a suitable place for a publie park. Gaylord News: _ a ___—_- The Price of Success. From the Dry Goods Chronicle. A prominent feature in shops in rope, and more especially in France and England, is some central or special object of attraction to consumers, comprehend- ing. probably, articles that are in com- mon use. It serves a purpose in arresting the attention to the store that always makes a point to have some fresh attrac- tion, consequently inducing a person to purchase and at perhaps a very hand- me pereentage of profit. ru- There ts nothing like enthusiasm and lixing for a business for developing a mas abilities. Take a pursuit he is fon of. and it is hard to find a man who ean beat him ai it. Competition only makes him draw on his energies and resources. The greater the strain he puts on himself, the greater pleasure he derives. The face reflects the inner self. Upon the countenance the inner emotions are plainly recorded. We read on each other’s faces the motives moving in the mind. Asa leaf that has written upon it surprises, pleasure, annoyance, hatred, every trait of a man’s character marks itself upon his face and makes an impres- sion upon every one. If amerchant car- ries his business losses and re®erses in his face he becomes his own enemy. Many aman has been saved from insoly- ency by carrying a bold mein, expressive of success, and the courage sufficient throw every shadow of suspicion from his face. The men who have risen in the world have put all their strength, both of pe: formance and self-denial to do se. and have come to the front. The men of brilliant genius have been leaders and workers, toiling more laboriously than smiths and carpenters, and the reasen why they have surpassed is because they have taken more pais than other men. It true that nothing worth having comes easy, Whether it is wealth or cul- ture or training of any kind. Whoever would have these things must go through suffering and schooling to attain them. to is a 8 Glove-making in Austria. Prague, the capital of Bohemia. witha population of more than 300,060, in- cluding the suburbs, has become the center of a considerable es | industry. The so-called French glove- | making trade was introduced in Prague about 100 years ago. The state of the industry at the close of the first century of its existence (1884) is shown in the following figures: There were 120 firms engaged in the manufacture of gloves, employing 586 workmen, 225 apprentices, and 65 cutting machines, and producing 300,000 dozen of gloves, valued at 3,000,000 florins. At the present time there are 125 firms, the great majority having only small-sized shops. Not more than four or five of them employ 25 workmen or* over, and they are ranked among ‘‘large factories.’? In round Important changes of time will go into} I. Railroad next Mon- | City people to spend five hours in Grand | arrist me?’ “Excuse me, madam, but I would like | magistrate. to ask why you look at me so savagely?’ | your fine. “IT beg pardon, sir! I took you for my | Doyles should iver hav come to this, to numbers, about 600 men and 300 boys, besides some 1,200 seamstresses. find em- |ployment in the trade. The annual production is about 400,000 dozen, worth | about 4,000,000 florins. — -. <> — | The Philadelphia authorities some time since experimented with negro police- men. The first arrest made by one of | them was that of an Irish shoemaker who was laboring nnder the stress of whisky. |/On the following morning, when the | policeman appeared in court against his | prisoner, | though to clear his vision, and asked, in / a tone indicating astonishment, ‘‘Did ye | “Certainly 3 did,’ the} | policeman replied. ‘‘Great Hivins!’ ex- claimed the prisoner, turning to the ‘*Here, snquire, take out To think that one of the | be afristed by a naygur!’’ VISITING BUYERS. John J Ely, Rockford D H Lord, Peto F G Goodyear, Hastin, CE J 8 Toland, Ross Station J M Reid LM Wolf, Hudsonville W Ver Meulen, Beaver Dam C F Sears, Ro W G Tefft, Rockford Rogers & Sears, Lawton Eli Runnels, Co John Gunstra, Lamont Gus Begman, Bauer John Baker, Chauncey JN Wait, Hudsonville CS Keifer, Dutton J B Watson, Coopersville C $8 Comstock, ymond, Ezra Brown, E! E Hinman, John Homrich, wWhelpley & Cogswell, Mulliken EH Bok, Huds Ed Stinchcomb, Sunfield Walling Bros,Lamont J C Benbow, G H Walbrink, Allendale RB McCulloch, Beriin L Cook Bauer A B shumaker, Gd Ledge N Bouma, Fisher John Damstra, Gitchell D F Emerson, Big Rapids H Brownyard, H L Page,East A Everse, So B H M Lewis, Ioni skey Coburn, Pierson J H'Murray, White Cloud oe Jamestown Grattan Smith & Bristol, Ada ekford Alex Denton, Howard City x N Fisher, Dorr Wm Karsten, Beaver Dam $ E Bush, Lowell E E Hewitt, Rockford J P Cordes, Alpine Lee Deuel, Bradley Pierson lin John Smith, Ada nglishville Sparta No Dorr Carrington & North, Trént T Armock, Wright G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove Be B Moon, Cedar Springs Wm DePree, Zeeland onville EY oung, Ravenna Ashland Cannonsburg La Du & Baldwin, Coral X O Ward, Stanwood E N Parker, Coopersville A Pollard, Slocum’s Grove Jordan lendon 3 H Manning, Ashland 1a The furniture factories here pay as dry stock, measured merchantable, out: Basswood, log-run ........ Biren, lesa 2 Siren Nos tand2 |... Binek Ash lopaum. Cherry, foerun.......--..- sl Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2 ee Chery Ca Menge log-ran Maple. sett, loe-run...-.... |... Maple, Nos tang? ..-- Maple, clear, fooring........ - es Maple: white, selected......-.....__.- Hed Oak locran. Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2 Red Oak, 4 sawed, 6 inch and upw "d. Red Oak, 4 sawed, rezular:..........- Red Oak, No. 1 Step wiank Walnat, focran Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2 Walnuts, cull ee Grey Hig losrun. Maite Agollogcan 0 Whitewood. l6rrun....-.-.- 5. White Oak, = PO White Oak, 4 sawed, Nos. 1 and2.... 12.25 00G . 60 00@ HARDWOOD LUMBER. follows for mill culls ..-13 00@15 00 -.15 00@16 00 @22 00 14 oocis 00 DAO 00 65 00 00 00 00 00 @ 12 00¢ 11 00@13 @20 25 00 @25 00 20 00@21 00 26 D0@2% 00 38 00@40 00 30 00632 00 @% 00 12 y13 . G 12 60G 14 00@ 20 004 2 00 013 05 116 00 122 00 17 00818 00 42 00@43 00 HARDWARE. The wire nail manufacturers i and revised the rate, great many package nails, resul advance on the smaller sizes. The new | banded, resulting in lower pric jobbers. Although there is no not unexpected. not yet been issued by the jobbers. steel nail combination appears to have dis- The Hardware Market. met June throwing outa ting in an staple sizes and a decline on ists have The es. Bar iron still weak. Sisal and manilla rope both weak, but there is no change by the change in the window glass situation, an advanee is Prices Current. the Crispin rubbed his eyes as | AUGURS AND BITS, dis. ives!, eld styie oo 60 SHER ee 60 Cooks 2 = JCHHINGS), SCOURGE SCRHTSS, TAMGREIOH) 2.022 5610 AXES, Hirst Quality, S. EB Brenze ...- $ 7 00 e D. Breuze |. 11 00 Gl pu Siseean 00 8 50 re sca. 13 00 BALANCES, dis. Sprme -. BARROWS. dis. Rairosa ee $ 14 00 Garden net 30 00 BELLS. dis Mand 2 6010410 COM oe. 70 Ca se 60&15 oe ............ Ce 25 Door, Sergent... 60&10 BOLTS. dis. SO —_= Jarriage newilist .... FROWN ee 40&10 Sleigh BHOG 70 Wroueht Barrel Botts. _..... ss 60 Cast Barrel Bolts... _- ee. 40 Cast Barrell, briss Em@he (700). 40 Cast Square Spring. _._. _- eee cee 60 oat... 40 Wrought Barrel, brass Knob...... 60 Wroueht Square... 60 Wrought Sink Plugh....-. 60 Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10 nes Oox...... 6010 BRACES. dis. BAPE ee 40 Backis oe 50410 Speed 50 Aya Gay. net BUCKETS. Well, plain. ee. $3 50 Well swive 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, fizared. 3.5.0... 8... T0& Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed............. TO0& Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10 Wrought Eoose Pin oe 60£10 Wrought Loose Pin, acorn Gp.............. 60805 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned ..........._- 60405 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05 Wrourht Fapie oe 60&10 Wrought Inside Bling. _-_--..-.... =: 60&10 Wrouent Brace ee 15 Blind, Clark’ Blind Parkers... Bling, Saepard’s: 70 BLOCKS. Ordinery Tackle: ligt April #7, ‘S>....... 40 CARPET SWEEPERS. Bisset Nooo = doz. $17 00 Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ......- 19 60 Bissell Grand ===. 5 e 36 00 Grand Rapids... 2... . 24 00 Macie o 15 00 CRADLES. Grin ee dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. Cast Steel per b 4% 6 fron, Steel Poimts. =.» 3% CAPS, Hivstie .: per m 65 Hic eC Ff... 60 De 35 ace Ce 60 CARTRIDGES. tim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 Rim Fire, United States................. is. 50 Central tire dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. SOGCKCE Mirmice 8 70&10 NOCKCE Praia 70&10 DeckesGorber. ce 70&10 Socket Slicks _--... Beet cet oe oe. Butchers’ Tanged Pree 40 Barton's Soekes Hirmers. =... 20 CO net COMBS dis. Currey, DAWreReGs 22 40&10 Hotchkiss 0061. A ee 25 “CHALK. White Crayons, per gross..........12@12% dis. 10 cocks. | Brass, eee ee . [Bippis 200 ee ee [eee “0&0 ee 60 | COPPER. | Planished, 14 o2 Cut te size... ... per pound 33 | fe idebe, (ote eT 31 | Cold Holied, 14s56 and d4566...5 2... 29 | Cold Rolled tte 29 ESGUGOTAR 30 | DRILLS. dis. |'Morse’s Bit Steeks 8 7 4 | Paper and straight Shank... ..-............. 40 | Moree’s Taper Stutz... se 40 DRIPPING PANS. | Smmatl sines. ser pound: 2. 2. 07 DGSge mes: per POURG: 6620.08. ls 2. 6% ELBOWS. Com, 4 yieee Gin. 5. ts. doz.net % Corrugated 8000 dis. 20&10&10 A GIBSEAIO dis. %&10 These prices are for cash bwyers, pay promptly and buy in full packages. whe YK MOUNTAIN FRERARR. Hin ea aca Na ll Send for our 16 Page Descriptive Catalogue and Price List. Foster, Ste 10 & 12 MONROE ST. vens & Co., 33, 35, 37,39 & 41 LOUIS ST. EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clarks, small $18: large $6 2 8 30 ives’, 1, 818: 2 4-350 |... 25 | FILES—New List. dis. American File Association List............. 60410 RO ay 60416 NCW AMNCRICR 60&10 PUTER OLSON 60410 ellers ns 50 Heller’s Horse Rasps.. 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and %; 2 and 2; 27 28 List 12 13 14 5 18 Discount, 60 S| dis. Mtaniey tule an@ Bevel Cos... |. 50 HAMMERS, Rovaete Cea: —.- . Gis: 25 .dis, 25 Yerkes & Plumb’s. Lae +... KNOBS—New List. dis. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelum, trimmings: |... 55 Drawer and Shutter, , porcelain eee cee 70 Picture, H. 5, _oae ¢ Co.'s ete Hemacite . oe a 45 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s..... eee. 55 Ber 50 Werwmames. oe. 55 LEVELS. dis Mtanier Rule and Level Co's... .. 70 MATTOCKS, AROSE EVE £16.00, dis. 60 Mume ve $15.00, dis. 60 Hunt's..;. eoeet sees.) 6... iS oO Gis. 20610. it MAULS. dis. spersy @ Co.'s, Post, Handicd ........ 50 MILLS. dis Coffee, = rkers Co.’s. Stebbin’s Pattern........ Cy 60&10 Steppin 6 Gennige 60£10 Enterprise, self-measuring.. ee 2 NAILS Advance above 12d nails. FENCE AND BRADS. matoGd 25 Me 10 Shand od 25 Shand 4) 48and5a 60 3d ee 1 00 ee 1 50 : FINE BLUED ee a, 1 00 ee 1 50 ae 2 00 CASTING AND BOX. Pitot 50 od a 60 dite cd 75 C1070. 90 a 110 ee 1 50 oe COMMON BARREL, _ a. 25 el eee a CLINCH. 13 3 and 3% ee 1 35 2 and 24 ee 1 Se RNe ee 7 1 00 Sinen ee 85 oq ona 6 sueR 75 Each half keg 10 cents extra. OILERS, dis. Zine or tin, Chase's Patent. ............____. 60&i0 Zine. With DEASS BOULOM. = Brass GrCepper.. ce Beemer per gross, $12 Bi ee eae 50&10 PLANES. dis. Ohio Too! Cos, taney... ’..40@10 Sega BeNeR @60 Sandusiy Toot Co.'s, fancy. .......... 40@10 Bench firstquality @60 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood.. . 2010 PANS. ry, ACme. dis. 60 Common polished... 8. dis. 70 RIVETS. dis. Iron and Tinned. ......... 50 Copper Kivete and Bors. ..0 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. *“A*’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 ““B”’ Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs 4e¢ 7 pound extra. OPES, Sisal, 4% inch and Maar ee ee 1314 Nee 16% SQUARES. dis. Siceland ren fo es a (Pry and Bevels. ce ee 0 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com INOS. 10 te 14000 $4 20 $3 00 MINOR TRGO SG 4 20 3 00 MNOS. TEGO cs 42 3 10 NOR: ZU tO ee 4 20 3 15 OR EO ee 440 3 35 INO Pee . 4 60 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, | wide not less than 2-10 extra over 30 inches SAND PAPER. Disb ACCC 19 SG dis. 40 SASH CORD. Silv er Lake, beam eo, list 50 rau A. 55 Wie Bo . 50 Drab Bo " 55 Be Wele Go , . 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. Solid Hyves per ton 825 SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS. Miles’ “‘Challenge’’....per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05 Perey per ‘doz. No. i, 3415; No. 6, ee eee ee R21: dis. BO@S0&S Draw Cot No 4... each, $30, dis 30 Huterprise Mfr. €o .... dis. 20&10@30 mg dis. 40&10 SAWS. dis. Disston’ Ss Cireuige 45@45&5 Cross Cat... |... oe - 4XQ45&5 . gee Q&S *Extras sometimes given by jobbers. Atkins’ Circular.. : — 9 «Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,. 70 Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot. 50 Special Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foot.. 30 “Champion and Electrié Tooth X Cuts: per fogt == 28 TACKS dis. ‘Americ an a inde 60 Secel alt Eide 60 Swedes, all MG 60 Cmepine Dace 60 Cigar Box Naga 50 Bimishans Nee 5D Common and Patent Brads... ....._...._.. 50 Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks........ 50 iran and Ciegh Nats = | 50 Timed Trank and Clout Nails _........_._. 45 Heathered Carpet Tacks 9.0 0 35 TRAPS dis. meet Game 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 35 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 70 Heteniess 70 PS & Ww. or te 7 Menre chekee 18¢ per doz. Mouse, acineen i $1.50 per doz. WIRE. dis. Bright Market 67% Apmenicg Marke, 70&10 Capperca Markeg 624% Metre Bane ited Markes. 8 624% immed Broa per pound 09 Winged Wattress. per pound 8% Coppered Spring Steel 50 finned Sprmr Steel... 40&10 een Hence per pound Barbed Henee galvanized. 3 8 7 Panes 3 oo Copper ow list ne BI WIRE GOODS. dis. Bright... -70&10&10 Screw Ey RT -70&10&10 Meews -70&10&16 Gate Hooks and Hyes......00.. 01. - 70&10&10 WRENCHES, dis. Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled..... 30 Coes Genuine lL. 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, annus een eee 75 Coe’s Patent, malleable. . 75&10 MISCELLANEOUS dis. EEE Ce 50 Puraps, Cater . Nerews, New Uist... Casters, bed and Plafe........... ___. soé10810 Peampers, American 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel 1 godds betes 65 Copper BOUGMS 30¢ METALS, PIG TIN. Fie Eezec | 28¢ See . -80€ COPPER. Duty: Pig, Bar and Ingot, 4c; Old Copper, 3¢ Manufactured (including all articles of which Copper is a component of chief value), 45 per eent ad valorem. For large lots the following quotations are shaded: INGOT. ke ee Veneénor Brang st. : 45 ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 244¢ per pound. CEO Oe en 6% Ber poOunG 6 IGi% / LEAD. Duty: Pig, & per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2c per pound. Pipe and Sheets 8¢ per pound. | Ameria 8 @5 Weware @5 EE Se 8e, dis. 20 SOLDER, Oe 16 Extra RR 13% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. Cookson per pound 144% RCE 1% TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10xi4 IC, Charcoal ee . --8 6 OC 14x20 IC, CO - Ca CE . 62 14x14 IC, ee. . 10 0 mete, : oN <2 OO _ io ate . 800 eo 12 50 20X28 Ex _ Each piditiensl X on this grade, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. Hxitie. Charcoal 3.2 85 50 14x20 IC, Oe 5 40 a.lUlUmUmmrmUmUC 5 65 14x14 IC, _ oa resi. 11 80 OO 6 90 I OE 6 90 eecss cb ee 11 6 See 14 80 Each addi dienaa X on this grade $1.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, Terne M. ee $7 60 io he ee ea 67 14x20 Ic, Worcester... 5 50 14x20 IX, ‘ Ce 7 00 29x28 IC, ’ eee 11 50 14x20 IC, Allaway Grade... ........ 4 90 14x20 IX, ee. 6 40 20x28 IC, i Co 10 50 20x28 IX, " . ee 13 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. ee ae " 00 ae ix ao eB ii eo 3 50 14x56 or No. oilers, | 14x60 1X)“ noes. 09 OILS: Snow Drop. A Fine Water White Oil, High Gravity and Fire Test, and recommended to those wishing a High Grade Burning Oil. Red Cross Paint Oil Is full of merit and needs but a trial to convince all of its great value. For mixing with Linseed itis without a peer, as it greatly reduces the cost of same and without injuring its quality. Gasoline. Our XX XX Red Cross brand is unexcelled. War- ranted to Give Satisfaction. Naptha. Sweet and Free from Oily Matter, and has met the approval of many of the largest consumers. Mineral Turps. Its peculiar composition is such that it can be used with turpentine in fair proportion, the lat- ter retaining full possession, and with perfect results. ALL KINDS Lubricating Oils Constantly in stock, all at our Cleveland prices, thus saving you time and freight. Grand Rapids Yank bine Co., WORKS—D. OFFICE & M. Junction. ROOM—No. 4 Blodgett Block. Branch Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle, Cleveland, Ohio. KG, STUDLAY, Manufacturer and dealer in Leather and Rubber Belting, Rubber Goods, Sporting Gaods, Mill and Fire Department Supplies We manufacture the VERY BEST Pure Oak Tanned, Short Lap, Leather Belt that is made, and make them either Riveted, Pegged or Sewed. Belts repaired, made endless and put on. Agent for the New York Belting and Pack Company’s Rubber Belting, Hose and Rub- ber Goods for mechanical purposes. ing Lubricating Oils and Greases of all kinds, Cotton Waste, Lath Yarn, Hay and Hide Rope, Lace Leather, Belt Fastenings of all kinds, Babbit Metal, Emery Wheels, Disston’s Saws, Nicholson’s and Black Diamond Files, Hancock Inspirators, Brass Valves of all kinds, Steam and Water Gauges, Lubricators and Grease Cups. Packings of all kinds, Boiler Com- pound, Sole Agent for A. G. Spaulding & Bro.’s sporting Goods, and L. Candee & Co.'s rubber boots and Shoes. ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST. Mich. SEND FOR N 4 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, - SEEDS! . UAC eNONRES Timothy, 0 rchard or If in want of Clover, Millett, Seed Hungarian, Blue Grass, Corn—Early Yellow or Dent, Turnip or Ruta Baga, or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed, send to the Seed Store, 71 Canal St., G W.T. LAMOREAUX, RAND RAPIDS. 20,000 Sold to the Yrade In Grand Rapids in the past 30 days. Over 150 retail dealers in G and Rapids are handling the Famous Five Cent Cigar, “THE WHITE DAISY" This cigar we guarantee to be the best nickel cigar in the State, all long Havana filler with a Sumatra wrapper. Itis sold to the trade for $5 per M. Remember, you take no chances in ordering, for we guarantee the cigar to give entire satis- faction or they can be returned. Beware of Imitations. The genuine will have our signature oninside of cover of each box. Send in your orders by mail. The White Daisy Is manufactured only by MORTON & CLARK, 462 S. Division St., Grand Rapids. Ee iy Muscatine ROLLED OATS Will not turn bitter in hot weather. Best the year around. The Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable strictly in advance. Advertising Rates made known on application. Publication Office, 100 Louis St. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office. E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JUN#® 5, 1889. A BET OF HISTORY. When THE TRADESMAN was Started, six years ago, a certain wholesale grocer informed the trade that inside of two months he would superintend the funeral of the venture. Yet THE TRADESMAN still lives. and the man who sought its downfall*no longer pursues a mercantile career. Three years later another wholesale asserted that it was only a ques- dance over The paper grocer tion of time when he would THE TRADESMAN’S grave. still lives, membered only he left behind. third however, and Messmore is re- by the creditors whom Now a is assuring his friends that he benediction on the editor out of the city. never thrived more incurred the displeasure man in question, for the that the friendship and co-operation of 5,100 retail dealers makes it stronger than any single individual—stronger than any jobbing house, even with five times the capital at stake. So long as THE TRADESMAN continues to be the exponent of the retail trade— voicing its aspirations and rebuking prac- tices which are inimical to its interests— so long will it receive the hearty support of the great body of Michigan retailers. Whenever it goes back on its record, fails to make the retailer’s cause its cause, and overlooks or condones actions detri- mental to the retailer’s interests, it will deserve and receive the condemnation of the same men who now accord it cordial and unswerving support. jobber will soon pronounce a paper and drive its Yet the paper has than it has since it of the gentle- simple reason WHEREIN LIES THEIR SAFETY. The suppression of needless labor on Sundays on the Vanderbilt railroads and some others may be prompted by a con- sideration for the welfare of their em- ployes, but there are reasons for this action which should appeal powerfully even to railroad managers who are not open to such considerations. One of these is that the laws of nearly every State in the Union, following the English Sunday law of the reign of Charles IL., forbid such labor on the first day of the week. Whether these laws be wise, as most of us think, or unwise, as the rail- roads often seem to assume, it is very directly theinterest of railroad managers to obey them. Nothing but a general respect for law can insure the safety of railroad property. It is of all property the last to be protected effectively by the police or other direct and material agen- cies of government. It stretches over much too long an area to be protected by any force less pervasive than a vigorous public opinion. And whenever any road sets its workmen and the public an ex- ample of disregard for the law, either as to Sunday observance or any other point, it is doing its best to beat down the bar- riers of its own safety. If railroad strikes have been more notable for violence than any others in this country, is it not partly, at least, because railroads have been in this and some other respects the most persistent violaters of the laws of the land, and thus have spread a lawless spirit among those whose modes of think- ing they most directly influence? FALSE MERCANTILE REPORTS. An important decision was recently rendered by Judge Gartner, of Detroit, involving the liability of commercial agencies for sending out false reports regarding the standing of firms. The Alma correspondent of R. G. Dun & Co. reported to the Detroit office that Pol- lasky Bros. had placed a $10,000 mort- gage on their stock. The report was not seen by the manager of the Detroit office, but was sent broadcast over the country by clerks in the employ of the agency. Although the report was false and with- out foundation, and was retracted by Dun & Co. the day following, it tended to in- jure Pollasky Bros.’ credit,to that extent that they felt justified in bringing suit against the Detroit manager for $25,000 damages. The defendant admitted the falseness of the report, but he contended that the action should be brought against Dun & Co.—not against an agent of the corporation. Judge Gartner took the same view. He held in his decision that Manager Minchener was not responsible, and that no action against him would lie. But as against the man who wrote the report, the man who sent it out and R. G. Dun & Co., it would. He intimated clearly that, in his opinion, the firm or corporation could be held for any damage accruing from the publication of the false report. The shoemakers have a harder time of it in Germany than they do in this coun- try. A cobbler at Solau allowed a nail to pass through the sole of a shoe he had repaired. The customer’s foot became so bad that it was obliged to be ampa- tated, and he sued the shoemaker for compensation and damages. The court the shoemaker to pay the sufferer an annuity for life of $225, to- gether with the cost of the doctor and the law suit. condemned The Manufacture of Chocolate and Cocoa. No doubt 100 years ago the early set- tlers of New Amsterdam were not as fastidious as the present population of New York City, and being composed principally of persons who had come here to make money and live in frugality, there was little if any demand for lux- uries, but to-day fortunes have accumu- lated, and very naturally the demand for novelties in food and beverages, as well as everything else, has increased. This has been the means of developing in this country. and especially in the city of New York, many industries, prominent among which is the manufacture of chocolate and cocoa, an industry which, although hardly known to the public, nevertheless, during the year 1888, turned out a product worth several million dol- lars. Chocolate is a manufacture of sugar and cocoa (cacaa in Spanish), sometimes flavored with the vanilla bean. Its use is in the United States as a beverage seemingly new as compared with tea and cotfee. Cocoa was introduced and has been extensively consumed in Spain since the early part of the sixteenth eentury, its use gradually extending into France and reaching England and the balance of the continent in the seven- teenth century. The first chocolate known to have been manufactured in North America was about the year 1770. Strange to say the use of the cocoa bean, which was first discovered in the year 1519 by Cortez in Mexico, during his first invasion of that country, did not become general in its neighboring country, the United States, until two centuries after; and it is only within the last twenty-five years that the consumption has so rapidly inereased that the importations of cocoa beans in the various ports of the United States for the year 1888 amounted to over 16,- 000,000 pounds. The use of the cocoa bean, formerly restricted to the manufacturers of choco- late, is now extensively used in several preparations under various names, the majority of which are pulverized cocoas. The growing demand for chocolate and cocoa certainly has been considerably facilitated by the great improvements that have been made in the machinery specially adapted toits manufacture, and by the reduced cost to consumers, cocoas and chocolate of far superior quality than formerly being produced at one- fourth the former cost. Many of the accounts of the aristocracy of Europe indicate the high standard of their living, and we find, asa rule, that the use of choeolate for breakfast is mentioned as a great luxury. At present this article is within the reach of everyene, and no doubt is destined to become one of the great staffs of life, for no vegetable pro- duets contain more nourishment than those manufactured from the cocoa bean. ea No Flies on Him. There were a dozen or more fly-screen doors outside the store marked ‘Only $1.30 each,’’ and when the farmer and his wife drove up. their attention was at once attracted. ‘-That’s exactly what I was going to ask for,’’ she said, as she climbed down over the wheel to the platform. ‘“*You was, eh? Id like to know what we want of ascreen door,’’ he growled. ‘‘What does other folks want of ’em 2”’ “Sure “nufl if folks want to buy every gimcrack that comes out. let’em do it, but we hain’t got no money to throw away.’’ ‘“‘Moses, we’ve got to have a screen door,’’ she observed, as she went closer. ‘“*We are the only folks on the hull Cen- ter Line road without one.”’’ ‘‘Has it hurt us any ?”’ “Yes, it has. There wasn’t a tin ped- dler, lightning-rod man, piano agent or chicken buyer who called last summer but what throwed out a hint to us.’’ “Andif they throwed outa hint that we orter have a door bell, you’d take on till you got one, I s’pose.’’ ‘I don’t say nothing ’bout door bells, *eause folks can knock when they come; but we do need a screen door.”’ Wihab far 277 “They look rich from the they keep flies and bugs out.’’ “We have kep’ house thirty-eight years now, and we orter be used to insecks. Bugs and flies don’t bother us none, and they are healthy, anyhow.”’ ‘See how cheap they are, Moses,’’ continued, in pleading tones. ‘*Ya-as, but you can buy the netting fur five cents a yard—white, and green, and yaller, and all kinds. I tell ye, Martha, we can’t afford it.’’ She sighed and was turning away, when the hardware man came out and briskly said: “Ah, how are you, folks ?’’ at those screen doors, eh ? nice things to keep flies out.’’ “Yas, I s’pose so,’’ replied the farmer, ‘but we don’t wantany. 1 rather like to have flies around.’’ ‘““‘Well, I couldn’t let you that lot, anyhow. Dick whole five.’’ “What! our Dick ?’’ “Yes, over on the Corners.’ road, and she Looking Powerful have one of Jones took the *‘And he’s all mortgaged up and can’t! buy a new plow.” | “There, Moses—what do you think ?’’| exclaimed the wife. “And Dick Jones has bought them) x doors ?’? he asked the merchant. | "Yes, he’ ll take ‘em,’ | ‘*‘No, he won’t! Just load three of ’em | into my wagon! I don’t go much on gim- | cracks, and I know we don’t need ’em, | but I hain’t goin to let no turnip-top like | Dick Jones to go swelling around over me—not this year! Come along, old | woman, and pick ye out a pair of forty- cent stockings—yes, you can go as high| I’ll be swashed if any family 77 as sixty! named Jones can sit on our coat tails! + 2 a 4 70 La Bast No. 1 Sun, ‘plain bulb See cose ae 1 25 NO 1 50 No.1 crimp pe eee ee 1 40 NGS 1 60 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crocra, pee pal... 5. es 06% Jugs, i gal., per. doz Bee eee cee. 65 ef Se ee ee 1 80 Meat Tubs, 10 gal., each eee ees aoe 7 ee 1 00 -< - 45. = Sn 1 65 i oe cee ae ae 2 25 | Milk Pans, % gal., per. doz. ie — to. ee 90¢) . %8 The Best Fitting Stock- ing Rubber in the Market. Geo. H. Reeder, Sole Agents, Grand Rapids, - Mich. SHAFTING, HANGERS, IND PULLEYS ASPECIALTY. FIRST-CLASS Send Specifications for Estimates before Contracting. THE LANE & BODLEY CO. 2 t048 JOHN ST., CINCINNATI, O. IN EVERY RESPECT. W. C. DENISON, GENERAL DEALER IN Stationary and Portable Kngines and Boilers Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting and Marine Engines. SAW’ MILLS, any Size or Capacity Wanted. haust Fans. Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ex Estimates Given on Complete Outfits. 88 90 and $2 SOUTH DIVISION ST., - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH DETROIT SOAP CoO., For Ww, G, HAWKINS, wock’box'1 23. Manufacturers of the following quotations in single box lots, QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, TRUE BLUE, SUPERIOR, HENIX, see Price Current. quantities, well-known brands: ROYAL BAR, MASCOTTE, AND OTHERS, CZAR, CAMEO, For quotations in larger address, Salesman for Western Michigan, GRAND RAPIDS. H. Leonard & Sons. Near Union Depot. Axles. Upholstered with plush, The GEM has Steel Wire Wheels It also has an oo | Mich. Cor, Spring and Fulton Sts. The GEM” Tricycle TE market for Ladies and Children. iis is the most perfect tricycle on the It is recom- mended by Physicians as the First and Only Machine of a delicate constitution can Girls with invented that Ladies and ride benefit. wit h Grooved Steel Tires and Forged Steel Adjustable Spring Seat filled with Japanese hair, which retains its elasticity, making it easy for the rider. Prices quoted without fenders: No. —— inch Rear Wheels, for 3 to 7 years of age, $6.67 Each. No. 2 aA oe ee ee q to 1 ee ee oe 8.00 ee No. 3—28 ‘* . - Ge ee o34) 0 No. 4— 32 ee ee oe ee 14 to 18 ee oe ee 12.00 oe Same with rubber tires: No. 7—20 inch Rear Wheels for 3 to 7 years, $11.34 Each. No. 8—24 . . — @ 60it © 12.67 No. 9—28 . e 2 to 14 . 14.00 bts No. 10—32 ‘* - ** M4tels - 18.00 Wealso carry Boy’s Bicycles and Tricycles. QUOTATIONS. H. Leonard & Sons, ASK FOR MICHIGAN CIGAR CO., Big Rapids, Mich. MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED “MM. CC. OC.” Vum Yun The Most Popular Cigar. The Best Selling Cigar on the Market. SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER. RiINDGE, SERTSCH & CO., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS and SHOES AGENTS FOR THE Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 12,14 & 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. COLBY, CRAIG & CO. MANUFACTURE THK BESY DELIVERY WAGON ON EARTH. 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. LY, (Ce aiG & CO. West End Fulton St Bridge. Telephone No. 867. BESTSBaHM & FPO, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY, Send for |ATLA INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A. MANUFACTURERS OF ENGINE WORKS aSTEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. o Pieaci, Sabeeece. Moulders and all 2zzy Engines and Boilers in Stock fr for immediate delivery. kinds of Wood- wien ‘iia Saws, Belting and Oils. And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Write for Prices. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, WHY Bh A SLAVE To the Pass Book System With its attendant losses and annoyances, when you can supplant it by so inexpensive and labor-saving a system as the Tradesman Gred it Covpon Book, Which is now used by over 2,000 Michigan merchants. The Tradesman Coupon is the cheapest and most modern in the market, being sold as follows: $ 2 Coupons, per hundred ea $2.50 | $ 5 Oe 3.00 | — | ee ade 4.00 | $20 o : teeeeeee ee 5,00} SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS: Orders for 200 orover....... 5 per cent. . a 10 Oe 20 “ YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS. KA. STOWE & BRO, Grand Rapids, al Uranges | We are wholesale agents for the Fancy California Mountain Seedlings and headquarters for 1 kinds of Messina oranges. PUTNAM & BROOKS, CURTIS Successors to CUR WHOL S & Co, TISS & DUNTON. ESALE Paper Warehouse, Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WHO URGES YOU TO BEEP SAPOLIO? THE PUBLIC! 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. LKMUNS Our lemons are all bought at the cargo sales in New Orleans and are as free from frost or chill as in June, PUTNAM & BROOKS. Zot P The Michigan Tradesman WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1889. LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS. Written for THE TRADESMAN. BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT. There is no other profession or bus- iness that leads a person, insensibly but surely, into a veritable ‘‘tread-mill”’ ex- istence like that of the tradesman, and more especially the tradesman whose lines are cast in country and semi-country localities. If business or pleasure calls the professional man away from home, he locks his door and leaves, with the assurance that his clients or patients, ex- cept in imperative cases, will patiently await his return. The mechanic workingman can figure very closely how his absence will affect him financially. When the farmer has made satisfactory arrangements for tending the stock, he has no further care on his mind. The landlady is usually amply qualified for running the hotel during the proprietor’s absence. A dozen well-qualified hang- ers-on are always ready to fill the aching void that would be caused by the gin- slinger’s departure, and the curb-stone brokerage of the small capitalist usually gives him an almost unlimited time for or vacations and travel. And the heavy dealer in merchandise, except as a matter of personal choice, can usually avoid a great share of the routine and monotony of the tread-mill. His circumstances and surroundings ne- cessitate the employment of skilled and efficient assistants to whom he can safely delegate his duties during his absence, and unless he is given to doubts regard- ing their honesty or capability, or is mor- bidly inclined to conjure up possible dis- asters that might be averted by his pres- ence, he can leave his business with per- fect equanimity and confidence. But it’s the little fellow of trade that I am particularly writing about and con- doling with. and in trade the little fel- lows are in the vast majority. Not that I mean that all, or even a large propor- tion of them, are struggling with impe- cuniosity, or that great numbers of them are not, in acomparative sense, ‘well fixed’’ financially. But they are individ- uals who have never been assisted by a ‘‘boom,’’? whose commencement in trade was made on an insignificant capital; whose customers have never been re- markably numerous or extravagant, and whose accumulations and modest pros- perity are the result of close economy and close attention to the details of their little ventures. These people are around and among useverywhere. Many of them luckily found themselves in cir- cumstances to retire from trade before the sharp ‘‘nip’’ in trafficking transac- tions became so disagreeably visible to the mercantile ‘‘small fry,’’ and are now living contentedly and independently on their little savings. Numbers more were thinking of giving place to the younger generation of traders, but the hard times struck them just a little while before they felt themselves safe in doing so; and there are others, of course, who would, and will, cling to the old, familiar voca- tion, as long as life and strength permit, and under any phase of business depres- And, the present condition of commercial affairs, these are the parties who find themselves in the ‘‘tread-mill.’? Confronted by the unpleasant fact that it requires more study and exertion to-day to make their business profits balance running expenses than it did a few years ago to materialize a handsome surplus yearly, they have, as amatter of necessity, had to cut off every possible expense, and load them- selves down with more work, care and anxiety than ever fell to their lot, even during their younger and more ambitious days. While waiting for the long hoped for renaissance of business prosperity, the ‘‘small fry’? trader has thoroughly digested the fact that he must either allow his little capital to slowly but surely evaporate, or go back to the most rigid and primitive principles of a ‘‘small fry trade. * sion or prosperity. under The s. f. dealer is having considerable experience with the hope deferred that maketh the heart sick. Hehas hoped that the crop prospects would induce the farm- erto become a liberal buyer again, but the probable prices of the cereals continue to keep the agriculturalist disgruntled. He has hoped that the littie manufactur- ing interests of his community would gradually grow, to the increase of its population and the enhancement of its business reputation, but, they have, on the average, barely remained in stato quo. He has hoped that the pressure of the times would thin out the reckless, hap- hazard and irresponsible traders, but the current in this direction is scarcely discernible. He has hoped that his cutting and slashing competitor would be forced into other quarters or other | pursuits, but he has seen him go through two or three successful and profitable assignments, and remain with a_ credit amply sufficient for a third or fourth one, and, let him look in any direction he may, it would require almost a Micawbet eredulity, and ‘‘happy-go-lucky”’’ dis- position, to make a revival of country mercantile prosperity seem possible among the near possibilities. €, ~ * * * * * And, unfortunately, while the depres- sion and stagnation of all small business pursuits continues, and promises to con- tinue, indefinitely, there is another stag- nation and depression which has a ma- terial influence upon those who are thus financially afflicted. It is a stagnation in the intellect or judgment, or a depres- sion in the morals and manhood of those alleged ‘‘statesmen’’ who continue to be selected for Fegislators at the state and national capitols. If the speeches and other utterances of these individuals can of matters, among what may be termed the the curious theory that the only practical tion, or steady increase of high taxes. The fact is too patent and commonplace mental principles of business that ex- penditures must be regulated, as nearly as possible, by incomes, and that an in- capacity to so regulate them is a fatal defect in any business man’s character. And yet a majority of our Congressmen and Representatives have the eftrontery or ignorance to endeavor to impress us with the belief that this old fashioned, irrefutable, common proposition is impracticable in public affairs. That a merchant whose income drops from $2,000 to $1,000, or a workingman whose wages are cut from $2.00 to $1.25, ought to think ita pleasSure as well as a duty to contribute as much, or more, toward public improvements, official salaries and the multiplication of feeders at the public crib—not to mention the building up of monopolies and the propagation of millionaires—as if his income or wages had not been decreased. To one who has given even superficial attention to political economy and the duties of citi- zenship, such a proposition seems in- eredible, and insulting to ordinary human intelligence, but doesn’t about every move, vote or act of our ‘‘public servants’? proclaim that the principle has become a fixed—but let us hope not unchangeable—feature of our latter-day ‘‘statesmanship?”’ $1,000 REWARD! THE LARGEST AND BEST CLEAR LONG HAVANA FILLED SUMATRA WRAPPED CIGAR SOLD FOR & CENTS. sense att ROR j \ <3 HE JUDGE PUECUTAD EATER EE “Waypanted Clear Long Havana Filler 28s, ° Imported Wrapper urseataear stants beeatsl We agree to forieit provin he Filler of these Ctzars to One Thousand Dollars to any person aie fe F Eoatars eacihiag avana Tobacco. Amos S, Musselman & Co. SOLE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. $ —WARRANTED NOT TO RIP.~| Pre + Every garment bearing the above ticket is WARRANTED NOT TO RIP, and, if not as re- presented, you are requested to return it to the Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive anew garment. STANTON, SAMPSON, & CO., Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., |'COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapide. | | { | oe FFG LENRO TY. LECTROTYPERS. 4 ¢ > me 1k <4 cas Photo& Zine Engraving” ROTET UOT ha U1 eee ‘ ei an bars ‘aa eels Fa SUL be relied upon, they are pretty well con- | versant with the unsatisfactory outlook | poorer and the ‘‘middle classes’”’ of their | countrymen, but, strangely enough, they | ° . ° . ° | either affect to believe, or do believe, in | relief for hard times is in the continua- | for argument that it is one of the fundi-| The SUMMER TOURS. PaLace STEAMERS. Low Rates. During July and August Leave CHICAGO Chicago, 9 A. M., 6.30 P.M AND St. Joseph, 2 P.M., 11 P. M St. Joseph- During Balance Season Leave Benton Harbor te — 11 P.M. MAMMOTH STEAMER CITY OF DETROIT. Four Trips per Week Between DETROIT, MACKINAC ISLAND PETOSKEY and SAULT STE. MARIE. Every Day Between DETROIT AND CLEVELAND | OUR ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLETS | Rates and Excursion Tickets will be furnished | by your Ticket Agent, or address C. D. WHITCOMB, Cen’L AGENT, CHicaGco, ILL. Qetroit art Cleveland Steam Nav. CO LONG HAVANA FILLER. j THEY HAVE NO EQUAL. A. Ss. DAVIS, 127 Louis St., Grand Rapids. WHIPS AND LASHES. Lowest Prices for Mail Orders, GRAHAM ROYS, 54 Lake Ave., Grand Rapids. AWNINGS AND TENTS. Horse and Wagon Covers, Water Proof Coats, Bug: ey Aprons, Wide Cotton Ducks, ete, Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Chas. A. Coye, Telephone 106. ' 11 Pearl St. G.R. IGE & GOAL GO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers, Now—Before any Advance—Write for Prices on Coal. Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co., 52 PEARL ST. ROASTER The most practical hand Roaster in the world. Thousands in use—giving satisfic- tion. They are simp:e durable and econom- cal, Nou should be without one. MAGIC COFFEE fection. logue and prices, Robt. §, West, 48-50 Long St., Cleveland, Ohio, W. STEELE Packing and Provision Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry Salt Pork, Hams, Shoulders, Bacon, Boneless Ham, Sausage of all Kinds, Dried Beef for Slicing. LARD strictly Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 50 1b. cans, 201b. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails se e 9 s* Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc. Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all goods are warranted first-class in every in- stance. When in Grand Rapids, give usa call and look over our establishment. Write us for prices. : ll COE) CTIONS A We nav~ cooked the corn in this cau A| sufficient: shouid be Thuroughly Warmed ‘uot cooked) adding piece vi 200° putter (size of hen’s egg) aud gu. ~ fresh milk (preferable to waier.) Season to suit when on the tabie. Nove genuine unless bearing the signature vo Davenport Canning Qo, Davenport, Ia. Pe eo EN at ruHis EN DIRS Amboy Cheese. We have the pleasure to advise the trade that we have received the agency and sole control in this State of the “Amboy” Cheese, handled for many years by Messrs. Wm. Sears&Co. The qual- ity of this brand has always been kept uniform and in every sense “Strictly Full Cream,” making it so well and favorably known and appreciated by the trade that no further recommendation or guarantee is necessary. Acme Cheese. We are also the Sole Agents for the “Acme” Cheese, made in Herkimer Co.,N. Y. This brand is a Strictly Full Cream Cheese and cannot fail to grocer | Roasts coffee | and pea-nuts to per | Address for Cata | give satisfaction. Please send us your orders. Lemon, Hoops & Peters. Grand Rapids, April 24, 1889. Our New FPlag Cigar GOOD FIVE CENT CIGAR. To introduce this brand we will give free with each order for 1,000 at $35 The Fauntleroy Cart. This Cart is especially adapted to Michigan roads, will seat two passengers REMEMBER —tThe ecart is given free with 1,000 of and is attractive in appearance. our New Flag cigars at $385. W. J. QUAN & CO,, 49 and 851 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Iil. FIRE! FIRE! We are selling the BEST RUBBER HOSE in 3-4, 1, 11-4, 11-2, 2 and 21-2 inch. Cotton Mill Hose, Rubber Lined; also unlined Linen Hose, in all sizes, for fire protection. Our Prices are Rock Bo We have the Best Lubricators, Grease and Oil Cups, Lath and Fodder Yarn, Saw Gummers, and the best General Stock of Mill Supplies in this State. AGENTS FOR STEWART’S BEADY ROOFING, DEAFENING FELT AND SHEATHING, IRON FIBREXPAINT AND CEMENT. BEST OF THE KIND IN USE. SAMU! C. A. LAMB, Grand Rapids, Mich. F. J. LAMB & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. C. A. LAMB & cGy, Wholesale and Commission Pruits Produce. BERRIES. 56 and’ 58 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. EDWIN FALLAS, JOBBER OF Batter, Hoos, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Mince Meat, Nuts, Figs, kite. Eggs Crate Factory in connection. Price List furnished on application. Mail Orders Filled Carefully and Promptly at Lowest Market Price. Cold Storage at Nos, 217 and 219 Livingstone St. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich, ©. Fi. COMUNECL.L.., (Suecessor to CORNELL & KERRY.) Wholesale and Commission Fruits and Produce. Agent for the Wayland Cheese. 30 NORTH IONIA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS TELEPHONE 253, Pi, £, ¥ CM, FRED CLOCK, Chicago, II. Our Specialties: CALIFORNIA ORANGES, BANANAS FRUITS, LEMONS, AND MICH. ALPREDS. BROV N, WHOLESALE DEALER Foreign, Yropical and Galitornia FRUITS. IN Headquarters for Bananas. 16 AND 18 NORTH DIVISION ST. THEO. B. GOOSSEN, | WHOLESALE Produce Commission Merchant, BROKER IN LUMBER. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Shingles euTloWw Orders for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples, iu Car Lots, solicited. Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons and Bananas a specialty. 33 OTTAWA STEET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | Telephone 269. rand Rapids Fruit and Produce HOWES & CO.) c~ esooyoO GY | Stovewood ty (SUCCESSOR TO GEO. E. Jobbers of FOREIGN FRUITS. Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty. 3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. MOSELEY BROs., —WHOLESALE—— Fruits, Seeds, Oysters? Produce. All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be ' pleased to hear from you. a < 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS. GROCERIES. Pacific Coast Prunes. From the Portland Bulletin. Quite recently a large shipment of Cal- ifornia prunes was made to New York, when a newspaper stated that the ‘‘voyage took about five weeks, during four of which the heat to which the fruit was subjected was considerably more than that which the fruit has to stand during the twelve days’ voyage from Bordeaux. The result of the experiment is most sat- isfactory. the prunes arriving in a remark- ably fine state of preservation. No fer- mentation, mould, or other ill effects of the heat were noticeable. Samples of the fruit which arrived first are still in as good a state of preservation as when opened. and no sign of a tendency to become candied, which is so detrimental to the French prunes at this season of the year, can be seen.’’ This fruit com- manded *¢c more than French prunes, being superior in some respects to the foreign importation, which goes to show that careful preparation and packing are all that is required to pave the way for a steady market for the prunes of this eoast, since Oregon prunes are quite as fine as those of California. In Oregon the area upon which fruit of all kinds ean be cultivated with ease is simply enormous, and the price per acre very cheap compared with any similar soil elsewhere, and if every farmer. instead of going in for so much profitless wheat, were to turn his atteition to mixed farm- ing, and especially a small orchard well kept. he would not only enrich himself, but assist in building up a remunerative industry. The latest advices show that the French prune crop this year will be one of the heaviest on record, and the French ex- porters are endeavoring to instil into the minds of the farmers the absolute neces- sity of throwing away no precaution that will render the fruit perfect, in order to compete with the product of this coast, and to convince the farmers that they must be content with low prices. The sad depredations in French vineyards have been the means of a large increase in prune orchards as a substitute. and these trees are now beginning to bear well, so that lower prices can be better borne than a year or soago. The next California crop is estimated by authori- ties at 18,000,000 pounds, sothat the high price of prunes here two years ago will not be repeated yet awhile. It may be safely asserted, taking all circumstances into consideration, that Oregon prunes ean always be grown at a much less cost than in California, and in afew years this will be amply proved by the formid- able competition that will arise from the western slope of the Cascades. oe -?2- ne Messina Oranges. The shipment of Messina oranges to the United States is very large and the fruit a very superior article. Shipments generally begin early in September. Or- anges are grown in Sicily on a light, sandy soil and mature early. It is very rare that the crops are injured by frost, the climate being very favorable to their growth. The fruit is gathered before it is fully ripe, and will keep well for forty or fifty days. After being picked, it is piled on the ground and covered over with tarpaulin, where it allowed to sweat for two or three days, then itis wrapped in tissue paper, packed in-boxes and sent to Messinafor shipment. Upon reaching the exporter’s warehouse it is carefully examined, sorted, wrapped in fresh tissue paper and repacked, Ex- porters ship their oranges as soon as they can be disposed of. The packing is done mostly by women and girls, who receive about a quarter of a dollar a day wages: they do the sorting and wrapping while men handle the boxes, making from forty to fifty cents a day. The boxes must be handled with great care to pre- vent bruising or injuring the fruit. They are transported in well-ventilated steam- is ers, The actual cost of picking, pack- ing. boxing and transporting to New York is a trifle over $1 a bex. Oranges grown on a light sandy soil in Sicily are of apale yellow color and do not keep long: those grown on a clayey soil are larger and of a better keeping quality, and of a reddish brown color. The fruit grown on a clay soil brings 30 per cent. more than fruit produced on a sandy soil. There are two kinds of Sicilian fruit, commonly known to the trade as moun- tain and sea-coast fruit. The principal orange and lemon groves in Sicily are on the Northern and Eastern coasts. The mountains along its shores rise boldly from the coast with a narrow strip of land attheir bases. In the sides of these mountains are caves or grottos inswhich oranges are stored while awaiting ship- ment. Years ago, when sailing vessels were employed in carrying oranges to foreign countries they were preserved in sand, in which they would keep some- times for four or five months. This practice no longer prevails, nearly all of the fruit being wrapped in tissue paper and closely packed in boxes. ———_—~> -9 << The Coffee Market. Chase & Sanborn describe the situation as follows: The general tone of the markets dur- ing the week has ruled strong, and the price of coffee has advanced about 14¢e per pound at the several consuming cen- ters. As is usually the case, the produc- ing markets have been leading the up- ward movement,and values at these points show an advance of 1c per pound as compared with last Wednesday. The increased volume of business, both in option and in actual coffee, is un- doubtedly the direct cause for the im- provement in prices and is also good evidence of the growing confidence of the trade in the stability of the coffee situation. The supplies of desirable West India, Central and South American mild varie- ties continue to come forward in very limited quantities, and the recent ad- vance of about 1c per pound in the price of these descriptions has been fully maintained. As the above grades are now (in a first hand way) relatively much higher than are the other kinds, and as their extra va]ue has been caused by temporary scarcity, it likely that some decline may be expected in this elass of goods as soon as the stock be- comes ample enough for regular trade requirements. As the coffee trade comes nearer the is eonclusion of the largest crop in the his- tory of the article, and approaches the commencement of an unusually small crop, the fact that the surplus has not increased sufficiently to ensure a safe position of supplies for the coming year is being rendered more and more appar- ent, and unless the outlook for the 1890 and 1891 crop (estimates of which will be in order the latter part of this year) is exceedingly favorable to a large yield, there will be no possible chance for lower prices for at least two years to come. ~~ -6- How to Succeed as a Salesman. B. Cummings, Jr., in the Iron Age. Be industrious; exert yourself actively to show goods to customers and to show goods to suit them. Be patient; preserve perfect equan- amity, even though your customér ap- pears trifling, fastidious, or exacting. Sincere efforts on your part to please him will win in the long run. Be polite; under no circumstances speak to or treat a customer with impo- liteness. To doso is to make a mistake inexcusable in a salesman. Your polite- ness to customers is money to your em- ployer, and is one of the considerations for which you are paid a salary. Be considerate of poverty; do not try to sell a poor person a more expensive article than he can afford to buy. By doing so you may wound his feelings and cause him to avoid you in the future. Rather try to suit him with an article within his means. If you succeed he will try you again. Be attentive to small purchasers; if a lady wishes only a spool of silk, and you politely furnish her with the shade de- sired, she will come to you when she has a larger purchase to make. Be truthful; never resort to deception in representing the quality of the goods you sell. Truthfulness in a salesman is a virtue which will begin to tell in a pe- cuniary as well as a moral way, for peo- ple will flock to a clerk whose word they know they can depend upon respecting the value they are getting for their money. Be honest: not merely because honesty is the best policy, but because without it life is a failure, though wealth flow in to the amount of millions, and the world lavish its honors and applause. The most hopeless and contemptible of bank- rupts is the man who has lost his hon- esty; and the most useless of all employes —the one who is most expensive while least worthy of a salary, who is most to be avoided by customers and abhored by merechants—is the dishonest salesman. Se aa the Evils of Speculation. Speculation is the foe of legitimate trade, the destroyer of healthy com- merce, and the bane of mercantile mor- ality. It adds nota shilling to the gen- eral wealth, but dissipates much by its improper excitement and injurious ef- fects. Carefully analyzed, its main ele- ment is found to besimply gambling with a vicious desire to acquire and possess that which labor does not earn. Under its influence, steady men become reck- less and imprudent. and the clear-headed and cool seem almost to go crazy. Spec- ulators are not workers. More than this, they unnecessarily disturb the values of legitimate and honest industry of useful avocations. As aclass, it would be well if they could be proseribed. Of all things, the regular merchant should avoid pure speculation. By buying only for actual want and immediate use, he can make a margin alike when things are high and when things are low. Upon this, as a uniform rule, his safety mainly depends. And yet, such a thing Some of all, there can be, and is, as proper and admissible speculation. Where one has a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the market and judgment and _ foresight born of ripe experience, and has, withal, the means and the nerve to sustain well- founded cone lusions from such premises, he may rightfully speculate in anything that is offered for sale. There is nothing in commercial principles or law to for- bid him. 3ut he takes his chance and a risk wherein failure is disastrous and success has none of the moral benefits or results of high heroic achievement. Not one in many thousands is equal to sucha trial with its attendant strain and conse- quences on character and circumstances. The general merchant. however, should give anything like speculation a wide berth. after —————— oa The Cultivation of Flax. It is possible that the efforts of the Agricultural Department will soon be turned in the direction of encouraging the production of flax in those sections of the country where it has become un- profitable to raise a wheat crop. Professor Willits. the Assistant Secre- tary of Agriculture, has had his atten- tion called to the fact that both the soil and the climatic conditions of nearly all the States are such as will permit the raising of good flax and that weaving and the manufacture of linen should be carried on much more extensively than it is atthe present time. ‘The Assistant Secretary of Agriculture has received a letter from some one who is familiar with the flax-growing and linen manufactur- ing industries in Ireland and according to the writer’s views Ameriean farmers ‘should produce 1,000,000 acres of flax for both seed and fiber over and above what is now produced, which would give 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 bushels of seed, worth as many millions of dollars, and 2,500,000 tons of flax straw, worth $50,- 000,000. and from which 500,000 tons of flax fiber would be obtained, worth $100,000,000.°” It is a well-known fact that but a com- paratively small area of the couniry is devoted to raising flax and that chiefly on account of the seed which is in demand for the manufactare of linseed oil. According to the Secretary’s informant there are only two weaving establish- ments in the country and nothing but the commonest goods are manufactured at either. An enlarged area devoted to the raising of flax. in addition to develop- ing what is in European countries a val- uable industry—the manufacture of linens —would reduce the price of flax seed to the erusher, and render it unnecessary to import seed. The price of linseed would of course be lower and the farmers who now find it difficult to make both ends meet on account of the low price netted for wheat would onceagain find a market for their crop at living figures. The Grocery Market. Sugar has sustained slight advances during the past week, with every indica- tions of still further advances during The market is very described by the the present week. strong, being thus Shipping List: The general situation has undergone no special change since the early part of the week, the fresh business transacted having comprised only afew parcels that have changed hands on the basis of the last sales, and the market has ruled quiet, but underneath the surface the same evidences of strength are to be found that impart undiminished confidence to holders, ani at the same time urge consumers to take advan- tage of every favorable opportunity to replenish their stocks. The confidence of holders exhibited by the meager offerings that are available even at an advance upon current quotations, and an important feature of the situation is the fact that no one has been able to discover the hidden supplies that buyers have so persistently claimed would be brought to the surface by higher prices. The latest official statistics published in Europe show that not only are the present stocks in first hands very much smaller than last year, but the quantity exported is largely in excess of the same period in 1888, thereby showing that production has been actually used up and is not being secreted and held back for higher prices. Considering that the June demand for sugar is invairably very heavy, it is not expecting too much to look for repeated advances during the month, especially as raw sugars are very scarce and are advancing rapidly. An advance of gran- ulated to 9c is not unexpected by many jobbers. Muscatel and Valencia raisins are higher. California raisins are getting very scarce. Cheese has declined tec Lemons are dull and slow sale, owing to the long-continued cool weather. The higher prices predicted earlier in the season will probably not be realized. ee Wool, Hides and Tallow. Wool remains firm, with small sales and small offerings. There are some new wools in market from fat sheep, which readily sell to supply immediate demands to fill orders. The new ruling on worsteds sustained by the Treas- urer, while yarns come in under the old classification. Sales of flannels at tion in New York brought an adyance of about 5 per cent., which tends to make manufacturers feel better: but they still claim the advance not sufficient to warrant the prices being paid for wool in the West. The cold and rain checks shearing, and delays the coming clip. In the meantime, buyers are canvassing the situation to determine whether they want the wools at any advance. So far, they get no encouragement. unless from com- is is auc- is misssion houses, which are anxious for consignments for present or early mar- ket. Hides are unchanged. Tanners take sparingly to reduce their output, only caring to supply regular customers, while others are crowding off old stocks of leather. There have been some large sales of late toshoe manufacturers, which have given them hopes for the future. The export demand for cheap sole is good. In fact, the call is for cheap leather and cheap hides. In fact, any- thing that will tend to shade the already low prices of hides or leather is taken advantage of. There is nothing visible in the outlook to advance prices. The supply is more than ample, with large imports. Tallow firm. The advance of e last week was lost again before the end of the week. — 8 A Glut of Florida Oranges. The newspapers of Florida are calling a halt in the orange planting enterprise in that State. The crop just harvested. which amounted to upwards of three millions of boxes, was all disposed of, not at the most satisfactory prices, but, nevertheless, went into consumption. The orange trees are in blossom and the present prospect is good for a crop at least fifty per cent. larger than the one just harvested. This means upwards of six millions of boxes of Florida oranges. | The Times-Union estimates that in ten years from to-day, Florida will produce a box of oranges for every man, woman and child living in the United States, to say nothing of the quantities that will be produced in California, Louisiana and Mexico. If these facts prove true, people planting orange groves for profit should take warning and investigate the condi- tion of affairs before plunging into deep water. Of course, the above statement will not be heeded by speculators setting out orange groves for the purpose of “booming’’ real estate. The price at which oranges may sell ten years hence is of little interest to them. So Another Advance in Fruit Jars. Some of the fruit jar manufaeturers have advanced prices another 50 cents a gross, and a general meeting will be held at Cincinnati on the 12th to consider the matter of astill further advance. Now that the manufacturers have things in} their own hands, they seem to be dis- posed to make hay while the sun shines. — 6 << ___— The Challenge Accepted. GRAND Rapinps, June 3, 1889. The challenge of the retail grocers’ base ball club for a match game on Thurs- is day, June 6, is hereby accepted. WHOLESALERS’ BASE BALL CLUB. $< 9 <> Grocers wishing to handle a cigar of genuine merit should put in ‘Our Knocker.’’ which is sold only by Morris | H. Treuseh & Bro. ee Pare Cider and White Wine Vinegar. interests by getting our Consult your own prices before purchasing elsewhere. Telier Spice Company M. GLARK & SUN, If our Travelers WE ARK HEADQUARTERS FOR Teas Syrups Molasses do not see you reg- ularly, send for our) Samples and Prices. before purchasing elsewhere. Wewill surprise you. Mail Orders al- ways receive prompt attention and lowest possible prices. Wholesale Grocers WM.SEARS & CO.. Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. | Beef) carcass We Are Headquarters PRODUCE MARKET. Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for un- picked and getting #1. 1.75 for hand-picked. Cabbages—Southern stock is in fair demand at $1.25@3.50 per crate. Cider—10c per gal. Cooperage—Pork barrels, #1.25; produce barrels 25C. Beans—String, $1@1.25 per bu. crate; #2@3 per bu. crate. Butter—Creamery is in plentiful supply at W@ 22e. Dairy isin plentiful supply at 14@15c. Bermuda Onions—#1.50 per crate. Cherries—%5 per bu Cucumbers—50c per doz. Dried Apples—Commission men hold — dried at 3@3%c and evaporated at 5@514¢ per Eggs—Jobbers are paying 12¢ and eles at bu.; Wax, SE. Field Seeds—Clover, #5 per $1.65 per bu. Green Onions—10c per doz, bunches, Honey—Easy at 15c@17c per lb. Lettuce—10e per Ib. Maple Sugar—10@11c per Ib. Onions—Southern, #4 per bbl. Peas—Green, #1 per bu. Pieplant—ic per Ib. Pop Corn—2%%¢ per Ib. ac Southern stock, M@@4.25 per es Radishes—15ec per doz. bunches. Spinach—35c per bu. Strawberries—#2.25@2.50 per 24-qt. case. timothy, PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS, CRE HOW 12 % Short cut Morgan, eee a 13 50 | Hixtrea Clear pig, short cut...........0....... 14 50 ixere Clear (RCAVN. 0.00002; 14 50 Clear quill, shor ent... 8... sl. 14 50 Boston Clear shoreent.....--... 0... |. 14 50 Clear back Short ¢ut..- 6... 14 5U Standard clear, short eut, best.............. 14 50 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average = = Oe el ee ce eee 9% cas. 1034 [ - = = 14 TBS ee at RRC ee $4 «« best boneless... 2 10 Nee ee 34 . Deneless 8 Breakfast Bacon, poneless..............:..... 10 Dried ect extra 6 ** lham prices ons Clears Heavy... 6% Briskets, Tied an 6% - PNG 6% LARD—Kettle Rendered. BACTCOCR 834 TGS oe 8% DO 1h. ae ee cy, LARD—Refined. eee eee 6% Sand 50 1p Fabs t Sip, Pails 2083p & CAS. 002s 7% Sib. Pais in geese 75g m0 1b: Pails: Gin @ Gane... 7% 20 1 Pails: 4im ga ease... T4 OT, Ce ee G48 BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs_.............. 6 To extra Mess, Chicace packing................ 7 00 : “2 Bisira Pie 10 Boneless, rump butts... .........-......_... & sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Pork Sauseee a Eis Sagseee ee 12 Donec Saumssee | sl 9 HEsMGEOrG SRUSAPE. oo 8 Bioed Sausage ooo Ceo. 5% Bologna suaight... 0. 5% Bolocua: thick 8. |. et. 5% Headg Cheese os. 5% PIGS’ FEET. a EE ae 3 00 in quarter Darreis....-- =. 1 %5 TRIPE, | bp halt barrels; (5 ae in quarter barrels, = ee 1% Ee ae a FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: we | i | | 2 | 54@ 6 hind sane a 6144@ 8 = fore - Piece toes ele ee 2 SO ee 64@ 6% | Pork Teng @8 fe showiders se @ 6% | Bologna . pec. @5 | ae blood or head. . @5 a HVGr @ 5% Hrankfort........._.. ee. @ 8 [Mugen se @8 OYSTERS and FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. | WHCHSM @ 6% eos... @ 6% Halspet 8. @15 Berne @ 4 PReren skeincee oo. ue. @ 5 Hroge legs, per dea... 0 25@1 00 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. | Standard, 25 Ib. boxes. ee 10 Twist, Se a 10 Cut Loaf, 25 oe ce 11 MIXED. oval, 25 1b: pais: oo el ee . 201d bbls... 944 Extes, 25 1D pails. 8 11 200 Eb: DDIN ss 10144 French Cream, 25 lb. - So 1244 Cut Loaf, 25 Ib. cases eee ee iBrozen 401b. Bask oo. 10 e Seavey Wels ee Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes, Hemong Drops....-...-- 2s. ee 13 Soar Preps .14 Peppermint Drops. Ca en 14 @nocoiate Props... 8. 15 iM Choeolate Drops... 2... 18 Gum Props ee 10 Enaorice PYOPS, 6 18@22 AB Eieorice Drops... Lozenges pint. 14 . peed... 15 pening 14 Monee 5 | Ceca Dor 14 Mousses Bar. 13 CARINE ee 18 Hand Made Creanig, = 18 Pisin Creams 16 Decorated Creams... +20 Marine HOCK 8 14 Burnt Almonds 22 Winterereen Berries:. 14 FANCY—In bulk. Lozenges, plain, BH PAP 12% oy mm pis 11% of printed, in = ee 13 - in bbls.. ees -12%4 Cc Seeuieas Drops,in pails... 1.12 Gum Drops, Pe polls . % _ a Moss Drops, i pedis. 10 oe 9% Sour Drops, in pails. 12% Inaperials, in paiis.....-..... Sn : Do en Ne a 1144 FRUITS. Oranges, fancy California. @4 00 Messina — ee... SS Lemons, ehoice oo 4 7@5 00 PACU se 5 25@5 5 50 | Figs, layers, NeW... 5c. te 9@141%4 fe Baes oO lo. ols le tice ase @ 6 Dates, frais, Sm @ 4% 4 frails, ie @ 5%} i fara, 10-]b. box es @ . Sib 8 @ - Persian, S0-1b. box... ........-.- 54@ 6 BGRAnAR 1 5003 00 NUTS. Almonds, Tarrapons. ....-.... 2... @17 ag a @14% iG Caltfermia, (202s @14 Breage < @S& Filberts, Sicily I Sec ine eae Sig @10% Walnuts, Grenoble. ee. @i1 - Wreney 8 oes cs. @10 Peeans, femae Mor sc: T4@12 Mocounuts, por tO. 8806001 @4 50 Chestnuts ek PEANUTS. Pencocks 3. ee @8%4 ee @i% WRGHG 00 @6% Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. Lr aed BAKING POWDER. _ - 140 2 . 2 60 . 380 _.. 2 oo . G8 | %% ‘is @ <4 oO ea 6 45 1 i i ais is | Ue 1 o Tib. @ - 2 @ Sie ee .12 00 Absolute, 14 Ib. cans, 1008: 1 iy ..20 © 1b + ae. 18 % Telfer’s, 4 1b. cans, doz.. 45 — 1% 4 Vb. = raf t Ib. ae ae : 50 Acme, 4 Ib. cans, 3 doz. oo uy 2 <. 2 oe “Tb. . z Se : A 20 Rea star, 4% lb. cans,12doz 45 mip 6 85 1b 7 _ io AXLE GREASE. ravers... |... #2 60 PeMPORA co 1% Diamond... .-. 1 60 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in case..... 80 Briatel: 2 Ct 75 American. 2doz.in tase... 70 BLUING. Gross Arctic Liq, SO es. 3 60 ie ee. 7 00 i pe... 3. 10 80 - . 8-oz paper bot 7 20 ag Pepper Box No. 2 3 00 oe wc is ce ae . > 900 BROOMS. No 2Hue 12 No. | a No. 2 2 Carpet ee. 2 00 Not | 2 asia Gem 2... 2 60 Common Whisk............ 90 Bamey | 1 00 Me 3 25 Warehouse .....__ _ 2 to BUCKWHEAT. Kings 100 lb. cases . 5 00 Se i, Cates 4 25 BUTTERINE ° Dairy,solid packed... ... i POMS 14 Creamery, solid ane 15 TOs. 16 CANDLES. Hotel, 40 ~ Domes... Star, 40 ee 3 Paramne . ..c . , ! Wicking... -_.__.- CANNED GOODS— . Clams. 1 1b, Little “te ae 1 2 Clam Chowder, s ib........-2 10 Cove Oysters, i Ib. stand.. 90 - 21> aA ep Lobsters, 1b. picnic.. 150 Bib 8. 1.2 65 1 ‘ip eee 2 00 > ib Star... a io Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce. 1lb. stand... 1 te Sipe sag - 31b.in Mustard...3 00 ° 3 1b. SseOused....... 3 00 Salmon, 1 = Columbia oo 2 00 2S.) Of 2 10 1b. Sacram ento.._1 85 a i 2 i Sardines, doinestic in... 6 '45......@ 9 Mustard } 9@10 pees: % ae 91% spiced, 148. ee 15@16 Trost, 3 iD. Brook. ....._.. CANNED GoopDs—Fruits. Apples, gallons, stand.2 15@2 20 Binekberries, stand. ......__ OG Cherries, red standard...... ow) pated... 2. 2 a Damsone 90 Poe Plums, stand........... 1 2 Gooceverries..............._.1 Grapes .._... Green Gages 10 Peach es, all i r 45 ee Me. 1 & __ 1 du Prpcappies ..|.........1 40@¢> of Quinces ea Rus pb LE cries, extra... ioe Rea. a Nertmocrries 000 22.1.0 1 FIG Whortle ............. qo CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... Beans, Lima, stand ....__- SO Green Limas.... @i Stress... @ 8 Stringlesg, Erie 96 Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40 Corn, Are ‘her "s Trophy..__ .- 1 00 Morn’g Glory.1 60 S Early Golden.1 00 Peas, wsaets See eee oe 1 68 * extra marrofat. . @1 10 soaked. 70 June. stand... 1... i oo Sifted. ... See i 55 French, extra fine... .1 50 Mushrooms, extra fine......2 15 Pumpkin, 3ib. Golden... .. 85 Suceotesh, standard........ 1 v0 NGUash ...7.. |... 1 Tomatoes, Red Coat. @1 00 Good Enough. _..1 OO Ben Har. ..-...... 1 00 stand br... @1 00 CHEESE, Michigan Full Cream 8%@ 9 Sap Sage........ |... 16 @ CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S. German Sweet. .......... 2: Pecaiam 35 oe ae 38 Breaktast Cocoa. .......-.- 48 on... 37 CHEWING GUM. Rubber, 100 lumps Lo ee 25 200 oe Spruce 30 CHICORY. Pk lL cee 7% COFFEE—Green. Rio, Pam. 0... 17 @i9 Eoge - -184@20 a @21 fancy, washed...19 @22 et polden. 2 ye SOMLOS ae Mexican & Guatemala 19 Peaerey ..-._....... 1 2 20) Java, Tnterior,. |. 2 a Mandheling. Mocha, genuine. z To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add 4c. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. COFFEES—Package. 100 Ibs hon 2414 ' 19 Canines ............- 24% ee s XXXX. Thompson’ s Honey bee” Meer. ol... Nox All 0 5... COFFEE EXTRACT. | Walley City 60.0... "5 (fee CLOTHES LINES. Cotten, 40 ft... .... _ doz. 1 2 cc is... 1 50 . GO fc... 1 60 . wot... 2 00 ce Sof 2 2 Jute oofe -__. ‘ 1 00 12 ii. ...... iri CONDENSED MILE. Mae 7 60 AMgiO SwWass. 006). 0.0 0.02... 6 00 CRACKERS. Kenosha Butter......-.. .-- 8 Segmiewe: 6 Beer 2 6 a ae 6 Mg) a ee a Boston...... Ss gla cg 8 Ci SOGR oo 80. 8 MOG ee 6% | S. Oyster . oe City Outed. om 6 Pigwe a 6 CREAM TARTAR. Sirietiy pure. | 220i. = OT eee DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. Apples, sun-dried..... : @ 3% ig evaporated. . @ 6 Apricots, u ee 44 @15 Blackberries ‘‘ CS Nectarines ‘‘ Dt lic pet ie Peaches See Plums ae oe Raspberries ‘“ -20 DRIED FRurrs—Citron, In drum.. ats. @23 in bones... @25 DRIED FRUITS—Currants. Zante, in barrels..... f fe in less quantity @ 54 DRIED FRUITS—Prunes. Sureey 44@ 5 Boeme. @ 6 euperigt 6 a DRIED FRUITS—Raisins. Mereneipg. 8 ol... @ Ondaras. 814@ 814 London Lay ers, Cali- ct fornia... ...... 3 40@e 6h London Layers, for’n. @ Muscatels, California. 1 40@1 9 DRIED FRUITS—Pee}l. Demon... 13 Orange. _.. — 14 FAR INAC EOU S$ GOODs. Faria, 100 Ib. kegs. ........ 04 Hominy, per Bel... 4 00 Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.... 60 . imported.. @10 Peart Barley... @: Peas sree... @1 30) : SOG @ 3 seco, German......... @ 6% Tapioes, 1k or pri... @ 6% Wheat, cracked....... @ 6% Vermicelli, import.. @10 domestic. . @b0 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Jennings’ Lemon Vanills 2 oz. Panel, = 30 4 0z. c " 1 2 25 6 oz. a 220 3 25 NO. 3, © 1 00 1 60 No. &, 2 to 4 00 No.10,; * 4 Ww 6 ( No. 4,"Taper, 1 60 2 50 164 pt, Round, 4 25 a oO - ~ S856 15 00 | FISH—SALT. Cod whole... |. @ 4% Denciess. .... I@ 7% Mane ..10@11% Herring, round, %4 2 50 gibbed.... 2% Holland, bbls... 10 00 i Holland, kegs.. : Sealed. 24 | Mack. sh’s, No. 1, % bbl 11 00 . c 22 I eat 45 o a 10 s = Rreut, % pis... @4 x : 10 Ib a 78 White, No, 1, % phis,- 6 00 21h. its... 115 e 10 Ip kits..... Family, 4% bbis.... .2 50 Sst .. oo GUN POWDER. Kegs ... ._ 0 20 Half kegs..... 1... oo} LAMP WICKS. Noo... ecru. | oe Net 40 Neos 50 LICORICE. Pure. . ll eS 25 | Sicily ee 18 MOLASSES, ide Strap........... 16 Cuba Baking.. Porto Rico. _ New Orleans, ‘good... . ehaice..... < faney...... 45@i48 One-half barrels, 3¢ extra. OATMEAL, Mouseatine, Barrels ........ 5 50} . Half barreis.... .2 87 | Cases......2 15@2 25 ROLLED OATS Muscatine, Barrels.... @5 50 Half bbls.. @2 8&7 Cases......2 15@2 25 OIL, Michizan Test... ........ 9 Water White........ ae PICKLES, ccs ..4 OF oe 2 50 ont, DOE... 5 00 ?.be ool PIPES, — 216 i sia 1 60 oo full count, el Cob. Ne. 3... oot... 46 RICE. Carolia head =...) - No. 1 aoe... No. ¢ Ae . ALERATUS. DeLand's, pure Le 5 Church’s, Cap Sheaf.. wien s............ Taylor’ S... SALT Common Fine per bb]..... Solar Kock, 56 lb. sack 28 pocket.. ee. 60 = oo 100 eee, Ashton bu. bags occ eee aes Higgins ° . oe Ww aaa Eh BY Me I a 20 SAL SODA, Hees 1 Granulated, baxes.......... 2 SAPOLIO. Kitchen, 3 doz. in box..... 2 35 Band, 3s ~ _ |. 2 ao SEEDS. Mexca bird =. 414 Covaway.--..._............. 36 (soar, ..............__...... 4 Hemp -........... 1... 4 piece... . 814 Ape . eee cee ae Maser Ue . Os SNUFF. Scotch, in biadders..... -...37 Maccaboy, in jars... oo French Rappee, in Jars.....43 SOAP. Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands. (ucen Aue... .. |... ¢ German Family. Loo Mottled German.......... } Old German. ........-...... 20 U.S Bie Bareain..... ___- rest, Wlodter...._......-.. Cocos Castile _..... ' Cocoa Castile, Fancy. spiceEs—Whole. Allspice.. i oe ee Cassia, ¢ ‘hina in mats. a. ORT Batavia in bund....11 - Saigon in rolis...... 40 Cloves, Amboyna.....- a Cc Zaeewer............23 Mace Batavia _....._..... 56 Nutmegs, TSBey..-. 80 No 1 eee ees 5 : No. See cece cee ee Pep per, Singapore, black white. . SHOt.......-. ee spicEs—Ground—-In Bulk. Allspice ......---+-e eee eee. 15 Cassia, Batav -_............ 20 and Saigon .25 ae 42 Cloves, Amboyna........... 35 . Ganzi... Ginger, Aivican............ a Oech... .... 0... 3 Samerea 1... ... At Mace Patavia,............. 4 Mustard, Hnelish ........_- 22 . . and Trie. .25 )}| PAPER, SYRUPS. Comm, Barrels. 0... G@23 ‘* one-half barrels. . @25 Pure Sugar, DOE... 3@36 half barrel... .30@38 SWEET GOODs. x 2x Ginger Sudpe.......... 9 9% Sugar Creams...:...... 9 9% Frosted Creams....... 9% , Graham Crackers..... 9 Oatmcul Crackers..... 9 i SODA DORN 54 Mees, Breen. (6s... ols, 4% TEAS. | JAPAN— eertay Fair . , -14 @16 Ween 18 @22 Choice 2.51.0... 1 Se gio C hoicest geal allie oe @3A SUN CURED. ried Sa 14 @15 COON 16 @20 (ace 24 @28 Choicest.. ..30 @33 BASKET FIRED. ed Sh @20 CHGiee @25 Choicest.. @35 | Extra choice, wire leaf @A0 GUNPOWDER. Common to fair.......25 @35 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 Cheicest fancy... ..... 7 @s5 i. IMPERIAL, | Common to fair.......20 @35 Sapericrtofine........ 40 @50 YOUNG HYSON. Comiu0n to fair.. 18 @26 Superior to fine....... :.30 @40 OOLONG, Common to fair....... 2% @30 Superior to fine....... 30 @50 Fine to choicest.......55 @65 ENGLISH BREAKFAST, Se ee ee 2 @30 Choice.. --30 @35 (Seeg 55 @65 | Tea Dust. Lo ae TOBACC wee Fen S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands. Nimrod, 4x12 and =eie_.......30 Reception, 225x12 16.0z...... 39 Viveco, ata ml a Big 5 Center, 3x12, 120z...... 36 Wheel sie ®t. 38 Tramket ing G62... 25 J. G. Butler & Co.'s Brands. | Corner Steme ... 35 Double Pedro.. Wego ac. oe reach Pic... es Wedding (¢ Cake, Se 37 pemetnineg Good.............. 39 POUAGece 37 TOBACCOs—Fine Cut. D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands. Hiawatha | 62 ; Sweet Cuba. 37 TOBAC os Aahatchies | Catlin’s Brands. | Meerchaum, 4s. 31 Kiln Dried, 16 oz..... io TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS. | $ 2, per hundred.. - 250 +... SC 3 00 me 4 00 #20, 5 00 ) Subject t¢ to the following dis- ; counts: 200 or over. 5 per cent. 500“ Lo 10 . | 1000 ee | VINEGAR 30 gr. : ee 9% (eee a ; 1 for barrel | MISCELLANEOUS. Cocoa Shells ee ee | Jety, Soap. pasis.......... 4 Depew. WOODENWARE. PAPER. Curtiss & Co. quote as fol- | lows: Suraw .. 1 6 Li ght Weicht.. Sugar ..... 2 tag Sugar .. = Hardware . a. Ree iy .2¥ 5 8 moe Wreps Dy Goods............ | Jute Manilla. | Red Express No. 1. 7a 2..........4 | TWINES, Coron... ................ a | Cotton, No.2... |... ze | - Oe eee Gu, 18 Sea Island, assorted.... ... 40 (NO 5 Mem ode No. 8 a 7 Yor... 8 WOODENWARE. Rupe. WO.t. 7 . Nee 6 2% MOS ee Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 66 a: No. 1, three-hoop... 16 | Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 60 | Bowls, 1] in ch Lee e den co 1 0 13 oo 1 2 | 15 200 a 2 7 assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50 * 158, 178 and 198 2 75 | Ba skets, market. 40 bu shel ..... i i willow cl'tl splint OUR CO 3 oD OTH Ht = Ss | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. White ... i. , 80 foea |... 7s FLOUR. | Strai ight, mn eeeks. 8. 4 60 | (. Bereis,.... 2. 4 80 ;| Patent cs 5 60 | ie 5 8&0 Bolted. 2 20 Granulated | 0d) 2 45 MILLSTUFFS. ban . 14 00 | Ships. . ee 13 00 | Screening 1... 10 00 Mid@iings ................ 13 00 | Mixed eed 14 530 | Coarse meal............... 1 50 | CORN. tomar Foes. |... ae i Car Meee eee 36 | OATS Mele TOUR 30 Car ee 29 Trieste. . | aa ING. 2 .. aa .- | HIDES, PELTS and FURS ae st Perkins & Hess pay as fol Cayenne.. lows: HIDES STARCH = ie > Ss @ 4% Mystic, 7 PRES... ------ 6 Part Cured oe @ 4% a Ha ol . ace 514 SUGARS Dry @ 6 ae: so 5 @6 Cole ey, Ty ips -...-.--.-.-- 5 @6 — eS ae settee eee eee @ Calfskins, green...... 3 @4 w : DIY : eured...... 4) 4 Granulated, H. & E.’s.. | Deacon skins... le 10 yy ne —— Knight's... % | PELTS. - MeOrInes 8... 10 ee an 2 | Estimated wool, per bb 20 oe No. 1, —— Extra C. oe MISCELLANEOUS. mo 2 eure C......:.. DO es oe 3%@ 4 Noe. aC, colden.-.. 1... Gréase butter. ........3 @5 No. 4C, dark...... ee. | WW SOROS 644.005... 2.0.0 2 @2*x* Nos Coc ae VGiieeae lL), ..2 00@2 10 ¢ 30% Drugs $8 Medicines, State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Five Years—James Vernag, Detroit. President—Geo. McDonal Secretary—Jacob Jesson. Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. Next Meeting—At Star sland oe near Detroit, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 2 and 3. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles. Third Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—A. H. Lyman, Manistee; A. Bas sett, Detroit; F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; W. A. Hall, Greenville; E. T. Webb, Jackson, Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. President, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, Albert Brower. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society President, J. W. Caldwell. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. S. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt. MISTAKEN IDENTITY. *Twas a dreary hour as a druggist sat Alone in his store one day. Stroking the back of his ts ibby cat, To drive the “‘blues”’ away. In the open door a customer stepped And glided forth with ease, He called to the man that poisons kept: “A pound of arsenic, please.’ The druggist’s visage became aglow, At the prospect of profit so large; When properly labeled he w anted to } The time o’day, also the charge. xXnOW ‘“An ounce for a quarter, just over the way The time, it lacks twenty to three, For one fifty a pound is plenty to pay, I will not extortionate be.’ “But you must remember,” the customer said “That I keep a drug store, too.’ The druggist replied, as he lowered his head, *T will be fifteen cents to you.” > ->____—_ The Aluminum Age. The world has had its ages of stone and bronze. We are now passing through the iron age. Will this be suc- ceeded by an age of aluminum? We be- lieve that it will. It taxes one’s imag- ination a little. we confess, but not one’s credulity, to see in the mind’s eye the bright and beautiful aluminum replacing black and ugly iron in most of the lat- ter’s present uses. Fancy houses built of aluminum in- stead of iron. The weight of the new metal is only athird as much as iron, with equal or greater tensile strength. The girders and the plates could be cast and readily handled in sizes far larger than those to which architeetural iron is now confined. perhaps whole fronts of moderate-sized houses could be molded in a single piece. This would greatly facilitate building operations. Aluminum is as fire-proof as iron. The larger the plates of the metal composing the sides of the house, the less liable are they to be warped and curled by intense heat. — Arsenical Glycerin. The statement made some time since that in Germany glycerin is met with containing arsenic has been confirmed, and in addition it has been alleged that under the present conditions of manu- facture in that country all glycerin will contain more or less arsenic derived from the sulphuric acid used in its pro- duction. The necessity for the insertion in the German Pharmacopeia of a test for arsenic in glycerine is therefore ob- vious, and one has been suggested by Dr. Vulpius. It requires that paper moistened with 5 per cent. solution of silver nitrate, when exposed to the hy- drogen gas evolved upon adding zine to a mixture of 2c. c. of glycerin with 3 c. ce. of official hydrochloric acid, should not within fifteen minutes show any yel- low spots becoming black upon being moistened with water. —_2> 2 ___—_ Twenty-five Cent Quinine. In spite of ‘‘25-cent quinine’? and the ery of the manufacturers that the alka- loid was being produced ata loss and sold at less than cost, we learn that at the annual meeting of the Amsterdam (Holland) Quinine Co., held in that city April 29, a dividend of 5-8 per cent. was declared for the year 1888. During the year the works had produced 350,000 ounces of the sulphate, all of which had found a satisfactory market. It was de- termined to issue the remaining treasury stock of 100 shares—par value of each, 500 francs—for the purpose of extending the output of the works and undertaking the manufacture of other chemicals be- sides quinine. Sec’y. ——> 2. <0 Another Slander on the Druggist. Mr. Banks—Come into this drug store, Harriet, and let’s have a glass of soda water. Mrs. B.—I will, if yow’ll promise not to wink. I know what that means, you know. “All right, | promise.”’ Mrs. Banks—(after leaving the drug store)—W hat was that spiritus frumenti that you had, George? ‘Spiritus frumenti? That’s the Latin for raspberry and cream.”’ ———>_- 2 The Free Sample Bottle. Yabsley—Hello, Wickwire, you are not looking very well to-day. Wickwire—No; I took some lung syrup this morning and it kind of made me sick. Yabsley—First time I knew there was anything the matter with your lungs. Wickwire—There isn’t, I guess, but there was afree sample bottie of stuff left at the house and I thought I would try it. —_—___~» 2 The Poppy in Engineering. The ‘regal red poppy’’ has recently been found to have the valuable power of binding with its roots the soil in which it grows in such a manner that it will prove most valuable in supporting embankments. Already several French engineers have undertaken the sowing of railway embankments with poppies. CN The Drug Market. Opium is steady at the advance. Mor- phia is unchanged. Quinine is weak. Gum camphor is very firm. Insect pow- der has declined. Linseed oil is likely | to advance = soon. | —_ 2 < A devoted husband erected a tomb- | stone to his wife bearing the inscription: sia caunot restore her; therefore I weep.”’ THE SPONGE TRADE. How the Product is Secured and Mar- keted. Sponges are found only in a few loeal- ities on the earth’s surface, and the sup- ply does not nearly equal the demand. A very few men have it in their power to corner the sponge market, but they have never done it yet, and can be de- pended on not to, for the reason that they already have as much of the world’s goods as they care touse. There is no mercantile business known in which sales are so certain with so little effort on the part of the dealer; where overstocking and dull markets are so rarely known, or where the profits acquired are so very generous. In America there are only six firms that are engaged exclusively in the sponge trade. Five of these are in New York; the sixth is located at Chicago. The best sponges are found in the Grecian Archipelago, in water as shallow in some cases as forty feet. and ranging from that to depths below any known sound- ings. ‘The deeper the water the finer and more expensive is the product found. The Grecian goods are known as silk sponges, and grade in price from $2 to $100 a pound, a range which is accounted for by the almost limitless variety in texture, size and shape. To just what kingdom a sponge belongs there seems to be no settled opinion. The formation is the product of myriads of small insects that gather the floating particles found in the ocean and build the fungus-like growth, much as coral reefs are built, at- taching it to any substance they find—a rock or the sunken timber of a long- wrecked vessel. The early stage of this strange article—vegetable, mineral or an- imal—closely resembles a mat of cob- webs, and only gains strength, size and solidity in the passage of years. The Grecian government controls all the Mediterranean sponge fields, and leases to the firms engaged in the business such tracts of water as are agreed on. The boundaries of these leased waters are fixed by floating buoys, and no lease is made for more than one year. The dealer hires his sailors and divers, who man the clumsy little sail boats and pro- ceed to their employer’s grounds. Here the captain in charge employs the water- glass, scanning the bottom of the sea in search of sponges. When he finds a promising bed he directs the divers. These men are mainly natives, and work entirely naked. Each boat is provided with a number of stones weighing about fifty pounds, to each of which is attached a coil of fine rope. The diver takes up one of these stones, poises himself on the gunwale of tHe boat, inhales a heavy draft of air and plunges head downward into the water, holding the rock ahead of him at arms’ length. As he reaches the bottom he drops the stone, which is hauled up into the boat by the rope. The diver gropes about until he can find the sponges, which he puts into a net- ting sack swung to his waist. Sometimes he doesn’t find any, and then, after creeping about till his lungs warn him it is time to return to the surface, he springs upward, and, beating both hands and feet, struggles into the air. The long holding of breath soon leaves its mark in shattered health, and no diver can follow the business mere than a very few years. However, he makes money while he is at it, often earning from $100 to $200 a week—an amount which he finds difficulty in spending on the barren hills and scattered villages of the archipelago. For the lower deeps, divers in armor are employed, who are not so plentiful as the wages offered might warrant, and who exact almost any remuneration they want. One objection to the pursuit of sponge-diving is the frequent visits of sharks. Nearly a hundred men are lost every year in Mediterranean waters, chiefly by the voracious sharks, although a few of the divers not in armor are oc- easionally drowned. When enough sponges are gathered to fill the boat, the crew proceeds to the shore, where the goods are spread out for inspection by officers of the government, and the rate of the lease is fixed by the quantity of sponges secured. A field which yields nothing to the merchant costs him noth- ing but his time in searching it. After the government dues are paid, the sponges are assorted carefully by ex- perienced men, and are then strung with a needle and twine and hung in the sun on a row of low stakes to dry. Hy- draulic pressure is then employed in packing the goods. When, ready for shipment the bales resemble compressed cotton, excepting that they are enveloped in coarse cloth. The range in quality of these Mediterranean sponges is very great. Now and then, in very deep water, a small, close fibred sponge is found, very light in color, and when dry nearly the size of an orange. These command a price as high as $50 a pound. The West India sponge is cheaper in rice because poorer in quality. The ] M fishing there is done by poles exclusively, the sponges being found in water not more than forty feet deep. They are known as sheepswool, grass, velvet, reef and yellow sponges. The first mentioned is the finest, and is quoted at from $2 to $3 a pound, velvet at about $1, and grass sponges as low as ten cents a pound. The quantity imported into America amounts to a million dollars in value an- nually. Key West, Fla., varies her cigar- making with a sponge-fishing industry, from which nearly half a million dollars’ worth of sponges are taken each year. The volume of the business increases yearly, as sponges are put to a greater variety of uses as time goes by, and this in spite of the fact that the price has steadily increased for the past ten years. Goods that could be bought for $1.95 a pound in 1879 will bring $2.75 to-day. A bad feature of the bus- iness is that the American people de- mand a light-colored sponge, which in very few cases is a natural color. To satisfy this desire, strong acids are used to bleach the goods, the effect being very injurious not only to the sponge, but to the human skin upon which it is after- ward used. In Europe, sponges are used in their natural color, but the general public in America is not yet educated up to the proper understanding of this mat- ter. Another unpleasant fact, akin to this, is that hundreds of sponges used at hos- pitals are bought up by street fakirs after their days of usefulness there are ended, subjected to a chemical treatment sup- posed to clean them, bleached or dyed to suit the fancy of the vendor, and then ' Bromide............... loaded into baskets and offered for sale on the streets. Whether they are purged of all impurity is a question. Certainly the best sponge is the cheapest one in the long run, and the best can only be se- cured by paying an equivalent price. —_—_—_ >a Kindness to the Living. It is an odd thing that no sooner has death claimed our friends for his own than we begin to say and do a multitude of things of little use at all then in com- parison to that w hich they might have been had they come in advance of death. Then out of hand we flock to the house with offers of assistance and proffers of friendship; we rob our gardens and our hot-houses and send cut flowers in pro- fusion, and funeral wreaths, and crosses, and pillows, and anchors and stars to encumbrance, and do all we can, though late, to hide and disguise and sweeten fate. But if we had flocked to the house while the dead could have been aware of it, how much pleasure and excitement and relief from monotonous or lonesome hours our sick friends might have en- joyed when all was a tiresome round of day and night and medicine and solitude: when a bunch of flowers brought in would have brought a light of joy to the dull eyes, both over the gift and the giver—joy which no broken columns of tuberoses and ivies, costing small for- tunes, can bring to the eyes of the dead! Even could we not have been admitted to the sick room itself, we could have brought there the murmur of the outside world by the mere knowledge given to the patient that we were within the gates, some break, some cheer. some good. Then, too, how profuse we are with our good words after the ears are stopped with dust. We do not hesitate then fo say all that Is true, or ever more than is true, in praise of the de- parted. It is as if we had suddenly dis- covered in the sand a jewel fit for kings to wear; we make an outery and hold it up to the light and turn it this way and that, and exclaim and marvel and admire and call on others to do likewise. There is nothing to say about this person now that the place once filled is vacant. But if we had said atenth of it all when it might have been heard by the living per- son, of how much more worth it had been! What joy and satisfaction it might have given! The subject of it all might have felt as if satisfied to leave life with such appreciation. But it was not spoken, and life went on without it; and now we regret it, and do the same thing over with the next friend. ‘Wholesale Price Current. Adyanced—Insect Powder. 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Your _ =e 75, aa arriage Paints SMADB ONLY BY ACME White Lead and Coler Works, DETROIT, MICH, The Michigan Tradesman DOCTOR GRIFFITH GRAMERY. | [CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. | screams! but the rocks will echo them back, and they will die away upon the sea. You will think of the sweetness of life, of your warm and familiar home, of the love of your friends, and of your husband—and then the wave will lap over your face and gurgle into your mouth, and strangle yeur breath; you will be nothing but a lump of lifeless flesh, and this pleasant, luxurious world will know you no more!”’ Doctor Gramery must have had a good deal of the actor’s talent; he had begun his speech lightly enough, but as he went on his voice became hoarse and incisive; he made strange gestures, and there was something terrible and ominous in his) aspect.. Rachel sat gazing at him with parted lips and widening eyes. As he finished she rose to her feet, and stretch- ing out her hand to her husband, fal- tered: ‘‘Let me go?’ By asudden, forcible movement, the Doctor interposed himself between them. “Five o’clock!’ he exclaimed, in a stern, commanding tone. Roger stood motionless for a few mo-| ments, while a dazed expression came over his face. The Doctor now moved to one side; the husband and wife were within a couple of paces of each other, and his eyes rested upon her. But there was a queer, vague look in them, and) presently he said, in a sluggish tone, ‘‘Where is Rachel?’’ ‘“‘Here I am—here!’’ she exclaimed. “Here in front of you! What ails you, | Roger? Takeoff this manacle—it hurts me! Don’t you hear me?’’ ‘‘It-is very odd,’’ said Roger, turning to the Doctor. ‘‘What has become of | Rachel? She was here just now, and | didn’t see her go out. How was it?’ ‘Mrs. Mowbray2”’ responded the Doc- ; tor, coolly. ‘“Why, my dear fellow, she just went out of the cave. Is it possible you didn’t notice her? See?’ he added. pointing outward, *‘there she stands on that rock at the entrance, beckoning to us! Come on, it’s getting damp, and we shall be catching our death of cold. We have a long walk before us.”’ The two men moved together toward the mouth of the cave, Roger walking like a man in a dream. Suddenly a pierc- ing shriek filled the cave. ‘Roger! my! husband! my love! Hearme! Come to me!’ Then came another shriek. Mowbray and the Doctor were now at! the mouth of the cave, and the latter pointed along the beach to the right. “There she goes!’ he said. “Let hurry and catch up with her. She will stumble among these slippery stones and hurt herself.”’ “Oh, God!’ us said a husky voice, strained and unnatural. The chain rattled and strained: there was a groan. Mowbray | had moved out of sight. The Doctor | turned and looked inte the cave with a hideous expression: then he, too, van-| ished. it). | A storm had been gathering during the afternoon, and soon after 5 o’clock it| burst over Slyne Head, with frequent | crashes of thunder and zigzags of light- ning. The rain hissed down in torrents. Six o'clock had passed when Roger Mow- bray. his clothes soaked through and a seared, drawn look on his face, walked hastily into the inn, and called for Pat Maguire. After the summons had been repeated once or twice, with increasing emphasis, Mrs. Maguire appeared from the kitchen, wiping her hands on her apron. ‘‘What would ye be pleased to want, sorr?’’ said she. ‘‘Sure, Misther Maguire stepped out an hour ago; he was after fearin’ ye’d be caught in the rain. | and ’twas warnin’ ye to come home he'd | be. Didn’t ye meet him at all, at all?’ | “No. Has Mrs. Mowbray—my wife has she retnrned?’’ “‘Yer wife. is it? Indade, then. she has not, sorr! Ye're the firsi in this night.’’ ‘Doctor Gramery — has not he got back? We parted on the beach—he took | another path up the cliff. Have you| seen nothing of either of them?’’ “Not I, Misther Mowbray—hide nor hair av ’em. But there was a bit ava letter the Doctor left this mornin’. an’ he was tellin’ Misther Maguire to give it ye at six o’clock—not sooner. May be that'll explain things—more betoken ‘tis six o clock now, and afther. Wait till I feteh it!’ She disappeared into the kitchen, and | returned in a moment with a letter in her hands. Roger opened it, and this is what he read: RocER MowBray—When you read this, I shall have accomplished the purpose for which I brought you down here, and for which I have waited many years. You know meas Griffith Gramery, but my true name is John Felbrigge. Thirty years ago your father took away the woman [ loved, Mercy Holland, and ruined her. | She bore him a child; by his cruelty and neglect | she diedin childbed. At that time he had al- | ready married: but his wife being an invalid, | and incapable of raising up children for him, he | caused you to be put forward as her son, thereby | keeping the estates in the family. But you have no more right to your name than any other base- | born waif of the gutter. | I waited along while for the proper time and | means for retaliation; but when I heard that} you were married, I saw my way. Last night I} proved my power over you: to-day, in the cave, | I shall put it into practice. At the moment you | read this, your wife, chained to the rock by the} manacle I have provided for the purpose, will | be drawing her last breath in lonliness and | agony—an agony as great, I trust, as that which | your father caused Mercy Holland to endure. | And you, realizing that you abandoned her | there, misled by the bewilderment I put upon your senses, will understand something of the | despair I felt, when I knew that the woman I} would have made my wife had died in shame | and misery. May you live to endure that despair | aslong asI have done! As for me, you will ! never see me again. I have my place of retreat provided, where I shall spend many years in ease and comfort, happy in the assurance that all I desired has been brought to pass. Blessed be Hypnotism! Yours to command, JOHN FELBRIGGE, Roger Mowbray slowly laid the letter down on the table, and looked up with a ghastly countenance. At that moment there was a hurried step on the thresh- old, a sound of yoices, and the door was | thrown open. In swept the storm, with wind and rain; aclap of thunder shook the house; and there stood Pat Maguire, red in the face and breathless, and lean- ing on his arm, weak and tottering, her clothing drenched and torn, her wet hair hanging about her shoulders, her wrist bruised and bloody—there was Rachel Mowbray, rescued at utmost need, with the sea leaping at her very throat, by the | worthy Irishman whom chance had brought within hearing of her final out- ery. There she was, no phantom ofa |ray Hill or the Back Bay, but the South- ‘too honest and hearty a fellow to sell | himself. 'even in | he sacrifices |ican, the vast majority of marriages in | destruction of rabbits by organized prop- | The general conclusion reached is that | been found impossible to disseminate the i tries | cept possibly the compulsory erection of | interior | extensions. | said to be very large, more than a quar- _its ability to bear transportation. bewildered brain, but true flesh and, blood, alive and safe—and in her hus-| band’s arms! IV. Next morning, when the storm had cleared away, the dead body of Doctor Gramery, alias John Felbrigge, was found lying at the foot of Slyne Head, crushed and disfigured. How he came to his death, whether by accident or de- sign, was never known. He may have lost his way and missed his footing in the storm: or the horror of the deed he had done may have proved too much even for his iron nerves, and he sought oblivion in suicide. He was buried where he fell, and the great cliff is his grawestone; but the peasants avoid the spot, and in the roaring of the waves they sometimes fancy that they catch the fearful outcry of a lost soul. JULIAN HAWTHORNE. —_——_—___—~ -¢ <_- —_— Marriage and Married Life. Rebecea Harding Davis in North American Review. You never read a tragedy or comedy on the married life of the dark ages the facts of which you could not duplicate in the next street. Itis the same rela- tion and the same man and woman after all, and the same rules of life apply to them always! Give to a husband and wife some genuine love, a habit of hon- est thinking and acting, a little leisure in their lives, and, above all, reverence for a Power higher than themselves, and there will be a happiness between them, whether they live in Congo or Chicago, just as there would have been in tl days before the flood. Whether this kind of marriage is likely to grow out of the present conditions of our American social life is the question which concerns us all justnow. If a woman makes amuse- ment and luxury the end of life, she will naturally sacrifice everything else to gain the rank or wealth which commands them. Ethel Newcome is sold here for dollars as in England for a title. In these mercenary marriages the wife is more guilty than the husband, because she sinks lower to gain her end. Love and personal honor usually count for more toa woman than toaman. Out- side of society in the great cities mer- cenary marriages are rare. The Ameri- can per se, not the dancing man of Mur- ern planter, the Western railway man, the Pennsylvania tradesman, seldom marries without a hearty, honest throb of love in his heart. Heis, at bottom, His traits are manly. He rev- erences women. He flings his money to asylums, hospitals, schools, with a large, free generosity. Not the man, surely, to make marriage a matter of, barter! But the great. obscure, unpublished mass of people to whom he belongs, it is true that the greed for riches, which is debasing and vulgarizing our whole life, makes many marriages unhappy which at first were based on the purest atfec- tion. Here, it seems to me, the men are most in fault. As soon as John is bitten by the madness for money, the first thing it the time which he has hitherto given to his wife and chil- dren. He rushes away to office or shop from the breakfast-table, spends the day there, is glum and silent at home, and carries his business into his dreams. A wife clings longer to the romance of love than her husband. She does not willingly lose the lover in the man who signs checks for her. Neither is it true that many unhappy marriages are due to to is the silly extravagance of wives. Ex- travagance with the majority of us women is an acquired taste. Most of us have a positive relish for small econ- omies, and enjoy the dime which we have saved more than the dollar we have to spend. Upon the whole, I believe that, owing to downright true love, to con- science, and to the sound sense and large good-humor characteristic of the Amer- this country are happy. —_— <> Rabbit Destruction in Australia. The royal commission appointed some time ago*to consider the question of the agation of disease and other methods has recently made areport on the subject. no evidence has yet been found to war- rant the belief that any known disease can be so employed as to exterminate rabbits. Among the plans tried was one proposed by M. Pasteur for the inocula- tion of rabbits with chicken cholera. This has not proved a success. It has poison widely enough. The commission cannot recommend that permission be given to disseminate broadcast through Australasia a disease (chicken cholera) which has not been shown to exist in these colonies, and which in other coun- prevails in disastrous epidemics among fowls, but which has never been known to prevail naturally among rab- bits. Apparently nothing new in the way of fighting rabbits is proposed ex- rabbit-proof fencing. ——_——_—.> +4 << Russian Wheat -Crop of 1888. The largest crop of wheat ever raised in Muth Russia was produced in 1888, according to a recent British consular re- port. Transportation facilities from the are said to be unequal to the occasion, notwithstanding recent railway Supplies in the interior are ter of the crop being still in producers’ hands. +4 = A San Francisco wine dealer recently tried an interesting experiment. He shipped four casks of native Zinfandel to Havre, France, arcund the Horn. Thence the wine was taken to Antwerp, and from there it was shipped back to San Fran- cisco, again around Cape Horn. Two casks were fortified with 1 per cent. of California brandy, and the other two were left in their natural state. Experts sampled the casks on their return, and found that the wine was very much im- proved by the long voyage, and that the unfortified wine was better than tHe forti- fied wine. The experiment speaks highly for the quality of California wine and for Wine men say that French wine would have been spoiled by suchajourney. Itis thought that many Californians will now ship wine to Europe and back again, in | order to improve it. ' The Salesman Was Willing to Concede Everything. There is a certain clothing salesman who represents one of the largest manu- facturing concerns in New York. He is one of those methodical men, of quiet and reserved address, whose sincerity and earnestness of manner have influ- enced many big sales. With an under- lying sense of cynicism and a good deal of a wag in adry sort of a way, he may be recognized when described as one of those humorous men who never smile. It was during his first trip of this year that he had invaded the establishment of the most important dealer in ready-made clothing of one of the large interior cities of Michigan. This particular merchant is rated one of the toughest cases in the trade to sell a bill of goods on which any profit shall be left to the manufacturer. Of course, he would look at the line of goods, ‘‘but he really was not quite ready to buy.”’ Then the sincere and earnest salesman, with confidence in his line, got in his finest work, and after a deal of haggling over the prices, he found he had regis- tered on his memorandum book an order of unexpected magnitude. He had closed his book, and with an air of self-satisfaction, clapped it into his inside pocket, when his customer, as if recollecting something unusual which had escaped his mind, exclaimed: “By the way, about terms?”’ “Oh, regular, I suppose.’’ ‘“‘No, no, we get seven off all around.”’ ‘Seven off ten?’’ “No, indeed, seven off thirty days.’’ ‘‘Well, I suppose it’s got to go,’’ and the salesman drew forth his memoran- dum book and made a note to that effect. ‘““Now, about the dating.”’ “Well, I had not thought of that. Ill be liberal, however. What do you say to sixty days?”’ ‘‘Nonsense, we are getting four months from everybody.’’ ‘‘?m afraid I can’t do it.”’ ‘Cancel the order, then.”’ ‘Very well, then, I'll have to give it to you.’’ And, as he jotted this down, with a sigh, he exclaimed: ‘*Besides, you bought those goods away down at rock bottom.’’ And then he added blithely: ‘‘When shall I ship you the first lot?’’ ““At cnce.’’ ‘How do you want them sent “As you please. You know you are to pay all of the expenses of shipment and cartage. I always get goods delivered at the door, charges prepaid.”’ ‘‘Now, let me see,’’ said the salesman, with an air of frozenimperturbability, as he listed this final concession, and then contemplated the aspect of the order upen his book. ‘‘I observe that you have got special prices all through the line; you want four months dating, seven off thirty, and all expenses and freight charges prepaid. Now, Lam very anxious to sell you this bill of goods, and Ill tell you how we’ll fix it. We will forward you the goods and invoices and you just send back the discounts.”’ 979 WHY WEAR PANTS That do not fit or wear satisfac- torily, when you can buy the Detroit Brand, that are perfect in style and workmanship. PERFECT FiT, - & Superior Make TANTS and ” OVERALLS. ASK FOR THEM! ' ' . ' Advertising Cards and Specialties. We carry a larger stock of these goods than any other house in this country. Are Manufacturers, Importers and Publishers of 7,000 styles. Catalogue free. Samples we charge at cost and allow a rebate after we receive orders sufficient to justify us. AGENTS WANTED. Novelty Card and Advertising Co., 103-5-7 Monroe St., Chicago, Ill. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:20am Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 8:05am 11:304m Prom Cimemnsiage 50 pm For Petoskey & Mackinaw City... 5pm 5:00 pm 7:20 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. Cinciumati Express: 2... | 7:00am Fort Wayne Expres: 12:45am Cincinnati Express........ 5:00 pm Brom traverse Ciey... 0. 10:46 pm 7:00am train has parlor chair car for Cincinnati. 5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 5:00 p. m. train connects with M.C. R. R. at Kalama- zoo for Battle Creek, Jackson, Detroit and Canadian points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m. Sleeping car rates—$1.50 to Petoskey or Mackinaw City; $2 to Cincinnati. All Trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. eave. Arrive. Oe ee ee ee ee 10:15am 20515 Gs. 3:45 pm Ba ae 8:45 pm Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. C. L. LooKwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. L Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. *Morning Uxpress................. 1:05 pm 1:10pm fihrouen Ma... 5:00 pm 5:10pm +Steamboat Express. -.10:40 p m 10:45 pm *Night Express - 6:50am 7:00am Trexed........ 7:45am AST. ‘detrow Hagress..-..- 6:45am 6:50am +Through Mail.... 10:30 a m +Evening Express. 3:50 pm “Eamited xpress... fe 5:25 pm 6:30 pm +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New York 10:10 a. m. nextday. Limited Express, East, has through sleeper to Detroit connecting at Milwaukee Junction with through sleeper to Toronto, and at De- troit for through sleeper to Niagara Falls. Through tickets ana sleeping car berths secured at ,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 28 Monroe St., and at the depot. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. For Toledo and all points South and East, take the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail- way from Owosso Junction. Sure connéctions at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and connections at Toledo with evening trains for Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin- nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi- nent points on connecting lines. A. J. PaisLEy, Gen’) Pass, Agent, TRAV ENK 1 BRUS. WV holesale Clothiers MANUFACTURERS OF Perfect-Fitting Tailor-Made Clothing AT LOWEST PRICES. 138-140 Jefferson Ave., 34-36 Woodbridge St., Detroit, MAIL ORDERS sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive PROMPT ATTENTION. ~_——- MADE ONLY BY oe ss It don’t pay to run after other brands, for in the end wise house- — keepers settle down to the use wme.of SANTA CLAUS SOAP. ___ If your grocer hasn’t Santa Claus Soap, he’ll get it for you. N. K. FAIRBANK & CO.,Chicago. Il. Seventeen Years on the Market With a steady increase in demand. Jennings Flavoring Rxtracts ARE ALWAYS RELIABLE AND UNIFORM IN QUALITY AND PRICE, BEING MADE EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE FINEST FRUIT THAT GROW CANNOT BE OTHERWISE THAN THE FINEST FLAVORS PRODUCED. Dealers will always find Jennings’ Extracts saleable and profitable goods to add to their stock. Orderthrough your Jobber or direct from lerininge & SMith, , Grand Rapids, Mich. SEE QUOTATIONS THIS PAPER. Wecarry a large stock of Foreign and Domestic Nuts and are at all times prepared to fill orders for car lots or less at lowest prices. Nuts PwutHam & Brodk.s P. STEKETEE & SONS, Dry Goods : Notions, 83 Monroe St. and 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 Fountain St, Grand Rapids, Mich. New Line of Prints, Seersuckers, Toile Du Nord, Ginghams, Dress Goods, Hosiery, Underwear, White Goods, Laces, Embroideries and Full Line of Neck Wear. STARK, FRANKLINVILLE, AMERICAN, HOOKER, BURLAPS. and careful attention. Bags Sole Agents for Valley City and Georgia Bags. Warps, Geese Feathers, Waddings, Batts and Twines. Mail orders prompt Pert einsgs & Baas DEALERS IN Hides, F'urs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. ' NELSON BOS. &2 CO. Wall Paper and Window Shades, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Done in Good Style. The following is an extract from a circular lately issued by a well-known coal company: ‘‘All coal shipped from this mine is carefully polished by experienced artists in their line, and every lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Par- tieular care is exercised to have each nugget reach the consignee, sparkling in all its pristine splendor. If you are desirous of possessing any of these gems, fresh from our lapidary, an order to the writer will receive immediate attention. A reward of no small amount is offered for any paste specimens found after a strict microscopic search,” IF YOU WANT COAL IN CAR LOTS WRITE FOR MY CIRCULAR. A. HIMES. Anthracite Wiles COAL Retail Bituminous LIME, CEMENT, ETC. MAIN OFFICE, 54 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FRIEN HOULD USE \ VOU SHAZ XS AXLE GREA Ele My FR rb SE THE OLD RELIABLE Barrels and Barrels. Send for sample of the celebrated Frazer Garriage Grease The Frazer Goods Handled by the Jobbing Trade Everywhere. We manufacture a full line, carry a heavy stock, and warrant our goods to be STRICTLY PURE and w first class. PUTNAM & BROOKS. No Chemicals. W. BAKER & C0.’S Breakfast Cocoa Is absolutely pure and it is soluble. To increase the solubility of the powdered cocoa, various expe- dients are employed, most of them being based upon the action of some alkali, potash, soda or even ammonia. Cocoa which has been prepared by cne of these chemical processes can usually be recognized at once by the distinct alkaline reaction of the infusion in water. W. Baker & Co.’s Breakfast Cocoa the first stage to the last by perfect no chemical being used in its preparation. By one of the most ingenious of these mechanical processes the greatest degree of fineness is secured without the sacrifice of the attractive and beautiful red color which is characteristic of an absolutely pure and natural cocoa. W. Baker & Co., Dorchester, Mass. is manufactured from mechanical processes,