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The Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

VOL. 6.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1889.

NO. 299.

 

The Keonomy

Combination Heater is no experi-
ment. Having been on the market
five years, it now has a National

Reputation asthe BEST HEATER in
the World.

WILLIAM MILLER, Agent,

24 South Ionia St.

FLOUR

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I make the same style of case as above, 17 inches
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Boxing and cartage free.

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106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich.

Raton, Lyon & Go,

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Base Ball Bats,

Fishing Tackle,
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BOXING GLOVES. STATIONERY.

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Manager.

OFFICE OF
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DANIEL LYNCH,Grand Rapids:
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Mention

 

| DOTR.

ROSE IN BLOOM.

Every one asked what Mr. Waterston
Watrous married that little foolfor. But
Mr. Watrous thought he knew best whom
he should marry, having experienced his
first violent passion at Summersands,
after many idle affairs that came to noth-
ing, on the evening when he saw her
framed in the half-window, leaning her
face on her hand and gazing out over the
dimly-lit ridges of the sea and the gleam
of asingle sail, the last reach of the
electric lights silvering the curtain be-
hind her and lifting her face into an
aura of luster and color, the beautiful,
blushing, dimpled, dark-eyed face, as
perfect in its outlines as one cut ona
gem:Sas perfect in its tinting as the rose in
bloom, from which the sweet thing had
her name: the rose in bloom of the
Arabian story, maybe: the rose in bloom
of any honied and fragrant June garden,
just as likely.

What high and innocent fancies dwelt
in the soul forming Such a face? Of
what was the lovely creature dreaming
as she gazed that night upon the dim-
ridged sea and its dark sail? Lofty and
ineffable thoughts he was fain to imagine
them, and if any had said it was with
the dreamer one of ‘‘those high moments
when thought is not,’? he would have
scorned the speech and hated the speaker.
What to him after that vision was Mabel
Murray, the strong-minded young girl
who had studied medicine and served her
time in the hospitals, whose course had
won his admiration, and in whose spark-
ling sayings and more sparkling glances
he had been wont to take, perhaps, more
pleasure than he should? What was the
rest in Ellen Van Velt’s presence, with
her slow ways, her great blue eves and
moony face? What was the beauty of
Miss Steinberger’s costume of peach-
blossom and old-gold brocades, except to
indicate her father’s ingots? He forgot
that he had been on the point of hesi-
tating over those ingots; that he had
thought the calm and sweetness of the
Van Velt temperament might be a com-
fortable thing in one’s house: that he
had once lain awake of nights haunted
by the ripple of Mabel Murray’s laugh-
ter, by the glistening of her eyes, Mabel
Murray, who had seemed to attract him
by the best there was in him, and who,
perhaps, had more than one brief note of
his somewhat compromising to a man
who pretended to be heart-whole! All
these things were but the dross left from
the refining of gold—pure gold was his
sudden and complete love of Rose in
Bloom, born in a moment and indestruct-
ible for all time.

As for Rose herself, she was merely
taken possession of; she never thought
of resisting. Mr. Watrous filled her
whole horizon from the moment that he
entered it, and she adored him with all
the adoration possible to her simple little
nature. She had thenceforth but one
idea and object in life, and that was to
make herself lovely in his sight, and but
one notion of how to do it, and that was
with the most ravishing toilets to be in-
vented—to-night in pale blue gauzes, to-
morrow in silks the color of sweetbriar
petals; now the white wools of a novice,
now in the shadowy robes and dark lace
veils that might simulate a nun; again
wreathed and garlanded and half-clothed
with flowers —toilets that themselves
coquetted with possibilities. But her
toilets were to him only the setting and
surrounding of the picture that night in
the half-window; she was always the
creature of those lofty and ineffable fan-
cies who walked just above the common
earth without quite touching it.

It made no odds to him, either, after
he married Rose, that the bills for those
toilets were enough to support a small
family; they ought to be. lt made no
odds that she took hold of her house-
keeping as if she were playing at dolls,
and, when she tired, let the house keep
itself; there was no reason why she
should keep a house; he procured a
housekeeper for her. It made no odds

that when he gave her a check-book
against a stated sum in bank, she drew

out the whole sum with the first check
and went on checking out other sums
with every leaf in the book till he was
notified of a hugely overdrawn account
that must be rectified; what should she
know of finance? If she had been a
banker, he would not have married her.
It made no odds that she refused to in-
vite Mabel Murray or Miss Steinberger to
their house; it was the bit of spirit that
made her perfect. Nor did it make any
odds to him if she cried out at the dinner
table, with a dozen people between them,
that he kad certainly had enough wine;
that she burst into a wild attack of sob-
bing and had to be assisted from the
place when atelegram was brought to
him in church and he left hurriedly to
attend to it, forgetting to kiss her good-
by; that when once delayed in a distant
city he took a friend’s wife to the opera
and she wrote to the lady a denunciation
of her conduct; that she had not, in fact,
a second particle of intelligence—he did
not want it. Perhaps he had enough for
Just as she was, he would neither

add anything to her nor take anything

| from

her, she was Kose in Bloom, he
didn’t want her to be anybody else. ‘Do
you really think I am a perfect little
vife 2’? she would ask, with an anxious

| corrugation on that sweet, white brow.

 

her.
for

“The best there is,’? he answered

“And the best is good enough
you!’ she would exclaim, in triumph.

“Would you care very much,’ she
might ask at another time, ‘‘if you heard
anybody say—Mrs. Van Velt say—that
you were a fool for marrying a fool ?”’

‘““Mrs. Van Veltis a fool’

‘And there’s no fool like an old foo]
she would ery, with satisfaction.

If, at the end of a couple of years, her
sunshiny sweetness, her tropical tem-
pers, the novelties of her innumerable
caprices, were at all wearisome, he did
not know it himself ; and it was only be-
cause Rose was not very well, and more
than ordinarily nervous, that she began
to imagine such a thing, began to imag-

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ine it shortly after he had been ap-
pointed on the committee with Mabel
Murray—Dr. Murray now — to select

books for the use of the Spanish Club
during their stay in the mountains,
where they had made a late party for the
sake of the autumn colors. For since
Atchison and Topeka had brought Mex-
ico to the door, as one might say, every-
body had a rage for Spanish.

‘‘] shall take my Spanish in lace,
Rose.

‘The idea,’’? she said, twirling a ripe
maple branch she had brought in, a tro-
phy of October, ‘‘of a married man’s
going to write and recite exercises! Why
didn’t you finish your education before
you married: 1 did.”

“But, my dear child—”’

“il think you are the dear child,’’
pointing her finger at him as if she had
made a discovery. ‘I’m sure I never
should have married a schoolboy, if I
had known anything about it. And why
in the world should people want to learn
more languages than their own — or
maybe French, to talk with the diplo-
matic people at Newport, or Saratoga, or
Washington? You won’t meet them
here in these stupid mountains! Oh,
how I dohate these mountains! They are
just like great crouching beasts.’’

“But, my darling, this Spanish is a
matter of business.’’

“Yes, Lsee itis. Business of buying
books with Mabel Murray, and her great,
impudent, black eyes !”’

“Are they impudent?’ and then he
kissed her waxen lids as he sat beside
her. ‘‘Now, my Rose, let me explain—’’

‘I don’t want any explanation!’ with
ashrug anda pout, and the gleam of a
sunshower glance; and then, after that
air of hers that seemed to her husband
like the expression of latent possibil-
ities of infinite wisdom, ‘‘Things that
need explanation explain themselves,’’
she said.

‘‘But next year it will be most con-
venient to know the language if we are
in Mexico.”’

‘*In Mexico! Well, I declare! Of all
things! What should we go to Mexico
for 2’? and the voice began to pipe like
the wind in aship’srigging. ‘‘Leave our
sumptuous house, and all our friends,
our supper parties after the opera, my
lovely dresses, ny shopping, and your
club—not your ridiculous Spanish club—
I don’t eare how soon you leave that—
and go down into that wilderness !”’

*‘But, my dear love, it isn’t a wilder-
ness. It is the region of the first modern
‘ivilization of our continent, of an older
civilization, too, perhaps the oldest on
the earth, who knows? Don’t you want
to see the place of departure of the
ancient Conquestadores, to whom we
owe so much of our country; pick up,
perhaps, a bit of the bronze armor of one
of the knights who went out to seek the
Seven Silver Cities and never came back;
go farther down into Central America,
where those oldest of old cities are being
unearthed—”’

“No. | don’t want to do anything of
the kind. And] don’t want youto. |
don’t care anything about old cities. I
like new ones with French shops and
smooth pavements. You might as well
ask me if I don’t want to die and go to
heaven, when I like here! Mabel Mur-
ray likes that sort of thing. You had
better take her. I shouldn’t be sur-
prised if you did. She will be handy to
have on the way, a doctor, a great hate-
ful woman of a doctor! And you’d have
married her once if she hadn’t been, you
know you would! I shouldn’t be at all
surprised,’’ she cried, getting up and fly-
ing in a purposeless way like an angry
bird about the room, pausing at last be-
side the mantel, where, as luck would
have it, was a sealed envelope directed
in her husband’s hand to Dr. Mabel
Murray. She caught the note in her
hands and whirled it toward him. ‘‘I
demand that this shall] stop !’ she cried—
‘Shall stop at once, Mr. Waterston
Watrous! You have brought me here to
insult and outrage me while you carry
on an affair with another woman, a
shameless woman who would be de-
lighted to see me crushed, a woman you
know you used to flirt with furiously and
would have married if—’’

? said

“If 1 hadn’t married you,’ her hus-
band said, coolly, thinking that enough.
*-A woman before whom I will not en-

dure this humiliation,’ she went on,
working herself into more vehemence,

her eyes blazing, her cheeks burning like
roses in the sun, and her beauty as ra-

diant im her anger asim her joy. ““You
ean’t love her and me too. Your heart
isvt big enough. | repudiate Such
love. I—”

‘““Mr. Watrous,”’ cried his next neigh-
bor, knocking at the door and opening it
hurriedly. ‘Beg pardon. 1 thought
you were bound for town. The coach is
just going out of the yard, and there is
no later train to-day, you kKnow.’’ And
before Rose knew what had happened,
her husband had caught his hat and was
dashing down the avenue to overtake the
coach, and on his way to town.

She was half paralyzed for the instant
with anger, with pain, with amazement,

love and grief.. She stood in the same
spot, speechless, perhaps thoughtless,

like some queen of tragedy, for a whole
hour, when a tap at the door aroused her,
and she took from the boy there a tel-
egram, to tear it open and read the single
line, ‘‘Good-by. W. W.”’’

Mr. Watrous himself had undergone a
variety of emotions during this morning
scene with his wife. At the first he had
been simply amused, then a little vexed;
ashamed of that, but somewhat _per-
plexed, gradually hurt, and at last vio-
lently incensed; and it was at that point
that the neighbor’s word had obliged
him to dash for the train or lose it, and
there was money to pay at the bank that
day and not a second to waste. By the
time he had reached the station his in-
dignation had cooled; by the time the
train was moving he began to smile at
himself and at his little Rose in Bloom

jas well. Heto be accused in this way
| who had never given her reason for one
iota of jealousy, for whom other women
hardly existed as women, to whom, as
he had always shown her, she was all in
all! And what was her pretty anger,
after all, but passionate love for him?
Would he have it otherwise?

the train flashed through the rich red-
ness of the autumn lands, one gleam of
her way of thinking, one trait of her
individuality? And then he remembered
that he had forgotten, between his re-
sentment and his consternation at the
thought of losing the train, to bid her
farewell: and he got off at the first tele-
geaph station to send her the single word
**“Good-by,’’ at which he thought she
would laugh, and all would be right be-
tween them. And that done, he gave
his mind to the ways and means

ter again. But he took, for all that, the
night trai for the mountains all of
twelve hours earlier than he had in-
tended.

Poor Rose in Bloom!
closed behind the telegraph boy she fell
in little heap on the floor, all the
tragedy queen gone. She did not know
how long a time passed before she be-
came aware of herself and the world
again, like a great pain somewhere out-
side her; and then she saw the telegram
that had fallen from her nerveleézs hand.
““Good-by.”’ Then he had gone. He
had goneforever. He had left her. She
had driven him away with her temper,
with ker jealousy. She should never see
him again, and she never deserved to.
He would go to Mabel Murray, if he had
not gone already. He would go to some-

As the door

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a

body who could learn Spanish and
wanted to see old cities, and had read
old books, and could say things that

would be pleasant to hear when the rose
had left the cheek and the light had left
the eye. The rose was leaving her cheek
now, the light her eye—a person couldn’ t
fee] as she did for nearly a year and look
like anything but aclay mask. She saw
him turn to Mabel Murray the other day
when the Professor was talking about
certain words betraying certain races.
As if words hadn’t betrayed her into this
trouble! Why was she made such a
simpleton that she ecould’nt be of any
use to her own husband, and in order
not to sink to her level, in order just to
keep his intellect afloat, he must turn to
another woman. who could help him,
heal him, save him! She hated Mabel
Murray, she hated the great strong-
minded thing! She crumpled the tele-
gram into a bunch and left it on a sheet
of paper on which she had written the
words. ‘‘Good-by it is, then!’ never
thinking that if he had left her he was
not coming back to read it, put on her
hat and mantle and went out, she had no
idea where. ‘‘Perhaps she is better for
him than I,’? she was sobbing softly to
herself now. ‘‘But she will never love
him half so weil as I. And besides I am
his wife, his own wife! And all the
rest wickedness,’’ she sobbed. And
so she went her way. Soon she was inthe
wood and going up a hill; now she ford-
ed a brook on stepping-stones; now she
was on a bare ledge that overlooked the
land: now again she was where branches
rustled round her. Here she walked
and here she waited; she did not know
that she was hungry or tired; she had
only one sensation, that her husband
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end of the world. She did not see the
sunset gathering below her, its great
purple banks lit up with Jurid yellow

light; she did not notice the twilight
coming without stars. She sank at last
without strength to go farther, but also

without consciousness of it, and slept
with utter weariness.
When Rose awoke it was dark night;

in a wood; something soft and
falling all about her like frozen
blowing eider-down. It was
snowing. Her heart stood still with
horror. In the mountains, and the
night, and the snow, and lost! She rose
to her knees, shaking off a suffocating
dust of snow, got upon her feet, floun-
dered on a little way, fell in a drift,
staggered up again and then fell once
more in the powdery depths. She re-
membered the talk at the inn about the
swiftness with which the snows heaped
themselves. Well, she would try to rise
no more; what did she eare, and what
eared he? Ah! what was life anyway ?
She would close her eyes and go out of
it, and then the path would be smooth
for her husband and that other— The
thought of that other woman sent the
blood bubbling and tingling through her
veins till she was as warm as if wrapped

she was
cold was
bits of

ing. calling her husband by name, telling
him she loved him, she was his little
Rose, and begging him not to let her per-
ish. What if the wild beasts of the woods
and hills should scent her—some yelping
pack of wolves, some fierce tiger-cat!
What if she suddenly saw in the moon-
lighted whirl of snow the great head, the
fiery eyes, red jaws of some black
bear! Ah, the terror of it! And her hus-
band sitting now in his arm-chair laugh-
ing at the drolleries of **Patience.’’? put
on the stage for the first time that night:

 

the

He would come looking for her perhaps
when it was too late. Perhaps he would
not trouble himself at all. It was his
fault she was here now; he had driven
her out with his fatal good-bye. Ah, she
had better let the drift cover her! And
having made up her mind to that, she
rose and ran forward to escape it. She
remembered that she had spoken idly of
these terrible mountains; perhaps they
would take their revenge now! And so,
fallen again in the blinding and stifling
snow, she watched and waked and cried
and called, the wind rising and whist-
ling about her, only the horrible echoes
answering her. ‘‘My heart will break!’’
she cried. ‘‘And you will lose your baby!
And I never meant to tease you so; it
was only because you were so dear to me.

 

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Perhaps she fell asleep again. The
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tion. She knew that although the semi-
darkness of the moon-lit storm was still
the same, the night must be nearly spent,
she was so faint and tired, so hungry and
sick; and a vague, new terror began to
possess her. She rose slowly, shaking
off her flaky coverlid in a great cloud and
found her footing once more, tumbled on
with a furious sort of haste, up and down
and up again, wringing her hands, toss-
ing the snow from her eyes, and at length
falling for the last time in the soft, sinking
mass, with the sensation of falling starry
distances and darknesses that she had
often had in dreams.

And there she lay and stirred no more.
Fortunate for her was it that she could
not stir: for that last step had sent her
gently sliding with the enveloping drift
over the edge of the precipice and into
the drift that, piled in the wild huckle-
berry thicket far below, received and
upbuoyed her like a cloud upon the edge
of nothingness into which another step
would take her—the end of the world,
indeed, for her. She was motionless,
Basy, Warm, and in a sort of stupor.
Nothing was of any consequence. She
looked up and saw a strange pointed
head, with eyes like flames. protruding
into the gray shadows far above. she was
dimly conscious of lights moving, voices
calling, the reports of rifiles rattling far
away in the low country; it all meant
nothing toher. Wolves, will-o’-the-wisps,
the wild women of the hills, were but
phantoms dancing before her eyes, and

when there came a great cry ringing
through the thick air, and lights were

fiashing in her face, and men were swing-
ing down in ropes over the rock, and her
husband was snatching her into his arms
and to his aching heart, she only mur-
mured. looking up into his face, unsmil-
ing and unconscious, **It was all your
fault, you know, and good-bye itis, then.
You will lose your baby, and my heart
will break. Oh, why can’t you hear me!
And, if she is better for you than I, she
will never love you half so well, and be-
sides I am your wife; and I love you, oh,
I love you, and all the rest—all the rest
—is wickedness, you know.’? And Rose
in Bloom, carried gently down the moun-

tain, on the guides’ litter of hemlock
boughs, gave no mere sign until hours

afterward when she opened her eyes, and
shut them closely again as she took her

bearings. When at length she found
courage and looked up, she understood

that it was her husband hanging over her
and whispering to her with all tender
and adjuring words, and that it was
Mabel Murray sitting there and holding
her baby on her knee. ‘‘I suppose you
saved my life,’’ she murmured presently,
her dark eyes still resting on Mabel,
“after they brought me home. If you
will bring my baby here I will kiss you
and ask you to forgive me. But, oh, can
you ever imagine what my husband mar-
ried such a little fool as 1 am for?’’
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD.
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Plain Truths, Plainly Told.

Some women are like paste diamonds.

Let the object of love be careful to lose
nothing of its loveliness.

To have ideas is to gather flowers.
think is to weave them into garlands.

Before you judge aman too harshly,
think of the difficulties it may have been
his lot to meet.

Love is better than a pair of spectacles
to make everything seem greater which
is seen through them.

The vanity of human life is, likea
river, constantly passing away, and yet
constantly coming on.

When there is love in the heart, there
are rainbows in the eyes, covering every
black cloud with gorgeous hues.

Rich men and pumpkin vines are alike
in one respect: They work hard all their
lives to accumulate the golden fruit and
then die and leave it for others to enjoy.

Truth being founded ona rock, you
may boldly dig to see its foundation; but
falsehood, being built on the sand, if you
proceed to examine its foundation, you
cause its fall.

Our lives should be like the day, more

To

| beautiful in the evening; or, like the
summer, aglow with promise; and, like

in furs, and she broke out in a wild cry-|
| circus.

 

|ment for the ridiculous sum of
lora

 

the autumn, rich with golden sheaves,
where good works and deeds have ripened

on the field.
a

A Glib-Talking Fakir.

A contemporary describes the lingo of
a fakir the writer came across the other
day following in the wake of Forepaugh’s
The same fellow will be found
at our country fairs next fall. His talk
Was as constant as the flow from Niagara;
no period, colon, semicolon, or comma:
“Yesterday I sold this almost priceless
object to-day I am giving them away
simply giving them away as an advertise-
ten cents
dime to-morrow I may be selling
them again thank you sir it magnifies as
well as any three dollar microscope and
you are getting it for the paltry sum of

 

Oh. if } i i ae hie Gtk as ‘| ten cents itis recommended by all the
1, 1 He ORLY KNEW WHETE BIS WIte Was.

most celebrated lawyers doctors minis-
ters and scientific men as the most won-

derful invention of the age and the
gentleman here takes one why it
is worth one dollar alone to examine

a drop of water before you drink it and
you will plainly see the seven kinds of
insects in each drop ants grasshoppers
crickets bees flies beetles and centipedes
look at thein and then drink your water
and the gentleman here takes one thank
you and you'll thank me before the day
is over and the little boy takes one ten
cents or a dime its worth more than that
to see the skin on your hand thank you
Sir,’’ etc.
a

It is better to be laughed at for not
being married than to be unable to laugh
because you are.

40%

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
in the
avenue.

John Ferguson has engaged
grocery business on Jefferson
Lemon, Hoops & Peters furnished the
stock.

J. W. Looly. whose hardware store at
Howard City was destroyed in the recent
fire at that place, has re-engaged in bus-
iness. Foster, Stevens & Co. furnished
the stock.

Alfred J. Brown has purchased a lot,
34x90 feet in dimensions, adjoining
Gelock’s brick building on North Ionia
street, and will shortly begin the erec-
tion of a four-story brick block.

 

The Standard Oil Co. has absorbed its
corporate representatives in this State—
the West Michigan Oil Co., of Grand
Rapids, the Bloomfield Oil Co., of Jack-
son, and the Ingalls Oil Co.. of Detroit.
John H. Bonnell assumes the manage-
ment of the oetopus at Grand Rapids,
S. T. Curtiss at Jackson and Geo. Foster
at Detroit.

Assignee Jewell has filed his final re-
port in the C. E. Kellogg matter and
been relieved from further responsibility.
The stock and accounts, which were in-
ventoried at $2,105.58, were for
$2,861.84. All the secured claims but
one were paid in full, leaving $150 for
the assignee’s services. Unsecured cred-
itors to the tune of $4,500 get the cold

sold

shoulder.

The daily papers have noted the or-
ganization of anew company. to engage
in the manufacture of wood mantels,
under the style of the Widdicomb Man-
tel Co. Asamatter of fact, the organ-
ization is not anew oneat all, but merely
a change in the name of the Gleason
Wood Ornament Co. The manufacture
of wood mantels of unique and artistic
design will be made a specialty—possibly
to the exclusion of the line
factured by the Gleason, in
future.

now manu-

near

the

AROUND THE STATE.
Cheboygan—H. H. Kezar has engaged
in the restaurant business.

Edmore—H. W. Robson has sold his
grocery stock to Thos. Regis.
Whitehall — Miss Effie Vincent will

close out her millinery stock.
Shelbyville—Fessenden & Adams have
engaged in the meat business.
Manistee—Henry Gieling is building
an addition to his meat market.
Laingsburg—C. A. Bacon
grocery business to Mr. Gardner.
Marion — Geo. Howe has moved
drug stock into his new building.
Belding—Mrs. D. L. MceBinney has re-
moved her millinery stock to Ionia.
Petoskey—C. A. Dean has purchased
the grocery stock of J. L. Reichert.
Ridgeway—For the first time in thirty
years, Ridgeway is without a drug store.
Gladwin — F. Shoemaker succeeds
M. A. (Mrs. E.) Robbins in general trade.
Fennville—Geo. F. Goodrich
Goodrich Bros. in the grocery business.
Clinton —C. 8S. Burroughs
QO. A. Sinclair & Co. in the drug
Marion — Andrew Flanagan suc-
ceeded in general trade by John Flana-

gan.

 

has sold his

his

succeeds

succeeds
business.

is

Ann Arbor—John P. Pfisterer succeeds
Pfisterer & Gakle in the clothing bus-
iness.

Owosso—Dan W. Waters is preparing
to open a crockery store in the Dimmick
block.

Manistee — The Litney Sisters have
opened a stock of ladies’ furnishing
goods.

Gowen—Resmus & Co. are sueceeded

in the drug business by
Drug Co.

Traverse City —E. Lardie
Perkett, Lardie & Co. in the
business.

Eaton Rapids—Fred Lutz’s bakery and
restaurant has been chattel
mortgage.

Birmingham—L. B. Peabody is suc-
ceeded by L. B. Peabody & Son in gen-
eral trade.

Augusta—Ada & Maude Rosenbrook
have bought Mrs. W. BH. Labar’s mil-
linery stock.

Jackson — Pilcher & Williams have
assigned their books and stationery stock
to W. L. Seaton.

Allegan—Ed. Bailey will occupy one-
half of H. P. Dunning’s drug store with
a grocery stock.

Woodland—Mr. Tolles, ef Lake Odessa,
will open a restaurant in the L. D.
Warner building.

Belding—A building and loan associa-
tion has been organized here, with J. M.
Earle as President.

Hudson—A. S. Walker has bought the
M. Baskerville meat market and will con-
tinue the business.

Mulliken—Whelpley & Coggswell have
sold Halladay & Crane their store furni-
ture, including scales.

Springport—The grocery firm of Allen

the Stickney
succeeds

commission

closed on

& Micks has dissolved. Thos. Allen
continues the business.
Saranac—A. H. Barber has removed

his bazaar stock into the store recently
occupied by Wm. Clark.

 

 

Saugatuck—The drug firm of L. 43]

Phelps & Co. has dissolved, L. A. Phelps
continuing the business.

Laingsburg — Amby Labar contem-
plates the erection of a brick store on the
lot adjoining D. Labar’s.

Peach Belt—A. G. Spencer has added
a line of dry goods and men’s furnishing
goods to his grocery stock.

Coldwater—Eddy & Hanley succeed
Ida J. Ferguson (Mrs. Geo. A.) in the
tobacco and cigar business.

Montague—Geo. Klett has moved his
harness stock into the building formerly
occupied by G. L. Veenstra.

Lakeside—Johnson & Woycke have re-

 

moved their stock of dry goods to one of |

the stores in the Johnson block.
Hastings—The establishment of a new
bakery in the building recently vacated
by F. H. Parker is under advisement.
Big Rapids—J. W. Raven has sold his
jewelry business to J. C. Clark, formerly
traveling salesman for W. H. Squier.
Muir—Simon Town has bought the in-
terest of R. C. Settle in the firm of Town
& Settle, dealers in general merchandise.
Mason—A recent fire in the Polar block
did $6,000 damage to the Mills Co.’s dry
goods stock. The insurance was 35,000.
Escanaba—E. Goldberg, formerly
gaged in the jewelry business at Manis-
tique, will re-engage in the same business
here.
Muskegon—Brown & Thompson are
erecting a compact business block, 34x60
Pine street, near

en-

feet in dimensions, on
Apple.

Eastport—Wm. Zeran has sold his drug
and grocery stock to Rowe & Carmichael,
who will continue the business in the
building formerly occupied by C. L.
Harris.

Detroit—Joseph H. Meller, grocer on
Champlain street, has assigned to Dwight
C. Rexford. Assets, $1,411.35; liabil-
ities, $1,152.

Muskegon — lL. Lloyd and John
McShannoek have opened a tea and
crockery. store at the corner of Washing-
ton avenue and Division street.

Montague—Thomas Gaynor, of the re-
cent hardware firm of Peck & Gaynor,
will open a hardware store in the build-
ing formerly occupied by Reed & Sons.

Bay City—E. A. Withee, of Flint,
formerly of Owosso, removes Bay
City to take the position of city salesman
for W. I. Brotherton & Co., for which
house he has traveled.

uther—_W. EH. MeQuarry has pur.
chased Dr. A. J. Collar’s interest in the
drug firm of MeQuarry & Co., and will
continue the business in his own name.
Dr. Collar has removed to Oregon.

Eaton Rapids—The drug firm of Wil-
eox & Toles has i. W.
Toles having sold his interest to G. Edson
Blodgett. who clerked for the firm
for the past two years. Mr. Toles con-
templates engaging in the electric light
business.

1D.

i
tO

been dissolved,

has

Muskegon—Judge Dickerman has ap-
pointed S. H. Lasley, Cashier of the
Whitehall National Bank, receiver of
the dry goods business of Nathan Platt
&Co. Mr. Lasley has filed a bond in
the sum of $20,000. Whether the stock
will be disposed of entire or at retail,
will be decided after it has been inven-
toried.

Tonia
was

i.

closed

A. Tower’s hardware store
Tuesday by Mrs. Sarah J.
on a chattel mortgage for
for money loaned at
since the business was
Fletcher, Jenks &
hold a second mortgage
As the greater part of
Tower's indebtedness is to members

 

Tower
$2,688 given

times

«DD,
various
moved from Edmore.
Co., of Detroit,
for $1,145.59.
Mr.
of his family, it is probable that a satis-
factory adjustment will be made. and the
store reopened at an early day.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Kalamazoo — The Kalamazoo Brass
Works has assigned to David Fisher.

Cheboygan—The Cheboygan Lumber
Co.’s mill is now running day and night.

Jasper—Lowe & Mabee are remodeling
their grist mill and will put in the roller
process.

South Arm—The Wilson Hoop Co.’s
factory is running witha full force of
employes.

Edmore—A. J. Sacks has engaged in
the manufacture of He hails
from Stanton.

Big Rapids—Chris. Mynning is erecting
asawmill in the vicinity of the Tioga
Lumber Co.’s old site.

Howard City—A new boiler was put in
at H. H. McCall’s planing mill and duster
handle factory last week.

Ionia—Bush & Son will repair their
foundry, recently damaged by fire. Work
is to be commenced at once.

Detroit—Kern, Drexel & Co. the
style of the firm succeeding R. M. Kern
in the manufacture of jewelry.

Charlotte—A furniture factory with a
capital stock of $30,000, employing fifty
hands, will be started in this city.

Hamilton—W. W. Howlett has taken a
position as manager of the store of the
Berwich Lumber Co., at Berwick, La.

Laingsburg — Wm. McKellopp, the
Perry miller, contemplates the building
of aroller process mill here this season.

Mancelona—The Mancelona Cigar Co.
has moved into the store vacated by Ros-
coe & Spelcher, the latter having moved
one door west.

 

cigars.

is

 

Paris—Stickney & Co. have attached
an engine to their sawmill and with their
increased power will soon have their
yard clear of logs.

Big Rapids—The West Michigan Lum-
ber Co. has employed W. H. Haney, of
this city, to take charge of its general
store at Park City.

Coral—C. H. Fisher’s shingle mill has
suspended operations, there being no
more timber to cut. He started on the
lumber cut last week.

Muskegon—The organization of the
Feculine Manufacturing Co. is nearly
completed. The corporation will have a
capital stock of $50,000.

Mancelona—A. F. & H. Wallbrecht are
building an addition to their mill for an
elevator, and during the summer will re-
model their mill throughout.

Battle Creek—J. T. Tansley,
cumseh, has removed his cigar
tory to this place. It has been
idated with the Michigan Scoop Co.

Cadiliac—Cobbs & Mitchell have sold
their mill property at Round Lake to the

of Te-
box fac-
consol-

DeKalb Lumber Co., DeKalb, Tex. The
machinery will be removed at once.
Cadillac— Clary & Eaton have pur-

chased 3,600 acres of pine and hardwood
in Benzie county. and expect to begin
cutting the same in the near future.

Manistee—A representative of the
Antrim Iron Co.. of Mancelona, has been
looking over the advantages of Manistee
as a location for another iron furnace.

St. Ignace—Gen. Alger has rented
booming ground here of the Mackinaw
Lumber Co.. for logs cut near Seney and
railed to this place, and made wp into
rafts to be towed to the Saginaw River.

Saranac—D. G. Huhn, of the firm of
Frace & Huhn, general dealers, has pur-
chased the interest of A. Harvey in the
grist mill of Frace & Harvey. Frace
& Huhn will run the mill in connection
with their store.

Manistee—Mr. Brooks and Mr. Sweet.of
Big Rapids, aformer mill owner here, are
arranging to organize a company to build
and operate a furniture factory upon the
Sweet mill site. Considerable stock has
already been taken.

Bloomingdale — The Bloomingdale
flouring mills were sold at Circuit Court
Commissioner’s sale last Friday, Thos.
Clarage & Son, of Kalamazoo, secend
mortgagees, being the purchasers. The
sum paid was $6,850.

East Saginaw—Pickard & Pratt have
taken a contract to put in the timber pur-
chased by the Saginaw Lumber & Salt
Co. of J.T. Hurst. They will buildia
short spur to reach the timber from the
Flint & Pere Marquette.

Detroit—The Commercial Milling Co.
is owned by Peter Henkel. his two sons
and Peter The company,
which is indebted to Mr. Henkel for $40,-
000, has filed mortgages on its real estate,
personal property and book accounts to
secure his claims.

Voorhees.

Kalamazoo—The Michigan Harness Co.
has been organized at Kalamazoo, with a
capital of $25,000. The following offi-
cers have been elected for the ensuing
year: President, L. J. Knauss, Mendon;
Secretary, H. B. Moore, Detroit; Treas-
urer, C. Nudhardt, Goshen.

East Saginaw — The standard guage
track on the Port Huron division of the
Flint & Pere Marquette will be laid to
Marlette from this city within thirty
days. It will doubtless require ninety
days to complete the road for business,
from this city to the St. Clair river.

Bay City—Fully 1,000,000 feet of logs
reach this city daily from the north over
the Mackinaw division of the Michigan
Central, and the company is also hauling
to St. Helen for H. Stephens & Co. The
railroad has all the orders for hauling
logs that it can fill for sixty days yet.

Cheboygan — James W. McDonald is
about closing out his interest in the
hardware store to his partner, Joseph E.
Cueny, and intends locating in Chicago,
where he will devote his attention to
pushing the sale of his patent saw tool,
and in connection therewith open an
office as manufacturers’ agent for several
large eastern manufactories of hardware.

Manistee--The East Shore Furniture Co.
has been organized with a capital stock of
$100,000, of which $42,000 has been sub-
scribed. The corporation is officered as
follows: T. J. Ramsdell, President; A. O.
Wheeler, Vice-President; G. F. Parsons,
Secretary; A. V. McAlvay, Treasurer.
Brick fire-proof buildings will be erected
on the former site of Russell Bros.’
planing mill. It is expected the factory
will be ready by September for oceu-
pancy.

Detroit—The American Rubber Co.
has begun suit for $25,000 damages for
breach of contract against W. D. Robin-
son and wife and Don M. Dickinson. The
suit grows out of the failure of W. D.
Robinson & Co. The firm held a lot of
the rubber company’s goods under a
comuission contract, which were turned
over to the Chicago branch of the rubber
company. When the failure occurred it
was given out that Mr. Dickinson was
not a member of the firm, but acted as
trustee for others. The company state
that as he was originally a general part-
ner, they presumed he was then, as they
had no notice to the contrary. The firm
presents a counter claim and a strong
fight is expected.

 

Bay City—It is now said to have been
a trick of Moiles Bros. to have the saw-
mill removed from Detour seized for duty
and sold, so as to buy it in, and obtain a
new and bona fide title. When the re-
bate was taken out, the actual amount
paid by Moiles Bros. is reported at $4,930.
Henry Colclough, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
said to be an uncle of the Moiles Bros.
bought the mill in. Itis worth about
$50,000.

Detroit— The Detroit Adamant Wall
Plaster Co. has been organized with a
capital of $50,000. It owned and
officered by the following gentlemen:
W. M. Lillibridge, Dr. H. W. Longyear,
Dr. E. L. Shurly, E. L. Thompson,
Matthew Oliver, N. H. Culver, J.
Saxton and Dr. Donald MacLean. The
plaster which the company uses is a com-
pound composed of gypsum, sharp sand,
wood fiber and a secret chemical sub-
stance.

Detroit—The assignee of the Detroit
branch of G. S. Wormer & Sons states
that the are $23,420.75, and the
liabilities $35.855.83. Principal among
the creditors are the Merchants and Man-
ufacturers’ National Bank, which holds
a claim of $10,000; the Erie City Iron
Works, $7.663.86: New Haven Manufac-
turing Co., $1.000: Orr & Semberver.
$2,700: John Greenwood & Co.,
ter, N. Y., $2.013.86, and the New Haven
Manufacturing Co., $1,375.80.

Jonia—Wm. Steele has resigned the
presidency of the Michigan Overall Co.,
and sold his stock to Thad. B. Preston.
Mr. Preston has also bought the interest
of F. E. Kelsey, and succeeds him as the
Secretary of the company. The com-
pany contemplates increasing the capital
stock, when the vacancy caused by Mr.
Steele’s resignation will be filled. The
organization of a new company, which
has been contemplated by Mr. Preston,

will probably now be dropped.
<> <—___—_—

Bank Notes.

The Iosco County Savings Bank suc-
ceeds the private bank of Jas. E. Forrest
at Oscoda. R. K. Gowanlock is Presi-
dent and Wallis L. Curtis Cashier.

Cc. J. Church, the Greenville banker,
has made an offer for the occupancy of a
building on South Division street. If his
offer is accepted, he will occupy the
same with a bank.

John A. Turner retired from the
firm of Pickett & Turner, proprietors of
the Wayland Exchange Bank. The bus-
iness will be continued under the same
style by E. W. Pickett.

Chas. Cunningham, Assistant Cashier
of the Big Rapids National Bank, will
take the position of Cashier for
Mecosta County Savings Rank, when the
latter institution begins business. Robt.
Reynolds sueceeds him in the Big Rapids
National.

——__—> > —
Purely Personal.

Mrs. Geo. B. Caldwell, of Greenville,
spent Sunday with her husband in the
city.

Geo. B. Horton,
cheese king, was
week,

M. W. Tucker, general dealer at Sum-
ner, was in town for a few hours on Sat-
urday.

Cc. E. Olney and family left Monday for
Thompson, Conn., where they will spend
the summer.

Myron Hester, of the firm of Hester &
Fox, putinacouple of days at Indian-
apolis last week.

Osear D. Fisher. formerly manager for
Arthur Meigs & Co., is now conducting a
hotel at Ft. Payne, Ala.

Mrs. W. T. Lamoreaux has gone to
Johnstown to assist in caring for the
sufferers by the flood.

Wm. B. White has returned from Cal-
ifornia to take the position of
keeper for W. T. Lamoreaux.

Frank Manning, of the firm of Luce &
Manning, the Boston
the city and will remain here several
weeks.

W. H. Thaw and family are located at
Shady Side for the although
W. H. remains in the city from Monday
until Saturday.

H. A.—beg pardon, Anson L.—Craw-
ford, the Cadillac grocer, was in town
several days last week, attracted hither
by a case in the Circuit Court.

O. L. Palmer, who has held a clerkship
with G.-R. Mayhew for the past nine
years, severs his connection with the
house on July 1 to take the management
of the Feldner-Palmer Shirt Co.

Frank Jewell leaves Wednesday for
Tacoma. where he will take the position
of Secretary and Treasurer of the Puget
Sound Hardware Co. He takes his fam-
ily with him, going viaSan Francisco.

J. F. Trout has returned from Mis-
souri, where he purchased 2,200 acres of
yellow pine. It located in Ripley
county, nine miles from Doniphan, lying
along the east bank of the Current River.

C. W. Shedd has begun an action
against Thos. Walker on an allegation
for libel, claiming that Walker has re-
ported that he has been peddling pickles
from door to door. The case will come
up before Justice Waish on Friday.

— oo —

‘Our Knocker’’ cigars are taking a
leading position in the trade. Sold only
by M. H. Treusch & Bro.

1s

assets

Roches-

has

the

the Lenawee county
in town one day last

book-

wool dealers, is in

season,

is

 

H. |

Gripsack Brigade.

James Fox and family have located in
Denver.

M. J. Keeler, representing the H. L.
Pratt Co., of Binghamton, N. Y., was in
town over Sunday. \

Arthur Gregory, for several years with
Ball, Barnhart & Putman, has gone on
the road for the Feldner-Palmer Shirt Co.

The managers of Interlaken Park, at
Muskegon, have generously tendered the
Grand Rapids traveling men the free use
of the grounds, in case they decide to
hold their annual picnic at Muskegon.

Albert C. Antrim, traveling represent-
ative for the Alabastine Co., returned
from the Pacific Coast on the 5th, having
been absent since October 2, a little over
months. This is probably the
longest trip ever taken by a Grand Rapids

raveler.

Ludington Democrat: Steve Sears, the
popular and whole-souled Grand Rapids
cracker sharp, drew the $60 music box at
Sherman Bros., last week, and imme-
diately sent an open order to the big
store to issue the cigars freely on his ac-
count. ‘Put out nothing but the best,”

eight

were Mr. Sears’ instructions, and the
Democrat acknowledges receipt of a

buneh of fragrant Regalia Especials.

Congratulations.
—
Wool, Hides and Tallow.

Wools do not change.’ The Eastern
market is still strong under a scant sup-
ply and firmer in tone for fleece. Manu-
facturers buy sparingly, and of pulled
wool only, as no new wools have made
their appearance. Dealers are disposed
to as fast as it arrives. Buyers
West have waited so long for the clip to
come, they are getting anxious and in-
clined to inflate prices at the send off,
with the result of being pulled out at
beginning. The cold wet weather spell
delays the clip and the market cannot
epen fairly for another week.

Hides, for short haired, are bringing
better prices, on account of quality,
while leather remains low in price, with
fair sales. The recent cleaning up of
the rough on the market tends to make
a better feeling, but customers are slow
to take hold and are conservative.

Tallow is firm, but no higher.

eg ee
The New Tobacco Law.

Tue TRADESMAN has sent three re-
guests to Lansing for a copy of the new
tobacco law, without result. Asa last
resort, the Secretary of State been
appealed to, for a certified copy of the
law, which will surely arrive in time to
appear in next week’s paper.

————_—<9 << _—__

Tue TRADESMAN Office is in receipt of
a pail of creamery butter from the Peer-
less Creamery Co., of Romeo.
eation of the tryer plainly shows that
Manager Giddings is still at the
the procession.

 

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Exchange Bank.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

 

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

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

city or village property, a nice, clean, $500 stock of

staples; good exhange for any one.
dan, Mich. 448
AOR SALE—ARMADA, MICH.—FRUIT EVAPORATING
works at a great bargain; 250 bushels capacity;
well equipped; location the b i
cited; also two fine village residences, cheap; reason,
removai south. Address L. Granger, Armada, Mich.
442
1” EEP YOUR EYE ON THIS—PARTIES ABOUT TO
I engage in the drug business or any one wanting a
stock of drugs and patent medicines, cheap, please ad-

 

 

 

 
  

 

 

 

going out of the drug business. Address, G. 8. Putnam,
Fruitport, Mich. 444
T SALE—WHOLESALE CONFECTIONERY—GOOD
reason for selling. Andrew Wiegel, Muskegon,
Mich. 445
Ny ‘(TANTED—A REGISTERED PHARMACIST WANTS
a partner with small capital. Address Druggist,
eare of Michigan Tradesman. 447
AOR 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; postoitice in
store; reason for selling, failing health. J.B. Shed-
den, Proprietor. 441

 

 

 

 

 

ete., In a
particulars, address Lock Box 10, Lakeview, Mich.
440
To 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
OR SALE—IN CENTRAL MICHi:GAN—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 a
42

 

 

HELP WANTED.
5 TANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST- GERMAN
/ preferred; must be temperate and willing to
work in general store. Bert M. Brown, Stevensville,
446

Mich.

nN TANTED—SITUATION AS BOOK-KEEPER BY MAN
of eight years’ experience, who is familiar with

general merchandise. Address A. E. Chambers,

Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 40

MISCELLANEOUS.
= SALE CHEAP—ONE BRICK STORE, TWO

stories and basement; will give time for most of
Address, Lock Drawer No. 4,
443

 

 

SITUATIONS WANTED.

 

95

 

 

the purchase money.
Charlevoix, Mich.
AO EXCHANGE—I HAVE A NEW, BRIGHT, WELL-
selected little stock of hardware to exchange for
afarm or city real estate. Address No. 401, care
Michigan Tradesman. 401
HAVE SOME FIRST-CLASS PROPERTY, WELL
improved and nicely located, in South Dakota;
also some other property to exchange fora stock of
goods. J.C. McKee, 23 Fountain St. 392
* 7 ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR
Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for
samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214

OR SALE—GOOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF

the most pleasant streets “on the hill.’’ Will ex-

change for stock in any good institution. Address 286,
care 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-
io

lona Mich. 427
V J 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

An appli-}

E. Teir is now Cashier of the Gladstone |

Advance payment. |

r= SALE—I WILL SELL CHEAP, OR TRADE FOR

drugs, including Diamond Dyes, shelf bottles, and all ;
M. Stewart, Sheri- |

dress me, as I must dispose of them to make room for |
other goods; will give some one a bargain, as]am |

OR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF LUMBER, SHINGLES, |
thriving village in Central Michigan. For | a a
| =

| Merchants,

Thousands of Them

It does away with the unsightly barrels so

 

MATTIE MATHICS.A TEACHER WAS
SO GENEROUS GORD AND KIND

TO MAKE THE SCHOLARS MIND.

RED SCHOOL HOUSE SHOES SHE GAVE TO EACH. cro Ee

 

 

C.M.HENDERSON & CO.

 

  

 

 

Product oi Our Factory at Dixon, Ml.

 

in view of the fact that we have G
and CLOSE COMPETITION existing in
NEARER HOME the coming fall season

Our LADIES’ FINE GOAT, DONG(
$2, and FINER GRADES of GOATS anc
$2

 

SOLIDITY
CAREFUL

and STYLE—with
CONSIDERATION.

satisf
Our

House Shoes’? AS USUAL takes the ‘‘F

for MANUFACTURING in OUR THREE FACTORIES

VEAL, and CALF BOOTS are UNEQUALED, and the ‘‘Celebrated

REATLY INCREASED our FACILITIES
and owing to the PECULIAR
MICHIGAN, C. M. Henderson & Co. have

concluded to MAKE A DECIDEDCUT ON VARIOUS LINES of our goods, which
will ENABLE ME to make it to YOUR ADVANTAGE to purchase your stock

ILA, GLOVE and OIL GRAINS to retail at
1 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

action guaranteed—wil!l be worthy your
heavier grades of SPLIT, GRAIN, KIP,

ted School
irst Place.’’

G. M. HENDERSON & GO., Chicago,

Headquarters for the Celebrated Wales Gcodyear Rubber Goods

 

Factories:

Fond du Lac, Wis.
Dixon, If11.

Chicago, fl.

Willard H. James,

Salesman for the Lower Peninsula.
P. O. address,

|Morton House, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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our Specialties to Customers.

 

   
 
 
 

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packed

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samples to

BROAD STREET,

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RETAIL CROCER

What it has done

CHASE &

NEXT.

    

      
 

 

AN TATION. 253

LAN TATION ies
ASE & SAN

A NATIONAL REPUTATION REPRESENTING
THE FINEST GROWN.

SrAT BRAND COFFE

ia its ricaness and delicacy of flavor. > e
Coffee oF America. Always packed whole roasted (unground) in D.

END

Warranted not to contain a single
other coffee will, at a.
whole roasted (unground), in 1 lb. air-tight parchment packages.

JAVA and MOCHA,
surpassing all others

Justly called The Aristocrat

A skilful blending of strong, fla-
vory and aromatic high grade
Rio bean, and guaranteed to
@ moderate price. Always

Tell us that their coffee trade has
doubled and trebled since buying and
for them it willdofor you, Send for

SANBORN,
- BOSTON, MASS.

 

investigation soli- |

Western Department:

}

80 Franklin St., Chicago.

HERBERT T. CHASE,
Representative for
Michigan and Northern Ohio,
GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

Are in use all over the land.

cabinet will be found one complete

ION
COF

often seen on the floor of the average grocer.
varnished and put together in the best possible manner.

FE

 

Beautifully grained and
Inside each
set of castors with screws.

 

It is fast supplanting the score
only in one pound packages. Put
120 one-pound packages. For sal

VV oolson

 

country are now using them. 437

Kvery Wide-Awake Merchant

Should Certainly Sell

ON, THE KING OF COFFERS.

An Article of Absolute Merit.

s of inferior roasted coffees. Packed
up in 100-Ib cases, also in cabinets of
e by the wholesale trade everywhere.

Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States.

Spice Co.

TOL. BDO), OF fO.

L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids.

 

 

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ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.

Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President—Frank Wells, Lansing.

First Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.

Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo.

fSecretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.

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

Committee on Insurance—Geo. B. Caldwell, Green-
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.

Committee on Transportation—James Osborn,OWosso;
O. F. Conklin, Grand Rapids; C. F. Bock, Battle
Creek. oe

Committee on Building and Loan Associations—Chaun-
cey Strong, Kalamazoo; Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids;
W. E. Crotty, Lansing.

Local Secretary—P. J. Connell, Muskegen.

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 tevel aM A
President, N. B. Biain: Secretary, Frank T. King.

 

 

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

“No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A.
President. E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
SE

No. 5— Muskegon B. M. A. |
President, John A. Miller: Secretary, C. L. Whitney.
ilies bier

 

 

No.6—Alba B#. M.A.
President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, Pp. T. Baldwin.
(oe
No. 7—Dimonduale B. M. A.

President. T. M. Sioan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
stport B. M. A.

ry, Geo. L. Thurston.
nm ,

 

 
 

No. 8—Ea
President, F. H. Thursten; Secret
am i es tees

 

No, 9—La wrence B. M. Ay
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly.
Se
No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.
7 Neti mingsies BMA.
President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop.
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.
No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. :
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A.

President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens.
iliac

ity B. M.A.
President, R. R. Perkins: Ss

  

 

 

 

 

No. 15—Boyne Ci

 

 

ty
ary, F. M. Chase.
No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A.
President, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, W- Rasco.
No. 17—Plainwell B. <—s
President, Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—Owosso B. M. A.
President, Albert Todd; Secretary, Ss. Lamfrom.
— a cs ne meena
No. 19

 

 
 

 

 

Ada B. M. A. i
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
No. 20—saugatuck B. M.A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.
No. 21— Wayland B. M. A.
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.

No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M. A.
President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, Ww. R. Clarke.
No. 23—Carson City B. M. A.

President. John W. Hallett: Secretary. i, A. Eyon.
No. 24—Morley 5B. uw A. :
President, J. E. Thurkow: Secretary, W.H. Richmond.
No. 25 Palco MA. |
President, H. D. Pew: Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson.
No. 26—Greenville té. M. A.
President. A. C. Satterlee: Secretary. E. J. Clark.
No 27—Dorr &. M. ae
President, E. §. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.
No. 238

 

 

 

—Cheboygan B. M.A
President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
No. 29—Freeport B. M. A.
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. :
President, A. G. Avery; Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.
No. 31—Charlotte B. M. ~.
P~esident, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
No. 33—Charlevoix B. M. eS
President, L. D. Bartholomew: Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac B.M. A.
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams.
No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A.
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore.
~ Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M. A.
President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden.
No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. a.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary. E. W. Moore.
No. 38—Scottville B. M.A.
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39 -Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
ee -
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Wiil Emmert.
No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A.
resident, C. H. Howd: Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No. 42—Fremont B. M. A.
President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary C.J. Rathbun.
No. 43—TustinB.M.A. _
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.

 

 

 

No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W.H. Smith.

No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay.
Bea ee ee eel eee . i i

No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, BS. x. Gould.

 

No. 47—Flint M. U.

President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W.H. Graham.
eaten a ee

No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.

No. 49—Leroy B. M. A. |
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. |

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

No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.

 

No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos.
No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald.
No. 54— Douglas B. M. A.
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
No. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B. M. A.
President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
No. 57—Rockford B. M. A.
President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham.
No. 58—Fife Lake BR. M. A.
President, L. S. Walter; Secretar; ,€.2 Blakely.
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, 8. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Hartford B. M. A.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
No. 62—East Saginaw M. A.
President, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mulholand.
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No, 64—Merrill B. M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. S. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Watervliet B. M. A.
President, W. L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield.
No. 68—Allegan B. M.A.
President, H.H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.
Noe. Ji—Ashiley B M. A.
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.

No, 73__ Belding aA
President, A. L. Sy

veneer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
ho. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. L. Gifford.
No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Oscar P. Bills: Secretary, F. Rosacraus.

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
President, 8. S. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.
No. 77—South Haven B. M. A.
President, E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross. __
No, 78—Caledonia B. M. A.

President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
No. 79—KEa-t Jorcanand so Arm B. M.A.
President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison. _
No. 80—Bay City and W. Bay City R. M, A.
President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Geo. Craig.
No. 81—Flushing B. M. A.
President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
No. 82—Alma B M. A.
President, B. 8S. Webb; Secretary, M. E. Pollasky.
No. 83—Sherwood BK, M. A.
President, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo.
No. 84—Standish B. M. A.
President. P. M. Angus; Secretary, D. W. Richardson.
No. 85—Clio B. M. A.
President. J. M. Beeman; Secretary, C. H. May.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 86—Millbrook and Blanchard B. M. A.
President. E

T. W. Preston: Secretary, H. P. Blanchard

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids Mercantile Association.

At the regular semi-monthly meeting of the
Grand Rapids Mercantile Association, held at
THE TRADESMAN office on June 4, the Entertain-
ment Committee reported in favor of postponing
the annual picnic until Thursday, July 18, which
was adopted.

On motion of M. C. Goossen, all grocers were
requested to close their doors on the afternoon
of the picnic.

President Herrick suggested that each mer-
chant take along enough food to supply his
clerks.

The Committee on Roll of Honor reported that
Messrs. Goossen and Harris had called on twenty
jobbers, all of whom had signed the agreement,
as follows:

We, the undersigned, wholesale dealers of
Grand Rapids, hereby pledge ourselves to the
Grand Rapids Mercantile Association not to sel]
any goods in our respective lines to families,
restaurants, boarding houses and hotels,

I, M. CLark & SON,
. BALL, BARNHART & PUTMAN,
Hawkins, PERRY & Co.,
Amos S. MussELMAN & CO.,
LEMON, Hoops & PETERS,
OLNEY, SHIELDS & Co.,
GraNnpD Rapips FRUIT AND PRODUCE Co.,
EpwIn Faas,
C. A. Lams & Co.,
PutTNamM & Brooks,
F. J. Lams & Co.,
Cc. B. Comneit,
MOoSELEY BRos.,
BunTING & Davis,
THEO. B. GOossEN,
HazELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CoO.,
JENNINGS & SMITH,
TELFER SPICE Co.,
ALFRED J. BROWN,
Wm. Sears & Co.

The report was accepted and the Committee
instructed to continue the work until completed.

An interesting discussion followed on the
feasibility of curtailing the credit business, some
taking the ground that it is not advisable to
crowd the cash system too closely, while others
were of the opinion that the more the credit
business was curtailed, the better it was for all
concerned.

The meeting then adjourned.

> ee —_

Muskegon Aspires to Own a Cannon.
From the Muskegon News, June 6.

Last night was the regular meeting night of
the Muskegon Business Men’s Association. It
appeared, however, that merchants and business
men were so busy that they did not turn_out in
any great numbers. Those present, eschewing
any formal or routine business, fell to discussing
various matters of current interest which the
Association has been fostering. One matter
brought forward was the question of purchasing
a brass cannon for the city, to be used in cele
brations, etc. A cannon for this purpose is
necessary, and an article that Muskegon ought
to possess. It always comes handy in times of
celebration, in firing salutes, ete., and many
events now pass by improperly noticed because
of the fact that the City of Muskegon is destitute
of that desirable article, a brass field piece. It
was suggested that it would be proper to draw
upa petition asking the council to aid in the
purchase of the needed artillery. Again, it was
argued that if the city should possess a field
piece it would not be necessary in times of jubi-
lee to borrow loud speaking ‘‘orators’” from
other places.

John A. Miller expressed himself as much in
favor of the idea of purchasing a cannon to be
owned by the city. He thought that it would be
a good investment, and that it was also an arti-
cle much needed.

There was also broached the matter of povid-
ing for the entertainment of the coming meeting
of the Michigan Business Men’s Association at
Muskegon, and the idea was suggested that this
visit of business men to Muskegon means more
than the generality of people give credit for. It
was also suggested that it was nearly time for
the Muskegon Business Men’s Association to
think aboutraising the needed funds with which
to entertain the visitors. If the Press Associa-
tion will help Muskegon and advertise her
abroad in one way, the Business Men’s Associa-
tion will do the same in another way. Five hun-
dred dollars is about the sum needed for the
entertainment, and C. L. Whitney offered to be
the first of 100 men to donate $5 toward that sum.
If this plan should be adopted—that of gentle-
men forming a pool to raise that sum—it would:
not be long before the necessary money was
raised, and that, too, without all the usual fuss
and trouble in raising money on a begging sub-
scription paper. The members present thought
the idea a good one.

The meeting adjourned for one week, when all
membe rs are earnestly requeted to be present,
for there are matters of great importance to come
before the Association, and matters that ought
to be attended to. The following named gentle-
men have applied for membership in the Associ-
ation: L. G. Mason, Jacob Olson, E. C. Misner,
Henry A. Barney.

—————@Q»> 2S ____
Association Notes.

The Philadelphia Retail Grocers’ Association
unanimously voted $500 to the flood sufferers.

The Business Men’s Association of West
Branch is urging the T., A. A. & N. M. Railway
to take in that town when the line is determined
upon to Mackinac.

Carson City Gazette: The Carson City Busi-
ness Men’s Association, Wednesday evening,
elected John W. Hallett President and L. A.
Lyon Secretary. The members intend to resume
their former organization and see if they cannot
do something for the welfare of the village.

——————_—> 4
The Carson City Association Reviving.
CARSON City, June 8, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear SiR—I am requested by some of the old
members of our Business Men’s Association to
write you, asking if we have severed our con-
nection with the State Association and, if not
detached, how much we are indebted to the
State body for dues. For along time, our Asso-
ciation has not met, but now we intend to do
business in a better manner and want to find out
how much we are indebted and we will pay up.
Please also send constitution and by-laws of the
State body. Cuas. G. BariLEy, Sec’y.

——_—»> >

Glad to Hear It.
From the Carson City Gazette.

The business men have resumed their organ-
ization. It is a good thing.

————@»s> 2a _—_
A Matter of Business.

Twenty years ago, a young man who
paid attention to a bright young
girl for a long time without making any-
thing that was even second cousin to a
proposal, was startled one evening by
the question, ‘‘Robert, do you want to
marry me?’ He tried to evade the
point by asking why she put such a
question to him. ‘Because, if you do
not want to marry me, you must stop
coming No mocking-bird
around the redbreast’s nest, you know.’’
Robert took the hint, and, with a cool
good-night, walked away. What should
he care for a girl so rude as that?
hers elsewhere. He would
join the club next day. He tried to
sleep, but couldn’t. He didn’t quite like
the turn things had taken. If he wasa
mocking-bird, who was the redbreast
that he was keeping away from sucha
fitting partner? ‘‘At any rate, one thing
eertain, Edna smart as she
pretty,’’ he said to himself, ‘‘and she
means business.”’

The next morning Robert went to the
counting-room, when presently Jove
Mason came in and said: ‘‘I’ll tell you
what it is, Bob, you were lucky in keep-
ing out of the club. I have just paid
another assessment of $50, and, what is

had

to see me.

Good
company as

is is is

 

worse, I meet such expensive friends
there that it costs more than I can earn
to keep it up.”’

“J was just thinking of joining the
elub,’’ said Robert.

“It will be acool five hundred a year

THe TRADESMAN has watched with
sympathetic interest the progress made

| in the establishment of the manufacture

of sugar from sorghum cane in Kansas.

| Nothing could be more important for the

interests of our Western farmers than

out of pocket, with precious little satis- the establishment of an industry which

faction and no home feeling at that.”’

Robert hummed atune when left
himself. It was a long day. Business
had dragged. Everybody was preoccu-
pied, hurried, cross. Things went wrong.
He was glad to go home, only it wasn’t
home.

grate and the figures on the wall instead
of the page. He threw himself on the
lounge, but it was dreadfully dull. He
stood it for a while, and then put on his
hat and walked down to the Widow
Cragie’s. He stepped up to the door as
usual, but Edna was engaged. He asked
to have her called. It seemed a month
before she came down. At last she ap-
peared. He arose from his seat and met
her in the middle of the room, and said:

‘Edna, I have come here to-night on
business. I am tired of being
mocking-bird, and want to be your red-
breast; will you be my wife ?”’

“When you say—’’ replied Edna, her
face suffused with blushes.

“Soon asl can make a nest, dearest,”’
returned Robert.

“T believe both of the redbreasts join
in building the nest,’’ said Edna, ‘‘and I
want to do my part.

This was twenty years ago. To-day
one of the handsome mansions in one of
our Western Michigan cities is the nest
of a wedded pair whose life has been
sweet as a bird’s song, and whose hearts,

your

like their affections, are as young as
ever. There is a great deal more in put-

ting a little straightforward business at
the beginning of life than is generally

supposed. xx *
—__—_—__—~<_» -4=<___-

A Mammoth Belt.
Passers-by are attracted by a photo-
graph in the window of Samuel Lyon,
the Waterloo street machinery and sup-
ply dealer, showing a belt that has just
been completed by Alexander Bros., the

celebrated Philadelphia belt manutac-
turers, for the Nixon Paper Co., of

Manayunk, Penn. The belt is three-ply,
fifty-one inches wide, being 178 feet long
and weighing 2.414 pounds—being, with
one exception, the largest three-ply belt
in America. Manufacturers who have
used the Alexander belt will not wonder
that the Nixons placed their order in
Philadelphia, as the superior reputation
of goods of the Alexander manufacture
enable them to take a commanding posi-
tion in the mill supply field.

 

—__—>—_—<———
He Was ‘‘All Right.”’

A traveling missionary had _ been
through a very rough country, and his
meek spirit had been sorely tried. He
had found the spirit of irreverence and
disbelief all over the land, and the ground
was very stony. But he left in despair
when he struck an old man at a railway
station in Texas. They were both wait-
ing for the train. They discussed vari-
ous things. and finally the missionary
asked: ‘‘Are you prepared to die? I
guess you’ve always got to be prepared
in this country.’’ ‘‘Yes; I’m prepared
to die or get the drop on the other fel-
low.’? ‘‘I don’t mean that. Are you pre-
pared for a hereafter?’ ‘‘A hereafter!
Look here, stranger, I was brought up in
Arkansaw, ’un I went from there to Mis-
souri, an’ from there I came to Texas,
an’ I’ve lived here ten years. I guess I
ean stand any hereafter as may be.”’

————qocr-2 a __
A Floating Island.

One of the most picturesque and re-
markable bodies of water in the world is
Henry’s Lake, in Idaho. It is situated
on the dome of the continent in a de-
pression in the Rocky Mountains called
Targee’s Pass. It has an area of forty
square miles, and all around it rise snow-
capped peaks, some of them being the
highest of the continent’s backbone. In
the lake is a fioating island about 300
feet in diameter. It has for its basis a
mat of roots so dense that it supports
large trees and a heavy growth of under-
brush. These roots are covered with
several feet of rich soil. The surface is
solid enough to support the weight of a
horse anywhere, and there are places
where a house could be built. The wind
blows the island about the lake, and it
seldom remains-twenty-four hours in the
same place.

——————_—_—>_-4
Would Depopulate the Rural Districts.
From the Detroit Journal.

A chap has been arrested at Adrian for
obtaining two dozen eggs by false pre-
tenses. If every man who has sold eggs
on the false pretense that they were fresh
was arrested, the jails would be so full
that their feet would stick out of the
windows — fit roosting places for the
much-maligned hens.

— —~— -@ —----

The business of making linen is one of
the oldest in America, as it held a place
only second tomaking woolens in the old
system of household manufactures
tablished in cclonial times and kept up
until the War of 1812 brought in the fac-
tory. But while woolens and cottons
have made great advances under the fac-
tory system, that of linen never has been
prosperous, and while we still grow a
great deal of flax, much of it is for the
sake of getting the seed to make linseed
oil. It is suggested that the new im-
provements in the methods of treating
the flax after it has been pulled, by which
the tedious and offensive process of get-
ting the stalks apart from the fiber is
displaced by a quick and easy procedure,
offers an opportunity to naturalize this
great industry over again in this country.

es-

He took up a book, but found |
himself trying to read the coals in the |

{

to | crop.

 

 

would give them another and profitable
Kansas sees this, and has been
paying a premium of two cents a pound
for sugar made from sorghum by the
new methods. Last year 712,836 pounds
of sugar were thus made, and 354,000
gallons of molasses, and the State paid
$11,348.72 in bounties. Two dollars a
ton was paid for cane, and thirty-three
cents a ton was realized in profits—re-
sults which did not come up to expecta-
tions and do not show that the industry
yet has been established on a really prof-
itable basis. But itis believed that by
the reduction of expenses incidental to a
beginning and by the improvement of
machinery and of methods, the business
may be made highly profitable to both
farmers and sugar-makers.
———“—~» -- > ____-

Instead of paying the individual to
enter creameries or go on farms to learn
the business, as is the case in this
country, the practice in England and
Seotland is to charge a fee for such in-
struction. A new dairy factory advertises
to accept pupils fora fee of $2.50 per
week, the pupil to give his whole time
and pay his own board.

 

 

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

Basswood, lop-run -......... ..13 00@15 00

Biren losrum |... .. Cas 00@16 00
Bireh, Nos. 1 and 2 @22 00

 

lack Ach lop yun 042) 14 00@16 00
Cherry, log-run.... . ..25 00@40 00

Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2......-..._..._._ 60 Gh@jG5 00
Gaery Cae @12 00
Maple lor tan... 12 00@13 00
Maple, soft, logrun.....-.---.-_-.__- 11 00@13 00
Mople: Nos land? @# 00
Manie, clear, Seorme.....--._._-.._-- @25 00

white, selected... @2% 00
eae ..20 00@21 00
NOs. land ?............._. 26 Gigs ©
14 sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00

Maple,
Red Oak,
Red Oak,
Red Oak,

 

Red Oak. 44 sawed: reguiar.........__- 30 OOGS2 00
Red Oak, No.1, step plank. ......._-..

Walt og fan se

Walnut Nos tand? =...

Wabkoute, cull... @2
Grey Him logan... 12 00@13 05
White Aso. logan. 14 00@16 00
Whieweed, locrun............... 20 00@22 00
White Oak loptum......._--. __..---- 17 00@18 00
White Oak, 144 sawed, Nos. 1 and 2....42 00@43 00

    

VISITING BUYERS.

Geo B Horton, Fruit Ridge J N Wait, Hudsonville

A SFrey.Slocum’sGrove Jas P Odell, Frex ont

Geo P Stark, Cascade Geo F Fairman, Big Rapids

Smallegan & Pickaard, Dr Peter Beyer, Sullivan

Forest Grove J B Watson, Coopersville

J Raymond, Berlin Maston & Hammond,

M M Robson, Berlin Grandville

J W Lovely, Howard City John Giles & Co Lowell

AJProvin, Cedar Springs Dr G B Nichols, Martin

JS Toland, Ross Station L A Gardiner,CedarSprings

CC Tuxbury, Sullivan D D Harris, Shelbyville

H Colby & Co , Rockford A Purchase, So Blendon

John Farrowe, So Blendon Crawford & Hart, Cadillac

AMChureh. Englishville GH Remington, Bangor

T H Condra. Lisbon Lamoreaux & Beerman

Mrs M A Side, Kent City Fruitport

John Damstra, Gitchell H Ade, Conklin

H Meijering, Jamestown M Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe

H Van Noord, Jamestown’ ES Botsford, Dorr

Alfred Giddins, Sand Lake H Thompson, Canada Cors

John DeVries, Jamestown L Maier, Fisher

T VanEenenaam,ZeeJand John Kamps, Zutphen

S$ H Ballard, Sparta W Barker, Sand Lake

DenHerder & Tanis Struik & Bro, Forest Grove
Vriesland J R Wylie & Bro, Richland

E Heinzelman, Logan M Minderhout, Hanley

G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove J Van Farowe. Beaver Dam

Brookings Lumber Co, S Cooper, Jamestown
Brookings John Gunstra, Lamont

A C Barkley, Crosby Wm Karsten, Beaver Dam

F E Shattuck & Co,Sand Lk Thos Sowerby. Rockford

LN Fisher, Dorr M W Tucker, Sumner

AJ White, Bass River J P Ek-trom, Advance

JC Benbow, Cannonsburg L E Paige, Sparta

 

 

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 | °° §..! 11 pu
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, CHICAGO, ILL.
@etrolt and Cleveland Steam Nav. CO

HARDWARE.

The Hardware Market.

The new wire nail card has into
effect and jobbers will supply the new
ecards on application. The abandonment
of the steel nail combination has resulted
The flood in Pennsyl-
stiffened bar ma-
although no advance has oc-
The trade will note the change
in copper quotations in this week’s issue.

 

 

 

 

 

gone

in lower prices.
vania has iron
terially,
curred.

very

 

 

 

K. 6. 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 Packing
Company’s Rubber Belting, Hose and Rub-
ber Goods for mechanical purposes.

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.

SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST.

N 4 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids, - -

 

 

THE BEST

Is that

Accident st
| Furnished
Insurance| tw ihe

United States Matta
Accident Association

CHARLES B. PEET,
President.

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

320-324 Broadway, New York.

 

Prices Current.

 

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

  

AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
Ives’, old style ee 60
Sells. 60
ce lll... 40
Jenumeies| Senuine =... 04... 25
Jennings. imitation ........-..-_._---__. . .50&10
AXES.
Hirst Quality, S. B. Bronze.......- 1... | Oe
. . 8B Bronze... 11 00
S BS siecle. 8 50
DB Steel... Ee
BALANCES. dis.
Spring eee eee.
BARROWS. dis.
Raiwvoad =... .... $ 14 00
Garden 3 net 30 00
BELLS. dis.
Bond oo 60&10&10
OT ee ee 70
Can. 30&15
Cone ee 25
Docr Semsens 60&10
BOLTS. dis.
Stove 0. a
Ouermape new HSt 2. 45
Row 40410
Sesh Gage 70
Wrought Barrel Belts. ..... -- 60
(Cast Barrel Belts... ---.--... - 40
Cast Barre: brass Emobs ...........___... 40
Cast Square Spring...-.... ee 60
Gast Chain 40
Wiroeueht Barrel, brass RnOb...... -...__-.. 60
Mirougat square... 60
Wrousht sunk Plush...) 60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10
Ives Door. .... .-.. ... -60&10
BRACES. dis.
Bareer: ...... 40
Bochs (5... 50&10
Spetera,. 2 ee eee 50
tn Ba net
BUCKETS.
WE eee. € 3 50
Well swive. (0. le 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Gast Loose Pin, feured....-- 5. T0&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed............- T0&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 6010
Wrought Loose Fin..........-...--..-_.-.... 6010
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.....-.....-.-- 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned ...........-.- 60&05

Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05
Wrought Table.. 6010

   

 

 

 

Wrought Inside Bl 60410
Weroueht Brass 0 ee 75
Blind Glack’s =| eae
Blind Parkers... ee
Blind: Shepard's ...........-..-.-__-........ 70
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, “85......-.-... 40
CARPET SWEEPERS.
Bissell NO. 5... .-. - -- per doz.$17 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop pan .....--- . 19 60
issctl Grane ...................,.. 36 00
Grand Rapids... --...-- 24 00
Reece 15 00
CRAUOLES,
Grin dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.

Cast Slee. ..-....permD 4%
Tron, Steel Points:..---....---- Sh 3%
GAPS,

Biyisi10 0... perm 65
Heke: Cr... . 60
eee eee 35
Mose 60
CARTRIDGES,

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50
fim Hire, United Sinses.... 1.8... dis. 50
Cenumal are. dis. 25

CHISELS. dis.
Seeker Rimmer... 2). 70&10
Socket Pramime ....-..--. 70&10
Secket Corer... |... dueeLe
Gaebet Siteks 0 ee
Butchers Taneed Wirmer.......-.....-....- 40
Barton's Soctet Wirmers............--...-... 20
ee net
COMBS. dis.
Curry, Lawrences .-....---_--_-..._.._.. |. 40&10
Hotness os 2
CHALK.
White Crayons, per gross._...-..-.12
cocks.
Meese Pockieec...................._.... 60
Binge 60
Bee 40&10
Peas be
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 28
" tie 14x55, 12060 Se 26
Cold Bolied@, 14756 and 14x60... ....-.....- 24
Cold Relicd 4546. 24
Beams 25
DRILLS. dis.
Morse’s Git Sieeks..---. .--- se 40
Paper and straight Shank................... 40
Morse’s Taper Shank. ....05...-....... 2.5... 40
DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound .-..-............-..-. 7
Large sizes, per pound......-...-...-. -..-- 6%
ELBOWS.

Com. 4 jiece Gin... 32. doz. net 75
eee dis. 20&10&10
MGieeRIG ec dis. 4%&10

 

 

YR MOUNTAIN FREEARR

 

Send for our 16 Page Descriptive Catalogue and
Price List.

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

33, 35, 37,39 & 41 LOUIS ST.

10 & 12 MONROE ST.

 

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Claris, smell, $18: tarce $6................ 30
Ives, 1, 18: = S24; 3,0... ke. 25

FILEs— New List. dis.
American File Association List............. 60&10
Distere. 60&10
how Acree... ............._.__......_. 6010
Michelsen ss. (£10
Hellers...... sss is 50
Helier s Horse Hasps 50

GALVANIZED IRON.

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27
1 a

 

  

List 12 13 1 5 18
Discount, 60
: GAUGES, dis.
Stanley Rule and LevelCo.’s..... _.......- 50
HAMMERS.
Mayaole Ge7s..... | das: 25
Bigs: dis, 25
Werkes @ Plmmbs... dis. 40&10
Mason's Solid Cast Stee]. ............__.- 30¢ list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30c 40&10
HINGES,
Gate, (lark e125... dis.604&10
Se per doz. net, 2 50
Serew Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and
L1G 344
Serew Hook and Hye, %.........__.__..- net 10
ia sa iy aaa net 8%
a a net 7%
ue _ : CE et gag
Serapand 7. dis. 70
HANGERS. dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10
Champion, anti friction..__-_..._--......... 60&10
Hadder. wood track .-. 40
HOLLOW WARE
Pete 60805
Mewes: 60&05
Sie ee eee ee 60405
Gray enameled == 50
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware....._._........ new Hist 70G10
Japanoed Fin Ware... |... 25
Granite Iron Ware _..............neéw listd3%¢&10
HOES,
Grup i... #11, dis. 60
2... sss... $11.50, dis. 60
Grups.....5.....-.... #12, dis. 60
HORSE NAILS.
An Saple 8... dis. 25&10@25&10410
Powiam __..__..._._........... dis, s@ltheeteas
INGFE Western... -..- dis. 10&10&5
KNOBS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ............-. 5D
Deer, porcelain, jap. trimmings. ........-.- 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55
Door, porceluin, trimurnngs ...-.-.......... 55
Drawer and Shutter, porceiain......-_..... 70
Picture, Hb. dudd & Cos... ...... 40&10
Hemseite 45
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55
Matlong, Wheeler & €a7s...... So
Brawigra ss... ..... aa
Norwalk s.............- - 55
LEVELS. dis.
Stanley Rule and Leyei Covs.......- 70
MATTOCKS.
AaveBye £16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Bye... $15.00, dis. 60
Hunes....................____ | 6 oe aie: Aha:
MAULS. dis.
Snermy & Co7s, Fost, handled. ....-...-.._. 50
MILLS. dis.
Coefiee. Parkers €o76 1. 40
«< P.S. & W. Mfe. Co.’s Malleables.... 40
Randers, Perry & Clark’s............ 40
MMSCYBEISG 25
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
Gtepbine Patter 9.1.0.0... 1. eee
Siepbin s Genuine... .-_--.... 60410
Hmniterprise, self measuring... ... 25
NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.
FENCE AND BRADS,
50d to 60d ee 20
ee iv
8d and $d 2a
cdandia.... 40
4d and 5d 60
eee 10
ee 2 8
FINE BLUED.
4d. oe 1 00
a2. 150
eee 2 00
CASTING AND BOX.
Patiosd .... 50
ao. Le 60
Ratios... ye
saiow |... 90
4440 50..........-...... 1 30
a... 1 50
COMMON BARREL.
Seo
a 2 25
CLINCH.
1 inee 1 35
. ee 1p
Oe 1 00
ee ee ee ee ae 85
ime 7
Each half keg 10 cents extra.
OILERS, dis.
Zine or tin, Chase's Patent ............ _. 60410
Wine. with brass bottom. ...--.......-.-....- 50
Brass orCopper... ....... 50
Heaper (007111111. per eross, Sia net
Ginter
PLANES, dis.
Obie Yoo! Cos, fancy .- 40@10
Semia BENen @60
Sandusky Poot Cos, fancy... : |. 40@10
Benen frat quality... :.. @60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... ....20&10
PANS.
ey, AGW eae 60
Common, polished....-........._....._. dis. 70
RIVETS. dis.
fron and ‘Cimed. 5
Copper Rivets and Burs.............-...-.-. 50

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 2
‘“B’ Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20

Broken packs 4c per pound extra,
ROPES.
Sisal. 46 inch and larger ................._.. 13%
EE eee 16%
SQUARES. dis.
Miceli and Irem....) 2 70&10
(ry and Heyes. 6. 60
Me 20
SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth. Com.
Nes. 10to t4........ 2... 1... Ee
Noe t5t0 17 2.0 4 20 3 00
Mes 191021....0.-...0... 4 2 3 10
Now 22 to 22... .2 5 4 20 3 15
Nos ieee... . 440 3 35

Oe a ous oe 3 35
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra

 

 

SAND PAPER.

Dist neet. 19, 66. dis. 40
SASH CORD.

malver Lake, White A... list 50

‘ oars... ” 55

Wine EL .. . 50

ae... . 55

WemecC . 35

Discount, 10.
_ SASH WEIGHTS,
Seine Mveq per ton 825
_.. . SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS.
Miles’ ‘‘Challenge”’....per doz. #20, dis. 5}0@50&05

Perry ....._..._. per doz, Ne. 1, $15; No. 0,
ee. eect ee eee ee, Ce Deel

Draw Cot No 4... each, $30, dis 30

Euterprise Mig Co... dis. 20&10@30

SEVEE Ss dis. 10&10

! saws. dis.

Phisstous Circular... |... 1... |... 45@45&5

e Cress Cut... 45@45&5
Hane ven en cess QO@25&5
*Extras sometimes given by jobbers.

Atking’ Cireniar (0 a dis. 9
"| Silver Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foot, _-.- 70
“Special Steel Dex X Cuts, perfoot.... 50
‘« Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30
‘* Champion and Electric Tooth X

Cuts, per foot. 23
/ TACKS, dis.

American, all kinds ...0.-...00... 16... 60

pecer a tees CC 660

cyweaes atl Kinds. 8... «

GHuapana baee 60

Cisar Box Wats... .. 50

Binignineg Was 3... 8... 50

Common and Patent Brads ................ 58

Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks........ 50

Tromk and Clout Nails...................... 50

Tinned Trunk and Clout Natis.............- 45

Heachered Carpet Vaeks.... -..-............ 35

: TRAPS. dis.

Steel Gale ee

Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 35

Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s ... 70

Hotebirss TD 70

ro ew. Mts Cos 2: 70

Meuse choker _..___........._.. 18¢ per doz.

Mouse, delusion... ._.............. $1.50 per doz.

WIRE, dis.

Beirne Maree 6744

Aupeaiod Market... 8 70&10

 

Coppered Marke, 23
Etre Baling =... ...... “%
Minne Meret 621%
‘awed Heo per pound 09
inmed Mattress... per pound 8%
Coppercd Spring Steel. 0. 50
aisned Sprig stect. = 40&10
Pisin Wence. |... per pound Oo
Barbed Henee, galvanized..................- €3 75
: parted = et 3 00
GCepper........ 7. aew list net
GSR. .:- ©
i WIRE GOODS. dis.
Bright. ee .-7&10&10
Serew BPMes. 8. -70&10&10
Hoes... . -70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes............... . .70&10&10
WRENCHES. dis.
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.....  ....- 30
Coe’s Genuine... 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75
Coes Patent, malleable. ...............__.. 75&1
MISCELLANEOUS, dis.
Bird Cages... eee oe 50
Pumps Castern. ss i.
BE ae . oo
Casters, Bed and Pliate.................. 50&10410
Danmipers, Ameri€an |... .. sk 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all] steel goods...... 65

 

METALS,

PIG TEN.

 

Pig Large

hos Bar
sigs Bars

 

 

COPPER.

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

 

 
 

 

INGOT.

Take... ee ee
 ABGHOE Brand 201. ..0 0. 18
ZINC.

Duty 214¢ per pound.

60 pound Gashs) 0s oe ae
Per pound Gis
LEAD.

Duty: Pig, $2 per 100 pounds. Old Lead, 2¢ per

pound. Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.
American oe @5
Newae @
Bac. ee 6
Sheet... -_............................ Se aia oe
SOLDER.
Seas 16
ira Wipe -.....-- ... 134

‘ : Yq

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

ANTIMONY.
Coens per pound 144%
Piglet 11%

TIN—MELYN GRADE.

iia 1 Clareoal oe ---8 6 00
14x20 IC, ee i. Ca
ee oe ae +. Gao
EE 1.30 06
10x28 IC, i
ee F 7 7
ae ce
a2 ik |. 8 00
Te 12 50
20x28 IX, a0

Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
10x94 IC, Chaveoal...._--..... : -.85 3
14x20 IC, le a eee ce 5 40
OO Ee 5 65
ee ee. 9 25
ee 11 80
mas 6 90
14x20 IX, ee 6 90
12x12 IX, eee 4 16
14x14 IX, re oe
20x28 IX, ek ues 14 80
Each additional X on this grade $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
1eeg iC, Terue MF... $7 60
20x28 IC, _ ET 15 75
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The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State.

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

 

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance.
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Publication Office, 100 Louis St.

 

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office.

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12,

1389.

 

 

The Social and Sentimental Side of Fire
Insurance.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
The value of this article, if it possesses

any. is toanswer the question of what |

has become of the proposed Michigan
Business Men’s Fire Insurance Company,
and of to the
tion of the business men some facts and
radical differences that seem to exist.

The Committee have called
to aid them in the organization of a com-
pany, but weak support.
Whether it was because of the crudeness
of the proposed plan, or a lack of indi-
vidual interest as well as the organized
support, has been a question with the
Committee. However, from many asso-
ciations flattering reports were received
to the end that they would insure with
us, but that
could not be had.

The Committee do not believe that the
Michigan Business Men’s Association are
to drop this question where it is because
of their failure to raise the $100,000
capital for the insurance company, on
the first invitation.

Without doubt the question will oc-
cupy much of the time of the coming
annual convention, and but little will be

presenting considera-

upon you

received a

subscriptions for stock

accomplished until that time. It is,
then, expected that every association
will send delegates instructed to take

active part in the settlement of the ques-
tion, whether have the
company or and after what plan,
whether that recommended
Committee or a
at that time.
Underwriting
almost exact
experience of
struction to any who care
to-day. Long experience in the fire in-
surance business furnish
by which the data of

be

we Insurance

not,
by the

}

new plan to be ]

outlined
has been reduced to an
the facts and

of

science, and

others are lessons in-

to use them
with facts
contingences can
that leaves
probability. In this
respect, fire insurance and life insurance
are very similar. Tables of mortality
which have become standard with life
insurance companies correspond to tables

us

ealeulated to exactness

little to chanee or

of loss reports of fire insurance compan-
ies. They differ only in that life
insurance companies lead modern
ideas and methods, for while life insur-
ance companies are writing all classes
of policies on every plan imaginable, the
fire insurance companies are conducted,
as a whole, very much the same as fifty
years ago.

To better understand this question,
let us look at the relative position of the
insurance company and the policy holder:
There are many companies in the fire in-
surance field fifty years old, and a live
agent will tell you of their qualities,
stability, expansion and growth, and he
will point with pride to their years of
existence, and that their business has
increased in even a greater ratio than
the wealth and population of the country.
**As westward the star of empire took its
course,’’ so has of insur-
ance, and it has gathered to itself a part
of the wealth that western enterprise
has created. He will tell you that they
have passed the financial crises of the
last half century, and amid the wrecks
of “wild cat banks’’ and ‘wild cat in-
surance companies’? his company
stood firm, performing its obligations
and increasing its surplus and that it
had met the demands of the victims of
the great conflagrations promptly, and
that it stands now the proud possessor
of afour million dollar capital and a
four million dollar surplus, ready and
willing to continue to serve you.

The other phase of this question is
that presented by the millions of prop-
erty owners, with but a few dollars cap-
ital, who desire the insurance. To them
there is a sentiment that riches have
never had avery hard time, and thata
corporation is entitled to nothing more,
to say the least, than it can force its way
to. This policy holder, who has always
earried insurance with you, never hada
loss, and never received one penny in re-
turn, struggles with the thought of a
company with asurplus as large as its
capital. He reasons that his business
during all these years has shown no such
profits, and concludes that it is time to
practice self-protection. His policy ex-
pires, and, jealous of your prosperity,
he concludes that his insurance rates
were too high; that competition, together
with a strong objection on his part, will
reduce the cost of his new policy, and
what is his further surprise when he
finds that competition plays no part in

the

in

the business

has

 

the insurance business; that rates are

alike for all companies and the same as
himself |
beaten at every point, he becomes thor-

five years before. Finding
oughly aroused and awaits the first op-

portunity to ‘catch even.’’

other policy holders, aims to regulate the
business of insurance, disputed elaims
are carried to the courts and this man
and others make the jury.

To the insurance companies I would
ask, are you surprised that you are taxed
beyond a necessity by our laws and so
frequently deprived of simple justice at
the hands of twelve men holding your
policies ?

We have
question—representing, as it
distinct factions, whose
be identical, but by the nature of their
existence are so separate to be en-
Both have but one aim—to get
out of business what money each can—
and the picture is one of a powerful cor-
porate hand
against a powerful public on the other,
earrying ona war of diamond cut dia-
What is the question, then, for
It is this: To change

the laws of
an insurance

sides of this
does, two
should

here the two

interest

as
emies.

combination on the one

mond.
us to consider?
this attitude and establish
economy and good-will in
policy.

Let us suppose a case and see if reason
recommends it: Priority is a law which
in this case would throw the responsibil-
ity of making the first concession onto
the insurance companies. Supposing,
then, the insurance companies. should
change their attitude and come into ex-
istence for two reasons, to make all the
money they can and to do the community
all the good they can. But, youwill say,
there is no friendship in trade—you can-
not mix business with philanthropy. We
will admit that the belief of a majority
sustained by our political economy points
in this direction,
and thinking men hold that such views
are not final: that our profound polit-
ieal economy is going to be more pro-
found, and that we will continue to buy
where we can buy the cheapest and sell
at the dearest possible price, yet friend-
ship must mix with trade and do in part
the higher work of humanity.

From convention of insurance
men, made over the small
profits of fire insurance business. We
hear about the moral hazard and its dis-
astrous results: that incendiarism of all
other causes of fire stands first: they de-
mand a remedy instructing their agents
never to insure for more than two-thirds
three-fourths of the value of prop-
erty, and even then, to restrain any dis-
honest agents and make themselves safe,
they demand a three-fourths four-
fifths co-insurance clause in the policy.
By this they recognize that this great
destroyer can only be reduced by making
their interests and your own identical,
but they fail to recognize that this can
only be done by giving the assured a
property right in that which they aim to
deprive you of.

The thing, then, to be reformed is both
material and moral, and I answer that it
san be done by the proper consideration
of three things:

 

however progressive

every

much ado is

or

or

First. By individual effort; that is, the
unassisted impulse of property owners
already noticeable in the building of
fire-proof and slow burning buildings.

Second. By organization, and by legis-
lation of state and municipal bodies.

Third. For the insurance companies to
recognize these efforts as those of indi-
viduals as sensitive and in every way as
human as themselves, who are as much
entitled to have their interests and wel-
fare considered as are the companies to
their premiums.

The first two methods combine easily
and are already in a progressive state,
and annually save about all that is saved
to the insurance companies. t not only
remains for the companies to recognize
these things, but to go further and pro-
mote this personal interest by slowly
and safely relieving the public of the
great fire tax annually collected. A
more complete remedy would be the
issuing of a participating policy by all
fire insurance companies the same as
those writing life insurance.

Ten per cent. is a large profit for capi-
tal, but it is hard to find among the older
companies one that does not pay an an-
nual dividend of ten per cent. and pass
another ten per cent. to its surplus fund.
Ninety-eight American Companies last
year paid over ten per cent. and some as
high as twenty per cent.

Is it necessary that this great reserve,
together with the capital stock which is
required by each company, should be
employed by the insurance companies
to do a safe business?

You tell us that underwriting
science, and that the ratio of losses and
expenses can be calculated.
is it necessary to collect in premiums so
much more than is required for losses
and expenses? If it is necessary, why
not recognize, as do life insurance com-
panies, the policy holder and his interest?
In this way you make him a co-insurer,
with an interest identical to your own,
which at the end of each year would
mean something.

Giving a man a property right makes

The policy |
holder becomes a legislator and, with |

iS a;

Why, then, |

 

his loss your loss and not his loss your
gain, and he will assert his independ-
ence and executive ability in a way that
will be as effective in your behalf as it
| always has been in your opposition. It
ean be done and by the plan herein out-
lined.

The Insurance Committee of the Michi-
gan Business Men’s Association fail to
recognize how it can be done in any other
way, and, consequently, feel compelled
to make the recommendations they have
to you. It may seem more sentimental
than sensible, but the time is near when
the doctrine of mixing up doing good
with business will prevail.

There are other things besides this
insurance question that might be profit-
ably considered inthis same light. This,
however, is not our sphere, but it is a
fact that freedom of the individual, the
basis of present progress, is challenged.
It is challenged beeause it has led to a
too intense sense of personal ownership
and the too selfish use of the vast aceum-
ulations of wealth.

It remains for our Association to show
itself and lend a helping hand as a
friend and organization to Michigan
business men. Will we do it? If so, why
and with the insur-

not commence now

ance question?

Geo. B. CALDWELL.
———————W6—_--3-__
Disquisition on Fairness.

GOODHART, June 3, 1889.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

DEAR Srr—I enclose $1, for which
please continue sending THE TRADEs-
MAN. I could not well getalong without
it, although I do not have time to read all
the good editorials and communications I
see in it, and less to devote to commend-
ing the good Idoread. Notably among
the good things in the paper, in the issue
of May 15, was the editorial, ‘‘Cash vs.
Credit.”’> Did it ever occur to you that
small country dealers suffer as much,
or more, at the hands of large dealers,
particularly those who pose as whole-
salers as well as retailers, as at the hands
of the so-called dead-beat? It is a fact
that they do, whether you are aware of
it OF NOt.

1 notice a communication in the same
issue, signed by W. J. C., which reminds
me of the old adage, ‘‘What’s sauce for
the goose is sauce for the gander!’
Does W. J. C. forget that when he was
supplying an humble dealer up this way,
a year or two ago, that he took partic-
ular care to let the impression go that he
could sell goods to said humble dealer’s
fellow-townsman just as cheap as he did
to him? Mind you. I do not say that he
ever told anyone that in so many plain
words. Does W. J. C. forget, also, that
he did not discourage an impression that
said humble dealer mixed his two grades
of tea and offered the mixture as 50 cent
tea obtained at said W.J.C.’s2 Does he
also forget that he pretended he was
afraid to trust said humble dealer be-
cause he was trusting acertain customer,
after he had offered to trust said cus-
tomer himself and did not dare to deny
it, when aceosted with making the offer ?

Now, it verily seems to me that if
W. J. C. had been as fair toward the
humble dealer he was supplying as he
would have B., B. & P. be with him, he
would have encouraged a certain board-
ing house keeper, fer an un-certain lum-
ber company, to have bought his sup-
plies of said humble dealer, instead of
strengthening the impression above al-
luded to, and supplying him himself.
Fairness is a mighty fine thing—for the
other fellow. Yours truly,

GIDEON NOEL.
—_—~—.»., >

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The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1889.

 

 

 

 

LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS.

Written for THE TRADESMAN.
BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT.

As long as people continue to ‘‘multi-
ply and replenish the earth,”’ so long
will nursing bottles, soothing syrups,
cradles, baby cabs, dolls,
Cabins, and and

eircuses manageries

remain an indispensable necessity to the |

human family. But it is sad for
lows,
fogyism, to reflect how the glamour and
charms of the two last
become disipated, and almost lost, in the
many vanished years that have come and
gone we first fell victims
to their attractions and
and to-day we would
to welcome’ back
dreams of our
round our nightly
exaggerated scenes of slave-drivers’
tality, bewildering and impossible acro-
baties, and distorted and blood-curdling
metamorphosis from the managerie, if
for a brief time even,
arouse the old-time ecstacy and delight
that made these nocturnal visitations a
natural sequence.

I don’t doubt that the youngster of to-
day experiences an immense amount of
delight and satisfaction visit to
the colossal modern circus, but I don’t
believe it will to approach, in
quantity or quality, that of his prototype
of two or three decades ago. In order to
thoroughly and completely appreciate a
pleasure or luxury it wants to be difficult
of attainment. From observation and
experience I imagine the rising genera-
tion of these times, as a whole, superla-
tively better prepared, financially, for
show days, celebrations, and the event-
ful days for youthful enjoyment, than
the one of thirty years ago. In those
days man with $10,000
Creesus in his community: when skilled
labor
two dollars a day,
was the
workman:
boy thought
quarter for a ten hour’s job,
the most careful and rigid
imperatively necessary to ‘‘m
ends meet,”’ a question of

since willing

be almost willing
hair-elevating
days, and
place

the
boyhood

resting

we could only,

es *

in his

begin

when a was a
vas purchasable for from one to
and seventy-five cents
for the

sixteen y

“ooing price’’ ordinary

when the ear old
himself lucky in earning a

and when

economy was

ake both

lin
aby

it was usu

serious moment, and deep study, fora
youngster to devise ways and means to
enjoy the coming gala-day with any-
thing like satisfaction.

And when, “by book or crook,’ the
money was secured, the pleasures of
realization became almost as great as
those of anticipation. The colored

street parades were de-

+}
t?

as compared h the Bar-
displays, but they

posters and the
cidedly tame,
num and Forepaugt

always with our
enthusiastic approval.
phant
mittee

wi

 

met unreserved
itary ele-
large com-
from

and
The sol
met

miles

was always by a

of
attentions
between himself
The erection of t
collected together a
assistants,

was the

veleome, town,
up
wagon.

were divided
and the band
tent invariably
host of volunteer
and lueky and envied indeed
in

whose soon

he big

youth who, the interim be-
tween this and the opening of the show,
struck some job that advanced his finan-
cial status beyond that of his compan-
and nothing would atone for
good luck except liberal treats of lemon-
ade or peanuts, seeing
youngster, later the day,
iously and contemptuously treated by the
trick mule.

You and I, during the years that have
elapsed since our boyhood days, have un-
doubtedly seen, theatrical

ions, this

or the moneyed

in ignomin-

on the stage,

some of the notable stars in comedy,
tragedy, opera and the spectacular
drama: but, honestly, now, did we ever

witness a scene that gave us the absorb-
ing and heartfelt satisfaction as did that
of the corpulent and intoxicated sailor
who was induced come out of the
audience to ride an apparently fractious
and vicious ring And in
some miraculous manner, he managed to
keep his seat; finally stood upright upon
the animal’s back; beeame_ speedily
transformed, by a shedding of garments,
into a Chinaman, an Irishman, a Ger-
man, ete., and finally evolved intoa slim,
wiry. gold-spangled athlete, ready for any
equestrian display known to the pro-
fession. And have we ever since struck
anything more thrilling and realistic than
that of the beautiful maiden pursued by
the bloodthirsty savage, whose scalp,
after a great display of horse-racing, was
saved, and whose pursuer was slaugh-
tered, by a faint example of the modern
cowboy? And didn’t it seem asif the
acrobats were more supple, the eques-
trians more graceful, the trapeze people
more daring, and the clowns more ex-
eruciatingly funny, than their latter-day
successors and imitators ?
* * & *
Yet, notwithstanding this, it doesn’t
seem probable that the fascinations of
the tented show will ever lose their =
tractions, even among the ‘‘silver greys.
It used to be asserted that the circus was
only popular among clodhoppers, rustics

to

horse ? how,

* * -

and children, yet since the big “‘aggrega-
tions’? have confined their exhibitions,
almost exclusively, to the cities, their
patrons have steadily increased, year
after year. Look over one of Barnum’s
audiences, at Grand Rapids, for instanee,
and while you will find a majority of it
composed of young people and country-
men, you will nevertheless find among it
a very liberal sprinkling of individuals
whose reputations for wealth, business

 

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suecess and standing in fashionable so-
leiety are widely known. And _ still,
{among them all, it would probably be |
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he was present as an anxious |
| seeker after amusement. The excuses of
his class are too multitudinous to enu-
but they all serve show that
a latent belief that a visit to |

a little too disreputable and |
but children and |
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itis arare event to
route to see the show.

find one who is en |
If he gets through |
with his business in time, or if his friend
Smith insists on his accompanying him,
he may attend, but he became disgusted
with ‘‘the same old programme,’’ years
and years ago.
But let the Barnums and Forepaughs,
and their successors, continue to present
their of wonders to the
rustics and the rising generation, and let
them ‘ their souls in peace’’ re-
garding a decrease in the flood of half-
dollars and quarters. If the parties,
whom the gorgeous posters are intended
to attract. fail in boosting up the annual
dividends—which isn’t at all probable—
the old fogies, who have complained of
the monotony for years, will continue to
find some excuse for assisting the show-
men in increasing their bank balances.

$1,000 REWARD!

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

HE ie TeManUan OUGOUESTeOVENECUNSEUoITOCUTIMANZLOCSUEEUEOTOSENGUIUSHRLURITENS HN Y
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THE JUDGE

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Amos S$, Musselman & Co,

SOLE AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
WHIPS AND LASHES.

Lowest Prices for Mail Orders,
GRAHAM ROYS,
54 Lake Ave., - Grand Rapids.

 

 

  
     
      

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TIME TABLES.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING NORTH

  

   

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Arrives. Leaves.
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:20am
Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 9:05am 11:30am
Brom Cimcemaim.. (oo eee cee 8:50 pm

For Petoskey & Mackinaw City.....3:15 pm 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
eee City.
GOING SOUTH.

 
 

Cincinnati Mxpress......- 7:00am
Fort Wayne Expres 10:30 am 12:45am
Cincinnati Express .. 4:40 pm 6:00pm
From Traverse City See ee 10:40 pm

7:00a mtrain has parlor chair car for Cincinnati.

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

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

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

All Trains daily except Sunday.

= Grand Rapids & Indiana.

 
 

Arrive.
700am coeses AOU a a
11:15am 3:45pm
5:50 m

 

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

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEST.

  
 

Arrives Leaves.
Tiorine EXpress..........2........ 1:05 p m 1:19pm
tThrough Mail... 5:00 pm 5:10pm
+Steamboat Expre -.10:40 pm 10:45pm
SNighs Mapress.. 2... 2. 2.2... 6:50am 7:00am
eee ee 7:45am

GOING EAST.

+Petrow: Ragress... 2.02.5 6:45am 6:50am
TERTOUG WANE cs, 10:20am 10:30am
eevoning Mxpress... 0... = 40pm 3:50 pm
“Timitod Express... 20... 6:25 pm 6:30 p m

+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 and sleeping car berths secured at
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 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 connections
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 o connecting lines.
A. J. PaisLey, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

The Popular Nove

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FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

We take pleasure in calling your attention to the most popular

SEAMLESS WIGW AM

(AS REPRESENTED BY ABOVE ILLUSTRATION)

Now upon the market, and from present indications it promises to become the great-
est ‘‘seller’’ of any similar slipper yet introduced. It embraces the unusual combina-
tion of excellent quality, perfect fit, and can be sold at popular prices, leaving the
retailer a handsome margin of profit.

We have now in stock a complete assortment of these Rnsset color,

goods in

with strong outer soles, at the following prices:
MEN’S, - - - - 6 to 10, $11 per dozen, net.
WOMEN’S, - - - - 3 to ©, 10 .
BOYS’, - - - - = 1 to 5, 10 hy
MISSES’ - - - - - i te2, 9 . ec F
CHILDREN’ S, - - 6 to 10%¢, 7.50) * “ ‘

Sample eee promptly attended to.

G. BR. MAYHEW,

86 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

FULL LINE TENNIS SHOES EN STOCK.

 

J.G.& COS

Celebrated

JAPAN TEA!

DID DDI DD DPI L LLL LL LLL DD PDP PP LD PLP

Two Hundred and Fifty Thovsand Pounds Sold in 1888,

PRFID FDI ILL LP LLL LL LL LPP PPI

Our Import Order for 1569 is Mali 4 Million

 

 

 

 

Pounds,and We Warrant Every Pound
to Give Satisfaction to the Buyer.

 

IL LLP PPL PAP PAA AAA

We Can Make Our First Delivery of These Teas June 20,

OFF LL LLL LLL

W.JU. GOULD & CO.

Importers and Jobbers of Yeas. Detroit, Mich.

1889,

 

 

Our New Flag 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
and is attractive in appearance.

 

REMEMBER —The cart is given free with 1,000 of
our New Flag cigars at $38.

WwW. J. QUAN & CO,

49 and 51 Michigan Avenue,

 

 

 

Chicago, Ill.

 

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,
pleased to hear from you.

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,  - in

C. A. LAMB, Grand Rapids, Mich.

will be

GRAND RAPIDS.

F. J. LAMB & CO.,

 

FRED CLOCK, Chicago, Ill. Grand Rapids, Mich,

i. A. LAME & CG,

Wholesale and Commission

Fruits

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Our Specialties:
CALIFORNIA FRUITS,

ORANGES, LEMONS,
Produce. BANANAS AND BERRIES.
56 and 58 So. Ionia St.. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

EDWIN FALLAS,

JOBBER OF

Batter, Hogs, 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.

C. Ft. COUN ELL,

(Successor to CORNELL & KERRY.)
Wholesale and Commission

Fruits and Produce.

Agent for the Wayland Cheese.
30 NORTH IONIA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, ul MICH.

ALFRED J. BROWN.

WHOLESALE

Foreign, ‘Tropical and Galitornta
FRUITS.

 

253,

 

DEALER IN

 

 

 

Headquarters for Bananas.

 

16 AND 18 NORTH DIVISION ST. - - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
D

yO THEO. B. GOOSSEN, | &
Peay |

5 op WHOLESALE | °.
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3° Produce Commission Merchant, | OF

ot BROKER IN LUMBER. > 0

52 Orders for Potatoes, Cabbage and Apples, iu Car Lots, solicited. | 0

6 Butter and Eggs, Oranges Lemons and Bananas a specialty. | 0

pe | °* Soatiae eo GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | #

 

 

GD

rand Rapids Fruit and Produce 60,

(SUCCESSOR TO GEO. E. HOWES & CO.)

Jobbers of

FOREIGN FRUITS.

Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty.
3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

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 Bottom

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 FIBRE PAINT AND CEMENT. BEST

OF THE KIND

SAMUEL LYOR,

IN USE.

 

 

 

  

GROCERIES.

The Grocery Market.

The sugar situation has, of course,
been the feature of the week. All grades
of refined gained *%¢ early last week,
when the following review by Willett &
Hamlin was apropos:

This week has developed to the whole
sugar world the remarkable strength of
the position, and the ease with which
prices now respond to any attempt to se-
eure supplies in any part of the world.
Europe leads, as heretofore, and decides
quotations. Beet sugar this week rose
1s 114d, reaching 24s 414d in its progress
to30s. America tried to buy largely in
Europe. but did not succeed to any con-
siderable extent. and no reliance is to be
placed in recent cables which report pur-
ehases for America of 50,000, and 20,000
tons: and 15,000 tons, during the last
three weeks. America has need for such
purchases, but has not been so fortunate
as to secure them, although the attempts
helped to advance quotations. Europe
cannot afford to part with any of its
-stock, as is evident from our figures in
to-day’s circular. The total stock in all
principal countries May 1 was 754,064
tons. If the receipts and deliveries from
May 1 to October 1 are the same as last
year, the stock on October 1 will be re-
duced to 140,326 tons, to be divided
among all these countries. It is, how-
ever, already evident that the receipts
for the time mentioned will be consider-
ably less than last year. This would be
a very small stock for Europe, but out of
it must come a considerable amount for
America. The stock in America June 1
was 97,131 tons. If the receipts and
meltings to October 1 are the same as
last year, say 376,279 tons receipts and
469.151 tons meltings, the stock in the
United States on October 1 would show a
smal} minus.

Receipts from _— are thus far only
24,161 tons behind last crops, and the
shortage is yet to be felt. Receipts from
other West India islands to date are even
larger than last year, and the shrinkage
will be rapid soon. Brazil has no more
sugar. and our required supplies to equal
those of Jast year must be drawn from
Europe, where the only surplus stock
exists. As this stock diminishes. the
prices asked and paid for it must neces-
sarily increase, and the limit of advance
may be the point at which consumption
will be checked. There are no indica-
tions yet of any decreased consumption
anywhere, but the reverse. Enquiry
among retail groceries in the country
towns shows no decrease in demand. at
10¢e for granulated. The advance must
continue. Refined gained 1¢¢ this week.
while raws gained 1¢¢, and at the close
there is adecided scarcity of offerings,
either for spot or arrival, and quotations
are nominal. ‘Total stock in the United
States increased 2,167 tons for the week.
Meltings for the month of May were
93.315 tons, against $5,869 tons in May,
1888. The details of importers’ stock in
New York. which we give. is notable as
compared with former years. We again
eall attention to the fact that musco-
vados are selling at about 3¢¢ below their
relative value as compared with centrif-
ugals.

Another 1¢¢ was gained on Friday and
Saturday, and an advance of 14¢ in raw
sugars was followed on Monday by an
advance of 1,¢ in hard sugars, bring the
refiners’ price of granulated up to 9c.

There is no change in tea, coffee or
fish. The best grades of raisins are
scarce, Layer Valencias being higher.
Cheese is stronger in the Eastern mar-
kets, which gives home manufacturers
more confidence, resulting in a little
stiffening in the price.

————>_4<—___—_——_
The Coffee Market.

Chase & Sanborn describe the situation
as follows:

The present month will conclude the
crop season of 1888 and 1889, and the
trade is about to enter upon another
small crop for 1889 and 1890. Inasmuch
as the estimated amount of the last men-
tioned crop has been confirmed and gen-
erally accepted by the trade, it is a com-
paratively easy matter to calculate the
probable statistical position which will
exist on July 1 Taking the actual fig-
ures at hand and allowing in proportion
for the increase of the surplus during this
month, and estimating the coming year’s
consumption on the same basis as now
being indicated by the record of the ware-
house deliveries, we have the following:

Bags.

World’s visible supply July 1. .... 3,800,000
Brazil crops for 1889 and ee 4, 000,000

 

 

 

 

 

Crops of all other kinds................- 3,500,000
a 11,300,000

Cc ee July 1, 1889, toJune 30,
ee. 10,000,006
World's visible supply July 1, 1890...... 1,300,000
As compared with July 1, 1889..... - 3,800,000
July 1, 1888.. 2,200,000
The above figures, w hile showing a

sufficient amount of coffee to supply an
average consuming demand for the com-
ing year, also render apparent the actual
necessity of a very full crop for 1890 and
1891. Many authorities maintain that
the excessive drought which has caused
the smallness of the coming crop will not
be confined to one season’s production,
but will likely exert a material influence
upon the yields of future years. In this
eonnection, the following information
from a leading Brazilian authority re-
specting the crop of 1889 and 1890, and
1890 and 1891, is of great importance to
every one interested in the present and
future outlook of coffee values:

As regards the next crop proper, the
accounts received from Brazil on all sides
agree that the most protracted drought
the country has ever experienced has
caused very great destruction to the
plantations and that the prospects for
the next crop are obviously extremely
poor. The estimates on the crops vary
according to the ideas of the respective
estimators on the present crop. Those
who have estimated the present crop by
the actual receipts and have not included
a propable surplus remaining in the in-
terior, estimate the next crop larger,
while other firms who put a high figure
on the present crop make an extremely
low figure for the following one. We
have taken full account of both sides,
which in the aggregate entirely agree,
and the totals we give for the three years,

 

1
1887-88. °89, °90, would be 13,500,000
bags, or an average of four and a half
million bags for three consecutive years,
against an average annual consumption—
of Brazilian coffees alone—of 6,000,000
bags for the same period.

The condition of the Brazilian planta-
tions, especially in the Rio districts after
a long and severe drought, with the ab-
sence of the practical labor under which
the plantations were kept and treated
prior to the repeal of the slave law, make
it extremely improbable that a large crop
will be either predicted or expected in
the news we are likely to get next Octo-
bey or November. The danger is quite
apparent and that the old trees in the
Rio districts must have suffered severely
from the drought, to say nothing of the
enforced neglect to cultivation that must
have followed; and while two years ago,
we already at this period heard that after
the small crop of 1887-88, a very large
crop would follow, the reverse conditions
exist to-day.

The present indications of the market
in general seem io insure a steady and
high market during the summer months,
with a probable further advance in de-
sirable grades of Java coffees.

eS a ee

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Michigan Knights of the Grip.
Granp Raprps, June 10, 1889."
To the Michigan Knights of the Grip:

The editor of THE TRADESMAN having
generously offered free use of his
columns, whenever the officers, commit-
tees or members have any communica-
tions to make to the other members of
the organization, I trust the boys will
take advantage of the offer and send in
any matters of general interest.

~— —

us the

The rapid increase in our membership
the past two weeks is positive proot of
the sanction of the purposes and motives
of our or nae, by the thinking and
acting men of our profession, and dem-
onstrate a willingness on their part to
aid in securing the objects we are striving
for, and not selfishly waiting to come in
when there is “something to be made out
of it.”? Our Hotel Committee, after con-
sulting several leading hotel proprietors,
has issued the following letter and agree-
ment for signatures :

To the Hotel Proprietors of Michigan:

GENTLEMEN—Our Association, which
numbers at present date over 500 mem-
bers and is rapidly increasing, is com-
posed of representative commercial trav-
elers of this State. It has for one of its
objects a desire to establish and maintain
friendly relations and co-operation in
matters of mutual interest to yourselves
and our members. We appreciate the
high standard that the hotels of our State
have attained. and on our part prefer
rather impreved service than reduced
rates, and as the home of a great majority
of our members is the hotel, your enter-
prise has added much to our comfort and
and lightened the burdens and discom-
fort of travel. As many of us enjoy very
limited time at our homes with our fam-
ilies, we would, were the expense of
traveling not so great, take pleasure in
having our wives or children accompany
us occasionally, and in this matter we
fee] free to ask an expression of your
views and submit for your favorable con-
sideration the following:

Very truly yours,
A. F. PEAKE, Pres.
1b. M. Menus, See’y.:

We, the undersigned proprietors of
Michigan hotels. do hereby agree to make

no charge to members of Michigan
“Knights of the Grip’’ for their wives

accompanying them on regular trips, not
oftener than one trip each year.

Mears Hotel, Whitehall.

Moore’s Hotel, Shelby.

Exchange Hotel, Baldwin.

Western Hotel, Big Rapids.

Train’s Hotel, Lowell.

De Haas Hotel, Fremont.

St. Charles, Hotel, Fremont.

Elliott Hotel, Ludington.

Imus House, Pentwater.

Wigton House, Hart.

Pheenix Hotel, Charlotte.

Commercial Hotel, Vermontville.

The above names have been secured
during the past week. Other signatures
to the agreement will be reported from
week to week in THE TRADESMAN.

2.) ae ae

Our employment bureau is doing good
work, having found desirable positions
for two of our members. The bureau is
constantly in receipt of letters from job-
bers and manufacturers in need of sales-
men. 1. SE Minus, sec y-

a i TT
Forcible Logic.

In an English Sunday-school, the lady
teacher was impressing upon her pupils
the necessity of being entirely devoted
to God. ‘It won’t do, my dear boys,’’
she said, ‘‘to be half-hearted in this
service. There is a crown of glory laid
up for every one who good all the
time; but do you suppose there is any-
thing for a boy who is good only half
the time?’? There was an oratorical
pause for a moment, and then a big
shock-headed boy drawled out: ‘‘It do
zeem to me, missus. that theem as is
good ’arf the time, ought to get ’arf a
crown, at least.’ if
—_— <>
The Price of Granulated

The following s variations in
granulated su the past ten
years, the price named being the refiners’
quotations:

is

 

for a Decade.
hows the

gar

during

   

June 3, 1fa)...._. $5¢ June I 1, 1685.... ..6%
7 fe. I 1, 1886 é

a £.... ipl * 9, 1887
<1 Giaeee eg Res 6%
D, Ieee. 6 11-1¢ G, 1889... | 6%

ttention, Traveling Men.

There will be a'meeting of the Grand
Rapids Traveling Men’s Association at
the reading-room of Sweet’s Hotel, on
Saturday evening, June 22, to arrange
for our sixth annual picnic.

Gro. H. SEYMOUR,

L. M. MiLxs, President.

———$—$—$ 6

Every grocer should handle ‘Our
Knocker’’ cigars. Forsaleonly by M. H.
Treusch & Bro.

Sec’y.

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Beans—Handlers are paying about $1.25 for un-
picked and getting 31.6 1.75 for hand-picked.
Cabbages—Southern stock is in fair demand at
$1.25@3.50 per eat
Cider—10e¢ per
Goceecae Pee See: $1.25; produce barrels
25e.
Beans—String, $1.50@$2 per bu. crate; wax,
$2@3 per bu. crate.
Butter—Creamery is in plentiful supply at 17@
20e. Dairy isin plentiful supply at 12@15¢c.
Bermuda Onions—#1.50 per crate.
Cherries—$3.50@# per bu.
Cucumbers—45¢e per doz. :
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun- dried
at 3@3%¢ and evaporated at 5@5%c per cr D.
Eggs—Jobbers are paying 12c aon holding at
3¢c.
Field Seeds—Clover, % per bu.; timothy,
$1.65 per bu.
Green Onions—10@15¢e per dez. bunches.
Honey—Easy at 12@14c per Ib.
Lettuce—10e per lb.
Maple Sugar—About out of market.
Onions—Southern, #4 per bbi.
Peas—Green, #1@#1.25 per bu.
Pieplant—1¢ per lb.
Pop Corn—2!9¢ per Ib
Potatoes—New Southern stock, €1.50@1.75 per

 

%-bu sack.
Radishes—ize per doz. bunches.
Spinach—40¢ I bu.

Straw berries—#2.50@™ per bu.

 

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

 

Mess. new. -.-_... 12 %
Short cut Morgan. ee 13 50
Extra clear pig, short cut..........--.------ 145
xtra clear, heayy.........-..:---.-.. 4... 14 50
Clear quill, short es 14 50
Boston clear, snort ut. _.-..-....-----.-..-- 14 50
lear pack, short €ut............--.-.-...... 14 50
Standard clear, short cut, best........-.---- 14 50
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average SOIbs. 9%
ay eee TEE”
12 to 14 1bs.. ee ee
picnic ue eee 814
bent DOMCICSS. (0... 10
Shoulders ....... eee . 4
OO eee et 8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..........-.----..-. 10
Dried Beet, CXira,. 6
ham prices...........-....-......- 83 4
Long Clears, heavy. ....-...-...-....-..2..-- 6%
Briskets, medium.............--.-.----------- 634
Bene _... Ga
LarpD—Kettle ccd.
IPEOPCON (0 ee ee ne 814
a ee acces ao 844
Ip. Wins. cee oe cy
LarkD—Refined.
MECPCCR 68 8.8 ee ee eee ne 6%
Miand 50 Wo POS... =... 21 es 7
S$ %b. Pails, 201m a ease......--.-..-.-......-.. 73
5 1p. Pails: 123 & Case...-.......-..--.-..-.... 74%
16 Ib) Pails, 6 in & ease...............-......... i%
20 Ib. Pails, 4 in & CaSe............-seseeeereeee Te
RO ORNS eee i
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.......-.-.---- 6 7
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............---- 7 00
Plate... | ee i 25
Pxira Plate ...000 0.) i 7%
Boneless, rump butts........-....---.-.---.-- 8 %
saUsaGE—Fresh and Smoked.
Pork Sausage... (i
few Sausage. --..--..-.-- 12
Tongue Sausage..........- ae 9
Pranktort Sausage. .....--.-.-.-------..-.--.- S
Blood Sausage.........-....-----.--.......-..- 1
Bologna, straight Bee cee ee seer eee ce tas
Bologna, thick. .......-.)..--.-..-.....--.-.-.- 5%
Head Cheese. ......-........--..-.
PIGS’ FEET.

Tn half parrels.......-.....-..---...-.--. 3 00
In quarter barrels........-.-..-02-++-ee eee eee 1%
TRIPE.

Ta Belt Bbarrels.............-...2- .-.-.-.-..... 3 00
In quarter barreis.........--....../... ....... 10%
im Bits. ee 85

 

FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

  

Beet Garcass 5144@ 6%
« hind quarters a 64@ 8
a 4@4%
a 5%@ 6
@ 8
eaieces ee @ 6%
BOO eee @5i
Sausage, blood or head........-.-...--- @ 5
r Ver. ee @ 5%
OO ee @B&
Maton . ..- se. @&s
OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.
Ww hitefish ee @ 6%
SmOkeeG @7%
frou. es @ 6%
Banoub @i15
Pereh. skinned.....--.--..-.......-. @5
Frogs’ legs, per d0Z.....--..--.---+.+0-- 25@1 00
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
Standard, 25 lb. boxes ee 10%
Twist, Se 104%
Cut Loaf, 25 ee 12
MIXED
Royal, 25 Ib. pails . - Mouse oe cee ee
: S00 ib Beis... 934
Extra, = a ee ee 11%
ie bes 3 1034
es Feces See. PARIS 2p
Cut Loaf) 25 Ib. eases... _-- eee
Broken, = Ip Bask 2...
Mib bois...
FaNcy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Hemon Props 13
Sour ropes... 2... 14
Peppermint Drops.......--....--....---+-----> 15
Chocolate Dreps.........-..-.-.--. 15
i Mt Checelate Drops... ss 26
Gum Preps. eee 10
Erecorice reps; 0 eee
A. B. Licorice Drops. eee eee eee el ee 14
Lozenges, ee ret
i permed ee 16
Pipers . io
Matecs 2 e. 15
Cream Bar... .- ee 14
Molscces Bar 13
Carames 16@20
Hind Made Creams... ... 18
plagm (redgng. oll 16
Mecornied. Creams. 20
Strime Hock... .- si
Burnt Almonds... ........-.. 22
Winterercen Berries... 15
Pancy—In bulk,
Lozenges, plain, in pails.. oes eee
ee 12
printed, im pats... te. 13@13%
a im OO ices se 12%
Choe a Drops, in pails..........-. +--+ sree ee 13%
Gum Drops, in eo 644
_ bbls 5
Moss Drops, in pass... <3 11
5 mbps 10
sranabiiienn ge in pails. epee ee ee
Imper i pee
inbpis. ee
FRUITS.
Oranges, faney California ....-... a
Messina 2008 ee
3008 ee cee
Lemons €noree. 0 ti = 50@4 | fe
- ANCE 5
Pics layers, HOW ito 21,
Baga 501) ‘@ 6
Dates, frails, Beib. ee: @ 4%
4 frails, BO AD. 5. @ 5%
. fara, 10-lb. box _ @
. Me 8 @

" Persian S0ib, bOX..... 25.60... : 54@ 6
Bananas 1 25@3 00
NUTS.

Almonds, Parrcspoma 32 164@17
ee eee i ae 14 @14%
i Caitfornia.. 8... @i4
RAP , @s
Hilperta, Mieilg oe @104
Walnuts, Grenoble. 2 22.5... eee
Mrene@n 000s el @10
Pecans, Tewas OP. os... TY4@12
C ocoanuts, Per 100... ac ss so. @4 50
CORGHIEIS 2s ee
PEANUTS.
Peacocks... De eect emses s.a 5 @8%
@%
@64

 

 

 

 

 

Wholesale Price Current.

The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who

pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

 

BAKING POWDER.

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To te OD BY hE
SAUeRRSSEER

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45
75
1 40
2 40
: 5 Ib. : ae Oo
Absolute, } as cans, 100s..11 75
‘ % Ib. 50s..10 00
Be ib, 50s..18 75
Telfer’s, 4 Ib. cans, doz.. 4
< tb! | | So
. fib; “ 2 oo
Acme, % lb. cans, 3doz.... 75
e Zip 68 ee oe
tip o of Sl Se
Belk... 20
Red Star, } ¥4 lb. cans, 12 doz 45
Ib. 6 5
oe ci lb oe 4 ac q 50
AXLE GREASE.
Reavers 9... #2 60
Aor. .......-... ....- Le
Diamond.. .... 1
BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. in case ee 80
Brace: 2" =| |... ~
American. 2 doz. in case... 70
BLUING. Gross
Arctic Liq, 207.3... .... 3 60
ie De... ocae 7 00
1 ........--. 10 80
- 8-oz paper bot 7 20
Pep per Box No. 2 30
4 400
r 5 oa
BROOMS.
No. ~ Hurl es 1 70
NOs ee 1 90
No. 2C ATPET-.- 2. 2- see ee 2 00
—t..”.r,lC eee 22
Parlor Gem...) 2 60
Common Whis 90
Fancy o 1 00
Min 3 25
Warehouse: 0 2 ie
BUCKWHEAT.
Kings 100 Ib. cases... .....-5 00
SO tb Gases... 4 25
BUTTERINE
Dairy, solid packed.. 13
/ TOMS os 4
Cc ‘reamery, solid packed.. 1
TOUS ... oe 6
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes..... 104%
Star, 40 Ce ay
Paragine .. ....._.....-.... [re
icine... tttisé‘a##..... 25
CANNED Goops—Fish.
Clams. 1 1b. Little Neck. ...- 1 20
Clam Chowder, 3 Ib........- 2 10
Cove Oysters, i ib. stand... 90
< 2 Ib. tO

Lobsters,

Mackerel, in Tomato Sauc
1 Ib. stand..
»
3 lb. in Mustard..
- 3 Ib. soused.....
Salmon, 1 Ib. Columbia...
21b . .
a Ib. Sacramento..
2 1b. :
Sardines, domestic a
Mustard i48...._-
_ ee 2

‘ spiced, ¥4
Trout, 3 1b. b ook.

 

   

ie.
8
< 00
10
-2 8o
=
ue 6
.-@ 9

“a 10

CANNED G oDS—Fruits.

 

   

Apples, g: lens stand.2 2 15@2 20
Blackber: ie nd %
Cherries, 1+ i
“ r
Damsoens .-.._..- oo
Her Plunis. stand. ......-__- i 20
GOGSCUEITICN §.....-....-.-- 1 60
Graves...
Green (ages. id
Peaches. iil yel llow, stand..1 75
. secgnads 000) 0.6 1 4
Pie 1 00
Peare: 0. 2 1 30
Pimeappies _..........1 4@2 50
Guimees
Raspperries, €xtre.-.-.---- 12
. red. ........... 4 6
Sirawperrics -.. -...-.... 1”
Wheoruicbertmes.._....-.. 79
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay......
Beans, Linia, stand .-......-. 80
qreen Limas.... @1 0
. Strings. ........- @ &
© Strmetesrn, Hrte. |... 90
‘Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40
Corn, Archer’ s Trophy...... 1 00
Morn’g Glory.1 00
re Early Golden.1 v0
Peas: Prene 1 68
, extra marrofat. @1 1vU
So Oe 70
pare ca ee 1 35
" eiea............. 35
French, extra fine. 1 5v
Musi rooms, ¢xtra fine...... 25
Pumpkin, 3 ib. Golden...... 85
Suceotesh, standard... ...- 3 00
SquseH ed 1 310
Tomatoes, Red Coat.. 2 00
(00d Ex nough.. .1 ©
Ben Har... .... 1 00
stand br... . @I1 00
CHEESE,
Michigan Full Cream 8%@ 9
Nap saee...:-. .. 16 @i7
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S
German Sweet... ........-. 23
Premium... . < cee ciee 35
Cocoa. ......- 38
IBreaktast Cocoa.......... 48
Broma- 1... ie
CHEWING GUM.
Rubber, — eee 25
ee 35
SPINES 30
CHICORY.
Bae 6
Bee 7%
COFFEE—Green.
Rio, far. 3. 17 @I19
e008.) 18% as 20
: prone... @21
fancy, washed.. @22
golden Lee eae . » @23
Santos _.. li G2
Mexican & Guatemala = @23
Peaberry .....--.._... 20 @23
Java. Interior (0)! 20 @25
o Mandheling....26 @29
Mocha, genuine....... “35 @27

To ascertain cost of roasted

coffee, add %%4¢. per lb. for

ing and 15 per cent.

age.
COFFEES—Package.

 

roast-

for shrink-

 
 

100 Ibs
roe 2414
f an Cabinets __.- . 24%
oe 5 ORO | 2414
AGme es "3356
Th ompson’ s Honey Bee...-: 26
iger.......... 24
Nox All... 2... 25
oF... 24
COFFEE EXTRACT.
Nallee City... GS
Mele) ss i
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft oe = doz. 12
C ee 150
. 60 i... c 1 60
ie wt. “ 2 00
ie Sete... : 22
Jute Mit... . 1 00
is wi... 1
CONDENSED MILK.
Mage ee <
Anglo Swiss... 224... .-.... 6 00
CRACKERS.
Menosha Butter............. 8
SOMIGOUE (7 60). ak 6
uteer. 22. soe 6
* family,................ 6
TC Ea i
Bosten.... 2... ste
Cit L
So
S. Oyste
City Oyster, 2.2 SS a 6
PACWIO ee 6
CREAM TARTAR,
MeMChIY PUIG oo... 38
MeEOCCE 24

DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.

Apples, sun-dried..... 3 @ 3%
. —— _. @ 6
Apricots, . 1 @15
Bisekperries 66. a. 5
INCEIRISNIOS: 2) ice cu 12
Peaches on 12
reese: 2 es. 9
insepperries “= -_.._ 20
DRIED FRUITS—Citron.
In @rum::..0 10... @:
an PORES. 2000.21: @25
DRIED FRUITs—Currants.
Zante, in Barrels. ... .- @5i

my in less quantity @ 5%

    

DRIED FRUITS—Prunes.
ie... 44@ 4%
IOsnea ee os 5144@ 6
imapermal. (0 . ...- @

DRIED FRUITS—Raisins.
IWSTeRCiNA. coo @
Onoaras.............. 84@ 9
London layers, Cali-

fc rnis -----.2 onan 40
Loi.don !.aye : @
Muscat: is, California. @2

DRIED FRUiTs—Peel.

bemon 13
Oranee. ss. 14
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina, 100 lb. kegs.. 04

Hominy, per bpl_....-... iba 00
Macaroni, dom 12 1b box.. 60

. imported... _.. @ 10
Peart Barley... ._.. @ 3
Peas, green = 6. @1 30

Sone. @ 3
Seco, German..-_._...

Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl.
Wheat cracked’ __..

Vermicelli, import.. @10
domestic... @b60
_ FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Jennings’ Lemon Vanills |
2 oz. Panel, doz. 5 |
4 OZ. i 1 40 2 25
6 Oz. 2 2 o 2
No. 3, 1 00 1 60
No. &, “ 2 io 4 00
nom - 2a 6 00
No. 4, Taper, “ 1 60 2 50
% pt, Round,‘ 4 25 ¢ 50
 * a § 30 15 00
FISH—SALT.
€od whole... . @
rr ORCICRR | 001.0. oo ot %
Hatebut oo 10@1114
Herring, round, % bbl.. 2 50
gibbed. ee 2%
. Holland, bbls.. 10 00/
Holland, kegs... @ |

 

 

- Sealed |...) 24
Mack. sh’ s, No. - 4 dbl 11 00}
a ie Fp kit. 145
a oe 2 ay i 3
Trout, %4 " bbls Me eee @4 50
oe is NE 78
Ww hite, No. 1, 34 bbls... 2... 6 00
12 1b. kits.....1 15
e 10 tb. kits..... 90;
Family, % bbis.... .2 50
° a 55
GUN POWDER.
Half Kegs... .. ae
LAMP WICKS.
30 j
=
LICORICE,
Oa 30 |
Cc alabria Ce
bisck Strap... |... 16
Cuba Baking. ........ . ~-22@20 |
Morte Bie€o.:. _. 2... (
New Orleans, goed. .:..... XE.
enoice... 3@38
fancy. .. 45@48

One- half barrels, 3¢ extra
OATMEAL,

   

 

 

 
 

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| SYRUPS.,

| Corn, barre]s.............. @23

[itl One: Half barrels.... @25
Pure Sugar, oe oes. 3

| half barrel... .30@38

SWEET GOODS.

| x XXX
| Ginger Snaps.. oe 9%

| Sugar Creams......... 9 9%
| Frosted Creanic....... 9%
' Graham Crackers..... 9
Oatmeal Crackers..... 9

| soDA,

ee oh
Sa nes es eee ge 4%

| ee
TEAS.
JAPAN—heeul: f
Pain... : ee ea) @is
oe ee 18 @z22z

POM@IGG.. ll. 24 @2

| Choieest.-.-.-. 30 @34

SUN CURED.
Pies
O00 20-6 ck le
Caeiee oo wt
Choicest..-. 0... 30

BASKET FIRED.
ee @20
Choice @235

| Choicest............... (@35

| Extra choice, wire leaf @40

| GUNPOWDER.

; Common to fair....... 25 @35

| Extra fine to finest....50 @65

| Choicest fancy........75 @8

IMPERIAL.

| Common to fair.......20 @35

Superior tOfme........ 40 @50

YOUNG HYSON.

| Common to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine. ....-- 30 @40

OOLONG,

; Common to fair....:..25 @30
Superior to fine.,.....30 @50
Fine to choicest.......55 @65

| ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
ar. ............... he
Choiee 30 @35
ee ee te aes habe
Tea Dast. 8 @I10

TOBACcOos—Plug.
S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands.

 

 

| Nimrod, 4x12 and 2x12. .... |. 39
seception, 225x12. 16 0z...... =
| Vivco, 1x6, 4% to 7
Big 5 Center, Sse, 12 oz....
Wheel 5to B.... ..
| Trinket, 3x9, 9 a a 5
, Jd. G, Butler & Co.’s Brands.
Corer Stone... 8... 35
| Double Pedro... 2... .:..... 37
| beach Pie 37
} Wedding Cake, OR. 0000... 37
| Something GOOG. 39
PROBSCEG? ooo BY
| TOBACCOs—Fine Cut.
| D. Scotten & Co.'s Brands.
| Banwatha 06... 5
| Sweet Cuba...) 37
| TOBACCOS—Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands.
| MeerGhanm, Ws)... 2... 31
| | Koln Dried, sG/ez_.0. 2 19
TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
$ 2, per hundred ee. 250
| ge 3 00
| S10, < ac 400
a = = llr 5 00

i Subject te to sae following dis-
| counts:
200 or over.

- D per cent.
10 oe

 

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$1 for barrel

 

 

 

 
 
  

 

   

| MISCELLANEOUS.

Cocoa Shielic, vulk......... 3%

Lgeny, Selb; paris... 11... 4
Peee.... 15

PAPER, WO ODENWARE.

| PAPER.

Curtiss & Co. quote as fol-
lows:
SAW 1%

: Light Weight... ..._- 2

Soese ee 2

| — Shenae 2%

Hiaveware. 2%

Boner oe 2%

Dry Goods... ee. 5

Jute Marglia. 8

ead Hxpress No.t..........5

- 10, 2. . oe
TWINES,
Coron... 22
Cotton, No.2 Sede ec ceeeo. 20
oe 18

Sea Island, assorted....... 40

No.5 Hemp Scere ccs oo. 16

NG OB... a

Wool... 8

WOODENWARE,

Tubs, No. 1 es Lace Coe
a Neo 2. 6 2
re 5w

Pails, No. 1, two- hoopn.. 1 60

i Yo. three-he@oyp.... 1 7
| Clothespins, 5 er. boxes.... 60
Bow! S, 11 ene CCT 1 00
ee 123

: 15 a 2 00
ee 2%
aed 17s and 17s 2 530

75s, 178 and 198 2v

Baskets, WASEkeh. 40

bushel . _.. 1

es ‘ with cover rs 1 90

i willow er ths, No.1 5 50

- No.2 6 00

: " Nos 7

i apknat No.1 3 50

ol - No.2 4 25

; No.3 5 00

GRAINS and FE FEEDSTUFFS
WHEAT.

White... .... 82

Rea: 80
. FLOUR.

Strateit. im saeks....°.... 450

. -  Demels._.._.. 4 70

Patent SAGES |... 1. 5 30

. Darreis..._._.. 5 70
MEAL,

Bolted... 220

Granuiatea,.._.... .. 26

MILLSTUFFS.

Bran 12 00

Spe 13 00

Sercenies 0 12 00

Miuddimgs. 001... 13 00

Mixed Heed... 2.3. 15 00

Cearse meal... 15 00

CORN.
Small igis................. 37
Car ee eas 36
OATS,

Sertll lots. 30

Car

NO. to

Ne to

No

INO. 4

No.

HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as fol-

lows:

HIDES

Green 000. 4@4%

Part ‘cared ae ae 4 @4%

Hull  *. ae. 4%4@ 54%

De. 5 @é6

Dry ipa ....)... 1: :. 5 @6

Calfskins, ercen.....- 3 @¢

eured...... 44@ 54%

——— SRIMS. ...<.--.. 10 @20

14 off for No. 2
PELTS,
Shearlinge...--.......- 10 @30
Retinnion wool, per hb 20 @25
MISCELLANEOUS.

WaNow 25.9.0... ..-. 3%@ 4

Grease butter... 62 @o

Switches ..:..-.... . 2 @2%s

Ginseng.......-.-. -..2 0O@2 10

WOOL.
Weened: oor es, 25@28
Dnwaened. ..:.2 ....... ... 12@22

Muséziine, barrels _.......- 5
- Half barrels. .- 2 871 4
eees. ...2 15@s 2 oot
ROLLED OATS
Muscatine, Barrels.... @5 50
c Half bbis.. @2 87
Gases... .- 2 15@2 25
OIL.

Michigan Test..
Water White... .........._. ».103 3
PICKLES.

Mediu 6 4 00 |
a 2 50
Small, bbl. . 5 00
< = bb i "3 50
PIPES.
Clay. No: 216,..° - 1...

c [. Db. full count... -._- 7
Gop, Ne. 3... 48
RICE.

Ca rolina head.. --6%
Not... 53,
- eee
. Me. 3.1...) 8
POPS 5%
SALERATUS.
Deliand’s, pure.......-......5
Chureh’s, Cap Sheaf......__ 5
Deighes 1
Waviers..
SALT,
Common Fine per bbl....... 8s
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 24
a pocket ee. 2 05
eee 21
100 ea ae 2 40
Ashton bu. bags eee see. 13
resins Ol | Ct. 5
Ww arsaw Le rf
% ie Ce 20
SAL SODA
ion... 1%
Granniated, bomes........ _. 2
SAPOLIO.

Kitehen, 3 doz. in pox... _- 2 35
Hand, i eee 2 35
SEEDS,

MECC DIFG 9. (.00-0. 08. 4%

Caraway... - 10
Camary..-.-..... 1 t ..
Remap 4
Re 8%
Rape 4%
INISGOEG. 20.2 7%
SNUFF,
Seotceh, im bladders.........37
Maccsboy, tm jars. ....-....- oo
French Rappee, in Jars..... 43
SOAP.

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.
Gucen Anne 3 85
German Hamily.. .. |. 2 40
Motiied Geran............3 30
Old German... 27
U_S. Big Bargain... _. 72 8
Frost, Fioater...............3 %
Cocos Castile,...........-. 2 88
Cocoa Castile, Fane y (J. ..3 do

sPICES—Whole.
AlISpice. 10
Cassia, China in mats...... . 7%
eo Batavia in bund....11
‘ Saigon in rolis....-. 40
Cloves, Amboyna...... oe
[ Zanginer 23
Mace Bativia ..|......... 80
Nutnegs, faneéy:...........- 80
No. 1 Poe ce foe fis)
° Noe. 2.2.5.2 70
Pepper, Singapore, Dlaek... 16
white..... 26
' SHOE. cs 20
sPicEs—Ground—-In Bulk.
Allspice ..........-..--2--+-- 15
Cassia, Batavia. ..........-. 20
. : and Saigon .25
: a 42
Cloves, Amboyna.....2-.._. 35
Zangibarie |) 26
Ginger , Afric a ee
Cochin... 15
Jamaica ..... ..... 18
aoe Batavia. : 1. 90
Mu stard, Bmetish........-. 22
e and Trie. .25
i Mrreste os ier
INgmCrR NG 2 70
Pepper, Singapore, biaek. ...21
White.....
Cayenne. 1.0 -...: 25
STARCH.
Mystic, 1 ib. yikes... 7
. barrels... .. 6
SUGARS.
Gut Boat... @ 9%
Cures ¢ es: @ 9%
Powdered 2.40...) :- @ 9%
Granulated,H.&E.’s.. @9%
5 Franklin.. @ 9%
te Lakeside.. @ 94
Knight's... @ 9%
Confectionery A...... @ 934
Standard A... c.: @ 85
No. 1, White Extra C.. 833@ 8%
No. 2 Bixtra €...... 02. 8 @ 8%
No. 3c, eoiden..-..... OD 7%
Ne. 4C. Gark..:::.:... D 7%
Ne. 5 ©. 2. oe. @™%

 

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.

Weare 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
give satisfaction.

Please send us your orders.

Lemon, Hoops & Peters.
Grand Rapids, April 24, 1889.

 

M. CLARK & oUN,

If our Travelers

 

do not see you reg-

ularly, send for our

WE ARK HEADQUARTERS

—— FOR——_

Teas
Syrups
Molasses

Samples and Prices
before purchasing
elsewhere. Wewill
surprise you.

Mail Orders al-
ways receive
prompt attention
and lowest possible

prices.

 

 

WV holesale Grocers

 

Consult your own

We Are readguarters

FOR

 

 

Pure Cider and White Wine Vinegar.

interests by getting our
prices before purchasing elsewhere.

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line, carry a heavy stock,
and warrant our goods to
be STRICTLY PURE and

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Drugs & Medicines.

Staite Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.

Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.

Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.

Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit.

President—Geo. McDonald

Secretary—Jacob Jesson.

Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.

Next Meeting—At Star sland a 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 Ra — Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, Albert Brower.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society
President, J. W.Caldwell. Secretary, B. W. Patterson.

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, C. S. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.

 

 

To Prevent the Cutting of Prices.
H. H. Warner & Co., in Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

In reply to yours of June 1, asking
why our plan for the maintenance of
prices, which you quote in your letter,
is not practical, will say that we consider
that the plan is practical, and it is what
we believe to be the first correct step to-
ward maintaining of prices among the
retail drug trade. We beg to state that
we are quite satisfied with its success,
during the period we have been working
the plan, and we expect to continue en-
forcing and perfecting the same as rap-
idly as possible. We believe eventually
it will be conceded to be about the only
plan that is practicable.

Our Mr. Warner has given this ques-
tion of maintaining of prices by the re-

tail drug trade quite a little thought, and
has become satisfied that very few plans,
if any, have yet been submitted which
will protect the honest and conscientious
retail! dealer, who wishes to live up to
his agreement, as against the unscrupu-
lous dealer. who will make an agreement
to maintain prices and yet continually
violate the same.

He also argues that any plan which
does not absolutely protect is very dam-
aging to the trader, whois willing to live
up to his agreements and pledges and
would not, under any circumstances, de-
viate from what he considers right—
maintaining and sustaining prices, while
the unscrupulous dealer would, in an
underhanded way. because of his lack of
honor, be continually doing the honest
dealer an injustice. This has been his
principal point against any plan that has
yet been submitted toward maintaining
prices by the retail trade. He claims
that it is no trouble to have the reliable
dealer live up to his agreement, but it is
the unscrupulous, unreliable dealer who
would be doing the wrong to the retail
trader, without harm to himself pro-
prietor.

But under his plan, which he has
adopted and proposes to maintain as best
he can. and as practically as possible for
its introduction. if any dealer advertises
in a newspaper the cut price of his rem-
edies, he debars him from handling said
goods, and prohibits any wholesaler from
selling said dealer. His argument
this: For instance, the dealer may be in
Boston or Philadelphia, and bea cutter
of prices, or advertise to cut prices, and
the . effects will not only be shown upon
the trade in Boston or Philac elphia. but
eee shout the entire New England
States or the entire State of Pennsyl-
vania. The removal of this one evil
would be a great step toward protecting
the retail trade. Of course, the person
so advertising goods at cut prices may
not sell one bottle to one of the 100 peo-
ple who see said cut prices advertised
throughout the State or locality where
said paper circulates, yet every dealer
within range of that paper is annoyed
and disturbed because of said advertise-
ment, though the cutter does not receive
any advantage does not —— or
increase his because of
at or about cost.

If the trader
at cost, sells his

  

as

1S

and
sale, his selling
who wishes to sell goods
goods at cost and does
not advertise the same, broadeast and
promiscuously, he certainly cannot do
the widespread damage he would if he
were allowed to advertise the same. The
damaging scourge to the trade does not
thus become general, but is confined, and
it gives us an opportunity of protecting
the retail dealer who makes the com-
plaint to us and also places within
hands absolute proof that our goods are
sold at cut prices, and makes it an easy
matter for every other dealer who
not cut, to lay the facts before us.

Thus we have prevented hundreds of
dealers throughout the United States,
during the past year, from publishing
broadeast that they were cutters of our
preparations. and we immediately notify
them that unless said cutting is discon-
tinued, we will prevent them from ob-
taining our goods. We positively know
this has been the means of restoring
prices, and in but few cases has it been
necessary for us to take measures to pre-
vent said dealers from selling our prep-
arations, but wherever it is necessary we
take the matter in hand and protect the
trade from such gross outrage.

—————>_+2 << _____
Proposes to Observe the Law.
Editor Michigan Tradesman:

It seems that ‘‘A Merchant,’’
badly over the new law just passed and
called the ‘‘Tobacco Prohibition’’ to
youths under seventeen. He thinks the
‘‘Poor Grocer’? has enough to contend
with. What would he think if he wasa
druggist, with the liquor and poison law
hanging over him?

I smoke and I have sold tobacco for a
number of years. yet I have not the sin
to answer for of selling tobacco to little
I would not sell it to them any
more than I would arsenic. It stunts
their growth physically as well as intel-
lectually.

I only hope the law will be as fully
enforced as the druggist laws are. It
will not take more than one trip for the
hired man or father’s boy or son who is
sent six miles after tobacco without an or-
der and fails to getit to be convinced it is
right and he will getithimself. A drug-

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feels

boys.

gist would not sell that boy a pint of

whisky or five cent’s worth of strychnine
without an order, for fear of the law, if
nothing else. Why cannot the grocer
obey the tobacco law just as willingly?

Aman who has no more respect for
one law than ‘‘Merchant’’ seems to have,
I fear would easily learn to have no re-
spect for any law. I, for one, would
fear to trust him.

I would like to be the judge to act on
the case of that ‘‘bed-fellow,’’ if he dared
to sell my boy tobacco, without an order
from myself. If I could not make him
respect the law, I would make him feel
its weight. Can it be he has a boy, pul-
ling at his heart strings of fatherly care
and love?

A DRruGGIST AND GROCER.
—2 2

Cleaning of Mortars and Graduates.
Hans M. Wilder in American Journal of Pharmacy.

Mr. Meyer’s remarks at the last meeting,
about the mischief occasionally caused
by using mortars which have been imper-
fectly cleaned, makes me think that a
‘wrinkle’? I was taught inmy apprentice

 

days may be of use, especially to my
younger colleagues. When I have
cleaned my graduates, mortars, etc.,

thoroughly—at least judging from the
appearances—I am in the habit of catch-
ing the last drop of the final rinsing
water on my tongue, and also taking a
strong sniff. In “this way the last trace
of any acrid, bitter or odorous substance,
easily detected, in which case, of
course. the washing or rinsing is contin-
ued. If substances with marked chemi-
-al reactions have been in the graduates
or mortars (for instance salicylic acid,
tannin, iron compounds, etc.), I usea
few drops of an appropriate reagent in
order to make sure of the absence of
even traces. When cleaning the scale-
pan used in weighing out aniline colors,
I always apply at the very last a few
drops of alcohol to the apparently thor-
oughly clean pan, when the merest speck
of aniline color will reveal itself in-
stantly.

The idea of keeping separate mortars
and utensils for poisons, strongly odor-
ous and bitter substances is a good one,
provided the utensils be marked unmis-
takably and kept in a separate place.
In my store I was in the habit of keeping
separate graduates for tinctures of vale-
rian, asafcetida and spirit of peppermint,
which graduates were put behind the
respective shelf-bottles ona small tray
or a piece of hatter’s felt.

———_—~»> +>
Too Much Cotton Seed and Peanut Oil.

The exports of olive oil from Spanish
ports having been on the decline for sev-
eral years, the Spanish government has
taken hold of the matter and started an
investigation as to causes for the decay
of theindustry. The commission found
that the main cause was the inferior
quality of the oil produced, the same
being far below the standard of the
French and Italian makers. The cause
of the inferiority was found to be two-
fold—a deterioration of the trees from
long inattention to the modern methods
of culture, and also in the crude and in-
ferior methods of extracting the oil from
the berries. It is proposed to remedy
both causes of decay by the adoption of
asystem of technical education which
shall embrace the teaching of the best
methods of culture of the olive trees,
and also modern and improved methods
of extracting the oil. In this manner it
is hoped that Spanish oil will once more

is

regain its ancient reputation, and the
olive raisers of Spain re-enter the field

of competition with those of France and
Italy

 

>.< —____—
A Cure for Leprosy.

A cure for leprosy has been found, says
Mr. Clifford, the last European to visit
Father Damien. It is gurjan oil, the
produce e of a fir tree which grows plenti-
fully in the Andaman Islands. It was
discovered by Dr. Dougall, and Mr. Clif-
ford was assured by Sir Donald Stewart,
who was then governor of the islands,
and who has sent me the official medical
report, that every single case in the place
was cured by it. The lepers were con-
victs, and it was therefore impossible to
enforce four hours a day of rubbing the
ointment all over their bodies, and the
taking of two small doses internally. In
some of the cases, the disease was of
many years’ standing, and the state to
which it had reduced its victims was in-
describably dreadful, yet after eight
months sufferers were able to run and to
use a heavy pickax, and every symptom
leprosy had disappeared. Father
Damien tried it, but too late.

—_————_a___—
Insurance Against Damage by Flood.
From a New York Tribune.

The terrible catastrophe in the Con-
emaugh Valley points to the expediency
of organizing anew class of insurance
companies. If Johnstown and the out-
lying villages had been swept out of ex-

ot

istence by fire, the losses would have
largely been made good by insurance,

and the towns could speedily have been
rebuilt. The losses by the flood are ab-
solute. Every property owner is ruined,
and there are inadequate financial re-
sources for reconstructing these once
prosperous towns. Every year there are
minor disasters and losses caused by
freshets and the overflow of rivers; and
there are many exposed towns where in-
surance against floods would be a wise
precaution at all seasons. There is evi-
dently an urgent need for a new class of
insurance risks.

et 9

The Drug Market.

Quinine. both foreign and domestic,
has declined. Opium is a little less firm,
but not quotably changed. Morphia is
steady.

 

—_—~-—@—~
Another ‘‘Meanest Man.”’

A merchant in an adjoining town, who
had lost his wife, kept hia store closed
until after the funeral and then docked
his clerks for lost time.

—~—
A Domestic Experience.

A weeping woman will never do any-
thing desperate, but when she in
trouble and keeps her eyes dry, look out
for an explosion.

>>

Every druggist should carry
Knocker’’ cigars in his showcase.

 

is

“Our
For

 

sale only by M. H. Treusch & Bro.

Nutmeg Poisoning.

Poisoning from nutmegs, or from their
volatile oil, occurs more frequently than
is thought, as the drug is credited by
many women with abortifacient proper-
ties. In the Medical Times for March,
Dr. Wm. F. Waugh reports the case of a
married woman, who, suffering from dys-
pepsia, on the advice of a neighbor, ate
five medium sized nutmegs. No unpleas-
ant sensations were experienced until
half-past eight of the same day, when
she became nauseated, giddy, and had a
chill, accompanied by vomiting, head-
ache, dryness of the mouth and throat,
and a sore, strained sensation in the eyes.
Her sight was somewhat affected, as she
complained that everything appeared
misty. When the chill passed off, slight
fever and sweating followed, with in-
tense, throbbing headache. There was
at no time any disposition to sleep. The
next day the nausea had subsided; the
pupils were unaffected: the pulse full
and regular; but the headache continued,
and it was a week before all the symp-
toms had disappeared. There was not,
at any time, danger to the circulation or
respiration. The report of this case, it
is noticed, offers

the action of this drug.

 

symptoms which are}
contradictions to the general idea as to}

In the last edition of the U. S. Dispen-|
satory, nutmeg is credited with consid- |
erable narcotic power, while in the
American Journal of Pharmacy, 1885,
one and one-half nutmegs are stated to |
have caused in a woman stupor, followed |
by excitement, with evidences of col-|
lapse. Dr. H. C. Wood concluded from
his experiments upon the lower animals
that the oil of nutmeg is a powerful nar-
cotic, with very much less sedative in-
fluence upon the heart than is possessed |
by most volatile oils. Im the dog, he}
found that it caused profound sleep, with |
slowed respiration, and, in large doses, |
abolition of reflex activity.

—— »> >
A Sure Case.

Judge—So your father wanted to open
a drug store with neither a cigar counter
or a soda fountain ?

Boy—Yes, sir.

Judge—A clear case of insanity. Dll
make out his commitment papers to the |
incurable ward of the asylum! |

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chemist, says that ‘‘as much flour as can |
lie on the point of a table knife contains !
as much nutritive constituents as eight!
quarts of the best and most nutritious |
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Copaiba .. . 65@ 70] Serpentaria............ 25D, 30 a 35@ 33 |
Pern ....2--. 3... @i 30) Senees (0. 60@ 65| Cudbear........ @ A|
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TolMtAn 62.02...) 45@ 50 I @ 20) Dextrine........... 10@ 12]
Scillae, (po. 3p) ...._... 10@ 12) Ether Sulph.. a 68@ 70)
CORTEX. Symplocarpus, Feeti- Emery, all numbers.. @ 8)
Abies. Canadian. ........-- 15) Ges, po... : @ 35 ne Oe a 6
Oaaaiic ....-.---.- i Valeria: 1a, Eng. (po .30) @ 2%} Breota, (po.) 45....._. 40@ 45)
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Euon mus AroOpurp....--.- 30 | Zingiber a...... .. 10@ 15; Galla..... oe @ 23}
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Prunus Virgil oo. ae oo Gelatin, Cooper....... @ 9}
Quille iia, ped... ..._-.. 12 SEMEN, “ French........ 40 60 |
CRS a 121 Anisum, (po. 20).._.-- 15} Glassware flint, 75 & 10 per
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10] Apium (graveleons) .. 12 cent. by box 70 less
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15 | Chenopodium ......-. a 12 me oe... @ 70]
17 | Dipterix Odorate...... 1 75@1 85 i Ox Rubrum @ W}
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Sulphate, com'l......- 1%@ 2 Sinapis, Ap a Ol apete i  e 85@1 00
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Anthemis .....-------- 30GB 35 .. Liquor Potass Arsinitis
Matricuria ...... -.--- 8 30 6 Magnesia, Sulph (bbi |
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Carbonate, Pat........ POO oe | Barcara le) 50]  “ Myrcia Imp... .. 2 50 |
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Amydalae, Amarae....7 25@7 50 | Cine! ee 50 | @amarinds 10... _ i ‘Se 10 |
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Coasiba .......5...5... Shel OO) Zinetper 38... | 8. 50 tie a raw.--. of 64
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Pixeentnstos.. 4.52... 90@1 00 | lodine.. ! a w5| Neat’s Foot, winter
Reiperom 00080 120@130; “ Colorless............. 75 | _ Strained ............ 50 69
Gaultheria eee eos 2 00@2 10 | Worrei Chicridum............ 35 Spirits Turpentine.... 44 50
Geranium, ounce..... Ae oe 50! pea V. PAINTS. bbl. alb:
Gossipii, Sem. gal..... SO@ i | Popelia. 00... 5) ot y —— =
Hoedeomea 6.0.0.0... Pen SMe 50 Ochre, yell ow fars....1% 2@4
Juniper 50G@2 00} Nux Vomica. 50 i Se I L
Havyendula 0000000000 92 00 | € pit ee g5| Putty, commercial. .
Pimonts 26. le 1 50@1 80} <' Gamphorated....._. i S strictly pure..
Mentha Piper... LS sa@el4a lis Meader 0 ta 2 99| Vermilion Prime Amer- HEE
Mentha V erid.. eset ‘2 50@2 60] AurantiCortex.............. 50} _ ican .....-. Seog ener 13@16
Morrhuae, gal... ..__. S0@1 GO) Quassia 59| Vermilion, English....  T0@75
Myrcia, ounce......... @ Olhenany 59 | Green, Peninsular. .... ——
Ce Ligag@e Tone 50| Lead, red.............. 64@i%,
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35) 10@ 12) Cassia Acutifol............. 50 white .........-- - S4OT%
cia 1 U@1 32 ss ss Ca. 59| Whiting, white Span.. @70 |
Rosmaring 00000200... 75@1 00 | Serpentaria ................. 50 | W rhiting, Gilders’...... BD |
Rosae, ounce.......... @6 00 | Stromonium................. 69] White, Paris American 1 O
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Sapte 2020 Pt Vaverian |... ee ee eet cones aoe ns
Gantat 0) 3 50@7 00 | Veratrum Veride............ 50 oo Paintl 20@1 4
Rassairas 000 55@ 60 Swiss Villa Prepared l
Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65 MISCELLANEOUS. Pamits 2.0 1 00@1 20
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gee 98 = ‘s 4F -. 30 .32| No.1 Turp Coach....-1 10@1 29
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Theopromag........2. .. 15@ ground, (po. Coach Body. ...-2 7@3 00
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MADE BY
GEO. G,. STEKETEE,
Proprietor and manufacturer of

Steketee’s Family Medicines.

Also importer and jobber of the only

Genving Haarlem Oil.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

TO EVERY DEALER IN DRUGS SENDING
ME $12 I WILL DELIVER:

3 doz. bottles Steketee’s Neuralgia drops

CRetats ove)...

| And donate 1 doz. trial bottles Neuralgia

Drops (Retail 15¢ ee 1 80

8 00

 
 

 

ters (25 3 00
Amount at retall. 00000320026. $22 80
COSG ee ee 12 00
Total Profi ..$10 80

This offer a ‘Sixty wae on “aa Cash
must accompany orders.

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

Wholesale Druggzists,
GRAND RAPL

 

 

BE SURE

TO INCLUDE

Sweet Cream Soap

In your next order.
HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

IQUOR & POISON RECORD

COMBINED.
Acknowledged to be the

Best on the Market.
BE. A. STOWE & BRO, akan Rapivs

Polishina

This is the Time to Paint.

The Best is Always the Cheapest.

 

 

WE HAVE SOLD THE

- Pioneer Prepared Paint

For many years and

GUARANTEE
Same to
Give Satisfaction.

Dealers in paints will find it to their
interest to write us for prices
and sample cards.

HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO,,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

(ADE ONLY BY

ACME
White Lead and
Coler Works,

DETROIT, MICH,

““THE OLD ORICINAL.”

RE-PAINT

7 me Your B
eal sg"

Soa Rama 75 cts.

arriage

Paints

 

 

Liver and

who use it.

their interest
MOND TE
is claimed,

House.

DETROIT,

 

GRAND RAPIDS,

Place your order with

Retail Druggists will
to keep the DIA-
A, asit fulfills all that
making it one of the
very best selling articles handled.

our Wholesale

MOND YEA

CURES

Kidney Troubles
Blood Diseases
Constipation

—— A

Remale
Complaints

 

Being composed entirely of HERBS, it
is the only perfectly harmless remedy on
the market and is recommended by all

 

find it te

Diamond Medicine Go.,

PROPRIETORS,

MICH.

 

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Oo.,

WHOLESALE AGENTS,

MICH,

 

20,000 Sold to the Trade

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. It is sold
to the trade for 335 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
on inside 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.

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.

(SPE CIAL,
White—A solewald i oil.
Gasoline.
Our XXXX Red Cross brand is unexcellec
ranted to Give Satisfaction.
we
Naptha.

Sweet and Free from Oily Matter, and has met
the approval of many of the largest consumers.

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.

°
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

Lubri ca ting Oils

Constantly in stock, all at our C leveland prices,
thus saving you time and freight.

Grand Rapids Tank Line Co.,

WORKS—D. & M. Junction.
OFFICE ROOM—No. 4 Blodgett Block.

 

   
 

Water

1, War-

Scofield, Shurmer
Cleveland, Ohio.

VER STARS

No

.

Branch & Teagie,

 

in the State.

Wherever Introduced itis a Stayer!

ual

TO THE TRADE:

Iguarantee “SILVER STARS” to bea long,
straight filler, , made
by union labor, and to give complete satis-
faction.

with Sumatra wrapper

A Ss. DAVIE
Sole Manufacturer,

127 Lovis St., GRAND RAPIDS
MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

The most practical
hand Roaster in the
world. Thousandsin
use—giving satisfic-
tion. They aresimpie
durable and econom-
ical. Nu grocer
should be without
one. Roasts coffee
P and pea-nuts to per
fection.

Address for Cata
logue and prices,

Robt. $8, rh

48-50 Long St.
ae Ohio,

1. SCHNEIDER & 6O.,

Manufacturers of the famous

Disk and George,
Elks’ Social Session

of

 

 
  
   
 
 
 
 
 

 

And other Popular Brands Cigars, and

Jobbers of All Brands of

Fine Cut, Plug and
Smoking Tobaccos

21 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

THE “EDITOR'S CHOICE.”

 

 

!

| FLINT, Mich., April 9, 1889. |

To Whom it May Concern:

| We, the undersigned committee, 3e-

| lected by Geo. T. Warren & Co. to can-

| vas the list of names and select one for a

| Cigar Label from the many names sent |

| in by the contestants, have this day |

lt ome the following, viz: EDITOR'S |
OICE, sent in by Sig Wolf, of |

{ | Teero. Ohio.
JOHN J. Coon, Editor Flint Journal
F. H. RANKIN, JR., of Wolverine Citizen

A. L. ALDRICH, of the Flint Globe.

 

 

OUR NEW BRAND OF CIGARS,

“EDITOR’S CHOICE”

Will be ready for shipment in about
two weeks.

 

 

Price, Thirty-Three Dollars per Thousand.

We shall be pleased to receive a sample order
from you. Yours respectfully,

Geo. T. Warren & Ca,

 

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman

 

 

RANDOM REFLECTIONS. |
Business men are much given among
themselves to a discussion of the various |
methods of conducting trade to make it
the Nothing is better
than relating ex-
perience in different lines, and listening
to narratives of success. It might seem
from all this that business might be made |
a thing of absolute rule and system. But
it cannot, though some people seem
think find in
own affairs, and in his own trade, much
that will appeal to his own intelligence,
and he sho
not depend upon the theories or even the
experiences of other men. It is quite a
mistake for aman to timidly ho
self down to rules when he shoul
ahead under ti
enterprise and

himself.

greatest success.

eomparing notes,

to

so. will his

Every man

 

ld him-
ld

inspiration of his own

push

ne

 

originate methods for

The reports sent out by the commer-
cial agencies, while of a somewhat vary-
ing character in regard to the condition
of business i
gard to severa
been,
eountry so lar
ture and trade so vast, there must be|

n some sections, and in re-
] important branches, have
as a whole, In a|

ge, andin lines of manutac- |
if |

satisfactory,

some instances of depression, but the!

general outlook cannot be regarded other- |
favorable.

wise than
It is quite common to regard trade as a
1|

So general is this}

selfish. sordid thing, which is only movec

by its own interesis.

{
view of the subject that many business |
men coincide with the sentiment of the}

|
English poet:

Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment
ui
nasa ae sinks where commerce long prevails.
And yet no one can view the wonder-
ful outpouring of wealth, on the part of
the
without

business men, to flood sufferers of
Pennsylyania

personal unselfishness, magnanimity and

tne

recognizing

this

patriotism of the merchants of

country. Trade is a matter of dollars
and cents. while to make and to save
must be its purpose at all times. How-

ever, American tirade has never failed in
its duty to every obligation to society and
the country. Tender in its sympathies,

liberal in its gifts, it has a chivalry
which is always impressive in its ex-
pression.

An interesting account of the agree-

able manner in which traveling salesmen
are treated great Wanamaker es-
tablishment,. at Philadelphia, is going the
rounds of the trade papers. Any trav-
eling man can cite hundreds of instances
where they are not treated in a manner
befitting their calling. Inno department
of merchandising is there more urgent
necessity for reform than in this respect.
Salesmen, as arule, are gentlemen, and
they are inacalling which is a legiti-
mate part of every day business. They
represent all the houses, great and small,
and every line of goods. Consequently,
no merchant can afford to neglect the
offerings made by them. To be sure,
they come in swarms. when he does not
want to buy as well as when he does, and
some come of whom he does not care to
purchase at any time. Butthey all come
to him on proper business, and it is for
him to determine, and not them, what
his interest is in each particular line at
that particular visit. Hence, it is proper
that a fitting provision should be made
for their and a convenient
place be provided for the display of their
samples. All present arrangements, with
a few exceptions, are incomplete and an-
noying. A change is alike required to
satisfy the self-respect of the salesmen
and to further the interest of merchants
themselves in the purchase of
offered in this As houses expand
in their trade. when they come to occupy
buildings. when advanced sys-

in the

reception

goods

way.

modern
tems are introduced in every department, |
itis alsoatime to do something for the
convenience of the salesmen, not forget-
ting to brighten both their coming and
going with courtesy.
A consular report states that the larg- |
between South ee

tralia and the United States consists of

est item of trade

kangaroo and wallaby (a smaller mar-
supial) skins. Owing to the growth of

the demand for these skins, large parties

 

are engaged in catching these animals,

male and female, old and young, in
season and out of season. As they are

elassed as vermin, there is no close sea-

son, and these marsupials will soon t

&

The tails and hindquar-

t
|
exterminated.

ters are considered a delicacy.
ent
wholesale principle.

At pres- |

|
conducted |
The

numbers into an impro-

the slaughter is on a
animals are
driven in great
vised stock-yard and there knocked on
the head This is found
preferable to shooting, because skins that |
have been perforated by shot lose consid-
erably in market value.

——__-—-4+>
Looking Ahead.

‘What are you going to do with your
boy?’’

“Put him into a bank, provided his
constitution is a strong one.”’

‘Why is it necessary for him to have a
strong constitution?”

“So that he can stand the rigors of a
Canadian winter.”’

with waddies.

 

ad be sure that he has it, and |

D. Whitney, Jr., President.

Advertising Gards 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, Hl.

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.

_ Jacop BRowneéCos.

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 Rapidé.

 

 

AWNINGS [fe

AND TENTS.

 

 

- PERFect Fit, -:

Superior Make
eae
OVERALLS.

 

 

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

Chas. A. Coye,

Teiephone 106. 11 Pearl St.

ASK FOR THEM?

 

 

 

 

S. K. BOLLES. . DIKEMAN

S. Kk. Bolles & Co.,

77 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Cigar Uealers.

A few of our leading brands:
Bitter Sweet

Two Sizes—Sen. and Jun.

 

 

Don Rodrigo
| Two Sizes—Sen. and Jun.
De Lorenzo Ventura,
Madge, Banko,
Hamilton’s,

Honey Queen

(Look out for her. ‘‘She’s a hummer.’’)
Shoe String,
Set Up,

(**Heads-I-Win,
TEN CENT

Ruy Bilas,
Tantalizer,

Cognac,
Blue Streak,

Tails-U-Lose,”’)
SMOKE FOR FIVE.

TOSS UP =

7 A

 

We will forfeit $1,000 if the “TOSS UP”
Cigar is not a Clear Long Havana Filler of
excellent quality, equal to more than the aver-
age ten cent cigars on the market.

 

 

 

 

PEREINS & HBSS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

KK

sednersy
SOAP

Nena crca ait

 

 

 

   
 

   

ONIN

The Best Scouring and Cleaning Seapinthe World

Costs as much to manufacture as Sapolio, yet sells at
about half the price ($2.75 per box of 72 cakes). Can be
led for as much with equal or better value to the
( umer, although it is generally sold at 5 cents a
cake. Cut this out, and ask your Jobber to send youa
pox of Pride of the Kitchen. It is worth trying.

Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance G0.

1881.

 

 

ORGANIZED

CASH CAPITAL $400,000.
CASH ASSETS OVER $700,000.
LOSSES PAID $200,000.

 

Eugene Harbeck, Sec’y.

 

The Directors of ‘*The Michigan’ are representative business men of
our own State.

Fair Contracts, Equitable Rates,
Prompt Settlements,

Insure in “The Michigan.’’

 

Above is fac-similie

 

vey puluwamled
Sty OVI NUM DAWU SM;

FREE PRESS ENC. DETROIT.

of guarantee engraved on cover of carton of goods made b
Detroit, Mich., manufacturers of reliable foot-wear.

 

y Pingree & Smith,

 

Done in Good Style.

The following is an extract from a circular
lately issued by a well-known coal company:

“4)] coal shipped from this mine is carefully
polished by experienced artists in their line, and
every lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Par-
ticular 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.”

YOU

A. HIMES.

Anthracite

Wiles COAL Retail

Bituminous

IF WANT COAL IN CAR LOTS WRITE FOR

MY CIRCULAR. LIME, CEMENT, ETC.

MAIN OFFICE, 54 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

ARAVENRIGH BROS.

WV holesale Clothiers

MANUFACTURERS OF

Perfect=-Fitting Tailor-Made Clothing

AT LOWEST PRICES,

138-140 Jefferson Ave., 34-36 Woodbridge St., Detroit.

MAIL GRDERS sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive PROMPT ATTENTION.

 

 

The three wise men
of Gotham
Would not have
been so wise,
Had they not sought
for knowledge,

  
   

and eyes
In getting infor-
<——_ ano

Of every sort and kind,
Instead of going through

ee the world
a Like men both deaf and blind.
—_ ~-

And you can be as wise as they,
If you but choose to buy
The Soap that’s called the Santa CLaus—
Its good effects to try.
Because ’twill help you through your work
At such a rapid rate,
That you’ll have time to master all you caré to undertake.
All Grocers sell SANTA CLAUS SOAP.

Made by N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., CHICAGO.

P. STEKETEE & SONS;

WHOLESALE

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.

Ome

 

ST  CLANVILER, ‘Warps, Geese Peathers,
a | d § Waddings, Batts
BURLAPS. I and Twines,

Sole Agents for Valley City and Georgia Bags.
and careful attention.

Mail orders receive prompt

 

W. STEELE

Packing and Provision Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

WHOLESALE
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., 501b. cans, 201b. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails
Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc.

are very low and all goods are warranted first-class in every in-
give usa call and look over our establishment. Write us for

 

 

 

DEALERS IN

Our prices for first-class goods
stance. When in Grand Rapids,
prices.

 

|

>No Chemicals.23

W. BAKER

 
 
 
  

Breakfast Gocoa

Is absolutely pure

and it is soluble.

To increase the solubility of
the powdered cocoa, various expe-

an Ke 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 one 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

is manufactured from the first stage to the last by perfect
mechanical processes, no Chemical being used in
its preparation. By one of the most ingenious of these
nechanical 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.

 

Seventeen Years on the Market

With a steady increase in demand.

Jennings Flavoring kxtracts

ARE ALWAYS RELIABLE AND UNIFORM IN QUALITY AND PRICE, BEING
MADE EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE FINEST FRUI AT GROW CANNOT
BE OTHERWISE THAN THE FINEST FLAVORS PRODUCED.

 

 

mm
TH

Dealers will always find Jennings’ Extracts saleable and profitable

goods to add to their stock. Order through your Jobber or direct from

Jennings & Smitn,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

SEE QUOTATIONS THIS PAPER.

Nut

BPitmam d& Brooks

Eves THE OLD RELIABLE

 

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.

 

RAZ
XLE GREASE eee
—— 4 4 Z rm rm

 

; >
(ose HALL
D

Tis
O.AFTER_THIS

Boxes, Cans, Pails, Kegs, Half
Barrels and Barrels.

wend Tors

ample of the celebrated

Frazer Carriage Grease

The Frazer Goods Handled by the Jobbing
Trade Everywhere.

“ARS & CO.,
Gracker Manufacturers,

37. 89 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.