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AND

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THE DRUMMER.
Who goes and comes on the early train,
Regardless of dust. or wind, or rain,
Sut always gets there just the same?
The Drummer.

Who has a smile and kindly greet

For every friend that he may meet,

But ne’er forgets his order sheet?
The Drummer.

Who all the news and jokes can tell,
While he is trying his goods to sel],
And if the truth won't do he'll lie like—I°ll not
tell?
The Drummer.

Who clothes you well from head to feet,

And brings the nicest things to eat.

And with the ladies is always sweet?
The Drummer.

 

Who has a kind and helping hand

For every brother traveling man,

sut will beat him on asale, if he can?
The Drummer.

td

You Can tell him that your stock’s complete,

With a smile and all right, but oh! what cheek,

He proceeds to fill his order sheet.
The Drummer.

What a relief it is when he takes his pack,

How glad you are when he turns his back:

How sad to — in thirty days he’ll be
That oni Drummer.

—_ 2. >

NANCE.

‘Well, Nance, it’s done!’ <A weary-
faced woman, who was rapidly shaping
dough into loaves upon a rickety table,
and hustling them into a broken, rusty
oven, stopped her work and looked at
her husband rapturously.

“A new mill! And now, Hudson, I
don’t see nothin’ to hender ye from get-
tin’ “long right smart. [ll help ye.’’

Hudson Norris’ coarse, impassive face
showed no thrill of pleasure in the
faithful words of the eager woman.

“It's been along job,’ he said: “I’ve
thought, here’n there, we wa’n’t never
a-goin’ to get it done; but the last nail’s
driv’, an’ I’ve got trade enough to keep

 

things a-goin’ pretty lively for one
while. There’s ten new hands a-comin’
next week, Nance. You'll have to step

*round pretty smart.’’

“Yes, yes, I know.”’ rejoined Nance,
as she looked at the two-months’ baby,
just then stirring in its rude cradle, and
at the two ragged little urchins that were
playing just outside the door of the
canvas cabin; ‘I know there’ll be work,
but I’m pretty strong now. If you’re
Hudson, that’s the main
thing.’’

“Yes, that’s the main thing,’’ echoed
the man, absently, drawing hard at the
pipe which he had been filling as she
talked.

‘The trouble is.’? pursued the woman,
more to herself than to her phlegmatic
spouse, ‘the trouble is, the baby’s sorter
ailin’. I can’t bear to hear him a-eryin’,
an’ I can’t stop to see to him !’

The last loaf was inthe oven now, and
the tired woman, not stopping to cleanse
her hands, nor even to brush the flour
from her poor apron—for Nance had had
little training in neatness—sat down and
took the scrawny baby in her arms. It
had begun to cry—a weak, pitiful little
wail, that struck heart-breakingly upon
Nance’s mother-ear.

‘Good Lord! can’t you make the brat
shut up ?”? exclaimed the father, harshly,
after the little wail had continued for
several minutes.

Nance looked up appealingly, but she
did not speak, and her husband rose and
strode heavily to the door.

The afternoon was just beginning to
wane, and the scene without was very
fairs the clear California air seeming to
enhalo everything, and to bring distant
objects near. The Sierras, miles and
miles away, rose, notched and snow-
crowned, against the deep-blue autumn
sky. Here and there upon their white
background curled the smoke of a set-
tler’s cabin. Groves of fragrant ever-
greens dotted the slopes near by.

A brawling mountain stream sparkled
in the October sunlight within afew rods
of the canvas cabin, and, beside its well-
built dam, stood the mill upon which
Hudson Norris was founding ambitions
for the future, of which his care-bur-
dened, untaught wife did not dream. As
he stood there looking out, the grandeur
of the distant mountains with the shad-
ows of the flitting clouds upon them, the
glory of the sunlit spaces, the inspira-
tion of the rushing river—these were
lest upon his sordid soul. He saw but
the unpainted timbers of the new mill,
around which a few laborers were still
lingering, picking up their tools, and ad-
miring the finished work. In the impa-
tience of his thought, the wheel was
revolving, a score of men were moving
at his bidding about it, and money,
friends, reputation, were flowing in upon
him.

The woman, who had risen in her ef-
forts to quiet the baby, came up beside
him and looked out. The splendor of
the shining snow in the distance caught
her weary eye.

“Oh, Hudson!’ she said, moving from
side to side to quiet the little one, as she
pointed her worn finger toward the hills,
‘look there !’’

“Good Lord! there’s enough to see
without lookin’ off to the ends of the
earth,’’ replied the man, roughly. ‘‘If I
look at my mill, an’ calculate on that,
itll be all lcan do. A mess yow’d make
©’ things if they was left to you!”’

‘‘T know it,’’ said the woman, meekly.
“T ain’t got a head for business like you,
Hudson — there, there, baby — there,
there!’ And. without saying another
word to defend herself, Nance turned
within, laid the moaning child in its cra-
die, and attended to the bread in the
rusty oven.

Two days later there was a funeral in
the little cabin, and out in the little gar-
den patch a grave was hollowed for the
baby. Nance’ heart ached as though it
would burst her patient breast, as Mr.
Reynolds, the miner preacher, who pre-
sided over the little flock in the vicinity
of Hudson’s mill, spoke a last prayer
over the tiny pine coffin, and when she
went to bed she wept, and wept, far into
the night. Hudson had bidden her ‘‘go
to sleep,’’ rather gently at first, for the

' death of the child had touched him; but

as the hours wore on, and her grief—so

; unreasonable to him—continued, he had

 

grown rougher.

b ye’ he growled, unable to
sleep, though her tears were noiseless
and she lay very quietly, ‘‘ain’t ye got
no sense at all? Ten new men a-comin’
next week, an’ that howlin’ little critter
out 0’ the way. You oughter thank the
Lord, ’stead o’ carryin’ on like this.”’

‘‘Poor Nance! It was hard not to be
allowed even the privilege of mourning
for her dead !

But the ten new men came; and in
caring for them, and for the ten whom
Hudson had previously employed in the
rude old structure, which had just been
replaced by the more ambitious new mill,
Nance had, indeed, little time to regret
her loss. All day, and day after day, her
patient feet trod back and forth in the
narrow cabin. preparing her boarders’
food, making their primitive beds and
earing for her thin, unhealthy children.
She had never been to school at all.
Hudson could read and write. accom-
plishments which only increased the pro-
found respect in which Nance held him;
but he had not used to care that she was
so illiterate. Now, however, as the
dreams which he had dreamed when he
enlarged his mill began to come true, he
began to think more of Nance’s defi-
ciencies, and to regard her with even
more of contempt than se had always
had for her since the hallucinations of
courtship had vanished.

One day, two or three years after he
had finished his mill, he came in with a
piece of paper folded in his hand.

‘Want to hear some news, Nance 2’
he said.

Some news?’ inquired Nance, with
languid interest. Another child had
come and faded away since the mill had
been finished, and Nance’s faee had
grown slower to lighten than it had used
to be. But her heart was as true as ever
to her husband.

**Yes—look at that and see how you
like it.’’

He spread before her an architect’s
plan—the plan of a dwelling-house.

“What is it?’ asked Nance, staring
uncomprehendingly at the paper.

“By G—!’ roared her husband, utterly
exasperated by her ignorance and stupid-
ity. Ain’t you got no sense at all?
It’s a house—the way the rooms is fixed
*n’ all that! V’m a-goin’ to build a new
house, ’n’ if you’ve got gumption enough
to move inte it, you can live there when
it’s done.’’

Nance did not pay any attention to his
roughness nor to his profanity.

**A new house !”’ she repeated, her tone
changing, and her face growing almost
radiant. “That's splendid, Hudson!
I’m glad enough. How I have patched
this old, leaky thing! Well, well!’

Her pleasure subdued his impatience.

‘“’m goin’ to begin it right away,’’ he
continued, in his usual impassive tone:
‘I saw som parties about it when I was
down to ’Frisco last month, an’ to-day
them plans come. The timber ’ll be cut
*n’ hauled right away, ’n’ I reckon we’ll
get moved before winter.’’

The house, being a bare and simple
edifice, sprang up asif by magic, and
Nance felt one of the few joys of her
colorless life, when they ‘‘set up’’ in the
new home. Then a half-dozen more
years sped swiftly away. Several other
puny, feeble little creatures were born
to Hudson and Nance, but they and one
of the two eldest boys, who seemed to
have been gifted with but little more
vitality than the rest, sickened and died,
and, at last, only one boy, little Pete, was
left to them. Night and day now the
mill wheel was spinning round. and Hud-
son was getting rich.

“There? he said, coming in at the
close of a summer’s day, and flinging
down a copy of the county newspaper
triumphantly on the table before Nance,
‘“‘Read that, will you ?’’

Nance picked up the paper dumbly.
She looked at the printed page, a flush
crept over her wan cheeks, and then she
dropped it, and, putting her hardened
hands to her face, she burst into a pas-
sion of tears.

“TI can’t read it, Hudson—you know I
can’t!’ she sobbed; ‘you ain’t a-flingin’
it at me, are you 2”’

She removed her hands and looked up
at him piteously.

He had stood still, gazing fixedly at
her. The unexpected intensity of her
mood had, for once, paralyzed his over-
weening self-consciousness, and for a
moment he could not speak. Then he
shook himself a little, and answered, un-
gently,

“Oh, quit yer eryin’, Nanee; any-
body’d think you hadn’t got twenty men
to see to by the way yer idlin’ round
here.”’

“But,’? said Nance, returning to the
other subject, the one that lay nearer her
heart, perhaps, than any other. excepting
her husband’s advancement, ‘I can’t
read, Hudson, an’ you won’t let anybody
know it, will you? An’ you won't fling
it at me any more ?”’

Something in her pleading tone seemed
to enrage the vulgar fellow.

“Tell anybody ’’ he shouted. ‘‘D’ye
think I’m such a fool as totell anybody
that my wife can’t read? Lord, no! A
pretty wife you are for 2 man that’s
talked of like that?’—pointing to the
paper—‘‘in the Morning Star! A fool I
was to marry you, and a fool lam to
stick by you!’

Hudson Norris walked angrily away to
his mill, while the tears began to flow
still faster down his wife’s pale cheeks,
and her spirit almost forsook her. A
great fearfentered into her loving soul
from that moment, and she tried more
eagerly than ever, if such a thing were
possible, to please her husband.

After he had gone, she called to little
Pete, and made him read to her the arti-
cle in which his father’s name was men-
tioned. That Pete could read almost as
well as Hudson could, was a great com-
fort to poor Nance, but still it did not

 

quite make up to her for her own ig-
norance.

Her heart beat fast with pride as the
editor spoke of Hudson’s enterprise, his
shrewdness, his prosperity and the pros-
pect of his near political advancement.
She admitted to herself the justice of
‘his words to her. No, she was not a fit
; wife fora man who, like Hudson, had
‘been to San Francisco many times,
, and who even went to New York
and New England occasionally. who
could read and write and take his
|place so creditably among men that he
| was even talked about in the news-
' papers—oh, if she only knew more! And
|patient, honest Nance wiped her eyes,
ias, with a heartache deeper even than
; that with which she had buried her chil-

, dren, she rose after Pete’s reading, and |

i went back to the treadmill in which for

linearly twenty years now she had toiled |

{for her husband. ‘‘Not stick by her!’
|What cruel words! Hudson could not
{have thought of what he was saying!

| A tew months after
; Hudson Norris went East

on business.

|The weeks flew by, until considerably |

;mvre than the time required for such a

i trip had passed, and still hedid not come. |

| Nance began to feel a little uneasy, but
i she expressed no misgivings. and, indeed,
did not allow herself to worry, until one
day a letter came to her directed in the
large, sprawling handwriting which,
though she could not read it, she recog-
nized at once as that with which Hudson
was wont to cover the papers in his desk
and lying about the house.

The letter reached her one Monday
morning as she was standing over her
wash-tub. She gave the boy who had
brought it a ‘‘bit,’? put the letter in her
pocket and went on with her scrubbing,
thinking excitedly meanwhile. What—
what was in the letter? Whom could
she trust to read it to her? Little Pete
could read, but he could not write nor
read writing. Whither should she go?

She bethought herself at last of Mr.
Reynolds, who lived not faraway. He
had buried her children; he had kindly
tried to comfort her as one by one her
fragile idols had fallen away. He, at
least, would not speak to anyone outside
| of her ignorance.

She wiped the suds from her hands,
donned her faded sun-bonnet, and hur-
ried over to the minister’s house. He
heard her request, took her into a room
apart, and broke the seal ef the mys-
terious missive.

‘I have sold the milJl.’’ began the bru-
tal letter, “and 'm gome to live in
’Frisco. You ain’t a fit wife for me. and
Ive made up my mind to leave you.
You can shift for yourself, I reckon.
You know how to work, and you can get
along somehow.”’

The minister stumbled slowly over the
heartless words. He would rather have
cut his hand off than have read them to
the patient-eyed woman before him,
hanging breathlessly, painfully upon
every word. The man choked up and
could not speak as he concluded. His
indignation and pity for the poor crea-
ture before him completely overmastered
him. For a moment she sat as if stunned.
Then she rose with a quiet dignity,
smoothed down her untidy dress, and
said, calmly, as if confessing a sin:

“IT know I wa’n’t no kind of a woman
for Hudson. He’s smart—Hudson
can read an’ write an’ manage business.
He ain’t to blame. It’s all my fault,
but—but—”’ here her voice began to
tremble and then her composure forsook
her entirely—‘tbut—there’s Pete—you
don’t think he’l] wan’t to take my little
Pete, do you ?”’

The poor woman, overcome at the
prospect of a double loss, dropped back
into her seat and began tocry violently.

‘Y dare him to try !’ exclaimed Rey-
nolds, finding his voice at last.

“The scoundrel! the wretch! ‘Shift
for yourself,’ indeed! He’ll have to
provide for you, Mrs. Norris. The law’ll
make him, and J’1] see that the law is en-
forced.”’

The **Mrs. Norris’’ seemed to grate up-
on Nance’s ears. Nobody had ever called
her ‘‘Mrs. Norris’? before.

‘‘Nance,’”’? she corrected him humbly.
‘Everybody calls me Nance.’’

She rose without any other remark, ex-
pressing no indignation at her husband,
nor any wish that he should be forced to
pay his just dues to one who had spent
the best years of her life in slaving for
him. But Reynolds did just as he had
said, and gained areluctant promise from
the unprincipled fellow that he would
not rob the mother of her child.

““T’ll take the best care of him I can,’’
said Nance, when this good news was
brought to her. ‘‘l’]] make a gentleman
of him that Hudson won’t be ashamed of.
He needn’t be afraid that I'll make him
like me.’? Nance’s scorn of herself was
enough to make one weep, who knew how
she had loved and toiled and sorrowed!

A comfortable home was purchased for
Nance in one of the pleasantest parts of
the scattered little village. Hudson was
compelled to send her a scanty allowance
quarterly, and she eked out enough of an
income by letting the upper part of her
house to support Pete and herself with-
out difficulty.

A young couple named Morse, from the
far East, happened to be Nance’s lodgers
—the husband a quiet, hard-working
young fellow, who kept the books for the
new millj owners, and the wife, a neat,
pretty, wé@-bred girl, the daughter of a
New England farmer. Emma Morse was
the first real lady that Nance had ever
seen. She had not been brought up in
log huts, nor in canvas cabins, and though
she did her own housework, it was per-
formed with a neatness and a daintiness
of which poor Nance had never dreamed.
She regarded her lodger as a phenome-
non, and stared at her and at her orderly
kitchen, whenever she got a chance.
Little Mrs. Morse, on her side, was quite
horrified at Nance’s slatternliness, and,
not recognizing at first her good qual-
ities, kept out of her way as much as
possible. Little by little, however, a

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this occurrence, |

NO. 300.

word here and a word there taught the
| trim little lady that Nance had a soul as
| fine and gentle as her own, and that it
| was her *‘bringing up’’ which had pre-
| vented her development as a tidy house-
| keeper. She accordingly began to encour-
| age Nance to come up and see her some-
| times, and spoke kind words to her,
| which were to Nance’s sore heart like
coo] rain upon flowers wilted with fervent
{heat. She ran up nearly every day to
talk with her little lodger, and asked her
| all sorts of questions, which, beginning
bed devine Nance’s true attitude toward
| the world. Mrs. Morse did not resent.

| “Lived out when you was a gal, I
| s’pose?”’ she said, as she watched her
| little lodger daintily washing the dishes
; one day after her dinner.
| ‘‘No, Lhaven’t ever ‘lived out.’ I never
| did housework very much, any way,’’ re-
sponded Mrs. Morse, pleasantly.

‘You don’t mean to say so!’ said
; Nance, in wonder, ‘‘and do work so ship-
| shape, too! It beats all!’
| Another day she happened in when
| Mrs. Morse was making a dress.
| “Oh?’ she exclaimed, ‘tyou did dress-
| makin’ when you was a gal!”’

‘‘No,’’ returned Mrs. Morse, merrily,
“T never ‘dress-maked,’ Nance. You
haven’t got me right yet.”’

Only once more did Nance hazard a
guess as to her puzzling lodger’s early
life. She found her one morning busy
with pen and ink in answering letters,
and declared, triumphantly, ‘I bet you
was a school-marm before you was mar-
ried!’ but Mrs. Morse had never taught
school, and Nance gave her up as_ not to
be accounted for.

But they grew to be very good friends.
Little Pete, now a boy of fifteen, but
small for his age, loved to crawl up-stairs
to the neat, prettily-furnished rooms of
their lodgers, so different from the bare
untidiness below, which Nance would
gladly have remedied if she had known
how: but she had no one to tell her, for
Mrs. Morse did not dare, and Nance was
too slow and dense to profit much, in a
practical way, by the example the busy
little bride set her.

‘It’s prettier up there,’’ said Pete to
his mother one day, pointing upward to
their lodgers’ rooms.

It was true that their little living-room,
in which his mother had her bed, and
| where the dishes often stood unwashed
| from morning till night, was not particu-
larly inviting. but Pete, who loved his
mother dearly, had not realized that
there might be a more agreeable order of
things introduced, until he had visited
Mrs. Morse’s pretty rooms, and had sat,
awestricken, in her little wicker chair
with its dainty bows of blue ribbon.

‘I guess pa’d like to see things slicked
up some, if he should come home,”’ con-
tinued Pete. ‘‘It’s mighty nice up there.
She puts the dishes away and sweeps up
every time they eat.’’

This seemed a terrible waste of time
and energy to Nance. But as she had so
much more time than in the old days, she
concluded to try and make a few homely
changes, particularly if Pete thought it
, Would please ‘‘pa;’? and the very next

day, by way of beginning, the bed was
moved into another room, while a slow
| but steady improvement took place from
| that time in Nance’s very rudimentary
; housekeeping.

| One day she told Mrs. Morse her story,
|and the happy little bride shed many
tears over the pathos of the hard tale, in
; the course of which Nance never once
blamed her husband; it was ‘“‘all her
fault,’’ she was ‘‘so or’nary, and not a
| proper wife for a man dike Hudson!”
‘-There’s something that I think might
fetch Hudson, maybe,’’ she said, in con-
cluding, ‘‘if—if I could read and write,
you know. He learned when he was lit-
tle, but I never had a day’s schoolin’ in
my life. I’m ashamed to ask Pete. [I’m
| that slow and dull—I’d be ashamed to
| have him know how stupid I am—but ’m
a good washer. If you’d give me some
lessons, I might do your washin’ an’
ironim’.”’

Little Mrs. Morse was only too glad to
attempt the task of instructing poor
Nance, and she found her a most diligent
if not a particularly quick-witted learner.
The poor stiff fingers, worn almost to
stumps in her husband’s service, soon
tired of the new work set them to do.
But Nance would not stop for the pain,
and simply pausing torub them now and
then, she would begin again. There was
so much at stake!

Invariably, after a lesson, she would
linger a few moments to talk of ‘‘Hud-
son,’’ his good looks, his ‘‘smartness,’’
how fond he had been of her when they
were first married, and how surprised
and pleased he would be when he found
that she could read and write. After she
had become tolerably proficient, he came
on two oceasions to the house to see Pete,
but the wife never dropped a hint of
what she was doing. The second time,
he had happened to come when Mrs.
Morse was sitting at her sewing in his
wife’s room.

‘‘There,’’? he said, as she closed the
door and hastened away as soon as she
could with politeness withdraw, ‘‘that’s
the kind of woman for me. It’s the kind’’
—and he looked at poor Nance with a
scowl of brutal disapprobation—‘‘that I
eught to have married, and should have,
if I hadn’t been a fool!’

Nance did not resent his words, but
she looked at her little neighbor with a
new admiration, and determined that in
everything she would model herself after
what ‘‘Hudson liked.’’

The reading and writing lessons were
kept a profound secret from Pete, as
well as from his father. Pete was to
have a lovely surprise when ma could
write a copy for him instead of his
teacher. But one day the boy complained
of being ill.

“Say,’’ cried poor Nance, climbing
with tottering steps the stairs that led up
to her lodgers’ rooms, ‘‘Say, will you
come down ’n’ seta spell with Pete, while

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AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

Praddox & Co. have engaged in the
produce business at 287 South Division
street.

C. A. Anderson has engaged in the
grocery business at Upper Big Rapids.
I. M. Clark & Son furnished the stock.

Gibbs & Ritchie have added a line of
groceries to their harness business, at
Three Rivers. The stock was purchased
here.

D. Sullivan has opened a grocery store
at the corner of Jefferson street and But-
terworth avenue. The stock was pur-
chased at this market.

Chas. E. Hall has taken in a partner
in the commission business in the person
of his brother, Frank Hall, of Otsego.
The style of the firm is Chas. E. Hall
& Co.

Hyde & Verplanck have sold their
meat market at 253 Jefferson avenue to
Katz Bros., who will continue the busi-
ness. Hyde & Verplanck have bought
Duke Erwin’s meat business at 696 Mad-
ison avenue.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Ludington—H. Wanderer is closing out
his grocery stock.

Traverse City — John Shaddock. the
undertaker, is dead.

Byron Center—S. A. Johnson has sold
out his meat business.

Hamilton—C. M. Woodruff has opened
a flour and feed store.

Sparta—A. S. Howard will engage in
the boot and shoe business.

Flint—Chas. Craft sueceeds Miller &
Baker in the drug business.

Locke—D. W. Fisher succeeds Geo. H.
Price in the grocery business.

Cheboygan—F. C. McDonald has sold
his meat market to Frank O. Sier.

Lapeer—Arbury Bros. have purchased
McWelty & Pulver’s meat business.

Hamilton—Berkel & Polaken have
added flour to their market business.

Hart—Tbe grocery firm of Stitt &
Knox has dissolved, O. W. Knox retiring.

Fenton—E. C. Forte is succeeded by
D. W. Peabody in the dry goods business.

Manistee—J. D. Maxted has engaged
in the auction and commission business.

Bay City—Tepoorten & Kent succeed
John H. Lambert in the hardware busi-
ness.

Beiding—Wilson & Friedly, formerly
of Lake Odessa, have opened a furniture
store.

Northville—W. J. Buford has
chased John Ovenshire’s
iness.

Saranac—H. T. Johnson has sold a
half-interest in his grocery stock to D. E.
Rogers.

Hopkins Station—S. A. Buck has sold
his interest in the meat market to Gale
Helmer.

Newberry—H. D. Chamberlain has en-
gaged in the furniture and undertaking
business.

Ishpeming—F. J. Schweitzer & Co.,
general dealers, have assigned to F. A.
Tonnison.

Gladstone—C. P. Dolan & Co. is the
style of the firm succeeding J. J. Miller
in the meat business.

Petoskey—Nathan M. Montgomery has
opened agrocery store. J. H. Thompson
& Co. furnished the stock.

Sault Ste. Marie—Mrs. Annie Shafer
has opened a grocery store at the corner
of Spruce and Tyson streets.

Sault Ste. Marie—J. P. Haller will re-
move his stationery and jewelry stock
into one of the new Gage stores.

Lansing—O. C. Klock, J. J. Baird and
L. H. Hudson have engaged in the music
business in the new Baird block.

Cedar Springs—C. F. Bell and L.
Bearse have moved their harness and
shoe shop into the O’ Betts building.

fronton—J. H. Purvis is building a
blacksmith shop in the rear of his gro-
cery store, to be occupied by Mr. Hicks.

Detroit—Matheson & Wineman, lum-
ber dealers, have dissolved, John A.
Matheson continuing under the same
style.

Coopersville—Watson & DeVoist, deal-
ers in general merchandise, have dis-
solved, D. O. Watson continuing the
business.

South Haven—M. F. Hughes has
opened an auction store here. It is said
that his goods are from one of the stores
in Glenn.

Manistee—Fred C. Larsen has enlarged
his grocery store by an addition of thirty
feet, making the building 25x112 feet in
dimensions.

Manistee—The crockery stock of Bau-
mann & Denning has been sold to John
Nisson, who will close out the stock by
special sales.

Sault Ste. Marie—A. Gladhill will re-
move his jewelry establishment to one of
the stores in the new Gage building,
when completed.

Sault Ste. Marie—V. R. Conway has
leased one of the stores in the new Gage
building, and will establish a branch
drug store there as soon as the building
is completed.

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furniture bus-

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Cedar Springs—Mrs. Anna Peake, of

Rockford, has opened a restaurant in
| the Carr building.
Coopersville—A. R. Van Allsburg is
enlarging the capacity of his store by
building a gallery extending from the
center to the rear.

Manistee—Somerville & Johnson have
begun the erection of an addition to their
store building, 26x50 feet in dimensions
and two stories high.

Coopersville—The stock in Henry Fer-
guson’s harness shop was sold last week
to Geo. L. Root, and the manager, Mr.
Hollister, has returned to Muskegon.

Coral—H. C. Sturtevant has purchased
J. A. Barry’s store building and will open
a dry goods and clothing stock about
July 1. Dr. Barry will locate in Montana.

Walkerville—T. J. Knowles has re-
moved his general stock from Volney to
this place and consolidated it with his
stock here, under the style of T. J. &
L. A. Knowles.

Hastings—Phineas Smith, of the gro-
eery firm of Smith, Hams & VanArman,
has sold his interest to his partners, who
will continue the business under the
style of Hams & VanArman.

Sault Ste Marie—Ira Curtis, of Cleve-
land, and A. M. Pelton, late of Owosso,
have purchased the general stock of C.
W. Tubbs. They will close out the cloth-
ing and boot and shoe stock and restock
with dry goods.

Muskegon—John Vanderwerp, Jr., has
finished moving the stock from his hard-
ware store on Pine street to his main
store, at 7 W. Western avenue. The
store thus vacated by Mr. Vanderwerp
has been occupied by him for a period of
sixteen years. He started in that store
in 1873, being then but eighteen years of
age, and beginning business on a bor-
rowed capital of 3600.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Morley—Higbee & Hugh started their
sawmill last week.

Muskegon—Strong & McBride started
their shingle mill June 17.

Saline—Dennis & Glover, machinists,
are succeeded by Brown & Mason.

Martiny—The Geo. Collin Co. is put-
ting a new engine in its lumber mill.

Harbor Springs—The Roe sawmill on
Fox island has begun cutting timber.

Cedar Springs—Mr. Velzy, of Allen-
dale, will operate a shingle factory here.

Jackson—T. S. Cline has organized an
organ factory, with a capital of $20,000.

Whitehall—Chas. Johnson’s_ shingle
mill has shut down, on account of a slow
market.

Muskegon—S. H. Woodward & Co. suc-
ceed L. O. Beerman & Co. in the wagon
business.

Hopkins Station—The Hopkins Spring
Seat Co. has sold out to Simpson &
Simpson.

Eaton Rapids—Wm. Smith is consider-
ing the sale of his water power and saw-
mill at Smithville.

Fremont—The Darling Milling Co. is
about to make some extensive additions
to its mill machinery.

Brutus—Hoig & Brown have received
the boiler, engine and machinery for
theis new shingle mill.

East Saginaw — The Tittabawassee
Boom Co. has rafted 116,644,000 feet of
logs thus far this season.

Hopkins Station—A bonus of $1,000
has been raised for any one who will
build and operate a gristmill here.

Manistique—The Chicago Lumbering
Co. will erect new kilns and begin the
manufacture of lime on an extended
seale.

Bay City—The tug Sea Gull is on the
way over from Spanish river with a raft
of 3,500,000 feet belonging to Baldwin &
Nelson.

Sand Lake—J. E. Goul’s shingle mill has
shut down to put in a drag saw after a
run of sixty-eight days without the loss
of one hour.

Cheboygan — John Noll and Patrick
Morrissey have rented the vacant store
in the LeGault block, and will start a
cigar factory.

East Saginaw—The Linton Manufac-
turing Co. is putting in new machinery
to double the capacity of its sash and
door department.

Detroit—The store of the Beals & Sel-
kirk, Trunk Co. on Woodward avenue,
was raided by burglars June 11 and over
$100 worth of plunder secured.

Three Oaks—J. B. Pomeroy will re-
move his sawmill to Marion county, Fla.,
where he will manufacture a new inven-
tion—a cylindrical orange crate.

Ann Arbor—Walter T. Hicks, is going
to Detroit with the Eureka Peptonized
Beef Co. which has been located in Balti-
more. Detroit capital is interested in it.

Charlevoix — The Michigan Shaved
Shingle Co.’s mill began operations last
week with one machine. The company
has timber on hand for 8,000,000 shin-
gles.

Ypsilanti—The Common Council has
agreed to buy Cornwell’s lower paper
mill for $26,000, and will remove the
electric plant into it, using the machin-
ery to run the water works as well.

Marquette—The Vulcan and Norway
iron mines will cease all non-productive
and exploring work for the time being,
owing to the damage to some of the
great iron works in the Conemaugh yal-
ley.

 

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Bay City—Jenison & Co.’s hardware
store was gutted by fire Friday morning.
Loss, $35,000; insured for $10,000.

Lowell—T. L. Foster has his engine
set up and will finish sawing out the logs
at the old mill yard.

Jackson — The Jackson Water Gas
Co. will put up a $50,000 coal gas plant,
provided sufficient encouragement is held
out. It guarantees to furnish gas to
consumers for $1 per thousand.

Bay City—It is stated, that Hagarty &
Co. will move their hoop factory from
Kawkawlin to Charles Smith’s old mill
site on the west side, and that a planing
mill and salt block will be added to the
equipment. Mr. Smith is a partner of
Hagarty.

Beaver Lake—Chas. Moore has a force
of ninety men at work cutting logs.
Seven trainloads of logs are shipped
every week. The Norway logs are railed
to Salling, Hanson & Co., at Grayling,
and the white pine to Pitts & Cranage,
at Bay City.

Detroit—The American Office Supply
Co., which includes Horace G. Van Tuyl,
John M. Buckley, Fred B. Wemple, Ed.
B. Hutchinson, W. W. Collier and Her-
schel Whittaker among its stockholders,
has filed articles of association with a
paid-up capital of $50,000.

Whitehall—Smith & Field have bought
all the land owned by E. T. Slocum in
Fruitland township, except that on sec-
tion 5. The purchase comprises about
1,160 acres and is estimated to yield
about a million anda half of pine tim-
ber and a lot of oak and hemlock.

Gladwin—A. M. Bentley & Co., who
have been operating extensively for the
past year on the Pinconning branch of
the Michigan Central, have bought tracts
of land near here, on which they will
erect a sawmill, which they expect to
have running inside of thirty days.

Muskegon—The Muskegon Iron Works
Co. has organized with the following
officers: Daniel Kerr, President; Joseph
Latch, Vice-President; Wm. Schergan,
Treasurer; Chas. Kerr, Secretary. The
company will erect a foundry and ma-
chine shop and engage in the general
jobbing trade. A site will be selected
and buildings put up as soon as possible.

Bay City—The mills here are doing a
good business, the logs that are coming
in by rail and in lake rafts reinforcing
those from the Tittabawassee Boom Co.,
and keeping the mills well supplied.
Mill docks are in some instances begin-
ning to feel the weight of their burden,
and green lumber is meeting with a slow
sale.

Detroit—The Buttercup Mining Co. in-
cludes the following stockholders: Tru-
man H. Newberry and JohnS. Newberry,
1,000 shares each; Robert T. Gibbons,
1,199 shares; E. Brady Wendell, 160
shares; T. H. Newberry, trustee, 100
shares Charles A. Malcouronne, one
share. The capital stock includes $5,000
cash and mining property said to be val-
ued at $95,000.

Detroit—G. S. and Ira B. Bennett have
brought suit in the Circuit Court for
$15,000 damages against Arthur Rankin,
because of alleged refusal to carry out
an agreement to sell 20,000,000 feet of
pine timber on Fitzwilliam or Horse
Island, in Lake Huron, for $3 stumpage,
they to pay $15,000 on delivery of a valid
title, and the remainder when the pine
was cut and scaled.

Pickford—Geo. J. Griffith, of Detroit,
formerly of Oswego, N. Y., has bought
C. W. Pickford’s old stone mill and will
convert it into a large milling property.
He will operate a lath, a shingle and a
roller mill. Thirty tons of machinery
have been brought from the East for the
purpose. The citizens and farmers in
and about Pickford raised a $1,000 bonus
to aid the enterprise.

Manistee—The almost constant rains
of the past three weeks have helped
matters on the upper river wonderfully.
With a start of at least a month earlier
than they had last year, and a good many
million less to drive, they are not any
farther ahead than they were at a cor-
responding time last season. On the
lower river the logs are coming along
nicely and the sorters are getting all they
can comfortably attend to.

Manistique — Last month the three
mills here made a cut of over 14,000,000
feet, the largest they have ever recorded.
Of this, the Chiicago Lumbering Co. cut
5,300,000 feet, the balance being cut by
the two mills operated by the Weston
Lumber Co., mill No. 1 meeting with
several breakages during the month.
The cut of the three mills for the season,
up to June 1, aggregates 29,000,000 feet.
During the same time last year the cut
was only 8,000,000 feet.

Manistee—The Charles Rietz & Bros.
Salt & Lumber Co. has been experiment-
ing with gas from one of its salt wells
for the past two months. It has had
twenty-five flames running steadily dur-
ing that time, and now thinks it has an
unlimited flow. About August 1 it in-
tends te take steps to utilize the gas asa
fuel with which to make salt. Should
this experiment prove a success, it will
go far to revolutionize the production of
salt cheaply, as the handling of the fuel,
more especially in the winter, is one of
the prime sources of expense connected
with the product.

 

Wool, Leather and Tallow.

The wool market is firm at the east
and excited west with little being done
at either point. There has been more
sold East the past week but offerings are
limited. Some think the high prices
have come to stay, based on scant supply
which gives strong tone to the market.
On other hand, manufacturers will not
be forced to buy when they can get no
corresponding advance for cloth, and
which they claim can’t be done while
there is so much on the market left over
from last year. Again, some of our
larger mills have stocks from last year,
and from that they are offering goods
that can’t be produced from new wool at
present prices. Again, they buy yarns,
which still come in under low duties,
and England is making this her dumping
ground for her surpluss, taking advan-
tage of every change in the tariff. The
excitement West is kept up by a few
local buyers only. The heavier buyers
will not take at advanced prices. The
wet weather holds the clip back another
week, which is now two weeks late.

Hides are quiet and lower for heavy
harness stock. Branded and No. 2s are
some firmer, owing to the losses by wash-
outs of some heavytanners. The leather
market is dull and sluggish.

Tallow is lower. with little demand.

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Gripsack Brigade.

Ed. Mangold has a new pug dog.
Wherever Ed. goes the dog is sure to go.

O. B. Piekett, right bower for M. V-
Gundrum & Co.. of Leroy, is in town for
a day or two. on his way to Little Rock,
Ark.

S. K. Bolles « Co. have engaged H. S.
Barker and Frank M. Carroll to repre-
sent them on the road and Geo. Thayer
to handle their city trade.

J. A. Gonzalez, formerly traveling
salesman for the Alabastine Co., has en-
gaged with Heaton & Co., cigar manu-
facturers of Philadelphia.

W. F. West, formerly engaged in the
grocery business here and at Lake Odes-
sa, is working the city trade for the
Grand Rapids Tank Line Co.

Geo. E. Hannahs, having turned his
trade in this State over to Chas. M. Falls,
has taken the management of Franklin
MacVeagh & Co.’s business at Miles City
and Fort Keogh, Mont. He will reside
at the latter place, where he will shortly
be rejoined by his family.

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Purely Personal.

Mrs. Wm. T. Lamoreaux has returned
from Johnstown, Penn.

A. C. Barkley, the Crosby general
dealer, was in town Monday.

H. H. Pope, President of the Allegan
B. M. A.. was in town Monday.

W. S. Root, the Tallmadge general
dealer, was in town last Friday.

Hannibal B. Wagar, the Cedar Springs
hardware dealer, was in town Monday.

Samuel M. Lemon left this morning
for Sault Ste. Marie. He will visit Es-
canaba before returning, which will be
the latter part of the week.

Fred Beard, the Morley grocer, leaves
the middle of next month for Europe,
where he will spend the summer, putting
in several weeks with his parents at
Falmouth, Eng. He will be accompanied
by his family.

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Bank Notes.

North Townsend, President of the
First National Bank of Vassar, is dead.

It is now stated that A. V. Mann, of
Muskegon, will be associated with C. J.
Church in the proposed bank on South
Division street.

On the 10th inst., the stockholders of
the Carson City Savings Bank held a
special meeting and rescinded the reso-
lution that they adopted some time ago
to close up the affairsof the bank. J. E.
Just, Cashier of the lonia County Savings
Bank, and two other persons were elected
directors to fill the vacancies. The bank
will continue business under the same

management.

The Hardware Market.

Steel nails are a little week and jobbers
are quoting regularly at $1.90, with lib-
eral concessions in large blocks. Owing
to the shutting down of many glass fac-
tories, prices are considerably stiffer,
many jobbers refusing to sell within 5
per cent. as cheap as 30 days ago. The
recent disasters in Pennsylvania have
stiffened most grades of iron, but brought
about no particular advance. Sisal and
manilla rope are a little weak, but no

change has occurred in the price.
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Still Talking Higher Prices.

The meeting of fruit jar manufacturers,
which was to have been held at Cincin-
nati last Wednesday, was postponed
until July 1. The wanufacturers still
talk about higher prices for fruit jars,
and as they have the power in their own
hands, they can put the price wherever
they want it.

———_— 2

Look Out for Glucose Sugars.
Local jobbers have received samples
of glucose sugars. manufactured by a
Philadelphia refiner. They are of three
grades, bordering on a ‘‘dirty brown,”’
and are sold at ‘gc per lb. below the

price of straight goods.
———

Acme—C. E. Silver is putting in steam
power to run his shingle mill.

 

 

MICHIGAN KNIGHTS OF THE GRIP.

 

President—A. F. Peake, Jackson.
Seeretary—L. M. Mills, Grand Rapids.
Official Organ—Michigan Tradesman.

 

The new engraved certificates of mem-
bership are now in press and will be
mailed to the members early next week.
Should any member fail to receive a cer-
tificate, the Secretary will gladly send a
duplicate.

Treasurer Cooper writes me that the
traveling men of Lansing will picnic at
Lake Odessa on June 22. He cordially
invites all Knights of the Grip to join in
the festivities.

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Fourteen additions to the hotel agree-
ment have been secured during the past
week, so that the list now stands as fol-
lows:

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.

Ei tiott Hotel, Ludington.

Imus House, Pentwater.

Wigton House, Hart.

Phenix Hotel, Charlotte.

Commercial Hotel, Vermontville.

Sherman House, Allegan.

Hastings House, Hastings.

Hotel Miner, Lake Odessa.

New Tinkham, Grand Ledge.

Hotel Exchange, Otsego.

Williams House, Battle Creek.

American House, Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo House, Kalamazoo.

McElrain House, Vicksburg.

Goodwin House, Cassopolis.

Three Rivers House, Three River.

Hotel Belding, Belding.

New Commercial, Ionia.

Brackett House, Big Rapids.

L. M. Minus, See’ y.
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Owosso—B. J. Rogers has purchased
the City Bakery of W. J. Bonnett and
will continue the business at the old
stand, employing Mr. Bonnett as baker.

 

 

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 for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
menttaken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES,

OR SALE—A STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHAN-

dise, also new store building; stock in good shape;
best farming country around; good location for an
active business man; amount of business done last
year, $10,000; located on C. & I. C. Railway, in Benton
county Ind., six miles from any town; 33,700 will buy
me out; good reasons for selling. For terms, address,
Cc. B. Sayers, Wadena. Ind. 453

RUG sTOCK FOR SALE—BEST OPENING OFFERED
in Michigan. Address, J. B. Quick, Howard City,
Mich. 454

OR SALE—MY STOCK OF DRY GOODS, GRO

ceries, boots and shoes, in a live town on the Grand
Rapids & Indiana Railroad; reason for selling, other
line of business; will give a good deal to right part;
ee or rent store. Address Lock Box 9, Leroy,
Mich. 451

OR SALE—DRUG AND STATIONERY STOCK IN

manufacturing town of 1,200 people; invoice about
$: 900; small competition.
Lh higan Tradesman.

HS SALE—10,000 ACRE TRACT ALABAMA PINE—
Chance of a lifetime; easily lumbered; cutseventy
million feet; best quality: mustbe sold at once. Clin
J. Van Scoter, Akron, Mich. 450
OR SALE—I WILL SELL CHEAP, OR TRADE FOR
city or village property, a nice, clean, $500 stock of
drugs, including Diamond Dyes, shelf bottles, and all
staples; good exhange for any one. M. Stewart, Sheri-
dan, Mich. 448
OR SALE—ARMADA, MICH.—FRUIT ¢VArORATING
works at a great bargain; 250 bushels capacity;
well equipped; location the best; investigation soli-
cited; also two fine village residences, cheap; reason,
removai south. Address L. Granger, Armada, —

 

 

 

 

Address, No. 449, eare
449

 

 

 

 

 

L YOUR EYE ON THIS—PARTIES ABOUT TO
oageee in the drug business or any one wanting a
stock of drugs and patent medicines, cheap, please ad-
dress me, as I must dispose of them to make room for
other goods; will give some one a bargain, asl am
going out of the drug business. Address, G. 8S. Putnam,
Fruitport, Mich. 444
OR SALE—WHOLESALE CONFECTIONERY—GOOD
reason for selling. Andrew Wiegel, Muskegon,
Mich. 445
OR SALE—AT PINGREE GROVE, KANE CO., ILL.,
seven miles westof Elgin on mainline of railroad,

 

 

a good store and business, with full stock of general
store goods; whole value about $4,700: ee oe in
store; reason for selling, failing health. J.B. = rip
den, Proprietor.
OR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF LUMBER, SHIN Sas,
ete., in a thriving village in Central Michigan. For
particulars, address Lock Box 10, Lakeview, Mich. '

 

OR SALE—FULL SET OF HARDWARE FIXTURES,
including shelving and drawers; also full set of

tinners’ tools. Address 438, care Michigan Tradesman.
438

 

OR SALE—DRUG AND BOOK STORE IN SOUTHERN
Michigan; invoice about three thousand. Ad-
dress W. F. Hahn, Jeweler, Lansing, Mich. 436

OR SALE—IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN—STOCK OF

drugs, medicines and fixtures, valued at $1,200;

daily jam ‘sales, $15; also store building, storehouse

and residence combined, valued at $800; reasons, other

business. Address, No. 420, care Michigan Tradesman.
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HeLP WANTED.

V 7ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST -
preferred;

 

GERMAN
must be temperate and willing to
acral in general store. Bert M. Brown, Stev any te
Mie

 

SITUATIONS WANTED.

W TANTED—A POSITION AS CLERK IN A DRY
goods or clothing store by a young man who
speaks German and English; can furnish good refer-
ences. Address Bernhart Perl, Fife Lake, Mich. 455
Se AS REGISTERED ASSIST-
ant pharmacist; four years’ experience; first-
class recommendations, Address, L. b. Pollard, Jr.,
Crystal, Montcalm County, Mich. 452.
\ 7 ANTED—SIT! ATION AS BOOK-KEEPER BY MAN
of eight years’ experience, who is familiar with
general merchandise. Address A. E. Ch
Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS.

OR SALE CHEAP—ONE BRICK STORE, TWO

stories and basement; will give time for most of

the purchase money. Address, Lock Drawer No. 4,
Charlevoix. Mich. 443

hes 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 for a stock of
goods. J.C. McKee, 23 Fountain St. 392

ws TED—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. —_— >
care Michigan Tradesman.

OR RENT—A TWO STORY 24x 30 BRICK STORE
centrally located on Main St. in a lively manu-
facturing town in Northern Michigan, upper story @-
ted for living rooms; good opening for boot & shee.
clothing, hats and caps and gents’ furnishing goods,
or for grocery business. Campbell & Underwood, 95
Monroe 8t. Grand Rapids Mich. or N. C. Weter, Mance-
lona Mich. 427
Wr eoee A POSTAL TO THE SUTLIFF COU-
on 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 ever the
country are now using them 437

 

 

 

 

ambers, 95
407

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are in use all over the land.
often seen on the floor of the average grocer.
varnished and put together in the best possible manner.

cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws.

Kvery Wide- Awake Merchant

shipping depots in all first-clas- cities in the

VV oolson hitce Ce.”

TOLEDO, OFIO,

L. WINTERNITZ, Resident agent, Grand Rapids.

LION
COFFEE

Merchants,

 

YOU WANT THIS CABINET

Thousands of Them

 

Should Certainly Sell

It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted
only in one pound packages. Put up in 100-lb cases,
i120 one-pound packages. For sale by the

It does away with the unsightly barrels so
Beautifully grained and

also in cabinets of
rhoiesale trade everywhere

United States.

 

 

 

SOLIDITY and

House Shoeys’’

CAREFUL CONSIDERATION.
VEAL, and CALF BOOTS are UNEQUALED. and the‘
AS USUAL takes the *‘First Place.’’

G. M. HENDERSON % CO., Chicago.

Headquarters for the Celebrated Wales Goodyear Rubber Goods
Willard H. James,

alesma2 the L Peninsula,
Fond du Lae, Wis. Salesman for e ower in

Factories: |
Dixon, Ill. |
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FORGIVE YOURLELAYMATESLETLEMAN = Y
THEYREJEALDUS Oe LIE RED So 5 SHES

alg nce he ae
"RED SCHOOR HOUSE SHOES.

 

Product of Our Factory at Dixon, Ill.

In view of the fact that we have GREATLY INCREASED our FACILITIES @
for MANUFACTURING in OUR THREE FACTORIES and owing to the PECULIAR
and CLOSE COMPETITION existing in MICHIGAN, C. M. Henderson & Co. have
concluded to MAKE A DECIDED CUT ON VARIOUS LINES of our goods, which
will ENABLE ME to make it to YOUR ADVANTAGE to purchase your stock
NEARER HOME the coming fall season.

Our LADIES’ FINE GOAT, DONGOLA, GLOVE and OIL GRAINS to retail at

, and FINER GRADES of GOATS and DONGOLAS,. which consumers can buy at

2°50 and $3.00, together with the MEDIUM PRICED lines of MEN’S CALF, DON-
COLA. and KANGAROO Shoes of our own

 

STYLE—with satisfaction

Our heavier

 

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Chicago, fl.

 

We furnish electrotypes of our Specialties to Customers.

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make, and all having the MERIT of
cuaranteed—will vy
grades of SPLIT, GRAIN, KIP,
‘Celebrated Red Se

Morton House, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Ss. K. BOLLES.

Cognac,

Two Sizes—Sen.

TOSS UF -

S. Kk. Bolles & Co.,

77 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Cigar Uealers.

_ A few of our leading brands:
Bitter Sweet |

 

 

De Lorenzo Ventura,
Madge,

Banko,
Hamilton’s,

Honey Queen

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

Don Rodrigo

and Jun. Two Sizes—Sen. and Jun.

Ruy Bilas,
Tantalizer,

Blue Streak,

“Heads-I-Win, Tails-U-Lose,
vf TEN CENT SMOKE FOR FIVE.

 

 

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.

 

 

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ON, THE KING OF COFFEES.”

An Article of Absolute Merit.

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ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.

 

 

 

Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President—Frank Wells, Lansing.

First Vice-President—H. Chambers, Cheboygan.

Second Vice-President—C. Strong, Kalamazoo.

Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.

Executive 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. : L

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

and Loan Associations—Chaun-

Creek. ams
ittee on Buildin X
ae Will Emmert, Eaton Rapids;

cey Strong, Kalamazoo;
W. E. Crotty, Lansing.
Local Secretary—P. J. Connell, Muskeger.
Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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

No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A.
President. J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings.
No. 2_—tewell & MLA.
President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.

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

 
 

 

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

No. 5—Muskegon B. M.A. _
President, John A. Miller; Secretary, C. L. Whitney.
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No. 6—Alba #&. M. A. /
President. F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.

No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.

President. T. M. Sioan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
No. 8—Eastport B. M. A
President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.

No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A.
President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly.
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No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M.A.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.

No.11—Kingsley B. M.A.

President, H. P. Whipple: Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop.
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.

No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. i

President, H. B. Sturtevant: Secretary, W. J. Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M.A.
President, S. A. Howey: Secretary, G. C. Havens.

No. 15— Boyne City B. M.A.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.
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No. 16—Sand Lake 8. M. A.
President, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco.

No. 17—Plainwell B. M.A.
President. Geo. H. Anderson: Secretary, J. A. Sidle.

No. 18—Owosso B M, A.
President, Albert Todd; Secretary, S. Lamfrom.
No. 19—Ada B. M. A.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.

No. 20—saugatuck B. M. A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

a No. 21— Wayland B. M. A.
H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.

No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M.A.
President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, WwW. R. Clarke.
eT eel .

No. 23—Carson City B. M, A.
President, John W. Hallett: Secretary, L A. Lyon.

No. 24— Morley B. M, A. /

President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond.
No. 25—Palo B. M.A,

President, H. D. Pew: Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson.

No. 26—Greenville is. M. A.

President. A. C. Satterlee: Secretarv. E. J. Clark.
No 27—Dorr B. M. A. '
President, E. 8. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.
No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A

 

 

    

 

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No. 29—Freeport B. M. A.
ae : J. Cheesebrough.

President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A
No. 30—Oceana &. M. A
President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.
No. 31—Charlotte B M.A.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersville B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
No. 33—Charlevoix K. M. A.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R.
No. 34—Saranac B. M. A. A
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williame.

 

W. Kane.

No. 35—Bellaire B. M.A.
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore.
No. 36—Ithaca B. M. A.

President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden.
No. 31—Battle Creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E W. Moore.
No. 38—Scottville B. M.A. |
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
No. 41—Breckenridge B. M. A.
resident, C H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No. 42—Fremout B. M. A.
President. Jos. Gerber; Secretary Cc. J. Rathbun.
No. 43—Tustin B. M.A. __
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.

No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay.
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A.

President, Wm. Hutchins: Secretary, B. M. Gould.
No. 47—Flint M. U.
President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W.H. Graham.
No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A.
President, Boyd Redner: Secretary, W. J. Tabor.
No. 49—Leroy B M. A.
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M.A. |
President, A. 0. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis.
No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, WwW. C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8S. 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 R. M. A.
President, L. S. Walter; Secretar3 ,C.& Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
No. 60—South Boardman BK. M. A.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Hartford B. M. A.
Président, 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.

Ne, 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; Seeretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville 8. M.A,

President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.

No. 71—Ashley B M. A,
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.

No. 72—Edmore B. M. A.

No, 73—Belding RB. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.

so. 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, S. 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.

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ne. 79—Fat Jordanand so Arm B. M.A,

 

President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison.

 

 

No. 80_Bay City and W. Bay City R. M.A.
President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary. Geo. Craig.
No. 81—Flushing B. M. A.
President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
No. 82—Alms B M. A.
President, B. 8S. Webb; Secretary, M. E Pollasky.
No 83—Sherwood B. 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. T. W. Preston: Secretary, H. P. Blanchard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Local Insurance Project at the
Sawdust City.
From the Muskegon News, June 13.

The Muskegon Business Men’s Association
held a short but lively session last evening. W.
H. Barney, L. G. Mason and E. C. Misner were
admitted as members. In an informal talk, it
was learned that the securing of members for
the new mutual insurance company, now being
organized by the Association, was going ahead.
One member, M. C. Kelley, stated that he had
secured $5,000, one-twentieth of the insurance
necessary before a company can be started. He
also secured $2,200 at the meeting. The follow-
ing letter was read by Secretary Whitney:

Sr. Pau, Minn., June 7, 1889.

Dear Strn—Please send list of names of the
prominent members of your Association. Wish to
invite a member to join in a trip to Puget Sound.

Yours truly, Wm. JONES,

Manager Puget Sound Improvement Co.

A list of the members was ordered sent as re-
quested.

Meeting adjourned to Wednesday evening,
June 19, at which meeting a larger attendance 1s
desired.

>
He Never Speculated.
From the San Francisco Grocer.

There are some merchants who seem
to have rather vague ideas as to what
constitutes speculation, a fact which is
illustrated by a little incident related by
a San Francisco drummer. This gentle-
man. while onarecent trip, called ona
newly established merchant in an in-
terior town. hoping to secure his trade
for a certain line of merchandise which
he. the salesman, represented. It so
happened that the dealer had a small
stock of these goods unsold, but it was
suggested that as the market was a ris-
ing one for this commodity it would be a
good thing for the retail merchant to an-
ticipate his wants by laying in a supply.
Our traveling friend relates his interview
with the cautious trader as follows:

‘“T never speculate, my friend; never
take any chances. Tom Kidd, from
Buster, Smasher & Co., was along here
last month and tried his level best vo
shove off twenty barrels of sugar on me,
but it was no use, although he was wil-
ling to give me a guarantee that the
stuff would go up a cent a pound inside
of a month.”’ |

Just at this point my man was inter-
rupted by a friend, who entered the store
and handed him two slips of paper, for
which he forked out two dollars. ‘No,’
he continued, as he placed the slips care-
fully in his pocket-book, ‘‘a merchant
nowadays having to contend with con-
stant fluctuations and unfair competition
cannot afford to take chances in any-
thing.?”

‘What numbers did you get?’ asked a
bystander. ‘15,856 and 15,857,”’ he re-
plied. ‘Now forexample,’’ he continued,
“JT have bought two lottery tickets every
month for the past two years and never
won a dollar. No, if merchants refrain-
ed from speculations they would all be
on an equality, one wouldn’t get rich
any faster than another.’’

The circumstance, as above related, is
an actual occurrence, and we fear that
there are others beside the merchant who
declined the sugar speculation, who con-
sider the purchase of lottery tickets a
perfectly legitimate operation.

—_—__—>-+>-
How the Shoe Peg is Made.

Some of the shoe peg factories of New
Hampshire now turn out 300 bushels of
pegs daily. The wood, being divided
into sections corresponding to the desired
length of the peg, is first passed under a
small revolving cylinder which presses
it upon pointed knives, these making
minute grooves in the upper surface of
the wood as it passes on toward comple-
tion. The block then taken and
passed under another cylinder, the knives
of which make grooves transverse to
those made before, the wood having now
a surface of regular points. After this.
the block is placed under the splitting
knife, which is so arranged as to fall into
each of the grooves made in one direc-
tien, splitting the wood to the base; it is
again passed under a knife, which splits
it erusswise, thus separating each peg
from every other peg. Finally, a large
revolving cylinder, heated, takes the
pegs and dries them, a revolving wire
cylinder sifts and sorts the various sizes,
and they are now ready for shipment.

——_—»> +

Another Critic of ‘‘Old Merchant.”

GCODHART, June 13, 1889.
Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Does ‘‘Old Merchant,’? whose commu-
nication appears in Tie TRADESMAN of
June 5, propose to take the position of
the average saloon-keeper, when he
counsels violation of the tobaoco statute ?
Is he one of the men who howls about
druggists selling a ‘‘nip’’ on the sly, or
does he connive at the practice ?

Was there any more treason in the ut-
terances of Jefferson Davis, Louis T.
Wigfall and other hot-headed Southern-
ers, three decades ago, than in the utter-
ances of “Old Merchant ?’’ 1 trow not,
with only this difference: their utterances
were in broad daylight, in the presence
of thousands of people, and over their
own signatures, while his is under the
despicable nom de plume.

Yours truly, GIDEON NOEL.
8
A New Kind of Brick.

Hollow brick, itis said, are coming
into more general use in Eastern cities,
and quite a number of large buildings
have been built with them. They crush
at 30,000 pounds, or about the pressure
which the best solid brick will stand.
They are made 8x8x12, with walls one
inch thick. It is claimed that they cost
one-third less than the regular form,
making walls proof against fire, moisture
and frost. being warm in winter and cool
in summer. They require a peculiar
clay in their manufacture, one that will
not shrink when dried or burned. The
brick are set on end, thus making a wall
hollow from top to bottom.

2
Attention, Traveling Men.

There will be a meeting of the Grand

tapids Traveling Men’s Association at
the reading-room of Sweet’s Hotel, on
Saturday evening, June 22, to arrange
for our sixth annual picnic.

Geo. H. SEymMour, Sec’y.
L. M. Miuus, President.
—_——
Slightly Mixed.

An English country squire, who wished

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hibition, wrote thus to the secretary:
‘Please put me down on your list of |
eattle for a calf.’’ 1

THE RUBBER OF COMMERCE.

Its Growth, Preparation, Importation
and Manufacture.
From the Boot and Shoe Recorder.

About the year 1820 the first pair of |

rubber shoes were imported into the
United States from South America.
They were made from pure rubber, and
were extremely thick, heavy and clumsy.
But, as it was found that they were use-
ful in protecting the feet from dampe-
ness and moisture, they became very
popular and their importation was
greatly increased. After much experi-
ment, however, it was found that the
raw material could be brought to this
country and not only rubber shoes made
from it, but also many other valuable
articles of merchandise.

The process by which the natives of
South America made the first rubber
shoes was very crude. A model of a
boot or foot was first fashioned out of a
clay peculiar to the locality, the model
was then coated with pure Para gum as
it had been gathered from the tree. By
holding it in the smoke of the dry palm
nut the raw gum was coagulated. The
“rubber shoe’? was now removed from
the mold or model, which was given an-
other coating of raw gum, and thus the
manufacture of ‘‘rubber shoes’? went
on. Whatever the crude shoe may have
lacked in style and finish was fully coin-
pensated for in quality.

The tree which produces rubber is
known to the scientists as ‘‘Siphonia
elastica,’? and is found in Brazil, the
north and west coasts ef South America.
Central America, Mexico, east and west
coast of Africa, and India. ‘There are
many shrubs, vines and even trees which
produce rubber, but not in merchantable
quantities. Even our common milkweed
would produce a very fair rubber.

The standard and most reliable rubber
in quantity, as well as the highest
priced—the celebrated Para bisquit—is
procured from Brazil, while from the
west coast of Africa comes the lowest
grade. In fact, this latter for several
years has been deteriorating in quality,
due, in fact, to carelessness or fraud on
the part of gatherers, though in theory
the importers believe that this is a sure
result of the advance of the missionary.

An importer received from a manufac-
turer, not long ago, by express, a hat,
boots and overalls which he had found
in aa bale of rubber. with the message
that he expected to find the man before
he got through with the lot, and would
forward him at the first opportunity.

The so-called rubber plant found in
many houses, and admired for its beauti-
ful foliage, is not the tree which pro-
duces the rubber of commerce, for this
tree. as found in Brazil, grows to the
height of about sixty feet without
branches except at the top, where it is
crowned with arich foliage. The leaves
are of a dark green color, thick and
glossy, resembling the magnolia, and the
bark is smooth and regular. On the
lower Amazon, among the islands, rubber
is collected and brought to market every
month in the year; but rubber from the
upper river, gathered during the dry
season, only reaches market during the
wet season. for the double reason of the
necessity for high water, to enable the
river steamers to reach the _ higher
branches of the river and the enormous
distances to be sailed over by these
steamers, whose trips into Peru, and to
the head water and back, cover a dis-
tance greater than that from here to
Liverpool and back and consume a much
longer time. Between Para—which is
the great shipping port for rubber—and
the Andes Mountains, there are 30,600 to
40,000 miles of navigable water of the
Amazon and its tributaries.

At the beginning of a season—say the
latter part of May or the early part of
June—the emigration of laborers to work
on rubber estates is very large, the
steamers from the south (mostly from
the province of Ceara) going up the
Amazon loaded with rubber gatherers,
most of whom return again in the au-
tumn, when the rainy season begins.
Those who remain live a most indolent
life in lightly-built bamboo huts perched
on piling to elevate them above the rising
waters. A-seringo may be had by any
one who is foruunate enough to discover
“rubber land’’—not previously  pre-
empted—and applying to the provincial
government, which will issue*® a grant,
upon the condition that the grantee oc-
cupies and works the trees thereon. The
proprietor of the seringo can then obtain
funds by mortgaging the trees to the
merchants of Para or manoes, who will
make advances against rubber to be de-
livered throughout the season. Nearly
all available lands are thus pre-empted,
though not all worked. These seringoes
exist not only on the river margins, but
in the interior as well; always, however,
in low districts of aswampy nature, near
or around lakes or ponds, and from these
inland lakes drain small streams into the
river, down which the rubber is floated
to the forwarding points for shipment to
Para.

Some of the seringoes are very exten-
sive, in which many men are employed
and the work carried on very systemati-

 

j |
milk is seen to consolidate and take a! stamped at all, the name of some fictitious

grayish-yellow tinge... Thus he puts on
layer upon layer, until at last the caout-
chouc, as the South Americans term it,
on both sides of the paddle has reached a
depth of from one to two feet.
‘it on one side he takes it off the shovel
and suspends itin the sun to dry. The
caoutehoue, from its first color of a clear
silver gray, turns shortly into a yellow,
and finally becomes the well-known dark
brown of the rubber, such as it is when
exported.

The rubber isnow in the form of the
“‘fne Para bisquit’? as imported. These
bisquits vary in size, I suppose, with the
strength or energy of the maker. Some
weigh no more than half a pound, while
I have seen them weighing 650, though
about 150 to 200 pounds is the usual
weight. The bisquit, when finished and
eut from the paddle, contains 56 per
cent. water, which must be wholly evap-
orated before it is ready to be put into
goods. This loss is divided between the
different parties who handle it. The
greatest loss is between the camp and
Para, where every bisquit iscut for grad-
ing of quality. This important feature
is presided over by black major domos.
These men become very expert judges of
quality, their judgment seldom being at
fault. It is final between buyer and
seller, and is accepted as well by the
manufacturers in the consuming mar-
kets. They are of considerable local im-
portance. The sweepings of the camp
and the dripping of the trees, and clean-
ings from the basin, etc., are more care-
lessly rolled together into scrappy balls,
which are termed negroheads, whether
so called from their appearance or what
there is in them is hafd to say.

The terms applied to the different
grades of rubber are somewhat peculiar.
Some might be shocked to learn that the
merchants of Para deal daily in niggers,
negroheads, and large quantities of vir-
gins.

In Ecuador the sap is floated on water
and coagulated by sprinkling with ashes,
sometimes in goodly quantities, as it in-
creases weight. In Nicaragua the sap is
drawn in thin dishes and coagulated by
mixing with the bruised leaves of a plant
growing in the vicinity. In India and
Africa rubber is obtained by allowing
the sap from the gash to flow down the
side of the tree into a kind of basin
scooped out in the soil. It is then gath-
ered with the loose bark and dirt into
bundles for shipment. In sections of
Africa the natives have a method of
gathering by smearing the sap on their
naked bodies, coming inte camp veritable
living rubber men. This, and even more
uncleanly ways peculiar to them. give
this producta distinctive and oderiferous
stench rather embarrassing to a stranger,
if encountered unexpectedly.

The rubber, as it arrives in this coun-
try. contains a large percentage of im-
purities, and the first of the general
process is to eradicate these impurities.
This is done by passing the gum a num-
ber of times through the washer or mas-
ticator. This machine consists of two
corrugated or grooved rolls, over which
a continuous stream of water is running.
These rolls tear or pull the piece of gum
from its original form to that of a long,
narrow sheet, full of irregular incisions.
This permits the water to thoroughly
wash and cleanse it from al] impurities.
After it is thoroughly dried, the gum is
next taken to the mixing or grinding ma-
chine. Here it is mashed into a fine pulp
having the consistency of stiff dough.
Next the calendar either runs the com-
pound into sheets, to be cut into various
articles, or spreads it on a piece of cloth,
or, perhaps by means of friction between
the surface of the rolls, thoroughly forces
or rubs the compound into the fibre of
the cloth.

After being made into the required
shape, the various articles are taken to
the ‘‘vuleanizer’? and there cured or
baked and their forms made permanent.
This latter process is avery important
one. Rubber in its crude state becomes
soft when subjected to heat and very
hard when exposed to severe cold, but by
the vuleanizing process it is rendered
uniformly elastic when exposed to most
intense cold or to any degree of cold.
From 3 to 10 per cent. of sulphur, accord-
ing to the degree of elasticity desired, is
incorporated with the rubber; it is then
for several hours subjected to heat from
250 deg. to 300 deg. of temperature, and
rubber can thus be made as hard as iron,
with a beautiful polish almost equal to
glass, or it can be made as elastic as the
native rubber.

It is a common error with people not
conversant with the subject to suppose
that rubber in being manufactured is
treated with insolvents, and is therefore
run into molds, like molten lead. But
this isa mistake. Since the invention
of vulcanizing rubber—the first patent
was issued June 15, 1844—no solvents
have been used, the intermixing being
done by machinery, as described, and at
no stage of the process up to the time of
vuleanizing is the rubber softer than a
stiff dough. The rubber is given form
and shape by pressure. Another com-
mon error is to suppose that rubber and
gutta-percha are the same thing. Gutta-

 

Cutting ,

company is used. If care is taken by
‘the purchaser to look at the bottom of
the shoe to find the full name of a first-
class manufacturer, there will be no com-
plaint on the part of the wearer, fora
better boot or shoe can now be bought
for the money than ever before.

 

 

Dry Goods.

 

 

 
 

 

 

UNBLEACHED COTTONS. |American shirtings. 5
Atlantic Ac... 2. 74|Arnold = -1.. G56
Atlanta A. A..:..... 6% . long cloth B.10%
Archery Bunting... 4%4 eC. ae
ABOTY 2 8. ae century cloth 7
Beaver Dam AA... 5% ‘© gold seal... 10%
Perwick |..._....-..- 644 : Turkey red..1014
Blackstone ©, 32.... 5 ‘(Berlin solids: ....... 546
Chapman... .- |... 334 “ ‘ot bioe..._- 6%
Cohasses Acc... |. 14 — * ereen ._. 644
Come, ...-- %  |Cecheco fancy...... 6
Ciiiten CCC.) . |. :. 614 “f madders... 6
Conqueror XX...... 4%|Eddystone fancy... 6
witht Star........- 74|Hamilton fancy. ... 6
TEMGLGE Alcs. 6% : staple .... 6
Fuoll Yard Wide. .... 6%4|Manchester fancy.. 6
Great Falla E...... 7 : new era. 6%
Honest Width.....-. 6\%|Merrimack D fancy 5
Hartford Avo... . :.-: 5% i shirtings... 5%
atesrity XX........ 453 Reppfurn . 8%
King, Heo... 6 j|Pueiie faney.._..._. 6

2 6 © yopes...... 6%

«< EC. 32m._.... 5:4) Portsmouth rebes... 6
Lawrence LL......- 544|Simpson mourning... 6%
Meemucs. --..... 5% Sreys... ._ 6%
New Market B...... 5 solid black. 6%
hoe E. .......... 5144/Washington indigo. 614
NEWtOR ...... 1-. _. 0% Turkey robes.. 714
Our Level Best..... 634 India robes.... 7%

Riverside XX....... 4 plain T’ky X % 8%
Sea Island KR....-... 614 a - x
sharon 0.0 5% Ottoman Tur-
Top of the Heap... 774) keyred.....-_ -- 6
Williamsville. ...... 7 |Martha Washington
Comet, 40m... .... 8 Turkey red %..... 74
Carisie fo .oa. 744|Martha Washington

New Market L,40in. 7144] Turkey red........ 9%
BLEACHED COTTONS. |Riverpoint Tepes... 5

 

Blackstone A A..... 7|Windsorfancy...... 6%
Beats Al. 414 : gold ticket
Cleveland 100.) .-: 7 imdigo bine... .. 10
ae... ..... ... 7% TICKINGS.
om f.....l 6% Amoskeag AC A....18
Dwight Anchor... 9 |Hamilton N..-.-__.. 74
S «¢ shorts. S%jPear! Riyer......-.. 12%
Hdwards 22... 6 DEMINS.
Bappre. 0... ¢ |Amoskeap .........15%
Berwell oe 8 |Amoskeag, 90z.--.- 15
Fruit of the Loom.. $3¢/Andover.........-..- 11%
Prenvie ......... Tic nvercit...... _-..- 32
First Prize " |\Bawrence XX ......13%
Fruit of the Loom %. 8 GINGHAMS.,
Walrmount...-. .-..- 444\Glenarven.......... 6%
Lonsdale Cambric..10%|Lanecashire.......... 6%
Honsdale.. |... Si4|Normandie........- 8
Middlesex.......... 514|Renfrew Dress...... 8
No Name.......-___- 714| Fou du Nerd.....-. 10
Oak View... -- 6 CARPET WARP.
Our Own 0.0.03... 514/Peerless, white...... 1814
Suntent............. 24 " colored... .21
Vinyard... Ss] GRAIN BAGS.
HALF BLEACH’D COTTONS|Stark............--- 19%
Cabot... 74\Franklinville....... 18%
Marwen 00.) os) S34 american... .-...- 1644
Dwight Anchor....9 (Windsor... .--.--.- 16%
CORSET JEANS. Valley City......-__- 16
Biddeford ....-..... G |Georaa  _.._ -- 151%
Brovswick. ...._.-- Geipaciwwe..... --._.. .13%
Naumkeag satteen.. 7 |Burlap.......-.-- one
ROCEPOrL «|... 6% SPOOL COTTON.
PRINTS. Clark’s Mile End... .47
American fancy.... 6 |Coats’, J. &P...-.-- 47
' mdico.... 61¢|/Holyoke..._---._-.__- 2214

 

 

HARDWARE.

Prices Current.

 

 

 

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

 

AUGURS AND BITs. dis.
Ives’. old style Se 60
Snel 60
Coors 40
Jenmines’ SeNGINE 2... 25
Jennimge , mmaitation 0 50410
AXES.
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...-.............- € 7 00
a » B Breeze... 11 00
[ SB 8 Steel. 8 50
DB Steel | a
BALANCES. dis.
Spee ot. . a 40
BARROWS. dis.
Reasiroad. ........ & 14 00
Gorden... net 30 00
BELLS. is.
Hand... 60&10&10
Cam. ee 70
Can ce 30&15
Cane 25
Door Sarena 60&10
BOLTS. dis.
Steve. 50&10
@arnage new Hist....-. 0)... 7
Lox. ee see 40&10
Sicign SHOC 70
Wroucht Barre! Bolts. ...-...------- 60
Cast Barrel BOlES...- 0... a 40
@ast Barrell brass knobs................... 40
Gast Square Spriae.-.---. «- 60
@ect Caam |. ee 40
Wrought Barrel, brass knob........-...___- 60
Mroupht Squete 0. 3.) 60
Wrought Sunk Flush... 60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush... .60&10
yee POOr 60&10
BRACES, dis.
Bermier oo... 40
Backes 0. 50410
Spemere ee eee. 50
Asa Ball es net
BUCKETS.
Wel pian € 3 50
Wel swivel
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, fieured..-..... ......-.....- W&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.............70
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.......... 60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60410
Wrought Loose Fim. |... 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip........-.....- 60&05
Wroueht Loose Pin, japamned ............: 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05
Wroucht Table 60&10
Wrought lside Biind...--..-._-.___..-_ ---60&10
Wirouent Brass... 8. 75
Bind! Claris........:.......-. 2. 70&10
Band Parkers ee 70&10
Bind Shepar@s 0... 7
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 40
CARPET SWEEPERS.
Bissell NeoS per doz.#i7 00
Bissell No. 7, new drop pan ........ - 19 60
Bissell Grand = | te _ 36 00
Grand Rapide........--... a 24 00
Meme ee : 15 00
CRADLES,
Grn dis. 50&02

CROW BARS.
CastStce, perb 4%
fron, Steel Pomts -......_-.-...._._.... i 3%

 

 

cally, being divided into three gangs. | percha is produced from the sap of the | Ely’s 1-10 So ee perm 65
One gang clears paths from tree to tree | gutta-tree, found in all the islands Of the | Hicks CO ih 60
by constantly chopping and cutting at| Indian Archipelago. In its crude state G. D ... 2. eee ee eee teeter ee eee 35
the wild and luxuriant vegetable growth, | it has no resemblance to the india rub- Penn nner a aac at a -
which would otherwise render travel im-| ber of commerce, nor are its chemical | Rim Fire, U. M. ok wineieaier Mew Het 30
possible. A second gang follows, and | properties the same. It is a fibrous sub- | Rim Fire, United States................. dis, 50
with narrow hatchets cuts long V-shaped stance, oily and somewhat resembling Genial Fire. dis. 25
gashes in the bark of the trees. At the/sole leather. [tis without elasticity OF |. cnet Fi Ca = 3
point of the V a small clay cup or saucer | much flexibility. If allowed to remain 9 Se
is placed, into which the white, milky sap} in hot water, it soon becomes Gott lake | Seckes@armer (ee
slowly trickles. In about four hours the | putty, and can be molded into any shape. Sahl ag beet T0&10
milk conscs to flow and cach cup bas| . Withewl aiteampling te toll Sow, mney (Eocene ees a
yielded about a gill. A third gang fol-|times the annual] product will stretch | Cold.............-.------+-+-ssrereree net
lows, gathering the contents of the cups | around the earth, leaving along elastic COMBS. dis.
into a large calabash, which in turn is! tail to wave insultingly in the face of on vette etet teeter ee cee eee es 40&10
emptied into one of those large turtle} the ‘‘man in the moon,” it will be in- a aa :
shells so much used in housekeeping in|teresting to know that the product of | White Crayons, per gross..........1%@12% dis. 10
these regions. The turtle shell filled, it} rubber of the Amazon Valley has more COCKS.
is returned to camp as quickly as possi-| than doubled in the past ten years. The Brass, Racking’s.......-------++++-sre sees 60
ble, as the milk soon begins to congeal. | crop of 1878 was 7,598 tons, while last — ee ae ae
It is now given to the ‘‘makers,”’ each of | year’s crop was 15.725 tons. The total | Pee 5
whom sits by a fire made of dry palm/consumption of all grades of rubber in COPPER.
nuts, over which has been placed anj the United States last year was 30,000,000 Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 28
earthen jar without bottom and with nar-| pounds, the value of which was about) coq “2 ee =
row neck. This makes a crude sort of |! $15,000.000. The principal use for rub- | Cold Rolled, 14%48............-..-..-..022+-- 24
chimney, which gathers the white smoke | ber is in the making of boots and shoes. | Bottoms ............-.-----++- wee ee ten w nee = 25
that rises from the fire in dense clouds.; A little contemplation of the figures en DRILLS. dis.
The “maker,” sitting by this chimney, | given above will probably astonish the oa Sock Pee re atte -
from a small calabash pours a little of | people who complain that no rubber is | Morse’s a a
the milk on a sort ef light wooden paddle! used in shoes nowadays. Such com- DRIPPING PANS.
or shovel, always careful by proper man- | plainants buy shoddies—‘‘orphan brands,”’ | Small sizes, ser pound ...........--.--.----.  @
agement to distribute it evenly over the | so called because they are made poor to Large sizes, per pound..........-...-. +--+. 64
surface. Thrusting the shovel into the | meet certain demands, and the manu- i i ELBOWS.
thick smoke of the chimney, he turns it'facturer disowning them as his product | Sees Oe eens: — ae este
to and fro with great rapidity, when the does not stamp them with bin names 1f Admediie dis. %&10

 

The Farmers’ Friend.

POTATO BUG AND

This is the only practi-
cal sprinkler for putting
water and Paris Green on
potato vines tedestroy the
beetle.

This cut gives an inside
view, showing the Agitator,
also the Valve and the man-
ner in which the spring is
put in the tube, etc.

Wholesale Agents

 

PLANT SPRINKLER.

Where this sprinkler is
known it is regarded by
Potato Growers to be as
necessary as the self binder

to every farmer.

 

Grand Rapids, Mich

 

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s: serail, 616; farce, S26... 30
ives’, 1. S18- 2 O24: 5.0... 25
FILES—New List. dis.
American File Association List............. 60&10
a6 ............ 60410
Mew Awicricgn =... 60410
Micho@isem Ss. -....-- =. 60&10
Meme —.. 50
Hrevlers Gorse Haspe...7..- 8s 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
INos. 16 to 20: 22 and 24; 2% and 2; 2 28
List 12 13 1 15 18
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... as 50
HAMMERS.
Nayvdolc & Co.'s... ..... .- Coo ens. 25
aos... dis, 25
Wermes & Plampes ..... dis. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30¢ 40410
HINGES.
Gate Clarks 1.23... dis.60&10
Ste .. 2 per doz. net, 2 50

Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and

TOUR 3%

Serew Hook and Hye, 4.....-..........- net 10

- oT . ee. net 8%

' [ ‘ so net 7%

a a = eee net 7%

Strepand ee dis. 70
HANGERS. dis.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10

 

Champion, anti-friction..........-..--..... 60410
Midder weoamack --...-.- 1... 40
HOLLOW WARE
rs. es 60&05
Memes - a« « - GOGZO0
eee eae 60&05
Gray enameled... 2. 50
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

Stamped fim Ware... ---- new list 70&10
gapanned Tin Ware.............---......... 2
Granite Iron Ware .__._......... new list 3333410
HOES.

Cran id. #11, dis. 60
eae... #11.50, dis. 60
Craps €12, dis. 60
HORSE NAILS.

An Sabie .000.....0 0 dis. 25&10@25&10&10
Potyuam ............. 1.1. ie: Segoe
Worbhwestern.-*)-_---.- 2-2. dis. 10&10&5

KNOBS—New List. dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ...........-.. 55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 5D
Door, porceluin, trimmings.............-..- 5a
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70
Picture Bb. dudd & Co.5................ 40&10
Hemseie 45
LOCKS—DOOR. dis.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55
Mallory, Wheeler & Cos.........-......__. 55
manera s 60. So
Worwsdins 2.0. es. 55
LEVELS. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............--. 70
MATTOCKS.
Aaze Eye. £16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye..........---.--0+0+-eeae ee €15.00, dis. 60
Huscs......... #18 .50, dis. 20&10.
MAULS. dis.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handied.........7 50
MILLS. dis.
@eflec Parkers Cos... 1... 40
<P. Ss. & W. Mfc. Co.'s Malleabies.... 40
‘ Landers, Werry & Clark s............ 40
eemrse 2
MOLASSES GATES. dis.
Stebbins PHtterm 0.20 60&10
Sienbins Geauine.......0.-. 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 25
NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.
FENCE AND BRADS.
Sa ioeed 25
nah ee. 10
Gland 9a 25
hana de 40
Maan sea. 60
Se 1 00
ee 1s
FINE BLUED.
4... 1 00
a Co , 1 50
ee ee 2 00
CASTING AND BOX.
Patowe oo. Lo L 50
je 60
Ratog 75
cate 90
ee 110
See 150
COMMON BARREL.
eT
et 2 25
CLINCH.
Peon ieee 1 35
2 and 2%4 SC 1p
een ee 1 60
Seen ee. 85
ae Seg 75
Each half keg 10 cents extra.
OILERS. dis.
ime or tin, Chase's Patent................<. 60&i0
Zine, with brass bottem...............-. 50

races orCopper...§ 8.8... 50
Reaper 0/0110.) per gross, Sie neL
ee 50&10
PLANES. dis.
Onio Toal Cos fancy. _-......:._..--._-_- 40@10
Seiata Benen D6
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........-.-.--.-- 40@10
Beneh. first quality. -.......-...-.__---..... 60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20£10
PANS.
ry, AGme. et .. dis. 6
Common, polished..................-..-- dis. ©
RIVETS. dis.
fron and Tinned. ..........._...--. 1... 50
Copper Rivets and Burs..........-.---.+---- 50

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
‘*4?? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...
Broken packs %¢ per pound extra.

10 20
9 20

  

ROPES.
Sisal. 36 inch and larger ....-..-._-._-.__.. 13%
ee eee 16%

SQUARES. dis.
Mice! aud Trem... 2.2.6. 70&10
‘Try and Bevelg.....-..-.--.--.--..-.-..-8- 60
Mite 2 20
SHEET IRON,

Com. Smooth, Com.
Woe W040 14.......5......). 1... #420 863: 00
Moe tet, 2 4 20 3 00
Moe: i088 4 2 3 10
oe Sees ee 4 20 3 15
ao ioe... ..-.................. 4 40 3 35
Mao i et. ++ £00 3 3
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches

wide not less than 2-10 extra

 

SAND PAPER,
Bist seet 19'S... dis.

SASH CORD.
Whites... list
Pee A 8. _

Were Fe ’

Pane: "

Witet.. [

10,

Silver Lake,

Rasas §

Discount,
i SASH WEIGHTS.
Solid Even. per ton 825
_ . . SAUSAGE SUUFFERS OR FILLERS.
Miles’ ‘“‘Challenge’’....per doz. #20, dis. 0@50&05

 

 

 

Perey. .......0 10. per doz, No. 1, $15; No. 0,
TL #21; dis. 50@50.

Draw Cut No. 4..... 3. each, $00, dis 30

Enterprise Mie. €o....... dis. 0&£10@30

Severs. 2. dis. 0&10

: SAWS. dis.

Disssoms Ciwewlar et: 45@45&5

“ noes Cut 45@45&5
Se 25@2545
*Extras sometimes given by jobbers. .
Atkins Cireniar. 2) dis.

Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
“ Special Steel Dex X Cuts, perfoot.... 50
“  Speeial Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot.... I

Champion and Electric Tooth X

Cuis, per foOt.. a.

TACKS, dis.
Amicrican aiikinde |... ... 60
eicel ail kings | 66
SCGes Sil AMOS i. 60
Gimp aud Pete 60
Clipse Dox Noe... 50
Hienine Welt. 50
Common and Patent Brads................. 50
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks........ 50
Trunk and Clout Walla... ... 50
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails ............. 45
Heathered Carpes Taems. | ................ 35
i TRAPS, dis.
cel Game. a .. 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s ... 70
Hotchkis Te 70
Eo G@iw Mie Cos 70
Mouse, Choker = 18¢ per doz.
Mouse demon = $1.50 per doz.

WIRE. i
ee EE NN ery
Aubened Mathes. 70&10
GCepperca Momence. 62%
Euten Ballina 55
—s —— i 62%

innec ei ce se cle is ola r

Dinged Mattress... .. aa ae

Coppered Spans Steel 50

= perp oeeer. 40&10
ain Fenee. er pound

Barbed Fence, galvanized...... oT 83 .

‘ POrsee 00
Cepper =. lew list net
Heese ee. -_ = °

/ WIRE GOODS. dis.

On -70&10&10

Serew Byeg -70&10&10

ee -70&10&10 -

Gate Hooks and HWyes..°............ -70&10&16

WRENCHES. dis.

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..... eee 30

Cees Genume. 50

Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ %

Goes Patent, malleable. ................... 75&10

MISCELLANEOUS. dis.

bird (ages. 50

Pompe Cisterm 5

Serews, New bist ...-................... oo. 50

Casters, Bed and Piate.................. 50&10&10

egepers, American ......--- 40

Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65

METALS,
PIG TIN.
rae Pare 28¢
eee a 30¢
COPPER.

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

INGOT.
ON 18%
eAnener’ Brand -....-...-..._.. es

ZINC.

Duty: Sheet, 24%c per pound.

OA) DONG COMER 6%
Per poured 2 7@7%
LEAD.

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

pound. Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.

Sieeeecan ee

Newark... iS

Bee 6

Sheet Lo ae ae oe

SOLDER.

ee 16

ore Wane 13%
The prices of the many other qualities of

solder in the market indicated by private brands

vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.

@oazsen co per pound 14%
Ce ee ° 114%
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
init IC, Chsreegt..-........_....... -.8 6 00
14x20 IC, ee - CG
12x12 IC, ewes . om
EE -- 1066

OE .

a4 UU. ay

14x20 IX, a . 2a

12x12 IX, .

14x14 IX, ee 12 50

20x28 IX, Se
Each additional X on this grade, #1.75.

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.

jomi41@) Charcoal... $5 50

14x20 IC, ae 5 40

12x12 IC, Oe 5 65

14x14 IC, EE 9 2

29x28 IC, ee 11 80

10x14 IX, OLE 6 90

14x20 IX, ee . 690

12x12 IX, ee 2 is

14x14 IX, a 11 65

20x28 IX, ee 14 80
Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

ROOFING PLATES

1459010. Terne M. F........-) 5.052... -... & 7 60

20x28 IC, ‘ ead ad 15 %5

14x20 IC, ' “Worcester. 0.22. 5 80

14x20 IX, ss eee bcos ce aces ot 7 00

29x28 IC, . ec 11 50

14x20 IC, “« ANaway Goude,........... 4 90

14x20 IX, is ig ea 6 40

20x28 IC, es . Ml ioeneceeyeua 10 50

20x28 IX, . - OO alee aleatg 13 50

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

teen Pe eee anaes $12 00

— E oe 13 50

14x: , for No. oilers,

14xe0IxX, © “9 * { per pound.... 0

 

By

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

eos |

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

as many intelligent men positively assure
me, against a class of people who are the
main instruments in upholding the credit
system.

Yet, within a tract of territory not ten

| miles distant from this place of writing,

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. |

/ country, numbering

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

 

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

 

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office. |

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JUN# 19, 1889.

 

 

ANOTHER PROP IN THE STRUCTURE.

Slowly but surely the courts of the
country are building a bulwark around
the organizations of retail dealers which
no subsequent legislation can shake. The
most recent instanee of this tendency is
shown in a recent Circuit Court decision
in Illinois, which is reported as follows
in the Chicago Inter Ocean:

The noted case of William Nicholson,
of Streeter, [ll., against Julius Moses, of
the same city, was tried before Judge
Blanchard of the Circuit Court at Ottawa
last week. Moses was amember of the
Merchants’? Retail Commercial Agency,
which has a general office in this city.
Nicholson owed Moses a bill and refused
to pay it, after repeated dunnings, and
then Moses caused Nicholson’s name to
be placed on the reference book published
by the agency. Nicholson sued Moses
for conspiracy and defamation of charac-
ter. Judge Blanchard held in his deci-
sion that the agency was on equal footing
with Bradstreet’s and Dun’s and differ-
ent from them only in that the latter pro-
tected the wholesale, while the former
protected the retail merchants against
dishonest customers, and when a debtor
would not pay his debts to one merchant
there was no reason why he should be
permitted to obtain credit from another
by compelling the first merchant to keep
silent as to his loss.

This decision is in keeping with sevy-
eral others of the same kind and will
tend to strengthen the retail dealer’s

position in the West.

A retired merchant of Wake county,
North Carolina, has brought suit against
forty railroad companies in that state to
recover of each a penalty of $500 for fail-
ing to make an annual report of their
business to the governor, as required by
a law that nobody else seems te have
known was in existence. The law awards
the penalty to the first man who insti-
tutes suit for its recovery, and Mr.
Hodge looks forward with complacency
to the results of his season’s work, as
$10,000 is more than he has been able to
accumulate in twenty years,of mercan-
tile life.

THE TRADESMAN adds a new feature—
or renews an old feature, to be exact—
this week, in the shape of a dry goods
price current, which will be increased
from week to week until it includes
nearly everything staple in the dry goods
line.

Professor Wiggins evidently has no
interest in an ice company or he would
not have the temerity to assert that the
earth is receding from the sun.

 

Which Are the Most Dangerous

inal Classes ?
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

There would seem to be little diffi-
culty in answering correctly the above
question, for is it not all written down in
our law books and the many authorities
in the moral and _ spiritual world?
Thieves, forgers, burglars and murder-
ers, in their various degrees of devil-
ment. with the anarchist element at
whom the constitutional law of the na-
tion levels its thunders—these are pop-
ularly supposed to be ‘“‘the dangerous
and most deadly criminal classes.

The other day I was conversing with a
thrifty young merchant—the average,
reliable, straight-forward, hard-headed,
business man—and I enquired of him in
regard to the above question.

Iasked him, relating to his losses fi-
nancially, from what particular class, if
any, the aggregate of his losings came
about—the thief and so-called criminal
class, or those who are never mentioned
in law He replied
that he was convinced, beyond a doubt,
that his losses caused by a class of men
never looked upon as thieves were from
fifty to one hundred dollars for every
single dollar stolen by thieves.

Crim-

books as criminals ?

Every
merchant whom I have conversed with
on this subject, as well as honest farm-
ers, mechanics and laborers, agree to this
astounding assertion, i. e., that the most
dangerous criminal classes, as measured
by the exact amount of their robberies
from the class who must produce before
they can possess, every year, the whole
country over, arefrom ten to one hun-
dred times more numerous, and from one
hundred to one thousand times more
dangerous, as demonstrated by results in
the aggregate of bad debts, bankruptcies
and general financial losses than the
legally denominated criminal elements,
in their worst phases, and greatest aver-
age annual stealings.

This truly an astounding charge
against ‘‘respectable’’ losers of other
people’s money, and if it is strietly true,

is

 

cial loss of over $25,000 by the
| able’’

anew and comparatively sparsely settled
only 250 persons,
during the past eight months, there has
been inflicted upon the solid and reliable
producers and business men and women, |
poor and rich, but mostly poor, the finan- |
‘*respect- |
and most trusted are |
‘horrified’? and ‘‘shocked’’ in a thief’s
society, who can ‘‘expound’’ the laws”? |
of civilized lands with the utmost vol-!
ubility, who can tell all about where the}
most dangerous criminals congregate, |
and this while their robberies exceed the |
stealings of thieves, forgers |
and all kinds of the so-called worst crim- |
inals, at the very least estimation, one}
hundred to one.

I can truly say (you shall have positive |
demonstration, if you desire it,) this last |
eight months has been a dull season for
the business of ‘‘respectable’’ confidence
men, as compared with the same period
of time in the above-mentioned locality
during the past eight years.

If I can trust to evidence which seems
to me the most positive demonstration
that can appear in the world of facts
worked out daily, this little area of ter-
ritory with the regular work of this
special class of most deadly and de-
structive foes of honest people is but an
average experience of every community
in the United States.

I said that the loss caused by this
worst class of thieves has been $25,000
in the above mentioned tract of terri-
tory in eight months past, to poor and
rich, but I refer only to three of the
principal ‘‘failures.”’

Within the same time, in one little vil-
lage of not 500 population—the average
of Northern Michigan—laborers, hotel-
keepers, butchers, merchants and others,
have lost by the smaller grade of this
class of plunderers over $3,000, and the
probability — almost an assured cer-
tainty—is that $25,000 more has gone up
in larger towns and rural _ sections,
making at least $50,000 clear stealings
from the reliable people within said
tract in eight months, and this a compar-
atively poor harvest-field for the ‘‘re-
spectable’’ criminal classes to work in.

One of the ‘highest’? grade of this
most trusted and respected class of rob-
bers, who went down ‘‘nicely’’ with all
his lands and personal effects safely
deeded to his wife, borrowed $100 from a
poor laboring man about a week before
he ‘‘failed,’’ thus snatching bread from
hungry children’s hands. It was all
perfectly business-like and cheerful,
though; he was ‘‘very sorry’”’ that he was
unable to pay it back, when it was loaned
asafree and friendly favor by the poor
laboror to accommodate a valued friend.
It is self-evident, if the average com-
munity of thieves, forgers and burglars
were as totally devoid of the one last re-
deeming trait of manhood as are the
‘“‘very respectable’’ criminal classes—
proved by demonstration—in selling only
the most trusting friends—it would as-
suredly break up every criminal gang in
the country with mutual distrust, sus-
picion and hatred; they would betray
every man his fellow into the clutches of
the law, and the criminals, branded by
the law as thieves, assassins and traitors,
would stand aghast, stricken with ter-
ror, and confusion, at the un-
masking of crime in its very last degree
of total and fiendish depravity in the
character of the ‘‘eminently respectable’’
criminal.

I do not exaggerate; it is aself-evident
fact, the criminal classes, if sunk to the
moral depth occupied by the average
dead-beat, high or low, who is classed as
‘‘respectable,’’? and by his superior craft
placed beyond the reach of the law,
would be forced to relinquish their
trades, give up in despair, and, from a}
lack of confidence in each other, would |
be driven to mutual destruction.

men, who

burglars,

madness

It certainly can be demonstrated, as
indicated above, that the worst criminal
elements are really many times more}
numerous and immensely more destruc-|
tive—measured by the exact amount of |

pillage through bad debts. bankrupteies |

 

serve corps of the rank and file of this
most dangerous criminal army live right
near their field of operations, yearly
gaining fresh reinforcements, and their
depredations amount to many times more
than the whole revenue of our govern-
ment, overreaching the whisky curse, the
tobacco mania and all other leakages and
wastes together, until eventually a finan-
cial crisis engulfs a nation. inflicting
greater losses than the average war.
And all this mainly caused by the chief
criminal class in civilized lands.

Who dare venture to affirm that the
credit system is not the great nursery of
the prince of thieves, the deadliest foe
of mankind ?

What can be done to choke off this
worst bloodsucker of the nation? Leg-
islation seems to be as fruitless as the
tossing of a match into the bursting
deluge of the Conemaugh reservoir. It
actually appears to be the most impossi-
ble reform ever attempted. Explicitly
stated, the reform proposed is just this:
to prevent the depredations of an army
of criminals in the United States, out-
numbering the aggregated embattled
hosts of the greaté&&t nation of conti-
nental Europe, who inflict damage upon
honest producers every year in the
United States greater than the average
war; or, in other terms, to protect honest
men from the chief vandal of civiliza-
tion, the American dead-beat in all his
different phases of perfected depravity.

Whatever measure may be offered for
the working out of this proposed reform,
itis certain that the many popular re-
forms for promoting the nation’s pros-
perity and moral health, now being agi-
tated by the different ideal reformers,
will prove a waste of time and trouble,
while they overlook the greatest scourge
and direst enemy that confronts man.

At the very least, it may be well to
correctly and _ scientifically define the
term and establish what crime is and
where the worst kind of criminals con-
gregate. In doing this, it will be demon-
strated as clearly as a problem in math-
ematics that the criminal classes in the
eyes of the law are pure and spotless
when compared with worse stealers who,
by actual computation of numbers and
the known amount of their robberies,
are one hundred times more numerous
and one thousand times more destructive.
If this appears incredible, look squarely
at the facts; work out the simplest prob-
lem in addition, and the appalling truth
will be demonstrated to you.

C. H. BARLow.

 

 

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

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

Basswood, log-run ....0... |... 13 00@15 00
--15 00@16 00

Bireh, lozarun. |... |...

Birch Nos tand 2... @22 00
Black Ash leerum. 14 00@16 00
Cherry, lorrum 25 00@40 00
Cherry, Nos. i and 2... .. |: 60 00@65 00

Chem Can: @12 00
Maple lesan... ... |... ee Beis OO
Maple: sott, lop =: 11 00@13 00

Maple Nos: tand2 @ 00
Maple, clear, fooring............ @25 00
Maple white selected................ @25 00
Rea Oak lopran -....s. 20 00@21 00
Red Oak Nos tand?.......... 26 0O@2s 00
Red Oak, 4 sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00
Red Oak, 4 sawed, regular............30 00©@32 00

  

hed Oak, No. 1 step plank... ..... |.
Walnus, logrmmy 30.
Walnng Nos tand? 0

MICHIGAN CIGAR CO.,
Big Rapids, Mich.

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

“ADC. C.J.” “YVum Yum’

The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER.

The Most Popular Cigar.

 

mituige, Berisch & Ca.

Carry in stock the best line of

 

— aes

Women's - and - Misses’ - ow - Gut - Shoes

AT THIS MARKET.
12,14 &16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS FOR BOSTON RUBBER CO.

The Best Fitting Stock-
ing Rubber in the
Market.

Geo. H. Reeder,

Sole Agents,

Grand Rapids, -

Ww. C. DENISON,

GENERAL DEALER IN

Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers.

 

 

Mich.

 

 

Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting and Marine Engines. Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ez
haust Fans. SAW MILLS, any Size or Capacity Wanted.
Estimates Given on Complete Outfits.
88 90 and 92 SOUTH DIVISION ST., ° GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

ANDY

 

We manufacture a full
line, carry a heayy stock,
and warrant our goods to
be STRICTLY PURE and

 

 

ee ees oe @25 00 fi t ]
aeey iim loo-ran..................... 82 O6@is 0 ‘ /LASSe
White Aso lopran. 0... 14 00@16 00 =
Pilpog og oo 2h! PITTNAM & BROOKS
White Osk lope 0 17 00918 00 e
White Oak, 4 sawed, Nos. 1 and2....42 00@43 00
7
Wm. Brummeler|PHREINS & HESS

JOBBER OF

Tinware, Glassware and Notions,

Rags, Rubbers and Metals bought at Market
Prices.
76 SPRING ST., GRAND RAPIDS,
WE CAN UNDERSELL ANY ONE ON TINWARE.

G. M. MUNGER & CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS.
Successors to Allen’s Laundry.

Mail and Express orders attended to with
p:Omptness. Nice Work, Quick Time
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Ww. E. HALL, Jr., - = .

 

Manager.

HYDRAULIC
ELEVATORS
Water Motors and Specialties
Send for New Catalogue.
Tuerk Hydraulic
Power Co.
NEW YORK: CHICAGO:

12 Cortland St. 39 Dearborn St.

 

 
 
  

 

 

 

Crockery & Glassware

 

 

LAMP BURNERS.

. : : No OSum ee
and confidence operations—than the) No.1 48
sis . : a i Mm 2 ss wr
criminals of the slums, high and low;| NO?) ---------+::eseeceee ee eeee ee eee ae
a nn iar ....... ...... 75
and that the principal difference between LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box.
the two hinds of transeressors is / | 6 doz in box.
ne two hinds of transgressors is only EN OE 190
Se | " : oy CO Ue 2 00
drlicrenee im craft, of mental caliber, 05 <0 ee

thieves and burglars possessing the re-|
deeming traits of courage, hardihood, a'|
glimmering ray of honor and gratitude
and a fellow-feeling for comrades in a

common cause.
The. largest operators in this worst
criminal gang usually fly to Canada,

many thousands yearly, from all parts
of the United States, where they are
tenderly nursed, and protected by the
international laws existing between the
two Christian countries, who annually
exchange thousands of these pets, and
call for more. Of course, the ““states- |
men’’ of the two nations find it impos-
sible to stop this business, because—_
well, because you cannot get brains out,
of abanana, and there’s no use in ex-'
pecting suchathing. But the great re-,

First quality.
No, 0 Sun, €rimp top............ 2. 2

 

aes lm
No. 2 ee ee ec
XXX Flint.
| WO. O Sun, crimp top............. ss. 2 58
No.t = ol ee
No.2 © ee Ce 3 80
Pearl top.
No. i Sun, wrapped aud labeled... .. | 3 70
Ho: . ee 4 70
No. 2 Hinge, “ . SC 4 70
La Bastic.
No. 1 Sun, pla bulb, per doz....... 1 2%
No.2 * a a : aes oe en
Wo: lt ermnp. per doz). 149
mos C=C 1 60
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Bgter Orocks. per gal 064%
Sues, 6 Gal, per gos... 65
ce ee ee 90
26 Ce 1 80
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60
‘ss 6 1 ‘“ 6c ( 6s 9c) oe
FRUIT JARS—Per gro.
Mason's, pinta $10 50
% GOR ose ok 11 00
e Pe AOM ecole ets cane 14 00
Lightaing| quarte oo 12 00
rr Be IGT ee ca 16 00

 

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.

H. Leonard & Sons.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cor. Spring and Fulton Sts.

The Old Reliable.
WE ARE

Headquarters

FOR
Michigan.

26,169
Quick Meal

Stoves

 

Near Union Depot.

THE
Quick Meal

Gasoline
Stove

 

 

Safety Points
Found
in n0 Other Sold
Stove. in 1888,

Warranted to Give Satisfaction.
List Price.

 

Above Stove, with Russia Iron Oven, Self Lighter - - - - 521.50
os ai Tin Oven, Self Lighter - - - - - - 20.50
With Three Burners on Top, Russia Iron Oven, Self Lighter - - 23.50
“ a : Tin Oven, Self Lighter - - - - 22.50

Send for Complete Illustrated Catalogue and write for Factory Discounts,
‘Useful Hints to Dealers in Quick Meal Oil Stoves’’ sent free on request.
Every dealer should have a copy.

H. Leonard & Sons.

LAMUNG!

—=8

WHO URGES YOU

TO BEEP

3A POLIO’?

ae POU BLIC!

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

ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.

Our lemons are all bought at
the cargo sales in New Orleans
and are as free from frost or chill +

as in June,

PUTNAM & BROOKS.

 

COLBY, CRAIG & CO.

MANUFACTURE

  

—=T

 

Repairing in all its Branches.

COLEBY, CRAIG & CO.,,

West End Fulton St. Bridge.

Telephone No. 867.

ARYH

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

 

Send for
Catalogue
and

 
  

2 pooner

 

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A:

MANUFACTURERS OF

BESTBaH & FPOx,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY,

TLA

ENGINE
WORKS

 

  

STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.

 

     
 

  
 
 

= 3 aS

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley.

Write for Prices.

Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock By
for immediate delivery. io

  

   

kinds of Wood-Working

Saws, Belting and Oils.
Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample
Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.,. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

   
    

 

SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT

The Tradesman Coupon is the cheapest and most modern in
the market, being sold as follows:

$ 2 Coupons, per hundred.......... $2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS:
$5 * weseeeeeee 3.00} Orders for 200 orover....... 5 per cent.
$10 na eee 4.00 | 500 : 16 bi
—_— « _ ee ee i a. 8

YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS.

KA. STOWE & BRO,, Grand Rapids.

 

Uranges |

We are wholesale agents for

the Faney California Mountain
Seedlings and headquarters for
all kinds of Messina oranges.

PUTNAM & BROOKS,

 

CURTIS

 

GRAND RAPIDS,

& & CO.

Successors to CURTISS & DUNTON.

WHOLESALE

Paper Warehouse,

Houseman Building, Cor. Pearl & Ottawa Sts.,

MICHIGAN.

*

@

WHY BK A SLAVE.

To the Pass Book System

With its attendant losses and annoyances, when you can
supplant it by so inexpensive and labor-saving
a system as the

Tradesman Credit Govpon Book, °

Which is now used by over 2,000 Michigan merchants.

 

 

47

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1389.

 

 

 

 

LEISURE HOUR JOTTINGS.

Written for THE TRADESMAN.
BY A COUNTRY MERCHANT.
The question. ‘‘Who is my nei
seems at first thought to be an easy one
to answer, riven

ighbor 2’

isyil

but when the subject is g
a little more attention and investigation,
found that a satisfactory reply
ft
we

it will be
to the query is very difficult to make.
it were a matter of proximity, only,
would only have to count up and
the people living within a certain radius,
but commence this are
liable to speedily pause, and ask
selves if, under any circumstances,
could consent to acknowledge certain in-
dividuals as our neighbors, and what is
really meant by the term ‘‘neighbor,”’
anyhow. If we happen to be residents
of a metropolitan town, we find that our
domicile is perhaps hedged in by numer-
ous others, of whose occupants, and
their business habits and characters,
are as densely ignorant as if their hab-
itations were on another continent: and
again, if we are pioneers in some sparsely
settled country, may have intimate
friends and associates who
two or three score of miles
who are our neighbors in all
the term significant.

* %* *

It is a homely

hame

when we we
our-

we

we

we
reside one,
away, yet
that makes

ac # *
but very common and
expressive remark among farmers:
“Yes, he lives on the same section with
me, an’ ’pears to be a square, honest sort
of a fellow, but, somehow or our
folks can’t neighbor with him!’ And
how many of us could, if disposed, use
the same language in substance. How
many of us come in daily or hourly con-
tact with people whose proximity, when
alone considered, suggests neighborly in-
tercourse and congenial association, but
whose habits, surroundings, and heed-
less disregard of other parties’ moral and
legal rights, makes them distasteful and
repugnant to us. And yet, these people
may be in most respects, law-abiding,
quiet and honest citizens, and may con-
scientiously indulge in the belief that
they are generally regarded with respect
and approval by those surrounding them.
Asan example, take Jabez Jenkinson.
When Jabez used to live on his farm, and
visited my place of business with almost
periodical regularity, I used to regard
him as anotable and shining light among
that leading and indispensable branch of
the American sovereigns—the sturdy and
intelligent western farmer—but since
he has relinquished agricultural pursuits
and become a small village capitalist, I
find my admiration somewhat dimin-
ished. Not that his personal integrity
has deteriorated or his idea of honest
dealing become befegged, but I find that
he has a mental obtuseness to the amen-
ities and proprieties of life that I never
before suspected. recently
developed peculiarities,
be firmly impressed with

other,

Among other
Jabez
the belief that

seems to

afour by eight village lot is as fully
eapable of maintaining the same quan-

tity and variety of live stock as a forty-
acre farm. Hence he in the
midst of a thickly settled section of the
community a respectable annex a
county fair, and a once peaceful, quiet
and orderly neighborhood has,
arrival, been transformed intoa veritable
pandemonium of kicking and squealing
horses, bellowing cows, bleating calves,
squealing hogs, cackling and crowing
chickens, barking dogs and yowling cats,
with other interludes of babel sufficient
to make night and day equally hideous.

And until Jenkinson
menagerie, or removes
isolated locality, who can blame quiet-
loving people who
remarking that he is undoubtedly a good,
honest fellow, but, somehow other,
they can’t ‘‘neighbor with him.”’

has opened,
to

since his

disposes of his

to some more

surround him from

Or

“= % € oe * ~ ei

My experience in the matter has been
somewhat limited, but I natural!
gine that the soul-absorbing att

given to the important subject of

y ima-
ention
form-

 

ing ‘‘sets,’’ in the larger cities precludes
any idea of genuine neighborly inter-
course. When the minds of people,
where social matters are brought into
question, are wholly occupied with the
wealth, pedigree, official or military
record, and habitual costumes of the
candidate for initiation, and his man-
hood, intelligence and personal integrity
are rarely canvassed, it hardly seems
probable that any close personal inti-
macy, or social and beneficial interchange
of ideas is contemplated or desired.
Even in the smaller communities there

is a growing tendency to ape the social
customs of the cities, and I am really be-|
ginning to believe that ‘‘neighboring’
its primitive sense, has little
evidence of present existence, except in
the rural localities. There the
homely, but, let hope,

customs of our boyhood days are
extant,
wherein the incompatibility of neighbors |
renders ‘‘neighboring’’ impossible, there }
exists a fraternal and unselfish feeling
among the residents that is practically
unknown among the more active and

in very

same old,
us

determined money seekers of the towns
and cities.

A short time ago I was talking witha
party who had recently removed from a
bustling, Eastern manufacturing town
to a farming community in my section,
and he had hardly, as yet, recovered
eustoms of the Michigan granger.

‘*Where I lived before I came here,’’
he remarked, ‘‘] don’t think I was inti-
mate with a dozen families in town, al-
though I had lived there for
years.
or starving,
down,
for months. any possible accident or
calamity could oceur, without awakening,
apparently, the remotest interest among
those who live near you, and it was
probably from this fact that the conduct
of my new Michigan neighbors struck
me with such surprise. Why, I hadn’t
got my goods unpacked before a little
girl came in, witha big piece of fresh
pork, and said that her folks had ‘just bin
killin,’ and thought mebbe we'd like a
bitof ‘‘fresh.’’ Inless than an houra boy
put in an appearance with a mutton
roast, and a similar reason for delivering
it. A short time afterward a neighbor-
ing farmer’s wife brought in a pan of
doughnuts and a pie, with the excuse
that, were ‘all in a muss,’ they
might come handy. Another had noticed
that we hadn’t any cow or chickens, and
solicited us to accept a huge pitcher of

or

as we

milk and a basket of eggs. Our nearest
neighbor insisted on our taking our
meals with her until we ‘got settled,’
and there were numerous and urgent

offers to help us ‘get fixed up.’ Then
the male portion of the community ten-
dered the use of themselves and teams;
parties stopped to enquire if they
shouldn’t get our mail, or do some errand
for us at town, and in less than forty-
eight hours we were acquainted with
nearly all the people within the radius
of a mile. And although curiosity
might have been the impelling motive
for some of these visits, possibly, I could
detect nothing but a generous and hearty
desire to be of some service to strangers
and new neighbors.’’

 

 

THE ACME oF UTILITY ano

 

 

 

1S REACHED
E SAME IS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dis-
to the
Special
Inducements
to parties intro-

Liberal
count
trade.

ducing this
system of store-
fitting in any

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d by

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

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

KG, STUDLAY,

Manufacturer

 

and dealer in

Leather and Rubber Belting,
Rubber Goods, Sporting Geods,
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.

and Packing

, Hose and Rub
ical purposes.

Agent for the New York Belting
Company’s Rubber Be ‘

t x00ds for mech:

   
 

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Lubricating Oils and Greases of all
kinds, Cotton Waste, Lath Yarn, Hay and
Hide Rope. Lace Leather, Belt Fastenings
of all kinds, Bat Metal, Emery Wheels,

 

   

  

   

 

Disston’s Saws, Nicholson’s and Black
Diamond Files, Hancock Inspirators,
Brass Valves of all , Steam and
Water Gauges, Lubr and Grease
Cups, Packings of all kinds, Boiler Com-
pound,

 

Sole Agent for A. G. S} ding & Br rO.’s sporting
Goods, and L. C anc lee & Co.’s rubber
boots and Shoes

SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST.

Mich,

N 4 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids, -

 

| MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

The most practical
hand Roaster in the
world. Thousandsin
use—giviig satisfac-
tion. They are simp:e

 

perennial, |
still |
and barring those insolated eases |

durable and econom-
ical. No grocer
should be without
one. Roasts coffee
P and pea-nuts to per
fection.

Address for Cata
logue and prices,

Robt. 8. West,

48-50 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohio,

 

several |
There your people might be sick |
your house might be burned
you might be out of employment |

from his astonishment at the peculiar |

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‘Amos, Musselman & Go.

 

Celebrated

JAPAN TEA!

 

PDD DD DI DDL DI LI PPD PPD DIP IDI PP PP

Two Hundred and Fifty Yhovsand Pounds Sold in 1888,

 

FAAS

 

PPP PPL LPP PLL LP PPP PPP PP PP PPD

Our import Order for 1482 is sali a Million
Pounds,and We Warrant Every Pound
to Give Satisfaction to the Buyer.

 

 

PPP III III III IL

 

 

We Can Make Our First Delivery of These Teas June 20, 1889.

 

PIII DDD DDD LLLP DPD

 

W. J. GOULD & CO.

Importers and Jobbers of Teas.

Detroit, Mich.

Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Co,

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

Jobbers of

POREIGN FRUITS.

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

MOSELEY BROS.

—WHOLESALE——

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters: Produce.
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

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

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,

C. A. LAMB, Grand Rapids, Mich

 

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will be

GRAND RAPIDS.

F. J. LAMB & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cc. 2 LAME & Coa.,

Wholesale and Commission

Pruits

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FRED CLOCK, Chicago, Ili

Our Specialties:
CALIFORNIA FRUITS,

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

 

EDWIN FALLAS,

JOBBER OF

Batter, Eggs, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Mince Meat, Nuts, Figs, Ete,

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.

 

 

 

  

—WARRANTED NOT TO RIP.

Priel

Rea
3 bak

Every garment bearing the above ticket is
WARRANTED NOT TO RIP, and, if not as re-
presented, you are requested to return it to the

Done in Good Style.

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

“All coal shipped from this mine is carefully
polished by experienced artists in their line, and
every lump neatly wrapped in tiszue 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.”’
IF YOU WANT COAL IN CAR LOTS WRITE FOR

MY CIRCULAR.

 

A. HIMES.
Anthracite

Wholesale

 

GOAL |

Retail

Bituminous

LIME, CEMENT, ETC.

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

 

Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive
anew garment.

STANTON, SAMPSON & €O.,

Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich.

WANTED.

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

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

EARL BROS.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS
157 South Water St., CHICAGO.
Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids.

 

AWNINGS

AND TENTS.

 

 

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

Chas. A. Coye,

Telephone 106. 11 Pearl St.

$1,000 REWARD!!

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

 

 

 

 

 

SOLE AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
WHIPS AND LASHES.

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

 

 

  
  

   

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FIRST-CLASS

 

A SPECIALTY.

IN EVERY RESPECT.

Send Specifications for Estimates before Contracting.

THE LANE & BODLEY CO.

2 t048 JOHN ST., CINCINNATI, O.

 

 

NEW TEAS!

 

Our own

Pirsi.

importation
of Japan Teas—Crop of
1889—will be in by July

LEMON, HOOPS & PETERS.

 

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not cooked) addir ug piece ot
oot. Butter (size of hen’s egg) and gil
| * fresh milk (preferable to water.

Season to suit when on the table. None

genuine unless bearing the signature ot

Davenport Cannirg 0o,

Davenport, Ia.

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©. Ft. CORNELL.

(Successor to CORNELL & KERRY.)
Wholesale and Commission

Fruits and Produce.

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

ALFRED J. BROWN.

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

Foreign, Tropical and California
FRUITS.

 

 

 

 

Pieaacsiier for Bananas.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

16 AND 18 NORTH DIVISION ST. = a =

THEO. B. GOOSSEN,

WHOLESALE
Produce Commission Merchant,
BROKER IN LUMBER.

 

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

33 OTTAWA STEET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

IRE! 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

 

 

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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 IN USE.

PAM EL. LY ON,

 

 

 

 

GROCERIES. —

| | How the Product Known es ‘‘Feculine”

 

 

The Sugar Market.

The sugar market continues ina tie
of uncertainty,
vanced a full
The situation is thus foreshadowed by
Willett & Hamlen:

refined sugar having ad- |
we during the past week. |
| Starch
| ufacture of starch from potatoes.

This week has developed even more |

strongly than before the remarkable
strength of the sugar position, and the
rapidity with which prices advance
everywhere on the least demand. The
holders of the remaining suppiies in the
world seem jealous of parting with it at
any price almost. With only one buyer
in the United States market since June
1, Muscovadoes have advanced

POTATO STARCH.

is Made.
| Written for THE TRADESMAN.

I noticed in your paper a short time
ago an article relating to the proposed
factory at Muskegon for the man-
AsI
have had considerable experience in the
East in that line, 1 thought that a sketch
of its manufacture might be of interest
to your readers.

The first thing in the building of a
potato starch factory is to make sure ofa

i supply of potatoes for a reasonable num-

4c per |

pound. What will occur when the other |
buyers are forced into competition for
supplies, as they will be soon? Our re-

finers appear to have secured in all about |

40.000 tons to 50,000 tons in Europe, which

is small compared with what must be se-

cured. Europe seems to be startled even
at this amount drawn from them, and ad-
vanced prices again about 2s, or ’e¢ per
pound. The United States advance has
been 3¢c on Muscovadoes and 14¢ on Cen-
trifugals, for both spot and arrival. The
advance in refined is equally rapid, say
3ge per pound for granulated, and in
instances more for other grades, with a
disposition to hold consumers in check

by declining sales of any li beral am ounts.
The —— of price is fast becoming of
——— ary importance to question of sup-
plies, of both raws and refined. <A not-
able feature of the week is the further

'ers in the vicinity of

ber of years. As a potato starch factory
which uses 2,000 bushels each twenty-
four hours would cost about $10,000, it
would be reckless to make such an out-
lay without taking proper precaution to
make sure of a reasonable supply of
raw stock. The manufacturer first
makes coutracts with the different farm-
the proposed fac-
six or seven miles—

tory—say a radius of

'to buy all the potatoes that grow on the

decrease of 11,261 tons in receipts from}

Cuba and news from the British West
Indies that the season is closing with
15.000 tons less sugar for shipment from
Trinidad than last season. and
ponding shortages from other islands.
United States
last “year:

in the
tons) under

decrease

391 but now

 

corres- |

received, but in what we have in hand |

and
come from.
94,222 tons

24,222

The importers’ stock is but
against 150,135 tons, a de-
ficiency of 125.918 tons which last year
existed local stocks for refiners to
draw against as their own supplies gave
out. The refiners have lost 5,585
for the week, and have now but
tons in excess of same time last year.

iy
in

a
28.800

A |

tons |

esi which cannot be emphasized too;

much is apparent from these figures.
The importers will have ne local stocks
as they had last year to give the refiners,
when the usual foreign supplies gave out;
therefore the necessity for hunting the
world for unusual supplies is many times
multiplied. for the refiners’ stocks must
be maintained and increased to give them
any security at all against an absolute
dearth of supplies. They must not only
fill the void of last year, but the incre ased

void of this year, caused by the 125,91:
tens m'nus of importers stock. Only
two sources are open for this, the East

Indias and Europe. in both of which they
must compete with European buyers.
Beet sugar has now reached 6d. on
its way to 30s.,
still tocome. Total stock
pal countries by latest mail
dates is 782.866 tons, against 1,062,466
tons at the same date last year. A prom-
inent planter and Senator of the United

25S.

and

or say Ic per lb. advance |
in the princi- |
cable |

{behind the team

| bri his load of
Thus far there has been es dinary | brings his load 0:
receipts i
: | There is an old saying that ‘Phere are
interest does not consist in what we have}

are to receive. and where it is to; &Y&

| receive that

a certain price per
for a certain number of
years, say for five years. The manu-
facturer then builds his factory close to
a copious = of water, preferably a
vater where he can build a
a supply of water
as to get an ele-

contracted acres at

hundred pounds

stream of
dam. to make sure of
at all seasons, as well

vation of water. so it will flow into the
factory without pumping. The factory
being ready for business, the farmer

potatoes and drives
onto the scales to have them weighed.
trades but farming,’’ but
are tricks to defraud
some of which I will
The most prevalent one
the potatoes, so as to
more fer the load.
especially in the
counteracted

in all
here there
the manufacturer,
mention.
mixing dirt

tricks

is
with
much
This is practiced more
evening after dark and is
by an assistant weigher,
the dumping of the potatoes and deducts
the estimated weight of dirt. Another
scheme is for the farmer’s boy to stand,
‘‘accidentally on purpose,’’ on the scales
and out of sight as
much as possible from the weigher, and
so make more weight. Of course, the
farmer scolds the boy
ed. But the great
facturer
the acres contracted for.

tec

CST

fraud on the manu-

Should potatoes

| be a poor crop and the outside price be

|

States writes that the drought has seri- |

ously injured the growing sugar crop of
Louisiana.

Rio coffee has declined 1c, followed by
a decline of 1c by the package manu- |
facturers. Prunesare 4¢ higher. Layer
Imported Valencia raisins are higher.
Samples of new teas have arrived. New
salmon has arrived. Evaporated apples
are a little higher and stronger.

————_——-. a —__
Sugar in India.

The production and consumption of
sugar in India has been greatly increased
in the past fifteen years. A paper on
this subject communicated to the Society
of Arts (London) by Sir Charles Bernard,
Kk. CG. S. L, says that the imerease of
canal irrigation in Northern India and
the abolition of internal customs dues
have been among the chief causes of the
increase. The increased consumption of
sugar has been coincident with the gen-
eral extension of trade and a distinct
rise in the standard of comfort over a
great part of India. Sugar and tobacco
are said to be the only luxuries enjoyed
by the great mass of the population.
The area under sugar-cane in India is
2,500,000 acres, with a yield of 2,500,000
tons of unrefined sugar, or one ton to the
acre. With the exception of a few fac-
tories manufacturing large quantities of
sugar with improved machinery, the
larger part of the Indian production is
turned out by the small farmers who
grow the cane. The external trade of
India in sugar has changed radically of
late years. From being a considerable
exporter of the product, that country has
changed into an importer, notwithstand-
ing the largely increased production of
the domestic article. The consumption
per head of the population is close on 26
ine against a consumption in France
of 2 pounds, 19 pounds in Germany,
9 ae in Austria, 70 pounds in the
United Kingdom and sixty pounds in the
United States. With improved methods
of sugar production, it is claimed, India
not only should supply her own entire
population, but should become a large
exporter. Her soil, climate and other
conditions, it is claimed, ‘‘fit her for
being the greatest sugar-producing
country of the world.’

i 2 :

(ciciaionea Sugar 28 Cents a Pound.
From the Detroit News.

Everybody having sugar to buy thinks
he is paying an extraordinary high price
for it just now, but Edgar & Sons, sugar
dealers of this city, have a copy of a bill
of 60 or more barrels they sold in June,
1864, in which powdered sugar is rated
at 30c per pound and granulated at 28c,
the whole bill amounting to something
over $5,000.

 

 

2

Eaton Rapids—S. A. Montgomery has
moved his general stock into the Jopp
block, continuing the grocery business at
the old mill store.

——_—-. << ———_—_—

‘““Our Knocker’’ cigars are in great de-
mand. All grocers should carry them.
For sale only by M. H. Treusch & Bro.

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higher than the contracted price, only
about a third of the yield is brought to
the factory. and the poorest at that, while
the farmer, with a long face, complains

about the short crop and declares that is |

the contracted acres;
consequently, the factory is run on less
than half time and the season is a failure;
but should potatoes be plenty and the

all he raised on

outside market be lower than the con-

tract price, it is astonishing how many
more potatoes will be raised on the con-
tracted acres than on the others, and
such seasons the factory is overloaded.

Upon receiving the potatoes, they are
shoveled onto a sloping iron grate which
allows the dirt to go through and also
detects any stones among the potatoes.
They then pass through a horizontal cy]-
inder which has a shaft revolving in it,
which is provided with arms for stirring
up the potatoes and washing them, as a
stream of water is constantly passing
through the cylinder. A small paddle
on the end of the shaft throws a few of
the washed potatoes at each revolution
into a hopper. when they are rasped to
a pulp by a perforated sheet iren eylin-
der. The pulp falls onto a slanting seive
which is being shaken constantly, while
a spray of water is constantly falling
onto the pulp and running through the
seive, carrying with it the starch which
is dissolved out of the pulp. This runs
into large tanks, called settling tanks,
about twenty feet square by six feet
deep, when it is allowed to settle for
about twelve hours. The pulp falls from
the lower end of the seive into a shute,
whence it is washed away down stream
or is taken away for use as a fertilizer or
as food for cattle. The size mesh of the
seive is very important; if too coarse, it
allows pulp to mix in with the starch; if
too fine, it does not allow all the starch to
pass through and so cause a loss, as the
starch is thus washed away with the
pulp.

The starch having settled in the tanks,
the water is drawn off by degrees by
means of holes bored in the side of the
tank at different distances from the
bottom. This prevents any current, to
disturb the starch, which is found on the
bottom about an inch or more thick and
eovered with a coating of dirt—the starch,
being heavier, settling first. The starch
from a number of these settling tanks is
shoveled dirt and all into a small] tank
of water, called the stirring tank, which
has several horizontal paddles working
to prevent the starch from settling and
makes a heavy solution of starch, which
is pumped up stairs into a final settling
tank, where it is settled and drawn off
as below, leaving the starch about a foot
thick on the bottom and covered with a
coating of dirt. The dirt is then scraped
off, leaving the beautiful white starch
of the appearance and consistency of
cream. It is then shoveled into wheel-

who oversees |

is the acknowledged yield on|

 

after he is detect- |

|

 

barrows and carried to the top shelf of
the drying closet, where it is spread in |
small lumps todry. The drying closet
is tight and about six feet
factory floor,
and 15 feet high.
shelves about a_ foot
shelves are made of slats,
the lower shelves being closer to-|
gether. The closet doors are on each |
side opposite each shelf for working the
starch from one shelf to the other. The
starch is dried by a system of steam-
pipes under each shelf. Of course,
this is only one form of drying closets.

It is provided with |
apart. These|
the slats of

Every morning the starch is collected |

from the bottom shelf and barreled or
sacked for shipment. The starch on No.
29 shelf is sifted through the slats onto
No. 1 shelf; then starch on No. 3 shelf
is sifted onto No. 2 and so on
The hotter the

batch. drying closet,

the larger the sticks of starch will be: |

while if the closet is at alow heat, the
starch will be nearly as fine as fiour.
The product so obtained, which
known in commerce as ‘‘Feculine,”’
a ready market among the cotton factor-
ies of the Eastern States, where it is

is

used for sizing. It is also used to a con- | 7,

7 =e = i | Tve carried in my pocket two days. I
siderable extent in laundry work, partic- | wish you'd get the goods up to the house
ularly in shirt, collar and cuff factories. 'eariy this morning: will you. please ?

above the |
100 feet long, 12 feet wide |

until the |
top shelf is empty and ready for a fresh |

finds |

It finds a more limited use in the prepar-
‘ation of prepared puddings and pud-|
| ding stock. C. W. SHEDD.

——_—»> +>
VISITING BUYERS.

John Smith, Ada § C Sibole. Breedsville
| L Maier, Fisher Station Gibbs & Ritchie, :
E G Pipp, Howerd City Three Rivers
| J Raymond, Berlin J J Dykema, Three Rivers
LM yy olf, Hudsonville CC Spear, Allegan
| Struik & Bro, Forest Grove R B Gooding &Son,Gooding
L Cook Bauer ST McLellan, Denison
| IJ Quick, Allendale & H Spencer, Rockford
| DenHerder & Tanis C F Sears, Rockford
Vriesland McAuley & Co, Edgerton
y Alex Denton, Howard City
| AM Potter, Moorland B Steele & Co, Batchelor
John Gunstra, Lamont W D Hopkinson, Paris
G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove W S Winegar, Lowell
GH Walbrink, Allendale E Speicher & Co,
CS Comstock, Pierson Oakdale Park
Griswold Bros, Griswold JIC Benbow, Cannonsburg
| Carrington & North, Trent H J Fisher, Hamilton
| W N Hutchinson, Grant Cutler & Savidge Lumber
| Woodard & Polland,Ashind Co, Leroy
| Wm Reiely. ‘Ashland Dr8 J Koon, Lisbon
N O Ward, Stanwood Dr Poser Beyer, Sullivan
| Geo W Wood, Lake City A Wagner,Eastmanville
J F 3stulp, Muskegon GH Remington, Bangor
| J J Williams, Brookings Lumber Co,
Haroun Siding Brookings
, A G Goodson, Pierson P P Leonard, Muskegon
Cole & Chapel, Ada J F Clark, Big Rapids
Johnson & Rogers, Saranac John Giles & Co ioe ell
2»

The Tardy Grocer.
Wife—John, I wish you would go into
| Coffee & Co.’s when you’re down town,
and see why they haven’t sent up the
groceries I ordered by postal ecard two
days ago. It’s shameful to neglect my
order so. Just give them a real hard
| scolding, will you, John ?
| John—I shall go and see Mr. Coffee
|himself about it.
| Join (an hour later) — Mr. Coffee,
| he: ’s an order on this postal card that

{ iJ Kinney, Kinne

 

 

The Trade of Michigan

HAS COME

Jgadguarters tor Te

 

TO Ki

ECOGNIZE US AS

 

This

 

We propose to
BREAK THE RECORD

Year.

 

 

 

Wateh for Our Annovncement in Next Weeks Paper.

ILM. CLARK & SON.

 

Peninsvlar Foot Power Machine No. 2.

Six SUPPLY TUBES AND A
PAIR NIPPERS FURNISHED WITH
EACH MACHINE.

Sold only to use the

Peninstlar Fasteners.

The Equal of any Foot Power
Machine Made.

Self Feeding.

Price, 7.50 Each

Packed to Ship by
Freight.

Express or

FOR SALE BY

i. Ft. MAYHEW.

WHOLESALE

Boots, Shoes, RUbvers, Findings and Shoe Store Supplies,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

——THE——

Bast Fastener

In the market

STRONGEST,
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PRODUCE MARKET. =
BSA gore eecnngie Wholesale Price Current.
Beans—Firmer and higher. — pay £1.50 i i :
for good stock and hol/ at $1.7 The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who
Bermuda Onions—#1@1.25 per crate.
Butter—Fancy creamery is in fair demand at pay promptly and buy in full packages.
16c, extra commanding 15¢c. All the markets ap-
pear to be flooded with dairy, for which there
are few takers, except among the cold storage BAKING POWDER. DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. SYRUPS,
men. Offerings are made on the basis of 10¢ for Fan eelor Apples, sun-dried. .... @ 3% | Cor, barrels.............. @28
fair stock, extra and fancy commanding a little AL Cy. et 5 @6 one-half barrels.... @25
higher price. 95 | Apricots, -.14 @15 pure Sugar, bbl........... 28@36
Cabbages—Southern stock is more plenty and 1 40 | Blackberries" ....------ bea half barrel... .30@38
lower, the ruling price being $1.25 for small 1 ee re B SWEET GOODS
crates and $2.50 for large crates. 2 60 —— i - r Mey XXX
ee > sour ‘ ums oan 4 : ss
< ——— 50 per bu. for sour fruit and $8 per ; = Raspberries“ |... ne .. a al ci : o%
Cider—10c per gal. 11% DRIED FRUITS—Citron. Se SCS Ge 2
—— barrels. $1.25; produce barrels i 7 ii eran _— Goaenens es) 9
17 %6 | In boxes..... i @25 a
Canin ise per doz. 22 20 DRIED FRUITS—C re i Cotman! saanirsien ae ,
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried Zante, in barrels.... .- @5 SODA.
at 3@3%4¢ and evaporated at 5@5'4c per Db. in less quantity @ 54, Boxes ..... sari tt tt eceeeees 544
? 4
Eggs—A little firmer and in better demand. = DRIED FRUITS—Prunes. Kegs, English................ 4%
Jobbers pay 12@12%c¢ and hold at 1344@14c. Arctic, % Ib. cans,6 doz... 45] Turkey................ 44@ 4% cana
Field Seeds—Clover, $4.75 per bu.; timothy, ce mage ee ag ee a een a 4@ e TEAS,
$1.65 per bu. : % Ib. 2. 1 40 Imperial... So : @, jaPan—Regular.
Se $1.50@82 per bu. crate; - i 2 29 DRIED FRUITS—Raisins. Co 14 @i6
wax @3 per bu. crate. .- 1 Boia for. Geed 00, 18 22
Green Onions—10@15c per doz. bunches. Abe solute, 1g 1b, cans, 1008. a as ae LO ; S Chole iT. 24 oe
Honey—Easy at 12@14¢ per lb. No demand. igib. “ 50s..10 00|pondon I ay ere. | Gali. Cheteest. 2.1... .... 00 @ot
Lettuce—10¢ = Ib. 1 Ib. Boe. 18/051 yoenss| | ». 2.2 B5@2 SUN CURED.
Onions—Southern, $3 per bbl. Telfer's, ¥4 Ib. cans, doz.. 45 | London Layers, ‘forn. @ F
A ’ ra v a Ee 14 @15
sen ery — .25 per bu. ¥2 lb. * ‘.. 85] Muscatels, California. @2 00) Good .................. 16 @2
as pring Ha 1 Ib. 1 30 DRIED FRUITS—Peel. De 24 @B
p Corn—24¢ per Ib. Acme, Ib. cans, 3 doz... 75 | Lemon.... 13 | Choicest 2 @
Pears—California, $1.75 per crate. Y% 6 Ib. 150 Gaince 14 i ee ae —
Potatoes—New Southern stock, $3.50 per bbl. 1 Ib. i US Ge “FARINACEOUS GOODS. aT : er
Radishes—12c per doz. bunches. i he 20| Farina, 100 Ib. kegs......... 04 io Stearn as @20
Raspberries—Black, #4 per bu. Prices will go Red Star, 14 Ib. cans, 45 | Hominy, per bbl EE reheat a lias a he ih @25
much lower before the end of the week. % Ib. 8 | Macaroni. dom 121b box.... 60 CRIES «1+ aoa @35
Spinach—30e per bu. 11b 150 imported..... @ 0 Extra choice, wire leaf @40
Straw ear GG 2 _ ping “wee to : AXLE GREASE. Pear] Barley st. @ 3 GUNPOWDER.
ome in, ruling at #2 per 16-qt. crate on Monday. | Frazer’s........----+-+0+++-- f cy 130/ Co ‘ 9
There is no expectation of a glut in the wouret) | Mameray a a oe ane a ——< =
owing to the amount of fruit cut by the frost. Pramend 1 60| Sago, German......... @ 6% , Choicest a - =
BATH BRICK. Sra 2 eee ae ’
PROVISIONS. English, 2 doz. in case..... 80 ee fk or pr). @ Ora | IMPERIAL.
i : . a Bristol.’ 2 ‘| yheat, eracked....__. @ 6% | Common to fair 20 @35
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | ?7St0!, = ee 75 | Vermicelli, import.. @1 10 ‘pehicepie steal sn aan oe ae
quotes as follows: ee 6 _ i Ll ek 0 @
PORK IN BARRELS. BLUING. 7TOSS ‘ on ee | YOUNG HYSON.
Mess! new! rE 12 75| Arctic Lig, 4-02.........--. 3 40 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. | Common to fair....... 18 @26
Short cut Morgan, ET 13 00 eS 7 00 Jennings’ D.C. Lemon Vanills | Superior to fine....... 30 @40
Extra clear pig, short cut.............------ 14 50 Tl ee Dereon 10 00} 2 oz. Panel, doz. 85 1 25 | OOLONG
Huta clear, Heavy ..00000.000 0000 os 14 50 ¢  Sozpaperbot 7 2;40z. | 1 40 Common to fair.......25
Clear, fat ee 14 00 Pepper Box No. > 3 00 6 Oz. 225 | Superior cz ahi po
Boston Clear, Short Gug...0000000 00 | 14 50 0 ae & see 2 1 OC Fine to choicest... ...55 oa
Bleat back shorent 14 50 i 5 8 W| No. 6, | a LL LEARPAS _—
Standard clear, short cut, best........ -.--- $4 500 BROOMS i peso. “4 50 ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
SMOKED MBATS—_Canvassed or Plain. No. 2 Hurl............-...-- 70} No. 4, Taper, “* 1 60 O30
Hams, average 20 1D8..........--.000eeeeee ee Noo Ei: 1 90] 74 pt, Round, * 4 “5 Be
ie No, 2 ¢ ATPEL..-.-.-. 2-2 +e 200it ~ . - 8 a0 : @b5
Pigitie.................... os NO eee eee aes 2 2 ISH—SALT Tea Dust.... "s )
iC gi, | Parlor Gem.. wereecesees 2 OO] QO oh Is sli A Se aoa tilen soa
‘ est boneless.. 10 | Common W ne CO ee a
Shoulders : a s 14 Fancy ‘ - alba ssc yg 1 S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands.
i ee Mil co ee ag :
| De 8 = ne a Herring, round, é Nimrod, 4x12 d 2x12........39
—— Bacon. boneless... 6... |... 10 | Ware 100 So gibbed.. : ve eption, 22 5x12 16 oz...... 39
Dried Beef, extra........-2--+--0eeeee serene j we | ae ivCO, 1X6, 4% to ID...........% 2
Yee 2 | Kings 100 Ib. cases . ——— ee ‘bbis.. 3000 Bigs Center, 3x12, 12 02... 36
Henge @lears) Heavy) 00000 6% 80 Ib. cases...........4 25 ‘ oe 7 Wheel, 5 to bb. ee
priskets med 2 6% oe omnis Ue een | eee Trinket, 3x9, 9 oz...... 25
: BeME 2. ce. - 4 airy, een sie e i i 14 a ; és Jd. G. Butler & Co.'s Brande,
a LarD—Kettle Rendered. Creamery, —_— packed. 15 elit ¢ bbls... 7 og | i — Ce ) 35
TO Gly rolls ... gs u tS oubie Fedro............. Bi
i «| 10) tb. t
Babe joerc Boel, om benaa..... toy | While No | Weading Cake, bile 020000181
2p—R ST mee ie Something Good. ........ 0... 39
Tierces ae | 63 — = Family, OE 37
: Fee ee a en na 0” Wicking... 25 am a oH TOBACCOS—, i
Send Tab . A ake ee ie 58 | ee
2 lb. Pails. 20 28S 5 SUN P | D. Seotten & Co.’s B J
ie ake : In @ CASE....------- +e. ee eee -- 4% | Clams. 1 Ib. Little Neek...- 1 20 GUN POWDER. re -s t @ Co.'s Brands.
oh . ee = : o ee “4 | Clam Chowder, 3 Ib......... 2 10 aoe ey oe . 5 = aie ag a. 62
1 . ils, 6 IM @ CASE. ..--- + see eee ee eee eee ee (% Cove Oy sters, 2 lb. stand.. . PRS. - 8 ~ weet Cuba. 37
S61b. Pails, 4in acase.......-..-.............. Os 2 1b. ‘1 60 LAMP WICKS 1
: a al ti eae TOBACCOS—Sm j
“ib Camis ...... 21... -. ee i Lobsters. 1 lb. ‘picnic. ae 1 50 ree ee cone 30 Catlin’s B 1 oki ng-
BEEF IN BARRELS. im 2 verse 2 BNO GS sol — j
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............--- 6 75 es. ae ae ). Meerchaum, l4s............... 31
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.............-.- 7 06 2 Ib. Star.......---. B75 Pur ssc a ee eee ee veee 19
mo ee » OF Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce. ee ae ae 30 | TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPON
E: = _ os His! Gea = Cape 25 | - mk COUPONS.
gears See eel clea sereree eee TB 21b.* rr! 18 | 8 2 per hundred.. _ 2 oe
ss, tae ee & 73 Ib. in Mustard... .3 00 i MOLASSES. nee 3 00
eae Fresh and Smoked. il ‘ — eae | 3 00 | Black Strap..... a 6 #10 . 400
Pork Sausage ...-...-....---..---..-.. 7 Salmon, 11b. Columbia... _.2 00 | Cuba Baking......... . ..22@2% sie 5 00
Hn SAS a 12 1 Ib. Alaska. ca Pag Ponte) Brea (000i) 00000 00 24@35 | Subject t to the following dis-
—— Sausage. 2... |. ee 9 Sardines, domestic %48...-.. 5 | New Orleans, —. . - - -2ODS0 | counts:
Faukfort Sausage. .....-.-..---.----.-....-. 168 @ 3 eheice |. Sigg) ev CU Orr. 5 per cent.
G00 SATRe ee 5 ‘ Mustard scan) 0 fancy. 45@48 | 500 * wenn none 10
Bologna, EE “imported 3 — = écpabadeanets Se caecn | 6 aE Oo)
ologna, thick...... ee a .: . spreed, 4s....... 10 OATMEAL. VINEGAR.
Head ¢heese, st. Trout. 3 Ib. brook.......-- Muscatine, ae . ‘5 - = - eee 6%
PIGS’ FEET. CANNED GooDs—Fruits. Cas oe a wteeeees 8%
. : : eees......2 Gz = ig ,
In half barrels... .. 3 | Apples, gallons, stand.2 15@2 20 iecna ekee —- - Pigua 10%
In quarter barrels.. iL 7 5 Sia gg — a 90 Muscatine, Becca! @5 50! i
erries, red standard...... 90 oo = gr MISCELLANEOUS
TRIPE. : Half bbls. @2 8% | "
‘ oT ghee... 6. 00 c 2 12m90 Of | Coe S s. b Z
In half barrels oo eeeeceeee oe ode 0 ee ee ee
In ae. Gr DAITEIS. we we Lt oe i Egg Plums, etania 1 20 Widtess fet... 9 ee : a
: ss... Ce 8 Gooseberries ..........-....- 1 00] Water White 10% |
ga i Grapes ee ee | PAPER, WOODENW
. MEATS n Res : PICKLES. ’ J d ARE
a ae FRESH MEATS Green Gages...... eee 1 10 Medium. eel tilt .
Swift and Company quote us follows: Peaches, all ae , Stand..1 75 ‘ £ bbl . "2 50 | ce Ta
Beet are 514@ 6% i SeCOnds ............ 145 Seat bt "5 00 Curtiss & Co. quote as fol-
te hind quarters... a 6 @ TZ Bie 7. 1 00 4 bbl.. a ‘350 | lows:
‘ ‘ A oe ae | BCMESL. oo 1 30 ma i
Sais A a ia at ae a fi - : 2! Pineapples ...........- 4 “40G2 50 | Clay, No. we 1 60 Stra Me ‘‘ wo ee ence AM
Pork |e gaa ae 100) Pp, fall count... 0. 75) Sugar «2. ead
‘~ ghoulders.. @ 6} tasp eITIES, 2 35 Cob. No cc 40 Poise ou
4 red 1 60 £ ee 2%
Belge ee @5 ic om RICE. | Hardware .................... 2%
Sausage, blood or pesa =... @5 es Tat eae aaa etn 1 Carolina a a. Oe 2 | Sonera 24
2 ee i : Lo... sees ..5% | Dry Goods.... ie ee
- Frankfort. ee @ 8 ‘i ——- a No. ee - qe ponte iy i ;
utton __........-.........-. @"7 sparagus, Oyster Bay...... mea.......... | Red Express ees
— Beans, Lima, stand...._...- 80 | Japan. ce N
OYSTERS and FISH. qo Limas.... @I = a "SALERATU 7 pimaat a
uu , : Strings. |... 4 ChaHeis, pares oo. Sa ae
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: Stringiess, Erie......- 90 | Church’s, Cap Sheaf.........5 | 48 Cotton................... 22
FRESH FISH. Ly ‘* ‘Lewis’ Boston Baked ..1 40 | Dwight’s............ 8 | Cotten, Nee. 20
Whitefish .. wetter tees @ 6% | Corn, Archer’s Trophy...... 1 G0 Paglors 0. Se —C 18
Trout —— é = Morn’g ly -1 00 SALT = = amid, assorted... ... 40
eee eee eae foe ) 0% Early Golden.1 00 | Common Fine per bbl....... 88 | a emp... ..._.. .. 16
Halibut. eee @15 eae Preneh os. 1 68 | Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... NG 7
Perch. skinned.. ae a _@ 5 extra marrofat. . 61 10 = a : : 26 | Ww ea ee 1... 8
Frogs’ legs, per doz. | oan ee soaked. -.-. a 70 ! -2 15 | WOODENWARE.
| June, Siaad ........._ 43 35 100 oe a ” OF
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. «sifted 1 55 | Ashton bu. bags - 5 | Se 6 os
sifted............- r Ae 6 2
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: French, extra fine... .1 50} Higgins © © ........-... 75 | eS 5 25
aa ea s — = ...2 15 | Warsaw 7 37 Pails, No. 1, two-houp 4+ 60
‘ : umpkin. 3]b. Golden...... 85 % in og) 4 wea pea ”
Standard, ae boxes 10% Succotesl., Gu epeeeann a) 1 U0 Sy aad Clothespi. = yaa i es
aS es Oe cela dan mtn cen AT OT O78 Sane 1 10) Heo 1% | a
Cut Loaf, 25 See arco cae. 3 2 Tomatoes, ked Coat.. @1 00] Granulated, boxes.. rs r 13 MCB eveeev ences es ; =
MIXED. a ucud Enough....1 00 SAPULIO. iD "200
Reyal. 25 1b. pails oo . 10% Ben Har.......-.- 1 00 | Kitchen, 3 doz. in box 5. 2 35 eo ¢ Lae
a sie — oe 934 ‘ stand br.... @1 00} Hand, Lee So denabicl 17s and 178 2 50
xtra, Oe 114 CHEESE, SEED8. “ “15s O°
F = hc 200 Ib. <— a Oe ee I 10% Michigan Full Cream 8%@9 | Mixed bird.................. % | Baskets, = ro A
rench Cream pars. - -_- oe 12% | Sap Sago........ ----- 16 @17 Cotamay  ..... 10 bane 1 60
eee eS
Broken, 0 mee CHOCOLATE BAKER'S. | Heap 0s =v. csessecsesson 1. = wae.
a. German Sweet... i 23 enema” willow cl’ths, a
CH ee ececeeeeeeBeeeereoecoveeeees Sn = PEC CHSC CCC HCHO eE Cees O66 ‘oi 2 ™ NO.2 2
Fancy—In 5 Ib. boxes. Cocoa.. |) Se 4% " iH No.3 7 00
EON OO a 13. | Breakfast toma. a ae a vA splint No.1 3 50
Sour Drops ..... a ee estes eee eer SET otek, tn waeheeee Ey th ate
Penperssins DEGps See ae i gan ete | ae f i “No.3 5 00
Chocolate Drop ee ee os Rubber, 100 lumps.......-... ee re a
H. M. Cuneokue ON 18 s WO eee eee eee = French ee Jars..... 43 | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
enn ree PIUCE..... 0-2 eee eee eee ees : hema WHEAT
ee ‘HIC Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands .
icOrice DOE 18@22 ee r i ‘
A Be ae CE en Ty ian ee. 6 } Queen Anne................: 3 85 = =
Lozenges, plain. -...-...--.0s01 eeeeeeeeeeeees 15 | Red..........------seeeee eee 74 | German Hamily.. .......... oO a
Ce 16 COFFEE—Green. Mottled German.........-.. 3 30 s oy
Fee 15) Unie tere ee 17 @19 Ts ea cette teen ee 2 70 | Straight, in barrel. pees 4 50
A 15 OOM ue aden 1814@20 . 8. Big Bargain..... --1 87 «¢ DAFTEIS...-.... 4 70
eee 14 Rea ul ge Frost, Floater...........-...3 75 Patent sacks......... 5 50
De ee ea 13 ‘* fancy, washed...19 @ 2 Cocoa Castile ..............2 88 barrels......., 5 70
Garamelsg —— - golden ee ‘2 @23~=«CY: Cocoa Castile, Fancy........ 3 36 MEAL.
Hand Made Greame 000000 ng q8) Santos @2 spices— Whole. ee 2 20
PG CFC 16 | Mexican & Guatemala 9 @23. «| Alispice........-..-.- seotO)) || Grammbeced 00000000 2 45
—_- — TT 20 — EE 20 @23 | Cassia, — es cae MILLSTUFFS
Serine ROC 1 ave, Interior... 2... 20 @: a os iy j
“abe Mnnonds = “«” Mandheling....26 = ‘« Saigon in rolls...... 40 _— Tn 11 00
See eee —e................. ..... oe
Witerercen Berries 15 | Mocha, genuine....... 25 @27_ | Cloves, Amboyna...... ----30 | Screenings 12 00
Ht To ascertain cost of roasted Zanzibar.......--.-. ot | Middlines 0s
7. ] ‘in pail =p coffee, add %4c. per lb. for roast- | Mace Batavia . o..
ozenges ain, _ US es 124%4@13 2 The neater Mixed Weea............. 14 50
til oo —— ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- et - aa = Coarse et A eA 14 20
. printed, in — a 13G13% ec Ce Sc “0 CORN. a
Coe ele iZ COFFEES—Package. “0 s
Chocolate Drops, in pails Ceo = 100 Ibs | Pepper: Singapore. “black. ---38 o— — 3
Gum Drops, SR 634 | LION... oe ee eee eee eee 23% | gh pmanie | aa
: Ee 5 ** in cabinets .......-.-..- 24% Pe 20 | small lots....... 30
Moss Drops, ee An re MeLaughlin’s XXXX....23%; a -In Bulk. | Car a 2814
SE 6) |||) MORRC cseccc ae ania dnnesa at -234g | Allspice . . ae mee "
Sour Drops, in pails.....-....-....---..+------ 13 | Thompson’s = Bee....26 | Cassia, Batav ia. sgaeo Not 35@40
Imperials, in pails.......---- 0225 seeeeeeeeeees 2% Tiger........-- 24 ane ae
a this” 111% Nox All . 25 e — 2 No.1 BARLEY. 1%
ae 5B. ........24 | Cleves, Amboyna. g este aee ‘
FRUIT eu 1 ne Nee
a : caer ing : ae COFFEE EXTRACT. Zanzibar........... Pe es eats 7
Oranges, fancy California 4 50@4 75
wee ce sce -++-4 @4 ¢ Hee Gina ge Geaeer, — = HAY.
Messina is nae Seat 1 10 Cochin 15. | No.1 12 00
ee eee ee ne ~
PQUS.-. eee ee eee eee art “ Jamaica . RT a 10 50
ane - Sees - gag os Mace Batavia 90
eons, € MOO 4 75@5 00} Cotton, 40ft....... er don 125 see wee g
e0ey ....................-. 5 25@5 50 eset e 1 530 Hunter, Bangin. HIDES, PELTS and FURS
oi ie ie tw ae crime 25@5 Sl o . and Trie. 25
Figs, layers: Hew... =. 9@12% ny 60 ft a : 1 6 “ Tisdale oF Perkins & Hess pay as fol
ee a ecco eee @ -- i _ . = | Natmeen, Ne. 2 ..........--.. 80 | lows:
oe Me OO. os os b 5ig lzute wit ~ ~ ; Pepper, es = a as HIDES. sa
bc a ee ee es i Ee ge. : - es ) GOGH o....-.--........ w1%
Fard, 10-1b. box eee @ | Hi 72 ft i zr Cc _ Pp 7
; oc -  Cayemme: 2. t Cured.......-.... 4 @ 4%
“ oe 8 se | ; ayenne.. a a
ee oe mime fo CONDENSEDMILE. | STARCH. a ee 44@ 54
Banana 125 00 £. 2 ele olay ‘ 60 Mystic. 1 Tb. pkgs. . oe eis hae w we ww 5 @6&
eo 25@3 Aniglo-Swiss ' 600! "a Garces 6 Dry ee ag
NUTS. a Ca fskins, reen...... 3 4
Almonds, Tarragona. ee ns Bee <8 S | apIRLAEE =. ay @ 54
aaa 14 @14% onus Tt... aes 6 Gm teat @10 : | Deacon skins...... ce 10 "@2
California ET Zl eo a a 2 | Cubes ....-.-----2 ese @ 9% | 34 off for No. 2.
ef... ee |
Brestia ee oa eae 7@8 | ety - 6 | Powdered ......-....-- @10 a
ie Oe @10% | ne si: MAE 6 |Granulated.H.&E.’s.. @9.44/ o oon re
Walnuts, caaiia. ene 46@R2 a aU Franklin. @9.44| S ear 4 eu 10 @30
ae @10 | a : Lakeside. . @9.44 | stimated wool, per hb 20 @25
Pecans, Texas, Ho Poo. 22)... T4@12__ | Soda a ts Knight's... @9.44| MISCELLANEOUS.
Cocoanuts, per 100...........-. : Se coe OS 2} Confectionery A...... @9.18 | Tallow .............+-. 3%@ 4
Doe 1 esta eS EERE ae me Nae oe a ee Cc ity Oy ster. Io xx : i 6 | Standard A. ... "ea @8.81 Grease butter ........ 3 @5
i ade Picnic a eee ns é No. 1, White Extra C.. @ 8% | Swches .......... 8... 2 @:; 2%
. Ce. a ee No. 2 Extra C.. @ 8% | Ginseng.......... -2 00@2 10
PORGOCES 3805. es oo Coico @8% CREAM TARTAR, Wo: 3€, piden. |... ® 84 WOOL. |
wire es a cs eee ee ima, | Strictly pure ..........,-., SQi Ne: 4C, aerk.......... a eee ss 25@ 28
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Drugs & Medicines.

State Board of Pharmacy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.

Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.

Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon

Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit.

President—Geo. McDonald

Secretary—Jacob Jesson.

Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.

Next Meeting—At Star sland House, near Detroit,
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 2 and 3.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—Geo. Gundrum, [onia. '

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

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

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

Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer— Wm Dupont, Detroit.

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

Local Secretary—A. Bassett, Detroit.

 

 

 

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.

Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, Albert Brower

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

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

 

Gems from Examination Papers.

From a set of replies to the questions
of the Alabama Board of Pharmacy, in
a recent examination of candidates for
license to practice pharmacy, the Nation-
al Druggist culls the following gems:

Copabia is a ballsam obtained from the
copabia tree it is principaly used in dis-
eaze of the rectum is a very unpleasant
& gumy.

Glycerine is a fatty matter obtained
from the fat of calves by boiling them
down to a certain point and dealuted and
then purefied by alcoholic evaporation.

Theobroma is obtained the theobroma
plant it is principaly used in oiling plas-
ters as that of olive oil is a fixed oil and
will not come off.

Colocynthum, the root Is the part used
and in saffron the bark is used.

Morphine is obtained from the poppy
should not obtain less than 50 per cent.
nor more than 75. ;

The United States unit of weight is
of a dram—this of course can be mixed
with other powders and divided into
much smaler quantities.

Thermometer is used to test heat there
is a tube about 4 inches long on one end
there is a glass bulb in which there is
mercury there are two kinds thermome-
ters and Berometers.

A pharmacopeeia or a pharmacist is
one who compounds and prepares medi-
eines.

Mercury is a heavy drug or metal ob-
tained from lead and arsenic.

Tannin salicylic is liquid glass.

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Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Associa-
tion.
GRAND Rapipbs, June 13.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association,
was held at THE TRADESMAN Office Tues-
day evening, June 11, with a large at-
tendance.

The regular
carried out.

The Executive Board was given more
time to secure permanent quarters.

W.C. Smith read a paper on the ad-
vantages of a D. C. A.

It was decided to establish a Bureau of
Information, and request all drug clerks
seeking situations and employers desir-
ing assistants to make their wants known
through this Bureau, by addressing the
Secretary of the Association, the depart-
men! to be free of charge.

At our next regular meeting all mem-
bers are requested to take part. each
choosing his subject.

After discussing other points of less
interest. the meeting adjourned.

A. BROWER, Sec’y.
——————>_--———___—_
A Castor Oil Trust.

The castor oil manufacturers are tak-
ing the necessary steps to organize a
trust combination with a capital stock of
$250,000 to $500,000. The castor oil trust
will be an immensely profitable one.
The price of the seed has been about
21.59 a bushel for years, while the price
of the oil has been over 15 cents, and as
high as 16 cents, and not lower than 12
centsa pound. On the basis of 15 cents
the erushers have a profit of 4 cents a
pound with a yield of sixteen pounds to
a bushel of seed. There are but seven
regular mills in the country, the Collier,
St. Louis; Brown & Kansas, of St. Louis;
the Belleville Oil Co., of Belleville, Il.,
and the Baker and Burke companies, of
New York. The actual valuation of
these plants is about $75,000.

————qo@8x- 2 _——
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
MUSKEGON, June 13.

The M. D.C. A. met in regular session
June 11, with a large attendance.

A well-prepared paper on ‘‘Galenical
Pharmacy’’ was read by Geo. Le Fevre,
which threw considerable light upon that
subject to some of the members not
posted in that direction.

‘‘Pete’’ Van Deinse delivered a very
neat address on the general principles
pharmacists have to deal with.

A social meeting followed, many ques-
tions of interest to drug clerks being
discussed. J. W. Hoy, Sec’y.

Neen ek Apnea
The Drug Market.

Opium is very firm and is advancing
in price. Morphiais as yet unchanged.
German quinine is lower. Cream tartar
and tartaric acid have declined. Balsam
dr is lower. Cubeb berries are higher.
Oils cassia and cubeb have advanced.
Oil pennyroyal is tending higher. Quick-
silver has advanced. Corrosive subli-
mate, calomel, red precipitate and white
precipitate are all higher, on account of
the advance in mercury.

$<
Early Trouble.

Flossie is six years old. ‘‘Mamma,’’
she asked, one day, “‘if 1 get married,
will I have to have a husband like pa?’

‘Yes,’ replied the mother, with an
amused smile.

“And if I don’t get married, will I
have to be an old maid like Aunt Kate ?”’

“Yeu?”

‘“Mamma’’—after a pause—‘“‘it’s a
tough world for us women, ain’t it ?”’

order of business was

 

No More ‘‘Boston’”” Opium.
From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

Out of deference to the strong protest |

The National Lead Trust.
From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.
The National Lead Trust has made

entered at the last meeting of the Na-|two very important aequisitions in the

tional Wholesale Druggists’
py Boston drug importers and dealers,
against the use of the name of their city
as a distinctive title for a certain grade
of opium, the objectionable name has
been almost entirely dropped by the trade
at New York and elsewhere, and a some-
what inelegant designation imported
from England substituted. ‘Pudding
opium’? would possibly be a good enough
name in the absence of something better
and more distinctive, but it is not alto-
gether popular, and there has been more
or less backsliding into the use of the
old familiar term.

In order that any excuse for the fur-
ther prostitution of the honored name of
Boston might be invalidated, the dealers
of that city appositely offer the title
‘*standardized’”’
now in common use in American markets.
The suggestion is eminently practical,
the title suggested having the merit of
being more descriptive of the actual
character of the grade of opium toe which
it is to be applied, than either of those
now used. Considering the nature of
the article the application to it of the
name ‘Boston,’ conveys to the mind
nothing but the idea of a slur upon a
class of merchants who are, as_ we be-
lieve has been fully shown, in no wise
responsible for the general introduction
of an article which justly or not is con-
sidered inferior and adulterated. ‘‘Pud-
ding’’ refers only to the general appear-
ance of the drug, while ‘‘standardized’’
suggest what is the fact, that the drug
has been treated, manipulated, sophis-
ticated, or whatever the trade may
prefer to call it, to bring it down to the
standard of morphia strength demanded
by the United States Pharmacopoia and
the customs laws of the country.

Since many buyers show a decided
preference for this grade of opium, and
are not misled as toits nature, but in
reality obtain the worth of their money,
it must be kept in stock by wholesale
druggists until in the course of time its
inferiority to the natural drug is gener-
ally recognized. The necessity of a
suitable and distinctive name for it is
therefore apparent. That is supplied
by the concise title ‘“‘standardized.’’ In
future no other designation should be
used by the trade in this country, unless,
which is doubtful, something even better
can be found, and it is to be hoped that
dealers everywhere will at once adopt it
in place of the expressionless terms they
now employ.

—_—_—>_
The Plans to Maintain Prices.
Correspondence Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

We notice in your issue of June 5a
communication from H. H. Warner «
Co., in regard to their plan for the main-
tenance of prices. In addition to our
previous correspondence, we have only
to emphasize the necessity of amendinz
and extending this plan. Warner « (».
aim only to prevent the advertising
newspapers, which is, of course, desir-
able: but the principal advertising is
now done by circulars and price lists
distributed to consumers. We mail you
a price list from a prominent cutter in
this town. of which some 100,000 copies
have been recently distributed to con-
sumers for a radius of a hundred miles
from Philadelphia. We would be glad
to have you make an examination of t!
list and inform us how it is possible for

ils

retailers to meet competition of this
sort. Wemention afew of the prices
quoted:

Horsford’s acid phosphates, per bottle $ 34
Aversagueeure....--.--.-_---,-...-.---..--. 65
Alcock’s plasters, perdoz................--.. 1 1
Jayneisaiberatve (0)... 2) oe
Jayne’s expectorant.........-...-.......--..- 60
Waruers kidney cure ........-...--_..-..... 34
Warners diabetes cure...........-. .-.....- 84
Warners rheumatic Cure..................-. 84
Cuhcura seap........-......-...---. 14

And so on, ad iufinitum. A little con-

as a substitute for those |

Association, | Collier

and Southern white lead com-
| panies, of St. Louis, the final details of
| the transfer of which to the Trust have
‘been completed. Negotations are now
| pending for the pu~chase of the Eekstein
Company of Cincinnati and the Atlantic
of New York. and when these are com-
pleted the Trust will practically have the
control of the white lead trade of the
country, the few remaining outside con-
cerns being comparatively unim portant.
The transfer of the Eckstein interests is
substantially effected the Company being
under contract to sell to the Trust. The
other negotations have not progressed so
far. put there is a possibility that the
result will be the same as in the case of
the other companies.

When the pending negotiations are
completed the board of officers of the
Trust is to be re-organized, with W. P.
Thompson, of Cleveland, as president.
What other changes in the board will be
made eannot yet be stated. The Trust
is to be congratulated on the prospect
of having its affairs administered by a
gentleman of such marked executive
ability, excellent business methods and
high standing. His connection with it
presupposses its complete success, and
gives assurance that it will be conducted
on a safe and progressive basis.

>» +>
Not So Bad as All That.
From the Boston Courier.

It is well known that fishermen, after
getting a good catch of codfish at the
Georges, make haste to get to Boston, as
the earliest arrivals get the best prices.
A worthy captain who sails out of Bos-
ton, having been fortunate enough to
secure an unusually large quantity of
fish, crowded on all sail and started for
home. A severe storm arose, during
which three men were washed overboard
and lost. One of these was a native of
Portugal. The loss was a severe blow to
the captain, who had been congratulating
himself upon receiving the commenda-
tions of the owners of the vessel for the
very large catch he had secured. The
news of the loss of the men preceded the
vessel’s arrival, and the owners were
aware of it and looked down with very
grave faces upon the captain as he
sheered alongside of the wharf.

“We've got the biggest catch that’s
come to this wharf, you bet,’’ said the
captain.

‘‘What. good is that,’’ said one of the
owners, ‘‘when you’ve lost three men ?”’

‘‘Who says that 9’ asked the captain.

“Why, the tugboat brought in the
news.”’

“That we'd lost three men ?”’

[ies |:

“Well, it ain’t so bad as all that.
two men and a Portugee.”’

Only

—————__—~—_2.<___—_
Avoid Wrangling.

Never engage in an angry dispute. If
aman cannot argue with you without
becoming excited and angry, the best
course to pursue is to be silent. A quiet
dignity of manner isa much more for-
midable weapon than words; and, as is
often the case, your opponent will see
the unequal ground he stands upon, and
how little avails having a combat with
himself, and soon will be glad to hide
out of sight of his fellow-man, or come
to amicable terms. We have known an
angry man to denounce another in lan-
guage not ‘‘full of the peaceful fruits of
righteousness,’’ but in bitter, goading
epithets that ill become a human being
that is destined fora higher and a better
home. We have also seen the enemy,
knowing his position, silent and calm, as
if some good spirit had come and takena
lodgment within his heart, and made
him feel that he was still a man, and had
no desire to place himself on a level with
aman who would cope with the brute
creation; and well he remembers that it

 

sideration will show you the great injury
done to the proprietors by this concen-|
tration of trade. As you see, the price}
list that we mail you, numbering 73)
pages, is filled with the advertisements |
of the cutter’s goods, prepared for him |
we presume—as is usually the case—by |
dealersin non-secret preparations, whose |
efforts are chiefly concentrated on pro-|
ducing the largest bottles, with the most |
gorgeous labels, without much considera- |
ation for the quality. The prices quoted |
herein, however, are not confined to pro-|
prietary goods, but include also drugs |
usually bought by consumers: |
5¢ |

Syrup of tpeese, per oz... |
Syrup Of ipecac, per pint........_-.._.__--._.. BOC |
Syrup of squilis, peroz. ae |
Syrup of squills, perpint...--- =... BUC |
'

And so on through the list. We are}

persuaded that to merely stop the adver- |

tising in the newspapers will not accom- |
plish the desired purpose.

Yours respectfully,

Frencu, RicHarps & Co. |

a |

Danger in Ice-Water. |

Dr.

always takes two to quarrel. ‘‘He that
ruleth his spirit is better than he who

i taketh a city.”’

ae
|The Same Trick the Bootblack Played

on Noah.

Two youngsters who found the bus-
iness of selling papers and shining shoes
a trifle dull the other night. agreed to
polish each other’s shoes. But each was
evidently distrustful of the other’s hon-
esty. Neither wanted to begin the
shining operation. At last it was set-
tled by the flip of a penny that Joe

| should commence on Bilky’s shoes. When

Joe had made Billy’s right shoe look like
unto a looking-glass, he threw down the
brushes and said: ‘‘I ain’t goin’ tershine
the other shoe till you’ve shined one er
mine. Pm onto yer game, Billy.’
Billy’s protests were in vain. He had to
shine Joe’s right shoe before the latter

| would polish Billy’s left.

—_—___—~. <<
A Strong Breath.

A man near Beaver Falls, Penn., can

i |eure rheumatism by gently blowing on
Hammond protests against the| the patient’s face.

There are some men

American habit of gulping down a great | whose breath would drive away anything

quantity of ice-water.

c He says that it| not absolutely immovable, and probably
induces catarrh of the stomach, which) this man has that kind of a breath.

But

underlies a dozen other troubles and,!one would think the patients would
very possibly, cancer of the stomach. | prefer the rheumatism to that mode of
Ice, used in small quantities, is a valu-| cure.

able remedy, but any one had better)
swallow coals of fire than ice-water. It|
blisters and destroys the
Dyspepsia is a sure consequence, and it
does not even insure temporary comfort.
What, then, can we do? Swallow instead
an occasional crumb of ice. Reasonably
cold, but not ice-cold lemonade is a con-
venient and wholesome drink. Better
yet is the old-fashioned farmer’s drink of
one-half milk and one-half water. This
is refreshing and cooling when far from
ice-cold.
> 4

A Young Housekeeper’s Perplexity.

Ex-Schoolma’m (just married)—Tom,
I got fifty cents’ worth of milk tickets
to-day, but they are all quarts. What in
the world am I to do when I want only a
pint?

Young husband (thoughtfully)—Why,
I don’t know, Sue, unless you tear one
in two.

Wife (rapturously)—That’s so! I won-
der I didn’t think of it!

The next morning, with due explana-
tions, the divided ticket was passed over
in return for the necessary pint of lacteal
fluid. Not atwitching musele betrayed
the vendor’s emotion, but, a block farther
on, his appearance was suggestive of

 

membrane. | Knocker’’ cigars.

 

cramps in the stomach.

should handle ‘‘Our
Sold only by Morris

Every druggist

H. Treusch & Co.

 

 

 
    

SUMMER TOURS.

 

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During July and August Leave
CHICAGO Chicago, 9 A, M., 6.30 P. M
AND St. Joseph, 2 P.M., 11 P.M

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Chicago, 9 A. M.
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Four Trips per Week Between

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PETOSKEY and SAULT STE. MARIE.

Every Day Between
DETROIT AND CLEVELAND

OUR ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLETS
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by your Ticket Agent, or address
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John Ward, Preacher.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. bring out Mrs.
Deland’s famous story as the initial num-
ber of the Riverside Paper Series, which
will- consist of standard and popular
novels to be issued semi-monthly in
tasteful paper covers at fifty cents each.
‘“‘John Ward, Preacher’ is one of the
most notable novels recently published
in America, and has caused more discus-
sion than any other novel except ‘‘Robert
Elsmere’? which has been given to the
English-speaking world for many years.
Thirty-seven thousand copies have been
printed in this country, and perhaps as
many more in Great Britian. In its
cheap form this ‘‘interesting and remark-
able story,’’ as Archdeacon Farrar styled
it, will doubtless reach anew multitude
of readers. Aldrich’s ‘Queen of Sheba,”’
Craddock’s ‘‘Where the Battle was
Fought,’’ and other attractive novels
will follow.

BE SURE

TO INCLUDE

Sweet Cream Soap

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

 

 

 

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 60,,

GRAND RAPIDs. MICH.

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

PECK BROS.,

 

Wholesale Druggists,
GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

Wholesale Price Current.

Adyanced—Gum Opium, Oil Cassia, Quicksilver,
White Precipitate.

Corrosive Sublimate, Calomel, Red Precipitate,

Declined—German Quinine, Pure Cream Tartar, Tartaric Acid, Balsam Fir. |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

2a 15! Antipyrin Le 135

   

 

 

 

 

  
 

 

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.
(SPECIAL.)
Water White—A splendid oil.

Gasoline.

Our XXXX Red Cross brand is unexcelled. War-
ranted to Give Satisfaction.

Napthat

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 — 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

Lubricating Oils

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

Grand Rapids Yank ine Go.,

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

 

 

 

  

AMOND TEA

CURES

Liver and
Kidney Troubles
Blood Diseases
Constipation

Female
Complaints

 

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

 

Retail Druggists will find it te
their interest to keep the DIA-
MOND TEA, as it fulfills all that
is claimed, making it one of the
very best selling articles handled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NANCE.
[CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. |
1 go for the doctor? He’s that trembly
27’? hot, I'm scairt of him.’’

Her face was ashen and her patient
eyes had a wild, unnatural look.

A few moments later the doctor came.
Nance had lost so many children that she
was easily frightened, and her kind neigh-
bors hoped that she had overestimated
the seriousness of Pete’s condition, but
he was very sick from the first, and grew
steadily worse. There was a blight on
all Nance’s little ones. Pete had only
been a little stronger than the others.
His time had come, thus early, to die,
and he knew it.

“‘Ma,’’? he said, as he lay, watching
Nance moving nervously about the room,
*‘ecome an’ set side 0’ me awhile. Don’t
you fret ’bout bein’ like Mis Morse or any
one else. You'll be all right up there.
Teacher said so. I guess they make us
all over or turn us inside out or some-
thing like that. You’re all right inside,
ma. An’ don’t youcry bout me. If |
didn’t go to heaven, maybe pa’d take me.
I never told you, cause 1 wasn’t goin’ to
worrit you, but he talked like it last time
he was here. ‘Pete,’ he says, ‘if I take
you, I’ll make a gentleman of you.’
“Thats what mas doin’, Ff said- I
answered him up stiff, I tell you! I let
him see I’d stick up for you. But—he
might ha’ done it, so it’s best just as it
is. Butit’s been very nice here, ma, an’
I love you.’?’ The woman bowed her
head beside him. while he stroked it
gently. How could she who had borne
so much, bear a sharper sorrow still!

There was along silence, but at last
Nance lifted her pale face with a hali-
smile upon it and spoke:

“Pete”? she sald, “I didn’t mean to
tell you quite yet, but I can read an’
write, quite good, Pete.”’

A light broke over the boy’s counte-
nance. How well he appreciated her
hopes and her struggles!

‘Now you can’t, can you!’ he cried,
weakly. ‘‘Did Mis Morse teach you?
Ain’t it splendid! Do some for me.’’

He begged to be propped up in his bed,
so that he could see her ‘‘do some,’’ and
she followed his wishes. _Then she took
apen and paper and wrote slowly. but
plainly, *‘Pete Norris, Nov. 19, 18—.”’

‘“‘That’s prime!’ said the boy, with a
sincerity of congratulation which alone
repaid her for all her arduous labor in
learning. ‘‘Now, could you write those
words that the disciples said—that Mr.
Reynolds talked about last Sunday—
‘There is a lad here?’ ”’

The woman wrote again, but more
slowly than before, for her eyes were
blurred with tears, and the first enthusi-
asm of her pleasure in Pete’s happy sur-
prise was dying away as her awful grief
drew nearer.

“That's it,’? he said, drawing a long
breath as she finished the words. He took
the paper in his hands, looked at it lov-
ingly, and then continued, with an arm
around his mother’s neck: ‘Christ don’t
seem to have said much ’bout the ‘gentle-
man’ that pa talks somuch “bout, but (m
a lad, and he talked about the lads.”’

That was the last conversation which
the two had, for Pete grew weaker very
fast, and ina few days the end came.
Hudson was at the East. and the word
which Nance sent him of Pete’s illness
and again of his death, never reached
him. But Nance was constantly expect-
ing her husband now, and in her anxiety
that all should be right ‘‘when Hudson
came,’’ she had no time to give way to
the dull agony that weighed upon her
heart.

At last, afew weeks after Pete’s death,
and when Nance had almost given up
hoping for his return, he came. The
short winter day, which had been a
peculiarly depressing one, was drawing
toaclose. Nance, her spirit all gone,
did not rise as he camein. His first in-
quiry was ‘‘Where’s Pete?’’

‘‘In the graveyard,’’ answered Nance,
stonily.

‘-Gone to the graveyard at this time 0’
night!’ said the man, roughly. ‘‘Goand
fetch him this minute.”’

“Td have to dig—he’s in the grave-
yard.’’ Nance’s tone was full of tearless
despair.

The great, burly fellow staggered as
though he had been struck. The child
had been very dear to him—he did not
know how dear until now. He dropped
into a chair, while Nance, recalled to her-
self by her husband’s altered manner,
gave him some of the details of the boy’s
iliness and death.

“I wrote to you all about it—didn’t you
get my letters?’? she had said, before
telling the sad story.

‘“‘No,’? he had answered, abstractedly,
He did not notice the fondness with
which she had dwelt upon ‘‘I wrote’’ and
‘‘my letters.”’ He supposed, if he took
the trouble to suppose anything about it,
that she had asked someone else to write
for her.

He staid for two or three days, most of
the time lost in sullen reverie. In adozen
ways she tried to attract his notice to her
new accomplishments.

‘‘Here’s a copy of the letter I writ to
Pete’s teacher,’? she would say, or,
‘“‘Here’s a book Pete ’n’ I was readin’,
an’ I writ his name in it,’’ but all was
unheeded. Perhaps the depth of feeling
that seemed, for once, to have rendered
the man so oblivious of all the outside
world, was an indication that he knew he
was only receiving just punishment for
past sins. Perhaps, too, he felt the sore
need of asking forgiveness, but he did
not do it. Confession and pleading could
never have seemed to Hudson Norris any-
thing but out of place to one so humble
as his wife.

After he went away, Nance hoped and
prayed for but one thing—his return; but
months passed away and he did not come.
Pete was gone, and his gentle, loving
wife seemed to have no charms for him.
She was nearly fifty new, and old and
wrinkled before her time. Her step, too,
was beginning to get heavy and slow.
She sat for hours pouring over her Bible.
She loved particularly the chapters in the
Revelation which describe the glories of
the Celestial City. That was where her
children were. Pete was there, and one
day she should join them—a different
woman from what she was now. Pete
had said so. She longed to go. Life held
no joy for her now. Nothing seemed to
rouse her from this utter apathy in re-

gard to earthly things, until one day a
stone, which she and Hudson had gone
together to order, was put up at the head |
of Pete’s grave. Mrs. Morse went with |
her to see that all was properly done.
She sat down beside the grave and read |
the inscription, just the words she had |
written so painstakingly, with his bright!
eyes upon her.

Suddenly she started up.

“I forget he ain’t there until I see that.
Why, it’s true ’n’ it ain’ttrue. He’s my|
little lad yet, an’ livin’ an’ watchin’ me
—a’ how proud he was o’? my writin’!|
I’m forgettin’ how, ‘cause I don’t write
any more now; an’, Mis Morse, ’'m goin’
home, an’ l’m Soin to get to my lessons |
again, if you’re willin’.”’

Then she seemed to begin to take some
interest in life again, but she had ceased
to speak of her husband. Her friends}
thought that the old hope was dead, but
how little did they understand the heart |
of a woman! |

One day she ran hastily up the stairs |
to her lodgers’ rooms, the village news-
paper in her hands, and her face all
aglow.

‘Could you help me write a letter, Mis
Morse?’’ she asked, half ashamed, but
quite in earnest; ‘‘] want to write it very
nice, you see. Hudson’s failed. It says
here in paper that he’s lost every-
thing down there in ’Frisco—clean beat
out. Poor Hudson!—but there’s always
room for him here.’’

Her listener’s soul rebelled at the
thought of Nance’s showing any kindness
or mercy to a wretch like her husband;
but no one could have had the heart to
put out the light in her eyes.

This was her letter: ‘*Dear Hudson—lI
kear you ain’t busy jist now. If you care
to try aspell up here, I think it would
rest you. You know I always love to
| have you come, and you might be better
forarest. Always your loving wife.’’

Everyone has seen the wonderful trans-
forming power of love in a young girl’s
face, and watch the thousand unconscious
little ways in which she strives to beautify
herself and her surroundings for the one
to whom she has given her heart; but to
see all this in a hard-featured, work-worn
woman isa strange and most pathetic
sight. Those who observed Nance, how-
ever, in the joyful expectation that fol-
lowed the sending of her letter, saw just

the
tne

    

this sight. And their respect for human
nature could not but rise as they be-
held it.

Would the love which she so confid-
ingly proffered him be tossed aside and
trampled upon, as it had been in the days
gone by, or was there really a heart in
Hudson’s cold breast?

A week later he came, sending a postal
card before him, to announce his advent.
All her neighbors knew that he was com-
ing, for Nance wore her afternoon dress
in the morning, and went about with a
smile upon her lips, and a suppressed ex-
citement of manner. If Hudson had been
a prince returning, after a long absence,
to a faithful subject, whose interests he
had always cherished, he could not have
been received with greater joy and pride.
And Hudson had been humbled now toa
point where Nance’s demonstrations were
not utterly without value. His new-made
friends had failed him when he lost his
money, and he had begun to appreciatea
love which was founded on something
deeper.

‘“You’re a good woman, Nance,’’ he
said, as he came in and saw the table
neatly spread with the choicest products
of her industry, and noted the marks of
thought and care in her dress and in the
neatness of the little room. ‘*You were
good to send me that letter.’’

“IT wrote it myself, Hudson,’’ exclaimed
Nance, with abounding joy and pride.
‘‘l’ve tried to make myself more such a
wife as you'd like to have, an’ I thought
maybe when you came back, you’d find
I had improved enough so’t you’d stay
with me, Hudson. I’m strong yet, and
Td rather board twenty men, just as I
used to, and if Ionly had the children
back to tend to, too!’—and Nance gavea
great sob—*‘I wouldn’t mind the work if
you was with me, too. Vd a good deal
rather, than live like a lady with nothin’
to do, an’ have you gone! I’ve always
thought such a sight 0’ you, Hudson.”’

Nance ended with a heaving breast and
shining eyes. Her husband looked at her
as if she was something beyond his com-
prehension—as, indeed, she was. He
opened his mouth to speak, but somehow
he couldn’t say anything.

Then he put his arm around her and
kissed her worn face with a gentleness
he had never shown before.

“*Ye-es,’’ he said at last, trying hard to
speak as usual. ‘I reckon I[’ll stay—
quite a while, any way.’’

So Nance took some boarders and got
washing to do, and Hudson found things
more comfortable than he had ever known
them anywhere before. He gradually
discovered that it wasn’t necessary for
him to do much beyond an odd job now
and then, since Nance was so willing and
able to support him; and she—day after
day her face was radiant. She filled Hud-
son’s pipe, bought his beer, and was
happy that she was graciously allowed to
do so much for him.

She did not have time in these days to
go often to see her lodger, but one after-
noon, when Hudson had been with her a
year or more, and there seemed little
doubt that he proposed to stay, she found
her way up to the pretty sitting room and
dropped into the wicker-chair with its
bows of blue ribbon.

Mrs. Morse could not be very cordial.
She was really effended with Nance for
her lack of spirit in treating with such
‘distinguished consideration’? the man
who had so cruelly wronged her. She
half thought that she would seize this
favorable opportunity to acquaint Nance
with her views.

A letter, which the pretty little woman
had just finished writing, lay ready
stamped and sealed upon the table. Nance
looked at it half reverently, and then
said, fingering ita little, *‘Oh, Mrs. Morse!
what a thing writin’ is!’ and then as she
went on, there came a happy quiver into
her voice, which banished whatever
thought her hostess had had of breaking
poor Nance’s beautiful dream, ‘‘I always
said that if I could once learn to write
I’d get Hudson back! I told you that
would fetch him. and’’—with inexpressi-
ble pride and satisfaction—‘‘you see it
did!’ Hope LEDYARD.

——— 4

Prairieville — Geo. Mosher will com-
mence building a store, as soon as the

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| FLINT, Mich.. April 9, 1869. |
To Whom it May Concern: j
| We, the undersigned committee, se- |
| lected by Geo. T. Warren & Co. to can- |
| vas the list of names and xelect one for a |
| Cigar Label from the many nam s sent |
|\in by the contestants, have this day}
| selected the following, viz: EDITOR'S |
CHOICE, sent in by Sig Wolf, of |
| Toledo, Ohio. |
JOHN J. Coon, Editor Flint Journal
F. H. RANKIN. JR , of Wolverine Citizen
| A. L. ALDRICH, of the Flin: Globe.

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

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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

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This cigar we guarantee to be the best
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Beware of Imitations.

The genuine w
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Manufacturers of the famous

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Advertising Cards and Specialties,

We carry a larger stock of these goods than any
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Are Manufacturers, Importers and Publishers of
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Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING NORTH.

  

Arrives Leaves.
Traverse City & Mackinaw..........7:00am 7:30am
Traverse City & Mackinaw.. 9:30am 11:30am
Traverse City Express....... -- 3:09 pm 4:20pm
Fetoskey & Mackinaw..... ....... 8:45pm 10:30pm

7:30am and 11:30 a. m. trains have chair cars for
Petoskey and Mackinaw City.
10:30 p. m, train has sleeping car for Petoskey and
Mackinaw City.
GOING SOUTH.

   

Cincinnati Eapress................ 6:25am 7.0 am
Fort Wayne Express 11:45am 12:45am
Cincinnati Express... - 5:40pm 6:00 pm
Chicago and Sturgis. -.10:40pm 11:05pm

7:00am train has parlor chair car for Cincinnati.

6:00 p m train has Pullman sleeper for Cincinnati.

11:05 p m train has Wagner sleeper for Chicago, via
Kalamazoo.

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

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Leave Arrive.
Te a 10:15 a m
EE en es nee eects 3:45 pm
Ot 88 8:45 pm

Pp
Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.
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Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEsT.

Arrives. Leaves
*Morming EXpreek.............._.. 1:05 pm 1:10pm
tThrcagu war 6:00 pm 5:10pm
¢Steamboat Express..............10:40 p m 10:45 p m
SMlpt Forprese: 58. . 6:50am 70am
eee ee 7:45am

GOING EasT.

   

Petroit MapRees. 6:45am 6:50 am
+Through Mail.. .--10:20 am 10:30 am
+Evening Expres .-- 3:40pm 3:50 p m
ge ae 6:25 pm 6:30 pm

+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.

Detroit Express has parlor car to betroit, 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 Toronte, and at De-
troit for through sleeper to Niagara Falls.

Through tickets ana sleeping car berths secured at

. H. & M.R’y offices, 2 Monroe St., and at the depot.
Jas. CAMPBELL. City Passenger Agent.

Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern.

For Toledo and all points South and East, take
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way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections
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connections at Toledo with evening trains for
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nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi-
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Dry Goods : Notions,

83 Monroe St. and 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 Fountain St,,
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AMERICAN, :
HOOKER, d § Waddings, Batts
cen i and Twines.
Sole Agents for Valley City and Georgia Bags. Mail orders receive prompt

and careful attention.

 

Pa

W. STEELE
cking and Provision Co.

 

 

 

prices.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

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

of all Kinds, Dried Beef for Slicing.
LARD

strictly Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 50 1b. cans, 20]b. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. pails

Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Tripe, Etc.

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

Write us for

 

MICHIGAN, OUR MICHIGAN!

To the Retail Distribvters of Foot-wear in Michigan :
GENTLEMEN:—Michigan is our home state and we take
especial pride in the reputation our goods have right here at
home. Our production is over ONE MILLION DOLLARS
ANNUALLY (Shipments for last six months being $519,468)
and of this fully one-third is sold in Michigan. We are repre-
sented in nearly all Michigan towns of any size by first-class,
enterprising dealers (you know we only sell to the best), but
we will not be satisfied until our goods are sold in EVERY
CITY AND VILLAGE IN THE STATE, so if reliable dealers
in places where our goods are not sold will write us, we will
convince them that we can make it to their advantage to take
hold of our line. WE WARRANT EVERY* PAIR to give proper
service, and, believing in the old adage ‘‘There’s Nothing Like
Leather,’’ we use no imitations.
Yours truly,

PINGREE & SMITH,
Detroit, Mich

MANUFACTURERS OF

Reliable Foot-Wear

In fine and medium grades. All styles. Ladies’, Gents’, Misses’,
Boys’ and Children’s.

WM.SEARS & CO.,
Gracker Manviacturers,

37.39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.

c= No Chemicals.29

W. BAKER
& C0,’S

Breakfast Cocoa

Is absolutely pure

 

 

 
 
 
    

and it is soluble.

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

= dients are employed, most of them
being based upon the action of some alkali, potash, soda or
even ammonia. Cocoa which has been prepared by 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
mechanical processes the greatest degree of fineness is
secured without the sacrifice of the attractive and beautiful
red color which is characteristic of an absolutely pure and
natural cocoa.

W. Baker & Co., Dorchester, Mass.

 

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 FRUIT THAT GROW CANNOT
BE OTHERWISE THAN THE FINEST FLAVORS PRODUCED.

 

 

Dealers will always find Jennings’ Extracts saleable and profitable
goods to add to their stock. Orderthrough your Jobber or direct from

Jennings & Smith,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

SEE QUOTATIONS THIS PAPER.
Wecarry a large stock of Foreign
and Domestic Nuts and are at all
times prepared to fill orders for

N Ul T car lots or less at lowest prices.

Putnam & Brooks.

 

 

 

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THK OLD RELIABLE

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

Send for sample of the celebrated

Frazer Garriage Grease

The Frazer Goods Handled by the Jobbing
Trade Everywhere.