he Michigan ‘Tradesman. VOL. 7. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1889. NO. 321. _ HIRTH & KRAUSE DEALERS IN Shoe FRENCH TOILET, SAFETY BARREL, GILT EDGE, | RAVEN GLOSS, BIXBY’S ROYAL, SPANISH GLOSS, BROWN’S FRENCH. Dressings Polish Blacking, BEACH’S New York (}offee looms. OYSTERS IN ALL STYLES. Steaks, Chops and All Kinds of Order Cooking a Specialty. BIXBY S “2 5,” JACQUOT’S FRENCH, BARTLETT'S ” GENUINE T. M. FRANK M. BEACH, Prop. Daniel G. Garnsey, EXPERT ACCOUNTANT AND Adjuster of Fire Losses. Twenty Years Experience. References furnished if desired. 24 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Go. Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods STAPLE and FANCY. Overalls, Pants, Etc., OUR OWN MAKE. A COMPLETE LINE OF Fancy Grockery and Fancy Woodenware OUR OWN IMPORTATION. Inspection Solicited. Chicago and De- troit prices guaranteed. 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Students may enter at any time. Address West Michigan Business University and Normal School, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. J. U. LEAN, Principal. Kk. KNUDSON, MERCHANT TAILOR And Dealer in Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Fine stock of Woolen Suitings and Overcoat- ings, which I will make to order cheaper than any other house in the city. Perfect fit guaranteed. 20 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids. A. E. YEREX, Sec’y and Treas. Business Practice at the Grand Rapids Depa rtm € nt Business College. Ed- ucates pupils to transact and record business as it is done by our best business houses. It pays to goto the best. Shorthand and Typewriting also thoroughly taught. Send for circular. Ad dress A. S. PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens berg. Muskegon Paper 60, Dealers in FINE STATIONERY, WRAPPING PAPERS, PAPER BAGS, TWINES, WOODEN DISHES, ETC. Mail Orders 44 Pine St., Muskegon, Mich. Magic Goffee Roaster, The Best in the World. Promptly Filled. Having on hand a large stock of No. 1 Roasters—capacity 35 lbs.—l will sell them at very low prices. Write for Special Discount. ROBT. S. WEST, KDMUND B. DIKEMAN Watch Maker = Jeweler, 4A CANAL SY., Grand Rapids, - Mich. MAN comPAN Show Case MAKERS. Prices Lower than Ker QUALITY THE BEST. W rite for Prices. 63—65 CANAL ST. ai alte (Formerly Shriver, wv eatherly & Co.) CONTRACTORS FOR Galvanized Iron Cornice, Plumbing & Heating Work, Dealers in Pipes, Etc., Mantels and Grates. Weatherly & Pulte, GRAND RAPIDS, - - To The Trade! PERSONAL EB. GC. biti Will hereafter act as our representative in Grand Rapids and vicinity. CEO. MOEBS & CO.., MANUFACTURERS OF “Ben Hor” “Record Breakers,” And other fine cigars. DETROIT, ji MICH. Pumps, MICH. ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. Fehsenfeld & Grammel, (Suecessors to Steele & Gardner.) Manufacturers of BROOMS! Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom Handles, and all Kinds of Broom Materials. 10 and 12 Plainfield Ave., Grand Rapids, WM. M. CLARK, Manufacturer of Gustom Made Shirts, Fit and Quality Guaranteed. Our cutting is done by Chas. R. Remington, who was for nine years cutter for Gardiner & Baxter, who will cordially welcome his many friends in the trade. 7 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich, A LIFE THOUGHT. If drunk, we live in the present, If grave, we live in the past; If gay, we dwell in the future, The only dwelling to last. The maiden who greets the morning With a smile that’s all divine, Is peering into a future For a brighter morn to shine. The youth who studies the planets, Or the diverse ways of men. His heart is fixed on the coming Of his rule by sword or pen. The toiler who drains his forces In the stress of life for gain, Wearily drops his weary head, At the sightless future’s reign. There’s naught in gold or silver, There’s nothing in house or land, Barring the greed to get it By the cold and worldly hand. But the greed that’s for the future, Shall never that future find, For the future’s always future To the wish that rules the mind. If drunk, we live in the present, If grave, we live in the past: If gay, we dwell in the future, The only dwelling to last. Hueun Farrar MAcpERMOTT. ——_ —~ -2 > JACK WALTERS’ FORTUNE. Nobody saw Jack Walters’ good traits with so clear a vision as little Atty Brown. Jack was a clerk in the great dry goods establishment of Dorset & Drew. He was somewhat vain of his really handsome face, and a trifle fop- pish, but the groundwork of his charac- ter was laid in good, true colors, war- ranted to wear. Jack was poor, but am- bitious and capable—so much so that the firm, in whose employ he was, were con- sidering whether they should not raise his salary and send him to travel for their house. Jack got an inkling of their in- tentions, but discreetly kept it to him- self. As a matter of course, Jack having reached the mature age of twenty-one, was in love with afair lady. He had first seen her at the store, and his heart was at once taken captive in the meshes of her golden hair. Anne Rathburn was very lovely. Everybody said and rightly. But she was called a flirt by sober-minded people, and the young men were rather afraid of her. Those who enjoyed her confidence knew that she was waiting for a golden prize, and smiled at poor Jack’s infatuation. Miss Rathburn’s father was head book- keeper at Dorset & Drew’s, and by no meansarich man. It was his wife who kept the home-establishment going. She had eome into possession of a small fortune just as Anne was blooming into beautiful womanhood, and consequently the girl wasa little spoiled. The family lived in elegant style, kept a pony-chaise, and Anne was gratified in all her whims, for she was the ido! of both parents. Jack had won upon the affections of the old book-keeper. not for selfish ends only—for there was something about the meek, thin-faced, aristocratic-looking old gentleman that encouraged friendliness, and Jack had always liked him. So, oc- casionally the young man was invited to the elegant residence of the Rathburns, and in time found himself on a somewhat intimate footing with the different mem- bers of the family. Atty Brown was the poor relation who mended Anne’s stockings, and aided that lazy young beauty in divers ways, for her clothes and board. She was a cousin on the father’s side, with nothing to dis- tinguish her from ordinary young lady- dom but a pair of glorious, melting, hazel eyes, fringed by the longest, thickest lashes that were ever seen. Mrs. Rathburn, like her husband, was tall and thin, and wore fashionable caps and a great quantity of false hair. She had once been the possessor of consider- able beauty, but now people called her only fine-looking. If she had been merely the poor book-keeper’s wife without a fortune, I doubt if she would have been considered even that. These, with a bachelor uncle, whose chief amusement was showing wonderful tricks with cards and telling fortunes, made the full quota of the book-keeper’s family. among whom Jack found him- self placed on terms of the most delight- ful intimacy. It was the first day of April, and Anne sat listlessly looking over some pictures, Atty Brown knitting a pretty trifle for her cousin, on the opposite side of the table, when Hetty Rogers dropped in upon them. Hetty was a sleek, sly little brunette, who.always reminded one of a purring cat. “Girls. do you know whata lovely day itis 2’? exclaimed Het, loosening her dainty furs at the neck as she seated her- self. ‘‘Didn’t I see Jack Walters over here last night ?”? she went on, with a smooth little purr. ‘‘It was just before you drew down the curtain. 1 knew his profile. Is that why you like him, Anne? It’s just perfect.’’ ‘“Tlike him! Nopnsense!’’ said Anne, with a laugh which was almost con- temptuous. ‘He is a very pleasant young gentleman, handy to have round, as mamma says; does all one’s errands dutifully, and is a splendid escort, with his Greek face and graceful manners. But must one be reported engaged be- cause one has a particular friend ?’’ Hetty laughed. ‘People will said. “Why, he’s as poor asa church mouse,”’ continued Anne. ‘‘Do you think I could marry a poor man? Never!’ Atty lifted her great hazel eyes in as- tonishment. She had more than sus- pected that her cousin did love Jack; and in his face had she not read his absorb- ing passion ? ‘See how innocently surprised At pre- tends to be,’’ laughed Anne, a faint crim- son tinge creeping over the marble-like beauty of her skin. ‘‘I half believe he is her hero. She isa perfect little mouse when he is here.”’ “But don’t you really like him, Anne?’’ asked Atty, her needles suspended, SO. talk. you know,’’ she ‘“‘Anybody can see that he worships you.’’ ‘‘Nonsense!”? said Anne, the flush deepening. “Don’t bother your head about him, my dear. He’s a splendid cavalier, and that is all. He’s very fool- ish if he ever presumes upon my kind- ness. Uncle Hal settled the question last night. Hetold his fortune, you know, and said he would marry a little dark girl. Maybe it’s you, Het. You’re a great heiress, and can afford it. As for me, a rich husband or none. Oh, by the way, it’s April-Fool-Day, isn’t it? I should like to have some fun! Play a joke on somebody—a grand joke, that might be remembered for a year. What can Ido? There! I have it. I’ve thought of something ’ She clapped her hands and shook her blonde tresses, while her handsome blue eyes sparkled with mis- chief. -‘Well, what is it ?’’ queried Hetty. “If some one only was going to the store.’ “If you mean Dorset & Drew’s, that’s just where I am going,’’ said Hetty, draw- ing her furs closer. “You are? Well, Pll send a note to Jack. Ihave the whole thing planned out. I was there yesterday, and Joe Hunter showed me some new goods at the silk counter, and informed me that he was going off to-day on some commis- sion or other. The way he happened to tell me, we were laughing over April Fool-day tricks, and he_ said there wouldn’t be much of a chance for the elerks to fool him, as he was going oft early in the morning. I’]l just write that having ordered several things—a silk dress, a box of handkerchiefs, gloves, ete.—I had expected them yesterday, but as they had not come, I shall be pleased if he will see that they are forwarded im- mediately. IJl address the note to Jack, and of course he will fly to execute my bidding. Then there’ll be a fuss, and I shall fool them all.’’ The giddy girl never stopped to weigh the consequences. Fun was what she wanted, even at the sacrifice of truth. “Capital ’? laughed Hetty; “it’s a most brilliant idea.’’ ‘Cruel ’ said Atty, indignation in her glance. ‘‘You’ll never do it, Anne.”’ *“Won’tl? You'll see; and that with- out giving you time to preach a sermon about it. I’m bent on making an April- fool of Jack. He’ll forgive me; don’t be anxious; | know him. It will only hurt his vanity a little, and that won’t kill him.”’ By this time she had opened her writ- ing-desk and her pen was rattling over the paper. “Pm half tempted to say, ‘My Dear Jack.’ I will; it’s April-Fool day. Won’t his handsome eyes open 2”? And again a soft rosy flush spread over her cheeks. “There? She folded the note and hid it in a delicately-perfumed envelope. ‘‘l should like to see him when he gets it; that’s all, You’ll go right away, | sup- pose. It’s already eleven, you know.’’ Hetty took the missive and hurried off in high glee; while Atty, who could not appreciate nor yet prevent the joke, bent over her work with indignant eyes. ““1’?d never come here again, after that, if I were he,’’ she said hotly to herself. “Tt’?s an insult.’’ Hetty performed her part valiantly. She went to the store; spoke a few words to her cousin, who was a clerk there; in- tercepted the cash-boy, who was running to change a twenty-dollar note; bade him give the message to Mr. Walters, and walked carelessly out of the door, laugh- ing inwardly. ‘*Here’s something for you,”’ said little Ben, as he slipped the envelope over a huge pile of silks shining in all the colors of the rainbow. Jack placed the note in his vest-pocket with just the faintest shadow of embar- rassment, and after his customer had gone, stole a recess just three seconds long in which to read the contents. ‘““My Dear Jack.”’ The blood rushed to his face; he was in a perfect tremor of delight.. When had Anne ever written to him before? But here were the lines, fresh from under her own white hand. She had ealled him Jack, ‘‘Dear Jack.’’? Pocket- ing his trophy and his tumultuous emo- tions at the same time, he proceeded at once to make the needful enquiries. He spoke to the chief clerk, an awful personage in a red wig. ‘‘Miss Rath- burn had ordered several things.’? He produced a list of them—a dress-patern in silk, gloves, handkerchiefs—and they had not been sent home. Doubtless it was Joe Hunter’s fault; the goods had been bought of him. ‘‘The most care- less clerk in the house,’’ muttered the chief, as he peered over the list. ‘He must do better or leave.”’ Three or four clerks were sent at once to look the parcels over. There was great rolling aside and throwing down, and not a few hard words were sifted in with the labor, for Dorset & Drew did an immense business. Addresses were looked over, counters turned upside down, and that part of the shop was in confusion. The senior partner had purchased a unique and beautiful vase that day, which stood in its wrappings in the cor- ner of a shelf, where Jack himself was rummaging for the missing bundle, when lo! there was acrash, and the vase for which Mr. Dorset had paid nearly a hun- dred dollars went down with a crash. Dorset, who stood by, turned white, but merely said, “That comes out of your salary, Wal- ters.’ ‘Of course, sir,’? responded Jack, rue- fully. ‘‘I shall pay it with pleasure.”’ Another clerk, in jumping on a treacherous roll of cloth, fell and sprained his ankle, and was obliged to go home. At last the books were resorted to. Dorest, who was an irascible man, and had already made up his mind to turn off poor Joe Hunter, looked them over himself. As he was poring at the or- ders, his lean fore-finger running down “ Ces | the columns, a clerk spoke to him in an; undertone. The thin face of the senior partner darkened, and he closed the book with an angry thrust. ‘‘Walters,’’ he said, sharply, ‘‘come here.’? And the young fellow went for- ward, preplexed and unhappy. ‘Do you know what day it is, Wal- ter?’’? queried Dorset. ‘“‘The — first — the devil!’ muttered ; Jack, shutting his lips together suddenly. ‘*You have been sold, I think; we have all been sold,’’ said the merchant, al- most fiercely. ‘‘I have lost a vase that ean’t be matched, and that cost me seventy-five dollars; Jacobs has gone home with a sprained ankle, and the whole place has been in turmoil, on ac- count of a foolish woman’s whim. You ought to have seen, Walters—you should have had your wits about you, on this day, of all others. As for Miss Rath- burn, I should like to devise some way of punishing her for so thoughtless a trick. I’m sure her father would nearly die of mortification if he knew of it, and he will certainly hearit. I’m very sorry. However, no use crying over spilt milk.”’ And witha wave of his hand Walters was dismissed, more chagrined, more angry, hurt and sore, than he had ever been in his life. : Going to his counter, his lips and cheeks pale, there he met little Atty Brown. “I didn’t want to turn State’s-evi- dence,’”’ she said, hurriedly, her glitter- ing eyes swimming under the brown lashes, as if the tears were very near there; ‘‘but I couldn’t help coming; it was such a cruel thing—at leastit seemed soto me. LEhopelamintime. Don’t look for that package, Mr. Walters; it might put you to so much trouble.”’ ‘*The trouble is all through with, Miss Brown,”’ said young Walters, with more dignity than she had ever seen him as- sume before. ‘‘Teil Miss Rathburn, if you please, with my compliments, that I am infinitely obliged to her,’’? and his eyes flashed. ‘‘Her little joke has cost me dear.”’ Again the great brown eyes met his, full of sympathy; but he had frightened her, too. “i thank you,’ he Said, im 2 softer tone, seeing that her lip quivered. ‘*You have proved tome that all women are not heartless. Good morning, Miss Brown.”’ Atty went home disquieted, trembling and wretched. Of course she could not deliver his message, as Amne had not known of her attempt to frustrate the ‘‘x90d joke;’’? neither did she wish to in- eur the anger of one who could make her thoroughly uncomfortable. Walters bore his fate that day with manly composure, outwardly, but his heart was like a seething caldron. Him- self the soul of honor despite his poverty, he could not see how so gentle a girl-as he had deemed his beautiful blonde, could so deliberately have delivered } im over to the tormentors. Of course, he had much to bear throughout the day. There were innuendoes and_ subtle glances; many a smothered laugh; and more than one broad, open joke at his expense. For all the world he would not have had Anne Rathburn’s name so bandied about; but there was no help for it. Her thoughtless planning had subjected her to shame, and him to suf- fering that sometimes almost amounted to absolute agony. He had thought that Anne loved him. It was quiteimpossible to think so now. Thecharm was broken —the spell in which she held him rudely dissolved. Through the gibes and jeers of others, through the meaning in the faces of the clerks, he saw her, disenchanted, unqueened. And yet he had loved her so, did love her so, in spite of all! He looked so jaded and worn at four o’clock, that the senior partner privately told him he might go home, if he would take the trouble to execute a little com- mission for him on the way, which he gladly did. Jack lived, or rather stayed, at a fashionable boarding-house; but his room was in the fifth story, and was fur- nished with a carpet that had done ser- vice for a series of rooms, from the par- lor-floor up, for’-at least twenty years. There were dim shadows of circles and vanishing ghosts of roses that flourished in worsted at that early period, but a dreary grayness pervaded the entire width of the room—a ghastly reminder of past beauty. The chairs were like- wise souvenirs of ‘‘long, long ago,’’ the only one which he could use with com- fort he had bought himself. Poor Jack could not afford luxuries for his own use—he was too fond and care- ful of his old mother for that, sending her sometimes more than half his salary. But there was one thing he would have, if he took it ‘out of his bread and butter, and that was agenuine wood fire. He had bought a fender and all the other accessories at auction; a small corner under the roof held his wood. He al- ways made the fire himself, and when it was lighted, and sang old songs—as such dear old-fashioned fires invariably do— Jack’s poor, meagerly-furnished room was really prettier and brighter than the stiff parlor below, with its circular wheel in the wall, radiating hot, unwholesome air. Jack was exceedingly glad to occupy his thoughts with his fire, for, April though it was, the day had been raw and chilly, and when the lovely flames leaped and the wood crackled with a sound like bursting apples and the trickle of sweet cider in it, his depression wore off just a little. He had been the victim of jokes innumerable all that day, inflicted by junior clerks and silly little girls who claimed a passing acquaintance with the handsome Jack, and his spirit was sore and his heart dejected. ‘*How could she do it?’’? he asked him- self, referring again and again to Anne’s letter. ‘‘Seventy-five dollars slap out of my salary, and new clothes out of the question. How sad and that little thing looked! think, her name is. sympathetic Atty Brown, I By Jove! she had beautiful eyes, though. I never quite caught their expression before. i wouldn’t have believed it of Anne. She made a fool of me, to be sure, but she may rue it yet. I don’t think I shall forgive her.’’ And he settled his feet on the fender, while his fine face took on an expression of the sternest deter- mination. ‘‘Little she cares for my for- giveness, perhaps. But never mind; Ill be even with her yet. There’s Het Rog- ers. She’s pretty, rather, and rich, and twenty-five. She likes me, I think; and, by Jove! V’ll be even with Anne Rath- burn yet.”’ There came ‘a knock at the door. April-Fool’s day was not yet over, and Jack wason his guard. As he ealled out ‘tcome in!’ an imp’s face was dis- eernible just on the inside of the bril- liantly-lighted room, for the wood-fire was doing its best. ‘“‘Pleathe, thir,’? lisped the terror of the house, the landlady’s bright boy—a boy so exceedingly smart that everybody hated him—‘‘did you thee the letterth that come here to-day?’’ ‘“*No, and I don’t want to; so you mareh down stairs,’’ said Jack. ‘-But pleathe, thir, I ain’t a April- fooling. The gentleman give me a quarter to thee that you thurely got it.”’’ “Oh, he did, did he?’ growled Jack viciously. ‘‘Well, you hurry down. or Pll see that you surely get it.’”’ And rising as he spoke, the indignant young- ster fled, shrieking with terror and laughter. Notwithstanding, Jack felt consider- able curiosity about the letters, and be- gan peering around. Yes, there they were, three of them, in the letter-rack. There was nobody to spy. and he was under no particular obligation to inform against himself, so he took one down the bulkiest, and tore off the envelope. At the third cover he paused and bit his lip; at the fourth he threw them into the fire. Then he took down the other two, smiling grimly. One was superscribed Caleutta, India,’’ and bore every appear- ance of being genuine: the other was in a delicate, lady’s hand, the penmanship of which very much resembied Miss Anne’s. ‘*Forgeries ’? he muttered; ‘‘and the fellow who tried to do me, will surely be here. Il! fix up another bulky envelope, and then I'l] let °em stay there, just as L found them. I think one bitter experi- ence is enough.’’ So he arranged the rack, and by that time the bell called him to tea. Meantime. Miss Hetty and Miss Anne had their little conference. All had gone off triumphantly. Het’s cousin, in de- scribing the matter, had dwelt only on its ludicrous side, and when she in turn de- tailed it to Anne, all the rougher edges were smoothed down, Anne was half glad. half sorry. After the excitement of the fun was over, she wondered if Jack—clever, handsome Jack—would be very angry with her. Anyhow, what did it matter? She had never intended to marry him—though, if he were only bet- ter off. only rich—he was so fine-looking! so interesting ! and tell-tale blushes red- dened the girl’s cheek. Het secretly hoped to turn the thing to her own advantage. She had always liked Jack, and would have given him her fortune and herself any time, if he had asked. So Hetty. kitten-like, purred only of encouragement to Anne, secretly desiring the cream for herself. A week passed, and Jack, still resent- ful, had not called upon Anne. One day a dark, hollow-cheeked man, with a parchment face, and eyes of remarkable brillianey, walked in Dorset & Drew’s, and enquired for Mr. Walters. ““That’s a Jew-lawyer,’’ laughed one of the clerks, as Jack obeyed the summons. ‘“‘Are you the hands of the Philis- tines 27’ The stranger introduced himself. “We expected some communication from you, sir, before this, in relation to the letter informing you of your uncle’s death, and your brilliant expectations, which, I may now say, are certainties,’’ he said. “Some communication—my uncle—I had no uncle—that I know of. My mother’s only brother died years ago—at least, we have always believed him dead. I beg your pardon; I have received no letter.’’ ‘““Very strange !’’ said the little man with the parchment face, apparently mystified. ‘‘The letter was sent to us as his solicitors, and I am sure it was forwarded tothe proper direction, because I happen to know a gentleman who is a friend of yours, and he gave us the num- ber of your place. Very singular! We mailed it on the thirty-first of March.’’ ‘‘On the—thirty-first—of March!’ ex- claimed Jack, flushing to the roots of his curly hair. ‘“Oh! ITremember. The fact is, that the first of April followed the thirty-first of March, and as I received some bogus communications—or rather, suspected them to be such, It might be that letter—in fact—was it post-marked India ?’”? he asked, ending abruptly. “Tt was—Caleutta, India,’’ said the little man, solemnly. “T beg your pardonagain; I’m sure’’— Jack began growing redder and more earnest,—‘‘l’ll go directly home. 1 can get leave, I think, and then, suppose I call on you ?”’ “Very happy, Fm sure, to be of service. There is our card, Gooch & Lubbell. We shall be delighted to see you through;’? and then, apparently frightened at his own impulsiveness, he left the store at a rapid gait. To describe Jack’s emotions now, as he looked back at that unlucky day, as he called it, and the letter he had so slighted, would be impossible. On the whole, it had not been all fool luck. Then he fell to thinking of the chance speeches he had heard from his mother’s lips about ‘‘poor Frank,’’ who had gone off to seek his in [CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE, ] 5 The Michigan Tradesman AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. John Emerson, of Cedar Springs, has opened a restaurant at 52 South Ionia street. Geo. F. Dunaven has sold his grocery store at 498 South East street to F. E. & R. North. Rempis & Gallmeye succeed Moulton & Rempis in the foundry business at 54 and 56 North Front street. Blakely & Jennison, hardware dealers at 41 South Division street, have assigned to Attorney J. M. Jamison. Christ Engels has engaged in the boot and shoe business at Muskegon. Rindge, Bertsch & Co. furnished the stock. A double brick store, two stories in height, is in process of eonstruction at the corner of East and .Dolbee streets. The owner is a Mr. Elkerton, late of Do- wagiac. Jas. A. Coye has sold his interest in the grocery firm of Jas. A. Coye & Co., at 95 Broadway, to his partner, Ed. C. Judd, who will continue the business under his own name. Winchester & Daniels will manufac- ture, the coming winter, at their mill on the Chicago & West Michigan road, 30,- 000,000 18-inch standard shingles for the eastern trade, and 5,000,009 feet of hem- lock lumber. AROUND THE STATE. Fremont—A. Sweet, harness deaier, is dead. Herrington — Wm. McFarland has opened a blacksmith shop. Cheboygan—Doyle & Elliott have en- gaged in the meat business. Plainwell—A. J. Day succeeds Eldred & Day in the meat business. Onekama—Jas. Hopwood will build an addition to his grocery store. Manistee—Jos. E. Rumble has engaged in the boot and shoe business. Clarksville—John Lenhard is building a shop for repairing machinery. New Era—P. Rankin has bought the general stock of Daniel Rankin. Big Rapids—Lentz Bros., bottlers, have dissolved. Jos. Lnetz continues. Stanton — Epley & Devine succeed Epley Bros. in the grocery business. Vermontville—Geo. A. Benter will put in a stock of buggies, cutters and robes. Hanecock—C. Simmer, Jr., succeeds C. Simmer & Sons in the grocery business. Allegan — Geo. M. Wirick succeeds Wirick & Heath in the grocery business. North Star—Jas. Page has bought the general stock owned by Geo. F. Hoising- ton. Sand Lake—Henry Bawhall, of Cedar Springs, will open a blacksmith shop here. Big Rapids—J. G. Martz succeeds Mc- Naughton & Martz in the furniture busi- ness. Detroit—L. Peoeock, of the firm of L. Peocock & Son, coal and wood dealers, is dead. Manistee — Chris. Michelson has re- moved his dry goods stock to Duluth, Minn. Hart—Daniel Fields has sold his black- smith shop to Chas. Whitsell, of Mus- kegon. Big Rapids—Fred Sauerbier has opened a new grocery stock in the Erikson block. Flint—Gibson & McCall are succeeded by Chas. Gibson in the tobacco and cigar business. Muskegon—Clark M. Dunean has re- engaged in the confectionery and tobacco business. Port Huron—A. Fluget’s grocery stock has been taken possession of by his creditors. . Big Rapids—F. S. Nichols, formerly of White Cloud, has engaged in the grocery business here. Hudson—Sarah F. Eaton has purchased John C. Palmer’s furniture and under- taking business. Marquette—E. Krieg & Son are suc- ceeded by Frank Krieg in the steam laundry business. Hart—John W. Corp, of Cassopolis, contemplates opening a merchant tailor- ing establishment here. Marcellus—Chas. J. Nash has pur- chased the building and grocery stock owned by Dr. E. C. Davis. Aarwood — The firm of Lawrence Moritz & Co. has dissolved, Mr. Moritz retiring to go to the woods. Luther—Jas. M. Verity’s furniture store was burned Nov. 3. Loss about $3,000, with $1,400 insurance. Sault Ste. Marie—Wm. Howlett has closed out his grocery business, prepara- tory to going to Washington Ter. Kalkaska—Goodrich & Co. is the style of the firm scceeding O. C. Goodrich & Son in the drug and grocery business. Harbor Springs—E. E. Hartwell has sold his grocery stock to Bert Barber, who will add a line of boots and shoes. Muskegon — A. LeBeouf and Fritz Hasse have foreclosed their chattel mort- gage on the grocery stock of M. W. Car- penter, at the corner of Pine and Walton streets, Ontonagon—J. & D. Corgan, grocers and dry goods dealers, have dissolved. D. & M. Corgan succeed to the business. Shelby—F. C. Herworth and J. J. Rodgers have formed a copartnership to engage in the merchant tailoring bus- iness. Battle Creek — Mr. Schilling, of La Crosse, Wis., has bought the Wing prop- erty and will erect a business block thereon. Port Huron—Mustard & Merritt, com- mission merchants, have assigned to J. 8. Duffie. Liabilities about $2,700, assets about $1,400. Otsego—Chas. P. Hale, of Plainwell, has bought the elevator here and will buy wheat for C. G. A. Voigt & Co., of Grand Rapids. Lake City—A. Waters has sold his in- terest in the merchant tailoring business to his partner, John Wilson, and returned to Big Rapids. East Jordan—Mrs. France J. Stone has purchased the M. A. Helm & Co.’s dry goods stock and will continue business at the old stand. Deckerville—John H. Welch has as- signed his hardware stock to F. 8. Neits. The liabilities are $1,700 and the assets are about $900. Battle Creek — F. L. McHenry, dry goods dealer, will open a branch store in the building recently vacated by the Bos- ton Clothing Co. Charlotte—V. L. Dibble and Geo. H. Dwight succeed M. Heyman & Son in the meat business. The style of the firm is Dibble & Dwight. Owosso—H. W. Parker has bought the building recently vacated by the Second National Bank and will occupy it with his grocery stock. Sault Ste. Marie—Hammond, Standish & Co., of Chicago, have established a fresh meat depot here, under the manage- ment of L. Pembleton. Sault Ste. Marie—A. B. Cracknell has purchased Prenzlauer Bros.’ stock of wall paper and consolidated it with The Sun Paper Co.’s stock. Howard City—N. W. Mather, banker, and J. W. Lovely, grocer, moved last week into their new stores, built on the site of the old ones, which were burned last May. Detroit—Traugott Schmidt has merged his hide, pelt, wool and fur business into a stock company. with a paid in capital of $200,000, under the style of Traugot Schmidt & Sons. Kalamazoo—The Dr. Sayles drug stock, recently taken possession of by Sheriff Dix to satisfy the claim of a Chicago creditor, has been returned to Mrs. Sayles, who satisfied the officer that the stock belonged to her. The damage suit which she brought against the sheriff has been discontinued. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Cedar Springs—C. Pelton’s shingle mill started up last week. Onekama—Gilbert Bros.’ sawmill be- gan operations last week. Inland—Wollet & Brondage their new sawmill last week. Filer City—McKillop, Hopper & Co. started up their mill last week. Freesoil—Jos. Kobe has purchased a site and will build a sawmill at once. Plainwell — Walter Dwight succeeds Dwight & Stiff in the milling business. Saranae—Chas. Jepson will rebuild the saw and stave mill, recently burned, Allegan—Howe & Son will run a saw- mill again this winter at their brick yard. Cadillaec—J. A. Gardner succeeds Gard- ner & Haskins in the shingle business at Boon. Reed City—O. H. Hovey’s planing mill burned last week. Loss $10,000, with no insurance. North Chippeway—Henry Moore has his new shingle mill, on section 6, nearly completed. Otsego Lake—The Nichelsen & Hanson Lumber Co. has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $100,000. Herrington—Herrington & Burlingame have their new grist mill and elevator completed ready for operation. Kingsley—Case & Crotser have sold their planing mill to Jas. Campbell, of Campbell & Underwood, Grand Rapids. Muskegon—Chas. Renwick has moved his broom factory from Reed City to this city, locating at 123 and 125 Ottawa street. Muskegon—Torrent & Co.’s saw mill, which has been idle for some time past, started up again last week and will run during the remainder of the season. Manistee—One of the mills of the Can- field Salt and Lumber Co. shut down last week, as the company has sawed about all the lumber it cares to make this year. Detroit—The White Electrical Co. has filed articles of incorporation. G. M. Wetherell, A. E. White, J. H. Brewster and W. W. Chapin are the incorporators. Howell—A corporation, with a capital stock of $5,000, has been organized to manufacture the Love & Bradley patent folding buggy boot and other buggy sup- plies. Detroit — H. S. Robinson & Co. will sueceed the present firm of H. S. Robin- son & Burtenshaw in the jobbing of boots and shoes only, the manufacturing department having been sold to Pingree & Smith. started East Saginaw—C. Merrill & Co.’s saw mill will run as long as the weather per- mits. They have 16,000,000 feet of lum- ber on dock, against 12,000,000 December 1, a year ago. Newbery—A factory to make broom handles, wooden bowls, canthook stocks and other things has been established here, under the management of Mr. Spence, of Kalkaska. Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Cart Co. is moving its machinery and stock to Elkhart, Ind. The Noyes Cart Co. con- templates removing to the shop vacated by the Kalamazoo company. Detroit—William M. Dwight & Co., the failed lumber dealers have chattel mortgaged their sawmill, lumber, ma- chinery, ete., to Berry Bros. to secure debts aggregating $32,912.04. Big Rapids—The Crescent Furniture Co. is fixing up the sawmill recently run by Skellenger & Son, and will stock the yard with hardwood logs to supply lum- ber for its furniture business. Menominee—The Menominee Boom Co. is making improvements to facilitate log driving at and below Brule Falls, con- sisting chiefly of the removal of huge obstructing rocks by blasting. Menominee—The Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick Co., which a few seasons ago had twenty-three camps in opera- tion, willrun only seven the coming win- ter, banking about 35,000,000 feet. Detroit—D. M. Ireland, of Waterbury, Conn., is arranging for the establishment of the Detroit Novelty Works, which will be located at the foot of Mt. Elliott avenue and will employ 100 hands. Port Huron—The Mudge Paper Cloth- ing Co. employs 110 hands, and promises to increase the number to 500. It is 23,000 garments behind its orders. When the company began business, last July, it only had three hands at work. Muskegon—Mrs. Katherine Hitz’s in- terest in the saw mill and property of Montgomery, Champagne & Co., was lately sold by the sheriff to Joseph A. Whittier, of East Saginaw, for $4,208.71, to satisfy a mortgage held by Whittier. Detroit—The Russell Stove Manufac- turing Co. has filed articles of association. Albert H. Russell, of Kansas City, Mo., holds 9,808 of the 10,000 shares. The paid-up capital is $100,000. The com- pany will make coal oil and gas heaters. Belding—Angel Bros. have purchased the Oatley sawmill, five miles north of Langston, and removed the same to their mill site at this place. They will fit it up for custom work. It is expected the mill will cut 20,000 feetof pine per day, or 12,000 feet of hardwood. Allegan—Joseph Ambler, Arthur Hill- abrant and others, under the style of The Allegan Straw Board Co., will convert the old woolen mill into a paper mill to make straw board and binders’ board. A new extension 40x45 feet will be built in the rear and the mill will have a capacity of two tons per day. Detroit—The Canada Fiber Clothing Co., which used to make paper waist- coats, has sued the Singer Manufacturing Co. for $5,000. It charges that the Singer company, having obtained judgment for a trifling amount, took out a writ of ex- ecution before the time for appeal elapsed and closed up the Canada com- pany’s place of business. Kalkaska — George Spence, who has been in the employ of the Kalkaska Broom Handle Co. for some time, has gone to Newberry, where he will erect a factory of his own. He will manufac- ture broom handles, chair rounds, butter bowls, eant hooks, etc. He expects to have the saw mill up by November 15 and will be ready for business Decem- ber 1. East Saginaw—Brown & Ryan expect to run their sawmill all winter, with the exception of a short lay-off for repairs. It is expected also that one or two other mills will run during the winter, cutting special bills for railroad and large build- ing work. Not so much in this line has been done this season as last, owing to southern competition and a falling off in railroad construction. The outlook for the future, however, seems more hope- ful. Muskegon—The Muskegon Shingle & Lumber Co.’s mill is again idle. The differences between the company and the employes could not be adjusted, and the mill was closed for the season. The Mich- igan Shingle Co.’s mill is now running, as are also all the other mills on the lake. The weather is becoming rather rough, and shippers are crowding the lumber fleet as rapidly as possible, in order to get stocks moved before the close of navi- gation. East Saginaw—It is understood that Hurd & Hauenstein, of Buffalo, involved in the litigation with the Moiles Bros., have eaused the injunction to be removed and have secured an order in the United States District Court in chancery to sell the mill site, store, buildings, docks, etce., at Detour, the sale to take place Decem- ber 10. Henry Moiles, who has been run- ning a store there, came here and pur- chased a stock of goods, but learning of the action of the court, he countermanded the order and will await further develop- ments. —_———_>-o <> The P. & B. cough drops give great satisfaction. P. of I. Gossip. | A Herrington correspondent writes: “The P. of I.’s cut no figure in Herring- ton.”’ Cannonsburg correspondent Belding | Banner: ‘The P. I. business seems to be | on the wane.’’ Belding Banner: “‘A wise suggestion would be to many of our farmers, don’t monkey with the P. I.’s.”’ Plainwell Enterprise: ‘‘The Patrons of Industry tried to organize a lodge at Hast- ings, but like Hastings’ postmaster, their name was Dennis.’’ Evart Review: ‘‘The Patrons of Indus- try failed in their endeavors to induce Tustin merchants to take hold of their scheme, and they threaten to put ina stock of goods on their own account.’’ The Cedar Springs Clipper suggests that the disreputable thieves who are organiz- ing P. of I. lodges and Patrons of Toil : lodges have still one more card to play. They can start the ‘‘Sons of Toil’’ racket. A Big Rapids farmer who was fined for being drunk the other day handed the court his ticket of admission to the Patrons of Industry and asked for the customary 10 per .cent. above cost, but the court said justice wasn’t a ‘‘jiner,’’ and made him settle at par. Woodin & Van Winkle, the Sparta general’ dealers, write as follows: “Please take our name out of the list of P. of I. dealers, as we haven’t been deal- ing with them for the last sixty days. Our contract with them ran out and we did not renew it.’’ J. B. Tucker, the Sumner general dealer, writes as follows: ‘‘I see by THE TRADESMAN of this date that my name is among those who are selling to the P. of I.’s under contract. I wish you would do me a favor, by stating in your paper, that my contract has been cancel- led, at my own request.’’ Belding correspondence Saranac Local: “It is reported that the P. of I.’s are town from gradually approaching this the west. This may be true and they may find a few followers as did the Bohemian oat business and many patent right affairs. The farmers as aclass are the most cautious men we have and they are the most easily taken in at times in some very simple schemes.”’ American Artisan: ‘The promoters of the underhand organization known as the Patrons of Industry, whose schemes have been largely frustrated by the vigi- lanee of THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, are now seeking for victories in another direction, wherein they might hope to revel with larger impunity. It appears from the journal named that several of the old-time organizers of the movement have branched out on their own hook with a scheme which they call ‘Patrons of Toil.’ It is understood that the or- ganic work of the new scheme is very similar to the old swindle, the only differ- ence being that.the charter fees and per capita dues go to another set of fellows than the Port Huron sharpers. It is evi- dent the Patrons of Toil will bear plenty of close watching.”’ Gripsack Brigade. Wm. 0. Gaylord has engaged to travel for the Miller Casket Co., of Belding. F. A. Green, formerly engaged in the grocery business at Marquette, is now on the road for Steele & Atwood, of Chicago. Charley Brown, of Hastings, is organ- izing a K. of G. choral union, who may offer their services to the Lansing con- vention in December. August Heath, late of the grocery firm of Wirick & Heath, of Allegan, has en- gaged to travel for the flouring mill firm of Young & Harvey, of Allegan. Fred M. Crow, for the past three years clerk for Murray & Terbush, the Owosso clothing merchants, has engaged to travel for McClure, Bloeser & Eggert, of Buffalo, coyering the Michigan trade. Secretary Mills is engaged in distrib- uting the new Knights of the Grip Hotel Bulletin, one of which is to be perma- nently posted in every hotel in the State. Those for the hotels in the larger cities will be neatly framed. The following additions to the hotel list of the Knights of the Grip have been received during the past week: Palace Hotel, Farwell; Grand Central Hotel, Stanton; Kalamazoo House, Kal- amazoo; Kirtland House, Galesburg. Roll P. Bigelow, after a seven years’ pilgrimage with C. W. Inslee & Co., has engaged to travel for Daniel Scotten & Co. His territory includes all the avail- able trade in central Michigan and northwest of Big Rapids. Mr Bigelow is a hustler from the hustling city of Owosso and will never die from lack of exercise. ——___—~ _-- An Evener. Salesman—Well, whatcher want? Customer—I want to buy a hat. Salesman—Why didn’t yer say so? Move lively now. This ain’t no morgue! Customer—lI don’t like to be spoken to like that. Salesman—Yer don’t? Well, whatcher stoppin’ the wheels ’f trade fer? Did yer ever see areal hat ? Customer—That’s enough. Good day. Salesman—Just wait a moment, sir. I recognize you as the ticket seller at the Imperial Central Station. I tried to buy a ticket of you yesterday, and I’ve just endeavored to give you an imitation of how you treated me. What’s the size, The P. of I. Dealers. The following are the P. of I. dealers who had not cancelled their contracts at last accounts: Almont—Colerick & Martin. Altona—Eli Lyons. Assyria—J. W. Abbey. Bellevue—John Evans. Big Rapids—C. A. Verity, A. V. Young, E. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk. Brice—J. B. Gardner. Burnside—Jno. G. Bruce & Son. Capac—H. C. Sigel. Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Ses- sions. Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish, Mrs. L. A. Gardiner. Charlotte—John J. Richardson, Daron | & Smith, J. Andrews, C. P. Lock. Chester—P. C. Smith. Clio—Nixon & Hubbell. Coral—J. S. Newell & Co. East Saginaw—John P. Derby. Flint—John B. Wilson. Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark. Fremont—Boone & Pearson, Ketchum. Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son. Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wil- zinski. Harvard—Ward .Bros. Hersey—John Finkbeiner. Howard City—Henry Henkel. Hoytville—Mrs. A. E. Combs. Hubbardston—M. Cahalen. Imlay City—Cohn Bros. Kent City—R. McKinnon, M. L. Whit- ney. Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen- nings. Maple Rapids—L. S. Aldrich. Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep- per & Son, Jno. Butler. Richard Butler. Mecosta—Parks Bros. Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. S.) Knight. Millington—Chas. H. Valentine. Morley—Henry Strope. Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M. Lee. Ogden—A. J. Pence. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Remus—Geo. Blank. Riverdale—J. B. Adams. Rockford—B. A. Fish. Sand Lake—Brayman & Blanchard. Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow. Sparta—Dole & Haynes. Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter. Vassar—McHose & Gage. Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson, H. C. Breckenridge, M. H. Bowerman, Thos. Horton. White Cloud—J. C. Townsend. 9 Status of the Higby Failure. Chauncey C. Stone, assignee for Carey W. Higby, dealer in agricultural imple- ments at 71 Ellsworth avenue, has filed his schedule of assets and liabilities. The stock is inventoried at $954.65, the notes at $69 and book accounts at $557.35, mak- ing total assets of $1,581. The liabilities are $6,825.32, divided among forty-six creditors in the follow- ing amounts: d. Be Grand Rapids Tank Line, G’d Rapids... 6 8U Grand Rapids Mfg Co., ss ie 38 00 W. C. Denison, a oe 22 41 De Graaf, Vrieling & Co., ‘ le ee ao Melis Hardware, i ee 7 34 Arthur Wood, Val i 165 65 Hester & Fox, . ig 51 50 Gunn Hardware Co., se 53 00 E. G. Studley. : ms 15 00 Adolph Leitelt, . | cua. | Sa oo Frank Scudder, & -— .. a Oo Jas. Fox, ee . Frank Scudder, = . *Chauncey C. Stone, a ro *Brown «& Sehler, . . +Hannah Higby, ee +Isaac D. Hazen, ei . +Hannah Higby, 2 . Chas. Heinzelman, rs oo Geo. W. McEachron, Grandville. ... .... *Wilder Mfg Co., Monroe.........-....... *Nichols, Shepard & Co., Battle Creek.. +Albert W. Higby, Cedar Springs.. ..... Wm. Patterson, Byron Center ..-..-... L. B. Denton, Oakdale Park...-.........- Crason Mie Co., Phelps, N. ¥.......-.... Emerson & Fisher Buggy Co., Cincin- matt, OHI@. ce ee Ohio Rake Co., Dayton, Ohio. ........... D. E. McSherry & Co., Dayton, Ohio.... Spicer Mfg Co., New Philadelphia, O.... Standard Oil Co., Toledo, Ohio...... ... F. E. Myers, Ashland, ce Toleda Piew Co., toledo, =< -......... +J. F. Seibeuling & Co., Akron, O....... Wells Whip Co., Wellsville, Pa....... .. a. ©. Porter. Moune, Ti... +D. M. Osborne & Co., Chicago, Tl.....-. Belle City Mfg Co., Racine, Wis......... Nichols, Shepard & Co., Battle Creek.... Parks Mfg:Co., Mecosta................. Emert Harrow Co., Gobleville........... St. John Plow Co., Kalamazoo........... Miehigan Carbon Works, Detroit........ Keystone Plow Co., ee Strait Windmill Co., Galesburg.......... ae “cc eee “ Those marked (*) are secured by chat- tel mortgages and those marked (+) are secured by mortgages on real estate. —__—< +4 Purely Personal. John E. Thurkow, the Morley mer- chant, was in town one day last week. Chas. B. Johnson, the Palo druggist and grocer, was in town last Thursday. A. J. Halsted, of the firm of A. J. Halsted & Son, grocers at Grand Ledge, was in town Monday. O. S. Dean, of the drug firm of Dean Bros., at Freesoil, put in several days at this market last week. Cc. G. Messenger, of the drug firm of Garrod & Messenger, at Allegan, was in town one daylast week. John G. Shields returned from Colorado Springs last night. He will remain here about a week before returning to Colo- rado. D. J. Dokey, who owns a sawmill at Lee, was in town a couple of days last week and carried home with him orders for several carloads of lumber and wood. Arthur B. Clark, dealer in drugs and groceries at Gobleville, was in town Monday on business connected with the Gobleville Sign Works, in which institu- tion he is managing partner. O. H. Richmond, the South Division street druggist, has prepared a lecture on astrology and legerdemain, which he proposes to deliver in the principal cities and towns of the State during the winter months. ———_—> +> Just Received. The Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Co. has just received a carload of Florida oranges which they offer to the trade at sir ? low prices. Bank Notes. A movement is on foot at Howell to organize a State bank, with a capital stock of $50,000. The failure of the Weimeister bank leaves the field open for such an institution. The new Clinton County Savings Bank, at St. Johns, will open for business in about two weeks. A. J. Baldwin is President of the institution, Josiah Upton Vice-President and P. E. Wallsworth Secretary and Treasurer. ———<—<—_$_— > 9-<——————_——— A Drummer’s Trick. The drummer always brings the latest trick. Here it is. Take a spool of white basting cotton: drop it into your inside pocket and, threading a needle with it, pass it up through the shoulder of your coat. Leave the end an inch or two out- side of your coat and take off the needle. Four men out of five will try to pick that white thread off your shoulder, and will pull on the spool until it eactually does seem as though your clothes are all bast- ings and that they are unraveling ‘not only your clothes but yourself. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. eee eee Advertisements wil! be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. HAVE SOME FIRST-CLASS, IMPROVED FARMS IN Manistee county, ranging in price from two to six thousand dollars, to exchange for stocks of merchan dise or furniture. S.S. Conover, Man‘stee. 535 OR SALE—NEW STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES at a bargain, with lease of finest store and location in city of 1,600; cash or will exchange part clothing. Address L. D. Goss, Morrice, Mich. 534 HAVE SEVERAL FARMS WHICH I WILL EX- change for merchandise, Grand Rapids city prop erty, or will sell on easy payments; these farms have the best of soil, are under good state of cultivation, and located between the cities of Grand Rapids and Muskegon. O.F. Conklin, Grand Rapids, Mich. we SELL OR TRADE PROPERTY IN TRAVERSE City, Mich., bringing forty dollars monthly rent, for general stock or special line of merchandise. Ad- dress 529, care Tradesman. 529 ROCERIES—TWO G. R. CITY LOTS IN EXCHANGE for $600 worth of groceries. Address E. S. Hough- taling, Hart, Mich. 528 OR SALE—WE OFFER FOR SALE, ON VERY favorable terms, the F. H. Escott drug stock. at 75 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Price, $4,000. y OR SALE—DRUG STORES—FIRST CLASS—IN DAY- ton, Ohio; othersin various locations. If you want to buy, sell or exchange, write W. E. Donson, Dayton 530 Ohio. OR SALE—AN INTEREST IN SHOE STORE—OR L will join stocks with a good shoe man; old estab- lished business and best location in city. Address “Shoes,” «are Tradesman, Grand Rapids, Mich. 524 C= AND FINE PROPERTY FOR GOOD MERCAN- tile establishment. C. E. Barnd, Fostoria, Ohio. 525 OR SALE—THE FINEST DRUG STORE IN THE city of Muskegon at 75 cents on the dollar; reasons other business. C. L. Brundage, Muskegon. Mich. 520 OR SALE—A GOOD GROCERY BUSINESS HAVING the cream of the trade; best location in the city; stock clean and well assorted; thisis a rare chance for any one to get a good paying business; poor health the only reason. Address S. Stern, Kalamazoo, Mich. 518 OR SALE—GROCERY STOCK IN GOOD LOCATION Willinventory $790 to $800 and doing a business of about $13,000. Address No. 502, care Tradesman. 502 MISCELLANEOUS. COPIES SHEET NUSIC, l0e COPY—COMIC song and joke books, 10c; banjoand guitar J. W. Reading, music dealer, Grand Rap- 536 , 6 OOO music. etc. ids, Mich. OR SALE—DRAFT TEAM 5 YEARS OLD — DARK gray; well matched; weight 3,100 pounds. Address M. W. Willard, Kinney. Mich. 522 \ ANTED—SEND A POSTAL TO THE SUTLIFF COU- pon Pass Book Co., Albany, N. Y., for samples of the new Excelsior Pass Book, the most complete and finest on the market and just what every mer- chant should have progressive merchants all over the country are now using them. ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR Improved Coupon Pass Book System. Send for samples. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 214 OR SALE—GOOD RESIDENCE LOT ON ONE OF the most pleasant streets ‘‘on the hill.” Will ex- change for stock in any good institution. Address 286, care Michigan Tradesman. 286 FA. 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Send for our circulars and price lists. UR HOLIDAY LINE IS NOW COMPLETE. Corner Larned and Wayne Sts., Detroit. K. W. HALL PLATING WORKS, ALL KINDS OF Brass and Tron Polishing - Nickle and Silver Plating Corner Pearl and Front Sts., Grand Rapids. Ta y NATE ee wy, YyOZ IF YOU WANT The Best ACCEPT NONE BUT Silver Thread Sauerkraut. Order this brand from your wholesale grocer. 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. Merchants, YOU WANT THIS CABINET Thousands of Them It does away with the unsightly barrels so Beautifully grained and Inside each only in one pound packages. 120 one-pound packages. WV oolson Every Wide-Awake Merchant Should Certainly Sell ON, THE KING OF COFFEES. An Article of Absolute Merit. It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees. Packed Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere. Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States. Spice Co., TOLEDO, OHIO. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. : Michigan Business Men’s Association. President—C. L. ——— Muskegon. First Vice-President—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint. Second Vice-President—M. C. Sherwood, Allegan. gecretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. r—H. W. Parker, Owosso. ; Frank Wells, Lansing; N. B. Blain, Lowell Conklin, Grand Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; O. F. Rapids, Secretary. Committee on Insurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso. Committee on Legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing; H. H. Pope, Allegan; C. H. May, Clio. Committee on Trade Intereste—Frank Hamilton, Trav : Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. W. Sprague, Greenville. Committee on Transportation—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint; M. C. Sherwood, Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee. Committee on Building and Loan Associations—N. B. Blain, Lowell; F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con nell, Muskege2. seek bencters 3 as. H. Moore, Saginaw. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. The following auxiliary associations are oper- ating under charters granted by the Michigan Business Men’s Association- . 1—Traverse City B. M.A. ‘W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. No. 2—Lowell B. M. A. President, N. B. Plain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 3—Sturgis B..M. A. President, H. 8. Church a; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A. President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A. President, John A. Miller; Secretary. C. L. Whitney. No. 6—Alba B. M. A. President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. President. T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger. No. 8—Eastport B. M. A. President, F. H. Thursten; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston. No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A. President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly. No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M.A. President, W. J. Clark; Secretary. A. L. Thompson. No.11—Kingsley B. M. A. President, H. P. Whipple: Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop. No. 12—Quincy B. M. A. President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon. No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. / President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin. No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. President, 8. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens. No. 15— Boyne City B. M. A. President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A. President, J. V. Crandall: Secretary, W. Rasco. No. 17—Plainwell B. M.A. __ t. Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle. No. 18—Owosso B. M, A. President, Warren P. Woodard; 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, N. L. Rowe. No. 21— Wayland B. M. A. President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt. No. 22—Grand Ledge B. M. A. President, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W. R. Clarke. No 23—Carson City B. M. A. President, John W. Hallett: Secretary, L A. Lyon. No. 24—Morley B. M. A. President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond. No. 25—Paio B. M. A, President, H. D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson. No. 26—Greenville 8. M. A. President. A. C. Satterlee: Secretary. E. J. Clark. No. 27—Dorr 8. M. A. President, E. 8. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. M.A President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer. No. 29—Freeport B. M. A. President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough. No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. 8. 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 B. M. A. President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane. No. 34—Saranac B. M.A. President, H. T. J ohnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams. No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A. President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C. E. Densmore. Ne President. J. P. a2 & Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M. A. President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore. No. 38—Scottville B. M. A. President, H. E. Symons; Secretary, D. W. Higgins. Ne. 39 -Burr Oak B. M. A. President, W. 8. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon. No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert. No. 41—Breckenridge B.M. A. President, C. H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner. No. 42—Fremont B. M. A. President, Jos. Gerber; Secretary 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, I 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. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Graanis. No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon. No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos. No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. No. 54— Douglas B. M. A. President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, Cc. 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. 5%7—Rockford B. M. A. President, Wm. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. No. 58—Fife Lake RB. M. A. President, L. S. Walter; Secretar; ,€.& Plakely. No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F. 8. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen. No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt. No. 61—Hartford B. M. A. President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. No. 62—Kast saginaw M. A. President, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, Cc. 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. 8. Blom. No. 66—Lansing B. M. A. President, Frank Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles. No. 67— Watervliet B. M. A. President, W. L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield. No. 68—Allegan B. M. A. President, H. H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand. No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison. No. 70—Nashville B. M. A, President, Wm. Boston; Secretary, Walter Webster. No. 71—Ashley B. M. A, President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck. No. 72—Edmore B. M. A. No, 73—Belding B. M. A. President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, OG. F. Webster. No. 74—Davison M. U. President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. C. W. Hurd. No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A. President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus. No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. President, 8. 8S. 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—Kast Jordan and so Arm B. M.A, President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison. No. 80_Bay City and W. Bay City R.M, A. President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Lee E. Joslyn. No. 81—Flushing B. M. A. President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom. No. 82—Alma B M. A. President, B. 8. 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. 87—Shepherd B. M. A. No. President, H. D. Bent; Secretary, A. W. Hurst. Association Notes. Local associations which have not yet paid their annual dues to the State body should remember that the fiscal year begins Oct. 1, and that the payment should be made as soon after that date as possible. Plainwell Enterprise: To reanimate the inter- est in the Business Men’s Association, which has been allowed to lag somewhat of late, it is proposed to secure C. L. Whitney, of Muskegon, State Lecturer, for aspeech some time in the near future, to bring the need of such an Asso- ciation forcefully before the people and show the many benefits to be obtained through it. The date will be announced later. A rating plan of the customers of each City and town :s now under consideration by the State body, and, in the mean time, effective work in that direction is being accomplished by a number of the local associations. The Boyne City B. M. A. began delving in this channel a couple of months ago, with very satisfactory success, and the Morley B. M. A. has taken steps in the same direction. The members of the for- mer association take their ledgers to the meet ings and compare notes on the responsibility and reliability of their customers, not omitting to ascertain the amounts owed by each at the various stores in_the village. a The disclosures Which are made as a result of such investigation are frequently amusing—especially where men whose services command $1 a day are found to owe a half dozen merchants an aggregate of several hundred dollars, and each creditor is laboring under the mistaken impression that he is the only person the debtor owes. Such inter- change of information cannot fail to work to the detriment of the indiscriminate credit business and to the corresponding benefit of the merchant and the honest consumer who not only pays his own bills but has to contribute his quota to the support of the irresponsible and shiftless dead- beat as well. —_—>?.. Preaching and Practice. From the Detroit News. When the farmers’ trust whick our vigilant young men have unearthed in the neighborhood of Port Huron comes to its full and complete maturity, we will have some curious incidents of the divergence that always exists between theory and practice, where the theorist and the prac- tical man are both working for theirown respective interests. The farmers’ trust ‘proposes to buy of only one dealer, who will be enabled to sell cheaper because of the greater volume of trade. In con- sideration of that they will get a special rate. They will go into politics and elect their own members to offices; because, aS the producer has to bear the burdens, they argue, he ought to get the spoils. And thus they would put, if they were able, the bar of disqualification, because ofavocation, up against all other classes of citizens. They will oppose Trusts and Monopolies, spelling the names of those menaces to civilization, from their view, with large capital letters. If a combination were to be effected in politics looking to the preferment of one set of people from the standard of re- ligion or of extraction, the first set of people to cry aloud for the defense of American liberties would be the farmers, or such among them as were not among the preferred class. Were a railroad company to make to the man running an elevator in their town a lower rate on his carloads of grain than they would get on their bags of it, they would hold an indignation meeting and make complaint, as they have done in cases, before the inter-state commerce commission. Were the lawyers to form a combination for control of politics, were the merchants and their employes to do the same, were the mechanies to base a political organiza- tion on the principle that ouly the men who changed the form of crude material into that of manufactured product were worthy of office, the farmers would howl until they were heard from one end of the nation to the other. Yet these cases are parallel with those of the farmers’ trust. The moral is that it depends a good deal on whose ox is gored. ———__—> Has Them Down Fine. From the Minneapolis Journal. “J have just finished a pleasant job,” said a prominent traveling man yester- day. “It was one which took some time, but Lam satisfied with the results. I was just sizing up the different members of the fraternity, and the thought struck me, why not grade them ? ‘‘Here they are: ‘““Class 1—The drummer, the every-day, common-sense, hard-working, travel-day- or-night fellow, sells lots of ‘stuff? on close margins, his career is devoid of all ambition other than that of his profes- sion, and to whom the term ‘holiday’ is a misfit phrase. He wears store-bought clothes and is—generally broke. “Class 2—The commercial traveler, self-styled, is the most attractive young fellow on the earth, takes the world easy, sells the better grade of goods, and does it ‘nicely,’ wears tailor-made clothing; he knows a few ‘drummers,’ smokes three-for-a-quarter cigars, takes appol- naris with his : isusually of acynical turn of mind, but on good terms with the whole world. His trade looks him up at the hotel after business hours, for he is ‘straight goods’ and ‘takes well.’ Like the drummer, however, he is—generally broke. “Class 3—Calls himself a traveling rep- resentative. He holds a small working interest in some big firm for whom he has made ‘big money,’ a firm which needs his services, but has adopted this method of keeping from paying him the salary he is worth. It reduces the T. R.’s in- come; but who wouldn’t sacrifice income for the glory of being admitted to the firm? He is most generally a fine, hand- some young fellow of good address, pol- ished manners, genial, jovial, liberal, has a ‘mash’ on his trade, unexceptional in attire, the idol of the hotel. Yet he, too, is—generally broke. ‘““Class 4—Like to be called commercial tourists, mostly middle aged, very passe, usually unsuccessful merchants who en- tered business with the idea of ‘doing it all. They still know everything, and tell it, usually recommended from smaller towns by his friends (?) who want to get rid of him and yetserve him. Heis a man of ‘gall,’ which constitutes his stock in trade, and he works it for all itis worth. They effect elderly society and don’t mix with the drummers, have a look of having seen better days, and their ad- dress shows it. They are generally, most generally—broke. “Class 5—Commercial angels are what we delight to term these darlings of the real alligator grip—bless their little hearts; they generally travel for papa or! uncle, who dotes on them and hopes to reform them by this kind of experience; | they are getting to be too numerous lat-- terly. But his ‘toilets’ are ravishing, his | raiment is dainty, doesn’t give much time to business, but itis not his fault; twenty- four hours is entirely too short to get through his affairs in. Altogether, they ‘make me tired.’ We are going to annihi- late this class from our profession and will soon begin the slaughter of these innocents, so doting papas will please take notice. I forgot to say that if the money those fellows spend had to be earned by themselves, they, too, would be entirely broke. “That is all. I have got them down fine, haven’t I ?”’ ———_———> + ———— The Watchful Merchant. Every merchant needs to keep a watch- ful eye on his stock. How often it hap- pens that a customer asks for an article and is informed that ‘‘We are just out, but shall have some in a few days.” Every time the merchant says this he loses trade, and it may be a customer. It does not pay to be out of staple goods. A merchant should make it a rule to in- spect his stock daily, or a fortion of it, and as soon as an article is running light in stock an order should be made, so that the fresh supply may be on the shelves by the time the present stock is ex- hausted. A merchant should reduce his orders to such asystem that freight bills will not be needlessly numerous. If a watch- ful eye is kept at work, orders may be so bunched that it will not be necessary to have the smallest shipments made, but the package will be of respectable dimen- sions. There is money in keeping or- ders bunched as much as possible, as every unnecessary package reduces the year’s profit to the amount of freight charge. There isa feature in ordering goods that should always be keptin mind. The orders should not be too large. How many stores there are carrying old and dirty-looking stocks of goods. This is especially noticeable in a patent medi- cine stock, where the wrappers have been faded by the sun until they have a very unsalable appearance. No one likes to buy an old bottle of patent med- icine, though the contents may be as good, and if the customer finds he must purchase such a package, he will gen- erally find a way to refuse it. The trouble is that the merchant ordered a dozen bottles when he should have or- dered a quarter of adozen. He has four times what his trade demands. The re- sult is he injures his business every time he allows an overstock to come into his store. This is also true in a measure of the notion stock. Some merchants buy a lot of cheap jewelry and novelties, much more than their trade can use; it is put in a show-case, and not very well ar- ranged at that, or if so, it is allowed to become disarranged until it is so unin- viting that all chance of sale becomes practically lost. And the same thing is seen in all lines of goods. The mer- chant has an overstock, or he is ‘‘out.”’ Either of these conditions should be strenuously guarded against by every merchant. They are evils in his business that if ailowed to have hold will always hold him aloof from prosperity. There is just as much use of system with the merchant as with the farmer; neither can prosper without it, and the merchant who thinks he can earn money by act- ually selling the goods over the counter has, it is feared, mistaken his calling. And yet how many merchants are keep- ing store after this fashion, and they complain because business is poor, when the factis that their profit is consumed in the purchase of unsalable goods. It is possible that a careful merchant may fall into some of these errors, but the possibilities are thatif he has, his watch- fulness will soon detect it and he will be able to correct it. These are points that every merchant should study carefully. He cannot afford to do otherwise. A careful search about the shelves will reveal an alarming pile of old and unsalable goods. These should be worked off at most any p.ice, and the stock cleaned up to date. If they cannot be sold to advantage, or drag, make an auction of them. It will at the same time advertise your business. With the old stock cleaned out, the store will take on a different appearance, and when the peozle of the vicinity once learn that a certain merchant never keeps old goods in stock, but, on the other hand, keeps a well-selected, though small stock, they will much prefer to trade with him rather than with the merchant who has failed to clean up his stock. A clean stock does not mean that a merchant can sell readily every article in it. That would be unreasonable. But it means that he can be judicious in his purchases and thus save a needless out- lay, and at the same time have on hand a more desirable stock of goods. Study your business. You have not mastered it yet. The goods onthe shelves are not well arranged. How can you improve the appearance? The stove is not clean. The books are not posted. There area hundred things that demand your con- stant attention, and yet. maybe, you are entirely heedless of all of them. If so, begin to-morrow the _ transformation work, and the close of the year will show a larger balance in your favor than you have ever enjoyed. —_—___—_>>-+>>__ --_— VISITING BUYERS. W H Leid, McCord 8 L Alberts, Ravenna C BJohnson, “alo J Colby, Rockford Dean Bros., Freesoil Avery & Pollard, D J Dokey, Lee ocum’s Grove Garrod & Messenger, M M Robson, Berlin Allegan J Raymond, Berlin D E Watters, Freeport Cooper, Jamestown Henry Baar. Grand Haven H Meijering, Jamestown Maston & Hammond an Noord, Jamestown Grandville W H Rennels, St Louis Geo E Harris, Grant A & E Bergy, Caledonia Carrington & North, Trent Silas Loew, Burnip’s Cors J P Odell, Fremont C Scott, Lowell WmVerMeulen,BeaverDam Morgan Smith, Lowell Moore, Weed & Co., J A Childs, Covert Moorestown Jobn Giles & Co., Lowell G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove B G'Ibs5rt & Co., Moline W S Hart, Lake Odessa A¥™ Quurch, Englishville JN Wait, Hudsonville D RB ocum, Rockford Walling Bros., Lamon L Maier, Fishers Station G M Huntley, Reno 7 Ar sock, Wright ES Hougtaling, Hart 1 I intzelman, Logan H Dalmon, Allendale HA e, Conklin Smallegan & Pickaard, NF Miller. Lisbon _ForestGrove JQ .n Damstra, Gitchell John De Vries. Jamestown Oaris Engels, Muskegon Bert Tinkler, Hastings J T Pierson, irving Jos Rodgers, Hastings C Freyermuth, McCords Alex Denton, Howard City John Smith, Ada AN Jones, Crapo C H Deming, Dutton Horning & Hart, Woodville : W Shattuck, Wayland AJ Halstead & Son, M Wolf, Hudsonville Grand Ledge and Ryerson Arthur B Clark, Gobleville Considering the Chances. “Well, what is it??? said the money clerk at the United States Express office the other day, as a man with a protrud- ing under-lip and a defiant contempt for grammar halted before him and put his dinner-bucket on the counter. ‘“‘Hain’t this the place where you take money that’s to be sent some’rs ?’’ said the man, standing on tip-toe gnd speak- ing in a low tone, as he leaned forward over the counter. “Yes; did you want to make a ship- ment ?’’ “Huh 27? “Did you want to send some money away ?’’ , “Well, no; not this mornin’; but I reckow’ I will shortly, an’ soI dropped in as I was goin’ along to git afew items about it. It was all right for me to drop in, wasn’t it ?’’ “Oh, yes; certainly. want to know ?”’ “Well, now. ’sposen I send forty dol- lars or sich matter to my sister in Wau- kegan, an’ she never gits it ?”’ “But she will get it if you send it.”’ “Yes; but how do I know that, though? S’posen the train runs agin sumpin, stands on its head, ketches fire, an’ burns up. where’s my forty dollars then ?’” “In that case the company would ‘make it good.”’ “Frah 2” “oy say back:’’ “But 1 wouldn’t want it back, I’d want my sister to have it. That’dbe my main reason for sendin’ it.”’ “She would get it. The company would pay it to her.”’ “That’s all right. then. But s’posen somebody bulldozes your man on the car with a club, as I heard was done some’rs not long back, an’ slides out with the money, who stands the racket then—me or the company ?”’ -‘The company, of course.’’ ‘‘Whether they ketch the man or not?’’ “WieS.7? ‘“Hain’t that ?”’ “No; not a bit of it.’’ “No comin’ at me with drawbacks, or per cents for this’n that ? ‘Not at all.”’ “It’s every dollar of it forked over to my sister is it, no matter what happens?’. ‘Yes; every cent.”’ “Is it jist the same in case of bein’ struck by lightnin’ ?”’ ‘“‘Certainly.’’ “My wife’s half brother—the one in Illinois—had a barn struck by lightnin’ onest, sot on fire an’ burnt down, an’ ’m switched if the company he was insured in didn’t crawl out of it somehow or uther ’an he’s hed his nose to the grind- stone ever sense on account of it. say your company never takes a man by the nape of the neck even if it gets a chance to ?”’ “No. The company guarantees to put your money through, and it will do it, or make it good.’’ “That’s all right, then, an’ my ole woman hain’t so tormented smart as she thinks she is.”’ ‘‘Why so ?’’ “She said there wasn’t nosafe way of gittin’ the money to’ Liza Ann but to have her go an’ take it to her. But I thought I could see through her little game, an’ soiconcluded I’d git a few items and find out for myself how the thing on- raveled. Between you and me, I’ve got a balky sort of a notion the ole woman wants to flare out a little with some new duds, an’ if she was to get herclaws onto that money I don’t b’lieve ’Liza Ann would ever see a red of it, notwith- standin’ she was good enough to lend it to me quite a spell ago, when I was con- siderable hard up. My ole woman is well-meanin’ an’ a middlin’ prim house- keeper, but she’s ruther to deep sot on tomfoolery to be trusted much in money matters, an’ I’d about as soon put money into a bank an’ give up hopes of it at onest, as to have her git her hands on it. She don’t mean nothin’ wrong about it, I reckon, but I s’pose she jest can’t help it, an’ she wouldn’t have that money abeut her ten minutes before she’d go to foolin’ it away on bustles an’ back hair an’ sich other nonsense as she’d happen to git her mind sot on. [ma good deal much obleeged to you, sir, an’ I'll give you the handlin’ of that money as I come along to-morrow. Even if you ruled out lightnin’ I’d risk it a blamed sight quicker’n I would the ole woman.”’ —_—_— -e <= ____- Attention to Business. Strict attention to business is one of the elements of success, while inatten- tion creates a hole through which cus- tom gradually but surely escapes. The merchant who ignores this qualification may stave off bankruptcy for a time by ob- taining new customers; but, with the aperture referred to unstopped, the out- flow will increase at a greater ratio than the inflow, and the inevitable ultimately takes place. This is just as natural a consequence as the neglect to repair a smal] leakage in the bank of a reservoir will result in the making of a breach sufficient to ultimately empty the basin. As in the latter, so in the former, others are made to suffer for the inattention and negilence, to use a legal term, of the party or parties of the first part; the failure of the merchant means loss to the wholesaler and others, and the neg- ligence of those whose duty it is to act as overseers of the reservoir, causes loss or inconvenience to those depending upon it for their water supply. A not very uncommon species of inat- tention to business is the allowing of a customer to stand waiting in the store until the merchant or clerk has finished the paragraph or article in the news- paper which he may be reading. . And strange as it may appear, the most re- cent transgressors in this respect, which have come under our observation, have been the proprietors themselves; and if the proprietors are negligent in this par- ticular, what must the clerks be? We leave our readers to judge. The feelings of the customer thus ig- nored may be more easily imagined than described; butitis natural to suppose that chagrin would soon give place to indignation, followed by an immediate withdrawal from the store, or, at least, a decision not to again patronize the mer- chant who appeared to think more of a newspaper than acustomer. Not only does the inattentive merchant thus di- rectly lose one customer, but the chances are he indirectly losses others, and is What did you the company would pay it there no giggin’ back on You: prevented from gaining new ones, for, asa rule, the person to whom offence has been given is not slow to tell his or her immediate acquaintances of the cir- eumstanees. Thus itis that some mer- chants undermine their business, and then wonder why they don’t succeed better, and why they have lost the cus- tom of this and that person, while if they would only stop and think, or, bet- ter still, interview the persons them- selves, the cause would soon be apparent. Merchants, in these days of keen com- petition, cannot afford to show the least inattention, but must ever be on the qui vive to wait upon or oblige custom- ers; and one thing about it is that the art of being attentive is not like a classi- cal education—obtainable by compara- tively few—but is free to all who seek it. —<—-9 << __—_ Difference Between Merchant and Clerk. First Shopping Lady—Was thata clerk or the proprietor we traded with ? Second Shopper—A clerk, certainly. Didn’t you notice he said ‘I’? have this and that line of goods? The proprietors always say ‘‘we.”’ ———————»._]-.<___ A patent has recently been granted for a process of separating buttermilk from butter, which consists in first melting the butter under sufficiently warm water by holding said butter in bulk below the sur- face thereof, next allowing the butter to rise in a melted state through the water, whereby the buttermilk is absorbed by the water, and then beating the pure but- ter which has risen to the surface into a froth, and finally allowing the froth to cool, whereby it becomes non-granular and solid. Papa started to wash little Elsie’s hands in cold water, but she drew back exclaim- ing, ‘‘Papa, I want the water cooked.”’ Dry Goods. Prices Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Atlantic A.......-.. %14|Integrity XX........ 5% Atlanta A. A.......- Gicimang, Wr... |... 644 Archery Bunting... 4%4| “ Meee) 6% (AMOBe 0. Golo Ge. °° EC a2in..... 5 Beaver Dam AA... 5%|LawrenceLL....... 5% Berwick L...-...... 64|New MarketB...... Bi, Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Noibe R......... a. Oak Chapman. .-..- --... 4 (Newton -..-: -.. «. Og @onsseet Al... ..... 74|Our Level Best..... 7 Comet... : ...... ---. 7 (Riverside XX....-.. 5 Clifton CEC... ..,. 6%|Sea Island R........ 6% Conqueror XX...... S jsheren B ..1... 2. 6% Dwight Star......... %44|Top of the Heap.... 1% oo Williamsville. ..... Comet, 40in..:..... 8% Carlisic — ..2:... w% Mxeter A 2.1.2... = 6 Full Yard Wide..... 6% Great Falls E % Honest Width....... 7 |New MarketL,40in. 7% Havitoed 4.......... 5% BLEACHED COTTONS. Blackstone A A..... S Gitrst Prive: -. |... c. < Beats All............ 4%|Fruit of the Loom %. 8 Cleveland -..... --- 7 (Ratrmeunt...._ .._-- 4% @abet --.....3. - 4... 744| Lonsdale Cambric. .1044 Cubet. %-....... <2... 6%iLonsdaie....... .... 855 Dwight Anchor..... 9 {Middlesex.......... 54 « soshorts. SxiNo Name............ 7%, Mawards. 92.255. ..: G jOak View --.-....-. 6 Mimpire._.....--.<..- q Our Own.......-_- 5% Farwell... _..-..- S jsunlight .......... 4% Fruit of the Loom.. 8%|Vinyard............. 8% Mitehnvirie 02... 7%) HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. Cabot... 3.5. 74|Dwight Anchor..... 9 Parwell.....-. ....- 8%) UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. ‘Tremont N.---..-... 514{Middlesex No. 1....10 Hamilton N......... 6% . <2... - Eo. 7 . « 3...22 Middlesex AT...... 8 - 7238 . ec 9 . «S$... = No. 25.... 9 BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Hamilton N.....-..- 7%4|Middlesex AA...... . Middlesex P T...... S Se 12 ““ en ee A gees - aa... 9 i <... 17% ap ee 10% . ae 16 CORSET JEANS. Biddetord..-......_. 6 |Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% Brunswick. .... ..-. 6%|Rockport........... 64% PRINTS. Allen, staple:.....-. 6 |Merrim’ck shirtings. 5% a fatiey.---..- 6% . Reppfurn . 8% . Tepes... ..-. 6%4|Pacific fancy........ 6 American fancy.... 6 * Teves. ...0...: 6% American indigo... 6%/|Portsmouth robes... 6 American shirtings. 544|Simpson mourning.. 6% Arnold = .. GS 2 greys... .... 6% “ long cloth B.10% “© solid black. 6% - - “« ©. 8%|Washington indigo. 6% “ century cloth 7 “ Turkey robes.. 7% “ gold seal... 10%| ‘ India robes.... 7% « Turkey red..10%| ‘‘ plain T’ky = % 8% “ “ “oe 10 Berlin solids........ 5% oe << on prae....)- 6%| ‘“ Ottoman Tur- “«< « green __.. 644} Kkeyred........- 6 Cocheco —— es 6 |Martha Washington - madders... 6 Turkey red %..... Eddystone fancy... 6 {Martha Washington Hamilton fancy. ... 64%| Turkey red........ - staple.... 6 |Riverpoint robes.... 5 Manchester fancy.. 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6 “ new era. 6% : gold ticket Merrimack D fancy. 6%} indigo blue....... 10% TICKINGS. Amoskeag AC A....13%4|Pearl River......... 12% Hamilton N...:..-- 9%4|Warren...... oe 14 DEMINS. Amoskeag...... <... isgiBverett.....-.- .. 12% Amoskeag, 9 02Z..... 15 |Lawrence XX. -13% Amegover.......--. .--11'4|Lanearter.....-..... 12% GINGHAMS. Gienarvyen..:. ...... 6%|Renfrew Dress...... 8 Lancashire. ......... 634/Totl du Nord........ 10% Normandie. -.:. .... Ss | CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 1814|Peerless, colored. ..21 | GRAIN BAGS. Stare: 2c. 20 (Geargra 22. 2-2. -: 16 Ayseriean.......:. .- iz |Peeme...:-...... .14 Valley City..-.....-. 16 (Burlap 3.0 c:. .-: 11% THREADS. Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour’s....... ...- 88 Conte. d..0 Pi... 2: . 45 (Marshalls... ...... 88 Holyoke Bele 2214 | KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. eo 42 No. 38 He ee 39) | 43 10... oo a 44 << 2. |. ae a | 45 CAMBRICS. Sister 6022 oe du Kie Glove. .........- 4% White Star.......-. 4% |Newmarket......... 43% RED FLANNEL. Bireman-. >. 58... Sete Wo se 22% Creedmore...: ....-- See Eo ee ete 32% Paibot VN... |... 2s EP, SX... 35 Nameless. ...:. .:.:: 27g buckeye.... ........ 32% MIXED FLANNEL. Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% Udon Ho... 22%4|Western W ......--- 184% Windser -).: .:.2:- 140 Ess. 18% 6oz Western.......- 21 |Flushing ie 234% Union B.2... 2.3... 2ole| MamIGODR.... 2.2... 23% DUCKS. Severen, 8 0Z........ 944|Greenwood, 8 oz....11% Mayland, 80z....... 11 |West Point, 8 0z.... 9% Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 944 WADDINGS, White Gor... ... 20 f= bale, 40 doz....87 25 Celored, dez.......: 25 SILESIAS. Slater, Iron Cross... 9 {Pawtucket.......... 11 . ed Croes.... 9 |Pundice.....-.... 03. 9 “ BORG oo... 5: IOigrbedrord.... .-.. 2... B ea Best AA..... 12% CORSETS. Coraline 02s... .. 89 50/Wonderful.... .... $4 75 Shilling 's.22. 2... 9 00|/Brighton.. ........ 475 SEWING SILK. Corticelli, doz....... 85 {Cortieelli knitting, rr twist, doz. .42 per %oz ball...... 30 se 50 yd, doz. .42 COOPER TOOLS We endeavor to ecarry a full assortment. Foster, Stevens & Co., 10 and 12 Monroe St., 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HARDWARE. Prices Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. vest: Ol ntyie 2. es 60 ee 60 CO ee 40 Jennings’, genuine..............-.-..-2-0-- 2 Jennings’, imitation .....-.-....-.--._.-... 50&10 AXES. First Quality, Se Bronee 8 7 00 . m B Broore|... 22.3. 11 00 - SBS Sea... 8 50 r DB Steet. 13 00 BARROWS. dis BOLTS is. Dee eee seu ceue 50&10 Ce esc 75 aoe cee ee 40&10 Sleigh shoe...... .....-cceese eens see e ce cece 70 BUCKETS. Well. plait. $3 50 Well swivel. ee 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis. @ast Loose Pin, figured........ ........-...- W& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 6010 Wrought Loose Pin.........-.............._- 60&10 Wrought Table............-....-..-.-......- 60&10 Wrought Inside Blind................--..--- 60&10 Wrought Brass............ --2-seeee cee ceeee 5 Biud Clarks. .).. 220... 70&10 Blind Parker’s.............---...-.- 2... 70&10 Blind. Shepard’s ........-.....-...-......... 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 40 CRADLES. Cra ee dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. Cont Stee perb 4% CAPS. Miye110.............-.. perm 65 HMeke2c eo. 60 ee. “ 35 Maeecte . 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 Rim Fire, United States................- ds. Goniral MMe... dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. Socket Firmer ...........---. 20s sees eee ee eee 70&10 Socket Peamene 70&10 Spe Ores oe 70&10 Socket Saekn 70&10 Butehers Vaneed Wirmer............-.-...- 40 COMBS. dis. Curry, Lawrence's .......-................- 40&10 CO ee 25 CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... perpound 28 o Ponce tor0G, ieee ¥ el 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... 2.0.0... 24 Gold Rolled, 7x65... << -......t ea 24 ee 5 DRILLS. dis. Morees Bit Siocke. |... 40 Paper and straight Shank 40 Morse’s Taper Shank.................+....-- 40 DRIPPING PANS. Small sizes, ser pound -.....-............-.. 07 Large sizes, per pound................ ++. 6% ELBOWS. Com. £ piece Gin...-.-.--- doz.net 70 Cormurmed .....- ss. dis, 20&10£10 eS dis. 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26................ 30 Ives’, 1, 818; 2, $24; 3, 830 ..................- 25 FILEs—New List. dis. Qo, 60&16 New American...... Be ee cieeseceeceg 60&10 Neehgisem se 60&10 Helere a 50 Heller’s Horse Rasps...........---cseccesees 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and %; 27 28 List 12 13 14 15 18 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... .......-. 50 HAMMERS, Maydole & Co.’8.......--.6- --eseeeee ees dis, eee ie ee ane dis. 2% Worlon & Pimp e.....0 0.2 cs dis. 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10 HINGES. Gate: Clark's, 1,25......- dis.60&10 Qiate per doz. net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 44% 14 and Ve ae coe ccc aa 3% Serew Hook and Eye, %................- net 10 or . - ee net 8% . . c oe net 7 “ si " .......-.... net 7% Strapand Fo... oe dis. 70 HANGERS. di N Bs. 8. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Champion, anti-friction............-..--+.+ 60&10 Kidder, wood track .........s02seeesscessees HOLLOW WARE i eo 60&05 Meee 60&05 Spiders ..... 2.2.2... es cee w ee wee ene see ee cnee 60&05 Gray enameled...........-2++-eeeeee reer ee ee 50 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware................- new list 70&10 Japanned Tin Ware.............++e+-eee0s: p25) Granite Iron Ware -..........-... new list 33% &10 HORSE NAILS. Am Same. ooo dis. 25£10@25&10&10 Peapese ce dis. 5&10&24%&2% MiarinweniGrnh. .....--...5 22. <. 2. dis. 10&10&5 KNOoBs—New List. dis Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ..........--.. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelvin, trimmings................. 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s......-....--+--.+- 55 Ce ee oe oe ee 55 WOrweNeS (00.2... 55 LEVELS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 70 MATTOCKS. (Aas Toye. 28s $16.00, dis. 60 Hunt Eye Be Seek soca oleae $15.00, dis. 60 Pine $18.50, dis. 20&10. MAULS. dis. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............... 50 MILLS. dis. Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................-- . 40 « P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleabl 40 ‘s Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ < 40 SG FESIBEEPEIBS oon nn. on. cence ee cca s one P25] MOLASSES GATES, Stopbinia Patters 000 60610 Stebbin’s Genuine......... -60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 25 NAILS Advance above 12d nails. FENCE AND BRADS, Sidtegia.. Bes ne eae Ps) CT Ca 10 ee as ae 25 Ce 40 SS a = De 1 00 Se, ce Ponce eae 150 = Ce 1 00 re aes 1 50 pe cea a a tage 200 SE, Oh a ea as 50 NR 60 eee % SEE TE TG 90 FEE eT GO ales ee 150 COMMON BARREL. fee Sas ae ene eneeananaueINCS CLINCH. foeand 1% ime... Qand2% “ a sane a ine Each half keg 10 cents extra. TLANES, dis Onio Tool Co.'s, fancy ......_..... 40@ a Benen ....... oo oe ne oO andusky Tool Co.’s, fane Sy 40@. Bench, first quality........ AS ar oO Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 10 a : PANS, 1 ACM see . Common, polished 3... aie bo RIVETS. dis. rom anud@ Tinnea. 50 Copper Rivets and Bara 000g i PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 ‘“*B’’ Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs 4c per pound extra, i ROPEs. Sisal, 4 men and larger |... 11% Co 13% SQUARES. Steel and Iron..... . Sates : See seers ce nes. = eee Wire 20 SHEET IRON. Com. rhea = ERROR REpE OSU URE eT ' 8 00 Nos. i 4 20 3 00 INOS, MU Se. 42 3 10 Bo ee 4 20 3 15 Oe ~ 4@ 33 ee 4 60 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, o wide not less than 2-10 cule ee SAND PAPER. Risk eeCe 19 OG. dis. 40&10 Silver Lake, White A.......- ilver Lake, 2... _ Oe ea > 3S - Wikte Bl. - 50 Drab B...... Peed ceeees ce . 55 - White... - 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. Solid Eyecare per ton 825 i ei saws. dis. Te ee cee ae cca Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, "a ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 30 “Champion and Electric Tooth X COMA, OEE OMe TRAPS, dis. Beect ome 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70 SIGCHI 7 rs & Ww. Wie Cas ........... oe. 70 mGmee, Coker 18¢ per doz. Mouse delusion. 6-0 $1.50 per doz. WIRE. dis. i 67% Anneaicd Matmet. 70&10 @epeered Marwet 62% Tinned Market....... 622 — Sees SOO 50 min Penee 2 i... r nd Barbed Fence, galvanized............... oe m3 3 Ie ee 2 80 : WIRE GOODS. dis. rg 70&10&10 Serew iMyes........ 1.1... ea neces ce 70&10&10 ION 70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Hyves... 70&10&10 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Coes Genuine... 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ 75 Coes Patent, malleable «gs... .. -75&10 MISCELLANEOUS. dis. BT feeaae 50 Pape Cite 75 Herews:, New liste. 50 10 Casters, Bed and Piate.................. 50&10& PpCES, AIBOTICRM oc 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65 METALS, Pig TIN. ea es ee Te 28¢ Duty: Sheet, 2% pound uty: Sheet, 24%c per pound. 600 pound casks. Sie ga ec aes ie at ao << re Per pean - 6% SOLDER. ae eee eae aucun bow cgee ol fo etre WE ey 13 The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ce ANTIMONY. GMO oe r pound 14 PON = Re iis TIN—MELYN GRADE. fetid ©, CHARCOAL... we oo eo. es ses $600 14x20 IC, CE 6 00 10x14 IX, Ce a ieee ee 7% 14x20 IX, Oe eet Salemuiecs eeu cues ola au ce 7% Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE, peiG tC), CUGFOOME 2.8... coe. oes ace $05 40 14x20 IC, ieee ed cecak 5 40 10x14 IX, ld sibey cece sda ney 6 14x20 IX, FE eae) cabal cuelau de ankecuss 4 Each additional X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, © Woreeeier. 2.6 .0..5.... 2... 5 50 14x20 IX, . | eke eee erewus 7 00 20x28 IC, “ ee eases ceces 11 50 14x201C, ‘ Allaway Grade..:........ 4 90 14x201X, “ “ Se 6 40 20x28 IC, — - cues 10 30 2x28Ix, “* “ ea 13 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE, a ccc edie cds a $13 OOGe Oe ss oe cs. ese bones cceccee oaues 13 pan ra for No. ‘ Boilers, | per pound.... The M ichigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. Retail Trade of the Wolverine State. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, 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, NOVEMBER 13, 1889. WHERE WILL THE FACTORIES BE? While it may seem so, it still is a mat- ter of direct interest to the mercantile fraternity to have the manufacturers of the country located as near them as pos- sible. It is now being recognized as a fact that the manufacturers in this country must to a large extent change In the early history of the country, by the necessities of the case they were located in the East. To the Eastern States, and especially to the Northeastern States, the raw materials of the whole country were sent to be made into completed goods and then shipped back to their original starting place. The cotton of the South, the wool of the West, the hides from the slaughtered beeves of the country and all raw materials were shipped thous- ands of miles to be made into goods that were returned to be worn by the men sheared the wool their location. who raised the cotton, and killed the beeves. Such a state of things could not al- ways last, and by a law which ‘The World’s Progress’’ calls gravity in man- ufacturing. the factories are being re- located with yeference to two things— raw materials and consumption of fin- ished products. By virtue of this law, cotton factories are springing up in the south where the raw material is, iron and steel manufacturers are seeking the points where ore and coal are most abundant, while a multitude of factories of various kinds are locating in the west, where their greatest trade nowis. In fact, in that branch of business the largest factories have grown up in the west, and of all classes of farm imple- ments more are made in the western states than in the so-called manufactur- ing states. An illustration of this tendency found in the recent removal to the West of a great stove foundry, employing sev- eral hundred men. They sought not the place where raw material could be pro- cured most cheaply, but a location near- est their customers. The bulky nature of the product, the cost of freight and the danger of breakage combine to ren- der it necessary that they be brought near to their customers. All this is of interest to the merchant in that it brings his source of supply nearer him. All railroad transportation is an expense, a tax on the merchant and producer that is to be avoided as far as possible. Bringing the producer and consumer together decreases this tax and leaves a better margin of profit. The building of a manufacturing town of 10,000 people means more business for the merchant and to the farmers about it a ready market for all the products of the farm at better prices than could be got were there no such towns. For these and many other reasons mer- chants can look with complacency on the inevitable tendency of manufacturers to move west, and on the growth of the cities of the west. Every artisan that comes is another one to furnish food, and the large numbers that are coming must increase the tendency to better prices for foodstufis in the west, as compared with prices east. is FALSE VALUATION. The claimed value of the railroads of the United States is now about ten bil- lions of dollars, the interest ou which, at 6 per cent., would be about $600,000,000, a sum so enormous that the mind fails to grasp it. It is estimated that the cost of the roads in this country, if built to-day, would not be more than two-fifths of this amount, or four billions of dollars. A part of the excessive value is due to the fact that the roads were built when ma- terial and labor cost more than it does now, but much the greater part of the excess is watered stock—stock which does not represent a cent of value and which should, therefore, not earn a cent of interest. All will admit that this stock should be wiped out of existence, and the people no longer forced to pay interest on it. The earnings of the roads should be based on actual capital and not on fictitious values. Suppose that this were wiped out of existence, should the cost of railroads built when material and labor were high be considered their value now, or should their value be reckoned at what they would cost to be built now, and the earn- ings based on that. The railroad is peculiar in many respects. While it may have close competition at some points, at the large majority of places it has no competition, and until within afew years it was free to make its own rates for the carriage of goods and persons. No mer- chant is thus situated. No manufacturer | is so placed. There are a few lines of business controlled by patents or by trusts that can thus prevent competition and make their,own rates, but they are very few. The man who put upa fac- tory when money would buy less than half what it will now, is compelled to compete on even terms with the one who has just completed his shops. He is com- pelled by force of circumstances to in- ventory his buildings and his machinery, not at what they cost him when built, but at their present value. Should val- ues be maintained by manufacturers the rate per cent. of dividend would be so small as to be ridiculous. Tue TRADESMAN sees no reason why railroad values should be maintained when the value of no other property is maintained. We believe that railroads should earn afair per cent. on their value, and, like other property, they should have the benefit of the rise in values, but like all other property they should also take the chances of a decline in values. Taking out the false valua- tion and the watered stock from the roads of the country, the decrease of in- terest earning would not be less three hundred million dollars, and might reach four hundred millions. This amount, or rather the gross sum that must be re- ceived by the roads to make this net in- come, is an expense that the people should not pay. It is an enormous drain on them, and sometime they will compel a change in methods which will relieve them of this burden. TOO MUCH RELIANCE ON LAW. Laws are enacted to govern actions, as rules of conduct. They cannot be ap- plied subjectively, but relate only to the objective. The mind, in a legal sense, is left free to indulge in every species of wrong, to contemplate and devise any evil or plan any crime. Law says what shall or shall notbe done. ‘That is as far as its power extends, yet every crime or evil deed is subjective in its origin. It has its rise beyond the reach of law. It grows up out of the human heart into action. In thought it touches no one and is harmless, so far as visible injury is concerned. Yet it is the beginning of evil, and in view of all this it is common to sneer at moral training as a means of preventing crime. Much stressis laid on the efficacy of well-enacted and properly- executed laws, unable as they are to touch the origin and control the source of crime. Likewise all good has its birth in the soul and becomes the offspring of human action and duty only by adoption. True, the vicious need the restraint of penallaws. They may often prevent the execution of evil thought, but the re- cords of our criminal courts show to what extent they do not. They are most effective when executed, and, thatis after the wrong is done. What the civil lawis to actions the moral law is to the origin of actions. The civil law is intended to prohibit criminal action while the moral law tends to prohibit criminal thought. Woula we not better give more attention to the power of moral influences? Are not public life and public sentiment too slow in their recognition of these influ- ences. and too regardless of them? Are not these influences stronger than they are ordinarily admitted to be? Were they entirely destroyed how long would society exist? The larger portion of the world is governed by them, and yet they are laughed at when considering means by which evils can be remedied or pre- vented. Wecan as well afford to laugh at crime as at the means of preventing it, yet the moral teacher and enthu- siastic evangelist is called a ‘‘crank,”’ and his progress impeded by influences that should aid and encourage it. Regarding the question of good and evil thereisthis difference: while evil is denounced and punished, good is not praised or rewarded in a commensurate ratio. We probably look upon good as a natural condition—a result which we may of right expect, and consider evil as a violation of all the natural conditions— a kind of usurpation, or rebellion, against which we loudly and publicly protest. We attempt to suppress crime, but do little to encourage the good, and thus seem to consider that while evil ten- dencies are to be curbed, the better quali- ties need no recognition or strengthening. We leave too much to law, and law too often fails to adjust the matter. Our system of government is based rather on punishments than rewards. We attempt more to relieve than to‘cure, and seek still less to prevent. We take note of actions, but do too little to influence those actions by rendering pure and healthy their source. TOO MUCH MONEY THD UP. The report of the Treasury Depart- ment for November shows nearly six hundred million dollars on hand. The money is doing no one any good. It is simply dead, so far as any use or benefit to the people is concerned. One-half of it put into circulation would increase prices, stimulate trade and relieve to a large extent the burdens that have come from low prices. How it shall be got out is a subject that Congress should act on this winter. There are plenty of good ways to use this money which would put it directly into the hands of the people, where it belongs. The one-sidedness of the P. of I. plan is enough in itself to condemn it. The merchant who signs the contract of the order agrees to sell ata certain percent- age above cost, but the men who take ad- vantage of the concession—whenever there is an advantage in the deal—do not bind themselves to trade at the contract institution whenever they can do a pen- ny’s worth better anywhere else. This is an element of unfairness to which no honorable man will be party, but abouta hundred merchants have fallen into the trap unawares. It is a matter of common remark that the P. of I.’s have made the least head- way in those towns which support an active Business Men’s Association. The reason for this readily apparent. Wherever the business men have a thor- ough understanding, it is comparatively easy tosecure the pledges of every mem- ber not to sign with the one-sided scheme. Then, again, the existence of a well- equipped B. M. A. enables the merchants to avoid most of the losses incident to the credit business and profits are thereby reduced to the minimum, so that pur- chasers have nothing to complain of in the way of prices. If every town in Michigan could have had an aggressive B. M. A., the P. of I. could never have secured a foothold anywhere, short as its tenure of life has proved to be. is Disastrous All Around. MiLAN, Nov. 9, 1889. E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: DEAR Str—What is the experience of those merchants who “sign with the Pat rons and then throw up the contract? Yours, MERCHANT. The experience is invariably disastrous. When a dealer signs a contract with the P. of I., most of his customers outside the membership of the order leave him, because they feel that he is discriminat- ing against them, a suspicion which is founded on fact. If the dealer throws up the contract, because he finds it to be a losing game, the Patrons are naturally indignant and leave him for some other merchant. If the Patrons find that the contract dealer is swindling them unmercifully— and that is just what most of those who sign the contract are doing— they termi- nate the contract as soon as possible and cease trading with him whenever they please, contract or no contract. The dealer who binds himself to favor one class of people, at the expense of an- other class, is thus seen to be between three fires, any one of which will singe the man who gets too near to the furnace of public opinion. The only safe way is to let the P. of 1. and all other entang- ling alliances severely alone, to the end that every man may stand on his own bottom and prosper in such degree as his capital, experience, judgment and energy may warrant. —___— -4 <_____ Scene in a Mecosta County Town. Country woman—l’ve been lookin’ at cloaks down at the P. of I. store, but they charge more’n you do. I orter paternize our own store, but Vl be dummed if I'll pay $2 for the privilege. Merchant—Perhaps the cloak at the P. of I store is better than ours. Country woman—No, I know better— they both got the same mark. But how would it look for me to stand up in lodge and talk P. of I. inacloak bought $2 cheaper at another store ? Merchant—That’s a matter you must decide for yourself. But how did you come to go into the P. of I. ? Country woman—We went in for fun on the start and we paid dues a second quarter in hopes we could get some ben- efit at the P. of I. store, but everything we have bought there has been just like this cloak—’ bout 25 per cent. too high. People ’round our neighborhood have come to the ’clusion that the P. of I. isa fraud and there won’t be a baker’s dozen in our township after the next payin’ time. _—>+-—_————_ Change of Form, if Desired. THe TRADESMAN Office is now equipped with afull bindery outfit, so that the shape of the paper can be changed from newspaper form to magazine form, if the readers so desire. In other words, the machinery now in operation will enable THe TRADESMAN to appear with three or four columns to the page, instead of seven, while the number of pages would be increased to sixteen, twenty or twen- ty-four. It is immaterial tothe publish- ers whether this change is made or not, and they leave the matter entirely in the hands of the 5,000 patrons of the paper to determine. A full and free expression of opinion is respectfully solicited. >_< Practical Rather than Sentimental. From the San Francisco Chronicle. “Do you remember when and where we first met?’ Iheard aloving wife ask her husband. ‘‘Certainly, my dear.” “Cll wager you don’t,’? she said. ‘‘I don’t believe you can tell me now.’ ‘‘The first time I met you,’’ he said quite readily, ‘‘was at a charity ball at the hall.” ‘So it was,’ she said, qutte pleased. ‘It is very nice to know you remember so well.’? * And when she left the room he turned to me and said: ‘‘For heaven’s sake don’t say anything; but I remember because that night some fellow walked off with an eighty-dollar over- coat of mine, and I had to go home with- out any.”’ The Bonus Bait. From the Shoe and Leather Review. , On several oceasions the Review has drawn attention to the prevailing custom in many ambitious towns of offering a bonus to aid in erecting factories and other industrial enterprises. The prac- tice is a pernicious one, opening the door, as it does, to a great deal of disastrous speculatiog. A town is boomed by un- scrupulous real estate agents, who pub- lish fulsome pamphlets regarding its “commanding commercial position,’’ ‘‘railroad center,’’ ‘‘midst of magnificent agricultural country,’’? and other set epi- thets so familiar to readers of this class of literature. The local paper is induced to agitate. It takes up the cry and de- clares that ‘‘a great future is in store for Boomville and all that the “town now wants is a manufactory.’’ A meeting is called of the public spirited citizens at the chamber of commerce, and there are few towns of any pretentiousness which do not possess one. A committee on manufacturing is appointed, and the sec- retary, who is generally some local vision- ary- of superabundant volubility, is directed to communicate with capitalists, investors and manufacturers, who are looking to the West for an increase of income. The secretary gets many replies, generAlly from persons of large, compre- hensive views, but very slender resources. During the enthusiastic period, a com- pany is formed, and as the leading men have taken hold, the city council passes, without much pressure, a bill to grant a bonus. Everybody having anything to sell, or land to dispose of, takes stock, and some Eastern manufacturer, who is running a shaky concern, works into the scheme. and the paper announces that “Mr. Shorteash, having resisted all the blandishments of a British syndicate, has accepted an offer of a bonus from the citizens of Boomville to remove his fac- tory from Decayville, N. H.’’ Mr. Short- cash gets the bonus, removes his second- hand machinery, and if he be a level- headed man, quie'ly sells his stock and takes the first opportunity to place him- self in such a position as only to have ‘‘a nominal interest in the concern.’’? This factory fades away before it becomes ac- climated. The air was too thin and too raw for its Eastern lungs, and it dies for the simple reason that it came to fill, what never existed, ‘‘a long felt want.’? Asan endorsement to the fore- going, we notice that Governor Luce, of Michigan, says in reference to the bonus system that, ‘‘as a whole it can hardly prove a profitable investment for locali- ties to pay a bonus for the purpose of securing manufacturing establishments, as the systen is liable to secure invest- ments which cannot prove to be profit- able. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, from which the above extract is taken, also interviewed a number of other promi- nent persons, whose opinions were to the effect that the custom is, as a rule, ‘‘un- wise, unprofitable, wrong in principle and encouraging to irresponsible men to seek to obtain something for nothing by posing as public benefactors.’’ The bonus system, strange to state, after run- ning its course in the West and leaving many wrecks behind, has broken out in staid, conservative New England, where the inhabitants seem to be imbued with a strong desire to seek distant fields and pastures new. The cause is assigned to the fact that in some parts of the land of the Puritans, alarge number of farms have been deserted, and this exodus has made business in the adjacent towns dull. The village statesmen, not tracing the effect back to cause, attributed the stagnation to lack of mediums of employment, and hearing how successful the West has been in drawing manufacturing concerns to places where they were actually wanted, is trying to follow suit by adopting the bonus system, which has in the West proved to be a fallacy. No successful concern is, as a rule, lured away by a mere matter of bonus. If the town pos- sesses advantages. noinducement will be necessary, aS manufacturers are on the lookout for good sites. Should it not possess these advantages, failure is in- evitable, and no bonus can hammer a square peg into a round hole and make either hole or peg feel comfortable. A wise hen declined to leave her perch on the invitation of the fox, who asked her to come down and be sociable, as the mil- lennium had arrived and all the animals were living in peace. She said she would consult the house dog, who was then ap- proaching. Hearing this, the fox made off and being remonstrated with, replied: “You and I know all about the new reign of peace, but I don’t know whether that durned dog has heard of it.’? The manu- facturer contemplating removal might profit by the hen’s prudence. ——_>2__—_ A Pointer for Hardware Dealers. “JT notice with satisfaction that the hardware dealers in smaller towns are learning that money is to be made by keeping vehicles in regular stock,’”’ says a writer to Stoves and Hardware, St. Louis. ‘‘The country hardware store is always regarded by farmers as_ their legitimate headquarters when in town, and many a dealer has clinched sales on cold, blustery days, when trade was dull and the weather was such as to drive the farmers around his big, red hot stove. It is all the better if no one wants to buy on such occasions, for he can then talk up the merits of his goods in an off- hand, but convincing manner that will not be forgotten. The farmer will go home remembering what has been said, and he will ponder over it until he is ready to buy, and by that time he isready to buy the make handled by that dealer. The hardware dealer may not sell as many vehicles as the man who canvasses the country districts, but his sales will represent a better profit, as he has been at no special expense in selling. Besides, every hardware merchant has customers who would far rather buy their imple- ments and vehicles from him than from an outside dealer.’’ av i > ; j NO, 2 TF oe ee oe Ce Gee cde oe i left to die on the field of ba‘tle, bears his eo 7 in an ate pears - — STONEW ARE—AKRON. In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS. We make i : + codices So Goss the bank where said note was payable . oe 4 06% a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time. We solicit agony patiently until relieved by death. | the amount due, and directed the bank to fon a ae Ae ee ne ‘nea 65 consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete. : cee i : ae : oe a, POY BOs. 2 2 i ‘Patient unto death’”’ is an extreme test, oy = _ aioe = ain note, a cpg ee Ce a csr eae at ; % Such is the fate of the Pass Book System wherever it comes in H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. 63 P 1 St "ere we -day. ¢ ,| that the bank subsequently became insol-| “ 2 “ oe eae each ae : ear. and were we, to-day. called upon to lay — 1 Milk Pans, ¥% gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 60 contact with the down our lives, submitting to the igno- - 1 ras (2s | ee. 78 a ca ce ae ne bv FRUIT JARS—Per gro. miny and terrible tore —— seas MERCANTILE AGENCIES — STATEMENTS. | yagon’s, pints... 3950 : early martyrs, would we be patient? I! m1. supreme Court of Michigan held “ — > fear not. that where a merchant makes verbal iain ae Cc acne 12 00 But it is not to the extreme test of pa-| statements as to his financial condition to - i ealion.... 000 1.02 16 00 3 tience I wish to refer. Every day we meet with petty trials that seem to magnify as our patience de- ereases, and finally we succumb to the test and exclaim, ‘‘my patience is all worn out.’’ Whereas, if we remain firm at such times, our patience may meet with due reward. To those who are termed quick-tem- pered, the cultivation of patience is most essential; their happiness in life depends upon it. In the columns of the news- papers is daily chronicled the result of being a slave to one’s temper. Murders are committed without hesitation or thought as to the consequent punishment so certain to be dealt the offender of the law. The American people, especially, re- quireacultivation of patience. In the bus- tle and confusion incident tothe rush of a business life, they are, as a general rule, found to be very impadient, and, as is well known, in their eagerness to reach the million dollar mark on their road to fortune, they too often resort to ‘‘ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.”’ Some are born with the desirable in- heritance of patience, and prove them- selves equal to the test of trying ordeals, through which they pass without a ruffle of the temper. The patient person may be borne down with a load of sufferings, and yet hope and wait for a favorable turn in affairs with the consoling thought that ‘things might be worse.”’ It is the possession of this great virtue that renders possible the hiding of an aching heart underneath a pleasant smile. It is patience that lightens the burden of eares in the sick chamber, and brings comfort to the invalid. It is patience that makes a life of poverty bearable, and in its possession the poor victim still finds much in life that is sweet to live for The world’s progress is due to a culti- vation of patience, and to it we are indebted for the wonderful inventions whose resulting benefits we now enjoy. Genius fosters it, and without its benign influence the inventor would never meet with a realization of his hopes. Patience has given the world numberless men who have devoted their lives to the welfare of posterity. Many a midnight lamp now burns with some cherished object in view which patience may yet develop intoa discovery that will startle the world with its wonderful power. Patience makes the model parent, and rears the child to become a useful mem- ber of society. It may and should be cultivated by all, as it is daily proven an essential requisite in the proper conduct- ing of life’s affairs. If you are impatient, cultivate patience, and note how much more contented and happy you will be. M. J. ADAMs. Se A Commercial Polonius. A commercial traveler, many years ago, when he was first on the road, got this advice from the head of the firm, “John, my son, you are going to sell goods: let me give you a point or two. Don’t overeat, to keep even with the hotels; post your letters yourself, don’t leave them with the hotel clerk. You will find a surprising number of the men you want to see are away on a jury, or at home sick, gone to the city to buy goods, gone a fishing, or to a funeral, or a picnic, but peg away and don’t get dis- couraged. When you catch your men, they will tell you times are hard and the season backward, that you have come too early, or too late, that they have just bought, that your styles are old and un popular, that Jones offered the same goods last week for less money, ete. But don’t get rattled, don’t write home as if you had made a discovery: it is an old story. You go out to sell goods; peg away. Do the best you can, and you won't fail, that’s all; good luck to you.’’ —_—~ +2 Made Him a Maniac. “Where are you going, my maid ?’’ he inquired. ‘Should the weather indications con- tinue of an auspicious character, my in- tended destination is yonder inclosure., where my unswervable determination is to extract such an amount of lacteal fluid from the distended udder of the gently articulating kine as may be deemed neces- sary and advisable,’’ calmly replied the rustic girl, who had worked for two weeks in a Boston family. And she passed upon her way, leaving a gibbering idiot groveling upon the * ground where lately had stood a dandy drummer. pretty an employe of a mercantile agency, by whom such statements are reduced to writing asa part of the same transaction, but not signed, and the merchant subse- quently approves his former statements and states that there has been no material change in his finanees, the written state- ments are admissable in evidence against him. CONFLICT OF LAWS—PENAL STATUTE. The case of O’Reilly vs. New York & New England Railroad Company, decided by the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, arose upon a suit brought%y an adminis- trator in that State to recover for fatal injuries to his intestate, caused by the negligence of the company in Massachu- setts. The court held that the Massa- chusetts statute giving aright of action against railroad companies by whose carelessness death is caused is penal and not enforceable in Rhode Island. ASSIGNMENT—CREDITORS—PARTNERSHIP. An assignment for creditors, the valid- ity of which was involved in the case of Blair et al. vs. Black et al., recently decided by the Supreme Court of South Carolina, provided that the property and assets of the individual members of the defendants’ firm should be first applied to the payment of the individual debts of the members of the firm, that the prop- erty and assets of the firm should be first applied to the debts of the partnership, and that if a surplus should remain after paying the debts of the one class, then such surplus should be paid to debts of the other class, and so reciprocally of the other class. The assignment also provided that if there should not be suffi- cient funds to pay the debts, the assignee should pay them ratably or such as should, within thirty days from the date of the assignment, agree to accept the terms of it, and to release the parties from all liability on their debts and claims, ete. Creditors of the firm insti- tuted suit to set aside the assignment, on the ground, principally, that it violated section 2,014 of the General Statutes of the State, which declares ‘‘absolutely void’? assignments giving preferences. They contended thatthe assignment gave undue and illegal preference to individual over co-partnership creditors. The Cir- cuit Court dismissed the suit, but the Supreme Court has reversed this judg- ment on appeal. The court cited witb approval aruling made in the case of Hutzler vs. Philips to the effect that the proper practice under circumstances like those in the case on trial is to throw the co-partnership creditors on the partner- ship assets in the firstinstance; but after the partnership assets have been fully and fairly exhausted, to allow them to come in pro rata with the separate cred- itors. eS He Wanted to Know About Angels. ‘‘Auntie, did the angels carry Mrs. Jones up to heaven 2”’ ‘“*‘Why, Charlie, I think so. was a good woman.’’ “She was an awfully fat woman. angels must be strong.’’ Passengers in the train from Kalama- zoo turned to look at the six-year-old boy who was bent on getting information. He was a manly little fellow, with a bright, pretty face that showed intelli- gence beyond his years. His young aunt seemed to be anxious to stop the flow of questions, but he was bound to know something more about angels then and there. *‘How do you know there are angels, Auntie ?”’ ‘Because we read about them. Wait until you can read and then you will know more about them.”’ “But why—why don’t we see the angels? Did you ever see an angel ?”’ ‘“‘Hush! Don’t talk so loud, Charlie. Of course we don’t see them, but we see their pictures. Don’t you remember the angels in that pretty book that Uncle John sent you ?”’ ‘“Yes, but—but where do the angels get their pictures taken, Auntie? Is there a gallery where they take pictures of angels—only just of angels 2”’ ‘‘Perhaps so, I don’t knew.”’ ‘‘Then why don’t the angels put on more clothes when they have their pict- ures taken ?’’ “Oh, Charlie! Please be quiet. will make Auntie’s head ache.”’ Charlie meditated in silence for a few minutes, and remarked: ‘I don’t know why Mr. Brown said you were his angel.”’ ‘Plainwell!’? shouted the brakeman, and as the train came to a standstill the small boy got a shaking and a whispered warning that stopped all further talk about angels. ee A Simple Sign. It was in a grocer’s window That she saw a simple sign, And she stopped and slowly read it, While her blue eyes seemed to shine. Mrs. Jones The You Then with scornful lips she murmured, As she tossed her pretty hat: ‘“How I wish that men were labled With a good plain sign, like that!” So when she had passed, I ventured Near that favored grocer’s shop, And espied this simple legend: “This Corn Warranted to Pop.” GOUGH Ph DROPS WANTED. FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. made when desired. EARL BROS., 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. 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Ee 1 Doz.37 Assorted Tin Animals........ 42— 42 5— 60 —_. , i Protting Horses. ........ 2... 42— 42 5— 60 fc “ ae %— 5 10—1.20 CJ 1 “ 38 $14.00 $24.00 SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, AS FOLLOWS: No. 98--Woodenware, Tinware, Etc. No. 99--Glassware and Crockery. No. 100--Holiday Goods. No. 101--Lamps and Lamp Goods. No. 102--Silver Plated Ware. H. Leonard & Sons. BBeSTBR é& PO x, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILI MACHINERY. = i] ATLAS fit INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A. MANUFACTURERS OF ae C2:-y Engines and Boilers in Stock fm = = for immediate delivery. aa LON NS Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, Belting and Oils. And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH ane Wie alsa aN = 72Z- Write for Prices. Lemon & Peters, WHOLESALE GROCERS. 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Togey AS Tea of vee 0s alee are Boxjy,. WYSODS METAL FuRNITURE ReMaca IY aay eh We nav’ cooked the corn in this cau sufiicient: Warmed not couked) adding piece o: 00" Butter (size ot hen’s egg) and gil. of fresh milk (preferable to wuier., Season to suit when on the tabie. None genuine uniess bearing the signature « Oo ss “EN AT THIS EN? DIRECTIONS shouwid be Phvuroughly Davenport Cannirg Qo, Davenport, Ia. Lehigh ValleyCoal Co.'s Office, 54 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich. COAL THE ABOVE COMPANY’S COAL IN CAR LOTS ALWAYS ON TRACK READY FOR SHIPMENT. MICHIGAN CIGAR CO, Big Rapids, Mich. MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED “At. ©. €.."" Yun Yum” The Most Popular Cigar. The Best Selling Cigar on the Market. SEND FOR TRIAL ORDER. GROCERIES. Hides, Pelts, Wool and Furs. The market has not materially changed in wool. The sales are small and less than for previous weeks. Dealers are strong in their position, as to sell on present prices isa loss to them, to say nothing about the concession in price which manufacturers ask. The markets abroad are much higher than here, and dealers know there, is no other source of supply. Manufacturers are in need of supplies, and, with other markets higher in price than this, dealers have strong reasons to look for an advance, at least up to cost. To obtain a margin on their purchases, they do not hope for as they all acknowledge too wild buying last season. In hides and leather, prices seemed to have touched bottom with a good trade at the low prices. The lessons learned in the past four years of shrinkages has not been forgotten, and they cannot be tempted to buy beyond actual wants, and then only at low prices ruling. Tallow and grease are dull, with fair demand. Fur dealers are at a loss to know what to do, or what prices to pay. The mild winter of 1888-89 forced the carrying ever of large stocks, which, so far, do not sell. This, coupled with a decline in many articles at London sales, in Oc- tober last, makes the manufacturers hes- itate in making prices. On the other hand, quite a speculative feeling existed among the dealers at the first of the season, and efforts then made seem to have had a bad effect. The market has not opened, and will be late. We can only advise careful buying at consery- ative prices until it does open. ——_——_—__—=?> +e The Condition of Trade. ¥rom the New York Shipping List. The general trade movement continues quite up to the highest average at this period in the most prosperous of seasons. True, the distribution of some descrip- tions of manufactures begins to slacken a little as the Autumn draws toward the close, but this is fully compensated for by the buisk movement of the heavier and low priced commodities by the inland water routes before the close of navigation in order to avail of cheap transportation. The conditions and tendencies of trade have rarely been more favorable. The season has been a remarkably fruitful one as regards the leading products of the soil, and speculation has been so sedately tempered as not to seriously interfere with the early beginning of the market- ing of the surplusses, which has been earried on so actively as to tax to their ut- most capacity all the avenues of trans- portation. This, with the correspond- ingly large distribution of general mer- ehandise throughout the interior, will account for the improved condition of the principal railroad companies, and also for the low state of the bank reserves and the stringency of the money market. As a matter of fact the drain of money to the interior for the facilitation of the movement of the crops has been excep- tionally large during the Fall, and the proportion of funds as yet returned has been notably small. But this drain having een accentuated by heavy movements of produce, has not been productive of any serious embarrassment such as has some- times resulted from heavy diversions of capital into new and unproductive enter- prises. But the period is near at hand when the money withdrawn from the Eastern centers for crop purposes will begin to return in large volumes, while the activity of the course of foreign ex- change seems to foreshadow an early movement of gold to this country from Europe. Briefly, then, the indications all point to prospective ease in the money market, and there is nothing visible in the financial skies that is calculated to interfere with the prosperous condition of commerce and industry. —_——»> +> They Wind Up in a Grocery. The sorrows and sufferings of codfish are not likely to evoke a very thrilling amount of humanitarian sentiment, says the London News. Nevertheless, as set forth by the writer in the Lancet, they are not without a certain interest, es- pecially from the gourmand’s point of view. It seems that our fishermen habitu- ally starve and tortue their briny cap- tives in a way that results not only in various diseases, but ina serious diminu- tion of bulk and general condition, to the extent of about 10 per cent., while the flavor and firmness of the fiesh are ruined. Even in ordinary health and freedom the cod is a good deal troubled with para- sites within and without, as many as fif- teen different species having been ob- served on a single fish. In the catching, it is very commonly injured by being trawled over rough ground and by the squeezing and knocking about to which it is subjectedin the nets. When actually secured, the cod are compared to over- driven cattle, and are pronounced to be in a condition especially liable to decompo- sition. After they are caught they are immured in the wells of smacks, and on arriving in port some forty of them are tightly crammed into a fish chest, which is kept under water, often until they all die from confinement and starvation. When in the smack wellsit is said they are sometimes especially secured by the tails to prevent their devouring each other. Physiologists have not yet provi- ded us the means of forming a very con- fident opinion as to the capacity of fishes for suffering, but it seems pretty clear that there is a good deal of cruelty in all this. The only consideration, however, which is worth while to urge—because it is the only one likely to have the smallest weight—is the material loss involved in this treatment. ‘The writer contends that itis alossto the public. Alas! the rela- tion between the actual value of a codfish and the sum which the consumer ordin- arily has to pay for it, is so extremely remote that a mere 10 per cent. is quite immaterial. It is a fish salesman’s ques- tion, and we fear there is little use in pleading for the more humane treatment of the unlucky cod. Good Advice to the Grocer’s Boy. From the New England Grocer. A good boy in a grocery store is a good piece of property and should not be over- looked because he is only a boy. He may be a proprietor of a store some day. But there are very few grocers’ boys that don’t have some faults, for boys will be boys. I have been there myself. If you are told to be on hand at 7 o’clock a. m., be there. Don’t say to yourself, ‘I don’t care if I don’t get there until 7:30;’? your employer may have an order promised at that time and he expects you to be on hand to deliver it, and if you are not there to attend to it, makes his word to his customer unreliable and makes you unreliable to him, and he may lose a good customer on your account and you may lose your position. Itis a bad thing for a boy to be changing positions too often. Be on hand early, get the sweeping and dusting done, shine up the scales, etc., and you will rise in youremployer’s esti- mation every day. If you are helping to put up orders, don’t put molasses in the kerosene jug or kerosene in the vinegar jug. Examine your jugs separately, and when you are measuring molasses don’t try to attend to anything else, for nine times out of ten you will let the molasses run over.. If you are called to do any- thing else while measuring molasses, stop your faucet at once. Don’t say ‘I can get back before the measure gets full;’? you are sure to forget it and you will have a nasty mess to clean up, and *twill lessen you in the estimation of your employer for being reliable. When you are sent out with an order, deliver it promptly; don’t sit down in some door- way to chat with some other boy, or to smoke cigarettes, or to read the last chap- ter in a dime novel; your customer is waiting for the goods, and prompt deliv- ery is one of the best advertisements any grocer can have. Don’t stand around the store with your hands in your pockets when trade is quiet. Go down cellar and straighten the barrels and boxes and keep the baskets in their place. Break up the old boxes that are not of any use and pack them in barrels, they will sell for kindling wood. Don’t volunteer any in- formation when your employer is talking to a customer; if he wants any informa- tion from you, he will ask forit. Don’t be too fresh with the customers when they come in to purchase. If Mr. Jones comes in, don’t say ‘‘Hello, Jonesy, how is your feet??? Such remarks are not appreciated by customers and havea ten- dency to drive trade away. If you are sent on an errand with a basket of goods and you should by accident spill them on the street, don’t try to repair the damage done and deliver them to the customer without returning to the store. Your customers expect to have them delivered in good order, and if they are not, they will know the reason why. So return to the store and explain matters and have the damage repaired there and it will benefit all concerned. If you have to stay a few minutes after closing hour, don’t kick or grumble, and when the closing hour comes, don’t rush out of the store on the minute for fear somebody will come in and want you to carry a yeast cake home for them; be sure you are not wanted any more for that day, then it will not be your fault if any one gets disappointed. When you go to your meals, promptly at the hour set. Don’t keep a lot of boys hanging around the store; don’t chew or smoke; itis very disgust- ing to see a boy, or anybody, chew tobacco around a grocery store. Scour out your milk measure every day, and don’t let molasses accumulate on the floor; keep the measures in their places, and keep the sidewalk clean; keep yourself clean and tidy and be sure your hands are clean before you attempt to wait on a custo- mer. Be sure your oil cans are stopped before you deliver them, as a little kero- sene creates lots of damage sometimes. Be sure your jugs are clean before you put anything into them. Don’t be pick- ing into everything; if you should want a lunch, don’t sneak around for it asif you were stealing it; go and get it right before your employer, he will think more of you. Don’t do anything behind his back that you would not do before him. Be respectful to him and to all the clerks in the store; by doing so, you will gain their respect, and it will have a tendency to make your labor easy. Don’t try to shirk your work, if you do, they will make it ten times harder for you. The grocer’s boy to-day does not have to do one-tenth of the work that the writer had to do twenty-three years ago, when he first went into the grocery business. ——_— +4 <____—_—_ Brains in Business. From the Christian Union. One great secret of success in bus- iness—the secret, in fact, of ‘success on a large scale—is to conceive of it as a mat- ter of principles, not merely as a series of transactions. There are great mer- chants as there are great statesmen, and there are small merchants as there are small politicians, and the difference be- tween the great and the small men is very much the same in both professions. The small politician works by the day, and sees only the one small opportunity before him, the small merchant does the same thing—he is looking for the next dollar. The statesman, on the other hand, is master of the situation, because he understands the general principles which control events; this knowledge enables him to deal with large questions and to shape the future. The great mer- chant does the same thing, his business is not a mere money-getting affair, not a matter of barter, but a science and an art; he studies the general law of trade, watches the general conditions of the country, investigates present needs, fore- sees future wants, and adapts his bus- iness to the broad conditions of his time and place. He puts as much brains into his work as does the statesman, and he ends by being, not a money-getter, but a large-minded and capable man. An em- inently successful business man, of the statesmanlike quality, said the other day that the more he understood of life, the more clearly he saw that it was all done on business principles. By which he meant not only that the universe stands for the dollar, but that the universe is governed by unvarying laws, that promptness, exactness, thoroughness and honesty are wrought into its very fiber. On these business principles, all life is conducted—if not by men, at least by that Power which is behind men. It ought to be the ambition of every young . return man to treat his business from the point of view of the statesman, and not from that of the politician. —_———__—_> The Grocery Market. The market is remarkably steady, ex- cept in the case of sugar, which is ex- cited and a little higher, with a prospect of still higher prices before the end of the week. There is nothing in the sit- uation to sustain higher prices for any length of time, however. —_—__—~- -e- It pays to handle the P. & B. cough drops. Practical Arithmetic. ‘‘Please, mum, how much are those buns ?”’ “Well, my little man, Pll give you six for five cents.”’ “Six for five? That’s five for four, four for three, three for two, two for one, and one for—nothing, Please, mum, one’s all I want.’’ —_——_- A Strong Suggestion. Grocer—I’ ve a lot of Limburger cheese that I’m going to sell at cost. I want to stick up some taking notice of the sale. Can’t you give me something? Ready-wit—How would ‘‘unapproach- able bargain’’ suit you? THE WALSH--DE ROO MILLING GO. HOLLAND, MICH. Daily Capacity, , 400 Bbls. BRANDS: SUNLIGHT, ISY. SPECIALTIES: iraham, Wheatena, Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, olted Meal, Rye Meal, Wheat Grits, Buckwheat Grits, Pear! Barley, Oat Meal, Rolled Oats. For Sale by Leading Wholesale Grocers. Selected Herbs w Spices Prepared by THOMSON. & TAYLOR SPICE COMPANY, Cnicago. Is a Combination of The Finest Ingredients for use in Seasoning “Meats, Poultry, Game and Fish. SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. ORDER Novelties in PertUmery, Comprising many New Shapes in Bottles, Brass Stands, China Stands, Glass Stands, Wicker Stands, from Jennings & Smith, Grand Rapids, Mich. ALL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. PEREINS & HESS 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. Buy a Case of Sold Under Our Personal Guarantee. IM. CLARK & SON. Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. b. SAL SODA, Apples, sun-dried..... GGG) OA | Mega. eee aed oe ose 1% ee @ 8% ; Granulated, boxes.......... 2 Apricots, i 115 @16 SAPOLIO. TEORECEVION oa coo oens's 7 Kitchen, 3 doz. in box ac aee 2 35 Necwarmes own ecw ase: 14 nme, £0 ey 2 35 Peaches . cee owmees 14 SAUERKRAUT. ieee a a | Silyer Thread, —-. ..2 % DRIED FRUITS—Citron. ee 4% In drum....... .-.-++- | Corn, barrels.......+.+++- QA Te BOMCR ‘6 one-half barrels.. @z6 DRIED = | Pure Sugar bbl /28@36 Zante, in barrels...... . jbl oa SS - in less quantity @ é SWEE oe ‘a 8 — ssiiaing xxx rke ‘3 4 Bosna. eee ee coae Ge sto af. + acreage a 3 % California. ......-:..-: 2B10 | Frese mea ey 3% DRIED acces taelomeee Graham Crackers... .* — annie eae 7%4@ 8 | Oatmeal Crackers..... 9 lees Layers, Cali- ' Box ae 5% ae @2z 50 BOTEB =~ - sone eeenernrnscoeeee London Layers, for'n. @ Kegs, English..... ea ee os 4% Muscatels, California. @2 00 TEAS DRIED FRUITS—Peel. e MewiOH ... 0.05... e : sj JaPan—Regular. Orange: oo ooo. Liss 14 | Good ee ee ani ae 14 @16 FARINACEOUS Goops, _—i| Good.................. 18 @2 Farina, 100 Ib. kegs......... 04 Choice.. cesses +24 @2O Hominy, per bbl............ ie Clabes... ---.'.... 30 @34 Macaroni, dom 121]b box.... 60 SUN CURED. imported..... @ 9% Fair. cstvecceneces ae. Geen Pear] Barley.......... @ 2% GOO .......-0e eee eee ee 16 @20 Peas, ROOT ow. @1 10 Cieice. 6.282 2% @2 ae as | CHGIOCRE. o,f iss 30 @33 Sago, Rauan Pee. @ 6% BASKET FIRED. Tapioca, fi’k or Pp err: @ 6% Fair wesc cecroccccesece vo @2 Wheat, cracked....... @ 6% Cheiee.. 62... @ Vermicelli, import. . @10 | Chosecss. .... @35 domestic... @60 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, GUNPOWDER. Jennings’ D.C. Lemon Vanills Common to fair....... 25 @35 2 oz. Panel, doz. 8&5 1 25 Extra fine to finest....50 @65 402. 1 40 2 95, Choicest fancy........ 7 @s8s 6 Oz. se “ 295 3 25! IMPERIAL, Nos “ “ 400 1 69 Common to fair....... 20 @35 No. 8, “ ‘“ 295 409 Superior tofine........ 40 @50 No.10, “ « 4 Bo 6 00! YOUNG HYSON. No. 4, Taper, “* 1 60 2 59; Common to fair....... 18 @2%6 4 pt, "Round, “ 425 7% 59, Superior to fine....... 30 @A40 “ 850 00 OOLONG. FISH—SALT. 7 | Common to fair... ...25 @30 Cod, whole. 0000000... 4%@ . | Superior to fine -30 @50 © Noucless 7, | Fine to choicest....... 55 @65 ee oxo" ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Herring, none, \% bbl.. eo Be 25 @30 roped 6. |. 2 eo. CUOMO es ca. = @35 - oie bors, 260 Best oo. @65 i Scuiek eS new @ 22 | Tee Wests... 3 @10 Mack. sh’s, No. 2, % bbl 12 00 | eenenate Fe “ 2 Yb kit..1 30 | S. W. Venable & Coe.’s Brands, . iz * "ok 2} Nimved, 4x eee Trout, 2 age: See 4 00@4 50 a aa Rie... GO ; Vinco, 136, 444 to B...:....... 30 White, No. 1, i Weis... 8: 5 25: Big 5 Center, 3x12, 12 0z...:.. 34 2 ib, kits... . 100) Wieck Sto @.... ....... 15, 37 Hy me 10 1b, ae..... 88} Trinket, Su9, 9 Oc............: 25 a amily, “a ns 2 a Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands. GUN cance. | | Something Goed. 2... 37 ee 5 on Hobie Pedro:... 2.1.20... 37 HA bese Soa} Heaen Pie... 37 LAMP WICKS. a Wedding Cake, bik........... 37 oe oo Bf ee 40 | Tropaccos—Fine Cut. ING 8 50 D.S & Co.’ : ae aera cotten & Co.’s Brands. Pee 99 | Hiawatha ............. 62 ins os | Swees Cuna.....--.... 37 a 18| TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS. oo Strap a | : : per hundred pace teas 2 50 Cuba Baking? 2 mages bon III 2 Porto Rico.. one. Uc ee New Orleans, "good... ee 25@30| Subject to the following dis- Shore ne: 33@38 | counts: C aney..... ao or Over. .... 2... One-half barrels, 3c extra. 500 a 10 _— OATMEAL. ma 20 _ Muscatine, Bereers ......... 5% ane Half barrels..... 3 12 Liat “ Cases. ||. 2 15@2 25 2 - Bee ees ct eseceesscee as z ROLLED OATS | 50 ecec cc ccer er ecereeeeseres 9 Muscatine, Barrels. @5 75 i “for barrel. a Half bbis.. @3 12 YEAST. op tees 2 15@2 25 | rermentum, Compressed. . Michican Verst.............. MISCELLANEOUS. Water White. 00000 00) Cocoa Shells, bulk......... 7% PICKLES. a: 30-1b. pails Lede cc weeds 5 Medium. i a ee 5 00@5 25 | Sag eck hhh ce le 15 Small, or ae | PAPER & WOODENWARE fe 36 Bak | PAPER. Clay, No. 216 a, 2. fulicount........ 75 Cob, No. ee 49 RICE. Carolina _—< See aca esi oe a 6% ING fo No. Me eee ccc 54@ hey Nes .._........ 00 gO 54@6% Common Fine ord bel... q = Solar Rock, 56 Ib. sacks... = PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Dealers hold winter fruit at $2@#2.25 per bbl., fancy Kings commanding 82.50. Beans—Dealers pa y $1.25 for S apmckod and $1.50 for picked, = ding at 81.75@#2 per bu. Beets—40c per pay promptly and buy in full packages. Butter—Dairy ie ; held steady at 18@20c. Cream- bs is firm at —— Flour—%5 per bbl. for New York BAKING POWDER. Te tieges—seaet at Cheese—Jobbers hold September and October ao make at a iy -.. 14 Cider—9@10c pe = ES 20 »_cooperage—Pork arrels, 81. 25; produce barrels .. 260 .. 3 80 aa Cod readily command %9 - 4% er > oe oe Apples—New evaporatedare held at 8c ~--48 2 and new sundried at 5c. ce Eggs—Jobbers py 19¢ for fresh and, hold at ..22 2D 2ic. Pickled and cold storage stock commands about 19¢. Field Seeds—Clover, mee. a per bu.; medium, $3.50. Timothy, $1.50 Arctic, % Ib. cans,6 doz... 45 Grapes—New York Concords pon the only Ib. ee variety now in market, commanding 40c per . ti 2 et eS basket. is io 2S Se ee Honey—In small demand. Clean comb com- 6s 5m: “UD SY Be mands 15¢ oad . Absolute, 4 tb. cans, 1008. -11 % Onions—Dealers pay 35@40c for clean stock, ..10 00 holding at 50@55c. tb. - coe. 18 75 Pop Corn—4c per Ib. Telfer’s, % Ib. cans, doz.. 45 Potatoes—The market is a good deal of a ' win: |S . s conundrum and is likely to be weak until after = tik < < [1 a spell of severe weather. Acme, 4 lb. cans,3doz.... 75 Squash—Hubbard, 2c per Ib. — oS Ls 2 oe Sweet Potatoes—Fancy Jersey —_ commands Ny 1 —% “ i 4. 5 6e $4 per bbl. —ageg $3.50 per b - WG a, 20 urnips—30c per bu. Red Star, M = cans, 45 % lb 85 PROVISIONS. iy i * 1 50 The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. AXLE GREASE. 5 Bara Een gy ie pc ag $2 60 quotes as follows: Aurora 1% PORK IN BARRELS. Danone: 2. 5... 1 60 MCS, WOW 10 50 BATH BRICK. Short cut Morgan, ........... . 10 §0| English, 2 doz. in case..... 80 Extra clear pig, short cut.............- ... 1200] Bristol, 2.“ ... % Rvtra clearsheavy. 2000) 00.00 00 bee. 12 00| American. 2doz. incase... 7 Clear fat heck ee 12 00 ! BLUING. Gross Boston clear, short Cut..........-2..20e0e00 12 00} Aretie Liq, 4-0z............ 40 Clear back, short cut................-0-206++ we * . vee etese es 7 00 Standard clear, short cut, best.............. OO ey - veeteres ‘or 10 ov SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. “ rept aaa “ ; . Hams, average 20 IDS..........--csecseeee--eeell - 4 400 = - 16 1D8....- 8 00 o isto flee... ee OH se lc. oe 70 “ Ost HOMCICES.8 st oo 90 SROUIGCES... 8 se 00 Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............-..--- 9 25 Dried beef, ham prices...............+e-seeee- 9 60 ong Clears, BeAvy....-.....°..... <8 90 Briskets, medium... -...--.-... se 6% 00 = Bebo. es 25 Larp—Kettle Rendered. a pete 2% Ek Se oe eS eee a neta minns (7 we ae 1% ooo 28s LaRD—Refined. Dairy, solid packed.... ... 12% FT eee ee 6 TOUS... ---.- ees sees 13 30 and 50 1b. Tubs ...... 6% Creamery, solid packed.... 13% 3 = Lory = in a case... 6% eae - -++ 14 5 ‘ails, 12 in @ Case........ 656 10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case............ 1) Gig | Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes.......... 10% 1b! Pails 4inacase ce 63, | Star, 40 eeeee esses 3% Meee Gig | Paraffine .. ................ 2 Wieking (ok 25 ee CANNED Goops—Fish P Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs.............-. 7 GO| Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck.....1 20 Extra Mess, Chicago packing..............-- 7 00] Clam Chowder, 3 Ib......... 2 10 Bonciess, ramp butts....... 2-2... -... sss. § 75 Cove Oysters, 1 Ib. stand. a SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. 21 14 (oO Pork SABE ee 6% | Lobsters, 1 Ib. picnic aE 150 Ham Seqsec.. «ee eee 12 i a. oo 2 65 CCG SA ee 9 me in. oad Sars ate 00 Hranktert Sausage 00.000 Mack i b. sae Sere ea 3% load Neuesee ee ao) ee - — Sauce. Bologna atrateht 5% Z 1 = stand.....-.- 1% Boloena, thick... ... 2 See wee 5% a is re eos = lene CHEERS ee ee a 5% a aii moaned, 3 00 PIGS’ FEET. Salmon, : lb. Columbia... ..1 90 dat hale parrelg Ss Ib. Alaska........ 1 80 in quarter barrels (0000) 2 Site 2 00 Sardines, domestic < nave @ : oe Boss : C Mustard s...... @ 9 In Ralf barrels... 6... ss 3 00 se imported %4s...10%@16 in quarter barreia... 0.2... 6.3. 2 00 “ apieed, 1680)... | 10 Oe fo 751 Trout. 3 Ib. brook........- a CANNED eoops—Fruits. | FRESH MEATS. Spee. gallons, oe ue : : ackberries, stand......... 90 Swift and Company quote as follows: Cherries, red standard...... 1 20 Beef, oe ee 4@6 ‘ pitted oe. 1 40 hind quarters Bee ees claeae 5S @ S54 Danieons.......:............ 1 16 Fe OER | ec eee mentite eccn mace. 3%@ 4 | Egg Plums, stand........... 115 . Meta ce . @i% Gooseberries ee 1 00 co wis. 8. @ OS i Graves... ...... .. .. 1... - woumpues.. 8... se @10 Go Gases. oe 1 Hos Ce @5_ | Peaches, all —— — 10 Perk (G6e es ee. @ 8 « seconds. ot & i anGHIGCTS. 8 @5s < Pie: 115 Bolognese. GS [Pear 13 Sausage, blood or head.. -' @S | Pineapples.......-...- 1 20@1 50 myer os ee. oe @5 RUOCN eco, cc 100 ‘+ Srenkfort 9)... |. @8 aspberries, extra.......... 1% Matern os -. 6 @ 6% ROG. 1 40 a ee a ee 1 25 OYSTERS and FISH. — Lae. 75 i CANNED VEGETABLES, F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... FRESH FISH. Beans, a — Soe eels 85 Whitefish .......0... 2000000 seeseeseeees 7 ‘* Green Limas Ot OTs sees 8... ee [can — 2 % Ne @ 7% Stringless, Erie....... 90 Ce 2 40 ee ee @w “ Lewis’ Boston Baked 1 40 | A’shton bu. bags 75 Corn, Archer’s Trophy...... 1 001 Hi “ ee ” oYsTERS—Cans. = ee 75 Morn’g Glory.1 00 | Warsaw “ “ 37 Mairhaven Counts..-....--.....-....... @35 ° | Marly Golden. 1 000) 6 (iacme ll 20 DO 25 @28 | Peas, French.....:.........- 1 68 Fg eT | eo ee ee. @20 “* 'extra marrofat. . @1 2% | DeLand’s, pure i 5 INBCHOFS. |... @18 no 80 | Church’s, Cap Sheaf 5 Gfandards........0 2c ii @16 “sane. sand... 8:52. 1 40 ee oysTERs—Bulk. UM sifted.........-.-. POS Viactone | 5 iadiaidis 81 15 ‘“* French, extra fine... .1 50 SEEDS ore ee @ = Mushrooms, extra ane 215] Mixed bird.... iw 4% De ee ee ol ctieia cle @i Pumpkin, 3 1b. Golden...... 1 00 Caraway a. eo _—_—_ Succotesh, standard........ 90} Canary . ie CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. Squash .... eee a Se 4 The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: Good Enough. ...95 a i a STICK. i Ben Har...... ... 95 Sed a 7 Standard, == DOKES..... 6. .2ee eee eee eee es 9 i stand br.... @% SHOE POLISH. Cie ee we aie lg CHEESE, dettine, 1 doz. in boex...... 10 Cut Loaf, = eos eae eet cases 10% | Michigan Full Cream 114%@12% SNUFF. MIXED Sap Sage..-.-..:...... 16 @16% aoe. bladders......... = : CHOCOLATE-—BAKER'S. Maccaboy, in jarst.......... FE OO OOD cL D | German Sweet. oe... eh Extra, 25 Ib. —_ ecescedccscieccccccceeses tees 10% 35 Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands. 200 th. bile. ...:-- 502. es 10 2 Sperone 3 20 reson Cream, 25 ib. pete se: 11% 37 | Queen Anne.............. 3 6 Fancy—In 5 Ib. boxes, acces —- Manne. 00: 2 40 ——— Cee ee ae ne aie 12 Rubber, 100 fe. 2% ao - Peppermint Drape. na ee ee Ghocalate prone ne 30 | Frost, Floater........... --. 37 WM Chocolate rope. 0.0 18 ourcon*- Cocoa Castile .............. 3 00 Gan Se 10 ee se: 6 Cocoa Castile, Fancy........ 3 36 Eigories DrOpa cin. ek. Glo ke eas on) dee 1g | Hed.........-------se0---- eee 74} _ Allen B, Wrisley’s Brands. NOB: Edeorice Drone. 600) as 14 corFEE—Green. ae imag oe 2 95 Lozenges, Ue 14 Rio fate go... 17 @19 Gauntry, O)....-........- 3 30 DEB eee 15 OGM ls 184%4@20 Una. i esi.) |... oO Dee ae 14 it @ eee, 3 15 Ree 15 “ fancy, washed...19 @22 sPices—Whole. CWCRIN OR oe ioe 13 1 SOIGENL 6s 20 @23 APeRICG 36.620... 9 MRanses BOE cc 13 Santos. .....-.......... @22 ay Chine in mate....... 8 CePAMOCIA 6c ice boc gc ee 16@18 Teexions & Guatemala 19 @23 55 Batavia in bund....11 Hand Made @reame. 600 035000 #8 | Peaberry 222001). 5.0 = ‘¢ Saigon in rolls...... 40 Pilati Creams. 16 | Java, interior... ..--: Cloves, Amboyna...... ....26 Decorated Creams... .-......-... Soca cue 20 “« Mandheling.. 3s Gos Zanzibar............ 20 Siri FROG ee 15 Mocha, genuine....... @27 Mines Batavia. -o... 22... 80 Burt AWeonege. oo io 22 To ascertain cost of fe Nutmegs, FANEW ooo se 80 Wintergreen Berries...:-.-- 2... 14 | coffee, add \%c. per lb. for roast- NG) doo. le. = Fancy—lIn bulk. ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- <2. age. Pepper, Singapore, oo: “= Lozenges, plain, = ap neg De ees ete aoa a = COFFEES—Package. white... .26 eM pit bis... ...-- 22 ---- eee eves 00 lbs - SROL ........-...-- 2 a8 printed, = ay ay clea mein nas ieee weno es Pe ion 23% sctliag eceeel In Bulk. IIs. .... 2.2.2.2. e eee ey ct cabinets 00001) 0 ea | Allapice .........-.-....----- 15 Chocolate Drops, in "pails sete cece neces ees eeeees McLaughlin’s XXXX....23%4 | Cassia, Batavia............. 20 Gum Drops, = n pails Boise suse ccog es Wiha 23 and Saigon.25 ee eee ee eee tea. 5% Thompson’ s —* Bee....25% 66 Saipom 20. ....5... Moss Drops, in ele eee cece ee ec ecco cece cece 10 Tigers lls 23i4 | Cloves, Amboyna...........32 PIS og ee. 94! Good Morning ........-.._-- 23% Momesear......,.... 25 Sour Drops, in pails...............220e esse eee = COFFEE EXTRACT. Ginger, —_ 12% Imperials, = Oe ee Valley City ....-. q Oeran. 2c 15 A eee 10% Welix 1 10 - aa. oo. FRUITS. -. a Must Ba eel oo cee eee = Grenzes Be Cotton, be. ..- per dos. 1 2p ae te gate : PemGns: Chee... 3 ra 00 a 50 ft....... és 1 50 “ T t and Trie. = “ SMROW cl A 50 a on cos s “ : = Nutmegs —. es = oe gis 80 ft. < Sm | Pepper, Senapare, bleek. £1 Dates, frafia, 80 Ib..0..00002.Tco @ 4%| Jute G60ft....... at ee white. .... 30 ate ess @ 5% were en a a sa ayenne...... ere = = ard, 10-Ib, DOX......+.++ 0024-005 @ 9 CONDENSED MILK. CEDB & SPICES, oa ce 65 “ Wie sea ee A 7 50 arge.....1 25 “ rae, BOM. box. 01.052. 6 @ 7% | Anglo-Swigss..........---+-- 6 00 STARCH. Banana Mystic, C4 pies... ac 4 48 AMATAS...... cece ee cece cece ee renecnrces CRACKERS, barrels i 6 NUTS. Kenosha Butter...........- 8 cook Almonds, — Be ese ue cae — Meumiour — .25225 6 Git foal fc @ 1% TVACR.... 2... cece ee esos ceeeeee Butter 00.02.02. GC Teekay, @ % -_ a. California Eee coe ae castes ai . ee cee : Powdered... @ 74 Bese eek Gos cay sod eee wee sede caine i scul . ’ ¥% nae 10%@11 | Boston.-... “3 > a” eee Walnuts, Granobie. soe ek @14 ty Soda.. . 8 “ Knight's... @ 7%¢ ad Calmrona. oo sce es es @12% ee se ee co cess --- 6% | Confectionery A...... @6.94 Pocans, Texas, HP... ec. ecw ees 7%4@12 Si Oyster os 6 Sendard oo @ 6% Cocoanuts, per 100: 22. 25 cos... sss @ City “Oyster, X — ou cgose tees 6 | No. 1, White ExtraC.. 64@ 6% PEANUTS. PicniC.. ..----+++5 s++++e+s- © [No Sexe €)..).. 6 @ 6% Gian COCKS. oi. 6 eso oes os cece cece ncieves @8%4 CREAM imei. No. 3C, golden... @ 5% Nao ak ee een ee ies uiewe @7%4 | Strictly pure............... 391 No. 4C, Gdark......-.-. @ 5% MIGTOG So ooo ak acc a, secs e cc eee oe @6% | Grocers’............--...--- SEENG. 5 C.... 222.5. cece @ 5% Curtiss & Co. quote as fol- lows: “cc sc Seraw occ 8 160 * ideht Welent.... ..... 200 Sage 180 PIMrerware: 2% Oe 24 ry GOOes8 i........0 6.0L. oute Mamiiia....._........... 8 Red Express No. ‘ Secee was 5 NO. 2.00500 1.2. 4 TWINES. a5 Cotten... .... 22... ... 22 Cotton, No, 2 7 Sea Island, assorted....... 40 No.5 Hemp = > ke Ne. s5..... nd es. 7% WOODENWARE Tass Noe. 1........ 1... sf. 72 a 6 25 me OS 5 25 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 60 “© =«6Ne. 1, three-hoop.... 1 % Clothespins, 5gr.boxes.... 60 Bowls, 2menh.............. 1 00 Ca 12 = TT cee. 2 00 ie ce ae 275 ‘© assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50 ial ‘ 15s, 17s and 198 2 75 Baskets, market.........+. 40 Dushel ....- «Oe s 1 90 willow ee ths, oa 15% ie No.2 6 25 as “a oe No.3 7 25 . splint *« Nolte . s « Now 4% ac sc sé No.3 5 00 GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT New. Old. MWWRTEO ooo ols, ao. 6 US a. ....... 73 78 i wheat bought on 60 lb. test. FLOUR, Straight, in sacks......... 70 . « Darreis......-. 4 90 Patent ‘ waeke..:.....: 5 70 - + Bemeele. 5 90 MEAL, Co ee 90 Granulated. .............. 1 00 MILLSTUFFS. Ce 11 00 See Gee 11 00 Se@reeninen .... 62.5 .2.. 4 20. 11 00 Meriaeen.. 12 00 Mixed Veed............... 15 00 hg ee 15 00 CORN. Seas) ee 38 Car De eed eaes cece 37% ATS, Sma) fete. 0 25 Cee ee 23 RYE ONG: Poo ca @35 BARLEY. et 10 Mo eo 1 0 HAY. MG fo 11 00 Ne 2... 9 00 HIDES, PELTS and FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. Cree + 4 Part Cured a aie cee ace g a Pi @5 owe Deca os ecacs ee ced 5 @6& ~ Mine... 2. 5 @6 Ca fskins, Sreen........ 3 @4 cured. ..... 44@ 5 Deacon skins.......... 10 @20 44 off for No. 2. PELTS. SHCAPTHOR, 62.5 scenes 10 @25 Estimated wool, per bh 20 @2s MISCELLANEOUS. MMO ooo ooo cvce cc cess 3%@ 4 Grease butter.. a. = ao Senet «- eee tee dd secs 1%@ 2 Ginseng.. - seo-8 OO@Z 75 es “WooL. OO cc aces WOO. oo. . co tck 4 6 Dru cai os 8% Medicines. FIVE DOZEN MORE aahien : GRIS AND AMB Staite Board Result of th ER. a i : ‘ PPR ORT ~ of Pharmacy. e Examination of Pharma-| Their ecomplished; he received a letter t- Se to ee kee cists Last Week Nature, Origin and Commer marked Washington, D. C., of whi ea a E. Parkill, Owosso were cial Use -| following is an exact - —=— “THE OL : pee ne” gears Voto Soa se ag Of the 104 applicants for certificate Ambergri AAS remember the day a ak eget ire ee 7, ogee see Season, Mluskeqons oe cesta : aoe Board of Pharmacy nearly af estaea we — as a basis for as feelings and SS eerie RE-PAINT H A wWepasukos Geo aaa Detroit. m8 ! at Lansing last week ei hte an : rfumery, was found y stealing a quart : ear gj T N ee onald, Kalamazoo. failed ent ee ; Clgitveen unattractive mass i 5 er from him? om Neen At Lansing November 5 and 6. titled to ee passed and are en- face of the sea or det ek cee deed cost you a seat in the Senate.’’ to Your Buggy } > ae : 5 —_—__~< a ee es maceutical Ass'n. follows: Wm. W. Seek Vaca: Gee sa eat pyle ga a ever ja Mis-placed Confid for & ER First Vice President—F. M. Sisdorf, I H. Baert, Ann Arbor; 3 ; George | gested itself as a perfume is unk : : egal ee Ss Sows View ret % eet Eee acts | Jackson; L ; Robert R. Bald- but it has been in use for ¢ os Fond Old Mother—It is so nice t pee eS brown, kum aso Det. | W. J. Bonedi t, P nee W. Beibe, Flint;| it is only in comparativel enturies, and| know that John is doing well at | = 75 cts reg Wactemenk Ss n Arbor. - de ct, Pontiac; Byron D. Black that its origi ively recent times| 4nd that he may m ke hi ast, . D et. Coma a etrott. Bancroft; Geo. E. Blodgett, E ’ ] igin has become known. It is | Sugar y make his fortune in Webb, Jackson; D.E ng ugbee, Cheboygan; E. T. ids: A gett, aton Rap- nothing more than th i ; . * a a Donald ; D.E. Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Mc- ; Amos Bond, Charlotte; : : | the morbid secr Ss izi - Next Sting At Saginaw, Doginning trol itc: | Brown, Detroit; Loren ©. Clark, D - : the liver of asick spermaceti cia. doing’ ee ee ee Im of September, 1896. , g third Tuesday | Geo. Cohen, Detroit: Wm. B ’ a ms 1S described as a fatty, waxy a F 0. af ae e porters and Jobbers of a ran @ Raph pag er er wee aa Whitehall: Chas. E. Dale, ee hers - “ sea disagreeable to sight or touch his that he is LEP eon. a friend of . J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. macott, Day, Kalamaaoo; H. E. ace tok . sine n in its erude state exhaling a g Cain in New Orleans. pirané Eapids Drag Clorke 20nr view; C. L. Drake, M ee asant odor. The crude subst i dent, F. D. Kipp: Secretary, ss: Association. Helens hacia ; — H. J. | Subjected to chemical action papas is c (MADE ONLY SY oR ae OR Detroit Pha ; = azoo; J. Harvey Fenner, the active princi — INSEN ' aeentt J. W. ee oa aa fe Detroit; G. W. | ¥4S oe eee Seg It ‘Wawes 1 G ROOT. 2 ‘ta ae askegon Drug Clerks’ 5 . s : 100: E. L. Forsyth, Port ine oie 1e aine fish- e highest price forit. Addresi ee coe: icisinticn. | Huron; A. % Foster eet aan picked up a mass of the sub PE Wh a ; ary, J. W. Hoyt. Chas. H. F ° ster. Benton Harbor; which nearly fill substance BRO olesale Druggists s. H. Frank, Bay City; M. H. G a age y filled a barrel and is worth sy GRAND RAP : Col c i ; M. H. Good- | $25,000. This is : = lef Wor Mm j FRANK INGLIS. Oa Halls Windsor,” 0 Hall, Manistee; | ation both oe ee gies for the DETROIT, ah ——— hemicals and Druggist : tea s sor, Ont.; A. P. H "| lar, fans sen ice, for the i hei: y — ; - Hart, | largest piece on : hl U iy ae st Ee aes — . ighland Park; Windward -omapgase edie oo POISON RECORD s Sundries, aceutical Associati 7 | y, Dexter; M. Hoy io: | Thi i bee pounds. From the AAD wR OHS ation. Z. B. Jones, Csveaquitin: Moline Gt y sa a —S pa we 2,600. Amber COMBINED, _— Dealers in re oe : isville: Francis W ‘ r ’ nd on the Ack EBM ses ae —- = ‘a] W. King, Ann medina eo = after severe storms. i tao a Best ee M. = De ay Rare pa a cs b his parents.” The subj in the choice of | Detroit; T. C ee ee ids wie ekieeae! bak" ark Used everywhere, 4 Invalide. d ent Me i ae mingalitbies _— _ sketch, | Loree, oe wae D. W. = to use and ean Gite a Pi hn k. A STOWE & BRO. 6h ‘aah toe G8, alll 8 -aution characteristic | H. 1 Se Ged ., Lansing; | Stitious awe by th i 7 | uG@ * somach- Take n ® Sold by} of his race in general : ic| H. D. MeKevitt, Grand Rapi , y the ancient Greeks 1} GRAND RAPID druggists. age gprs pete Sole A : J : and himself in| M t, Grand Rapids: A. O Romans, its — j eks and . sis. In cane, Soe. and upward, gents for the O 8 particular, sele : in leloche Detroit: G. H. ea > z ’ peculiar electrical qualiti OOLRICH & Co. on elebrate i P parentage which Se ee ee = : a L. H. Morehouse, Sere faring = o sce = a It is now “ones i holesale?}Pri C — res r ment. : udg-| T. Murnan, Detroit; Geo. B. Ni = a m of forest trees which ce ; oo ee : Geo. B. Nichols, Jr., | ished ages ich per- urrent His father, the late D : Martin: M. J. Palm : oe : ges and ages ago, the land Advanced—P . : + Bick’ tnctis, | © = s er, Potterville; Wm which they flouri a nds upon ure Cream Tartar. Decli came of a long line of ep cen HT Grand Rapids: Mattie Shaw, Big 1 they flourished having become the A See We are Sole Propri Seotechmen, many conscientious Rapids; Charles E. Smi : naw, Big ocean’s bed. Amber has no fi - cIDUM. Carb.. roprietors of ’ y of them ministers, nor sas . . Smith, Pontiac; T the pri ‘ 1B iced value, | Aceticum ...... ...... 8@, 10| Chlorate, (po. 20)...... 1 : elk @ m tiac; T. price being re F ae, | ee s@ 10| Chlorate, F 2@ 15] Antipyri | — es ici to be rich in alee a seus el C. Sterling, | quality and othe sf _ — ——— = Cyanide’ seen: vo m0 55 Argent Nitras atiee! “o WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATAR 5 evotion to principle Straus Eee : . Fairgrove; E. J.|0f amberi : : . Drops | Carbolicum a eo 2 rsenicum ....: self-denial, and his fatl ple and| Strong, Reed City; J. A. Ti : in which are imbedded i Citri 40@ 45 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 80@2 90| Balm Gilead Bud... = a H REM ae her added lust k JG y: J. A. Tinholt, Mus-| 0f those anci imes insects | eon 50@ Potaces, Bitart, com... 30@ 32) Bi so 8@ 40 Y the family name in streto| kegon; G. A. Treadgold, : : neient times command _ | Hydrochl = assa, Bitart, com ee ‘ , much the same way : : gold, Marysville; A. | Prices whil nd fancy | x “8 3@ 5 | Petass Nitras, ¢ --- (@ 15| Calcium Ch aa for he left a memory same way, | B. Way. Elsie; W. T Whi > A. ’ ile the more common ki Nitrocum .. . 1 2|P oe 8@ 10 ; mors te, C8 : y of self-denial oe hitelaw, Detroit; | used fo i ; inds are | Oxalicu _ 2 7 as a aici ck Ghee U ial and|F. J. Williams Ales : : s r making a certain kind ME co cece 13@ 14 Prusinte 0 7@ 9| Cantharid Cece . i 1 time has not dim-} Mi ; 7 nsing: A. B. Wooton, nish and even i ile ind of var-| Phosphorium dil...... op | Sulphate po........... 25@ 28 aicieeninenas med: His mother came of sieaiies sine rio ag W. H. Wright, Hastings; J. A. supply of th in medicine. The world’s Salicylicum ..........- 1 46@1 80 Se eerste 15@ 18 Caps we tee ete es @1 7% We have in stock for his maternal grandfath stock, | Zahn, Detroit. Piet e two, amber and ambergris 2 ao ...-- Jae 5 RADIX eee and offer a fall line of Sad sa ck Se ak er, leaving Twenty-six passed examinati S not wholly depend on what may be Tartarioun eae 1 40@1 60 | Aconitum ... . " a fs a eat opportunities Eades peace ae. -_ —— found. Dredging for amber UM... eee ee es 40@ 43 AIUHRE. «oo 20 sees cs. boo. 30| Carmine: No” (poP28) 29g Whisiies, Brandies Queen Victoria ma : s loyalty to | tificates, as follows: gee i w systematically carried , ee A = ae 15@ 20 ee de him to shak 4 ws: D. A. Allin, Fre-| warly ; ed on by reg-/ A ee Bees Cera Alba, 8. & F - : dust of “the States” ) shake the} mont; W. L. Ba rj eee ae y organized companies qua, 16 deg....--.--- Sa 5 eee. @ 25| Cera Flava...........: Ne ! ong A - States” from his feet and | Cochrane oe Mason; A. M.|Spermaceti whales Killed and all). 18 deg........-. ® | Gentiana, (po, 18)... “a Mites. OU By Gins, TW4Tin. b solitudes of Canada rather than | lotte: F G it; F. H. Emory, Char-| @re subjected toa y whalemen | Chioridum ....000--+-- 11@ 13| Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15) .- 10@ 12| Cassia Fructus... .-.. = ’ es, Rums. abandon his old allegiance - F. G. Erwin, Marlette; C. M. Free-| mortem ex toa pretty thorough post- oridum ......---+-- 12@ 14|Hydrastis Canad ).. 16@ 18} Centraria..... 20. = In 1855, then, Frank In lis : api Bennington; Allen W. Cond DB a bergris examination, the find of am- ANILINE. (po. SOc = @ 45 Cetaceum ............. @ selected such parents, was ‘hake ae ena Moses A. Graybiol, Port eae a ae monster’s interior often | Bl@cK.-----------: 2 O@2 25 ide, Ala, po... 15@ 20 Chloroform «1.0.12... 32 troit, in a building which s in De-| Clara C. Hickey, Highland Park: Roy ; vastly more valuable than the oi ee 7" geet @ | RBOeae, BO... -""" 18 90| Chloral Hyd Ghat. 11 50! his store aa — which stood where —— Midland: Mary ee ae extracted from his blubber overceat. is Fellow Pee + ase — (po. 20@22) .. Be 2) Chondrus’ ses : 2 25 Weare Sole Agents in Mi ere he grew up and on : Rapids; John Maxtinbrook ii ee 50@3 alapa, pr..... 25@ 30 nehonidine, P. & W 2 in ichigan W the adjacent | Rob : ok, Muskegon: B a c G as for commons made mud-pies, lov it | Robert H. Nelson, Ridgeway: Henry Do It Well. ACCAE, Podophyllum, | @ 3 erman 4@ 10 He da » D. & Co., cana gree Sta ove and poetry | Phillips, Middleton: dgeway; Henry Be Cubeae (po. 1 60..+-.-. an 15@ 18 nderson County, H Made § ciplined by the boys ates aes a Frank C. Rolland Doe ohare the Kansas = aad ee ae = "Gl ® @ 50 Whisky an : a : Mash end the teachers int] i od| win F. Sinelair, Detroit; R eae ‘I have been a far more us ald : wees cin i] 75@1 35 @ 2 1s and having successf 1e publie schools, | reau, Bay City; Wn. J. T one = —— the Lord revealed useful man since | copaib ee Sanguinaria, (po 25). ae 5 = > y d » ggists’ Fa i ie Gieccs sud scessfully run the gauntlet | W. Walker, Grand Bl Toal, Peck; Frank) to be a great a that I was never | Peru.......-ssc000-"= 60@_ 65 | Serpentaria..’ ee 8@ 10 vori ae a z *. & € 2 . << ae Fae gai ro eh 00@ 5 = aie = Se was Clio: oe a ae oe merchants, Sia oan — = Canada ..... ss SRR 600 =) Coa ae - Rye Whisky entering as apprentice i armacy by | Kirtland, Lakeview: Dass 34. Witkiasoa. are, or are to be : int UU dh he @ 40| Cupri Sulph. 222202222! @ 2% : Gomme ort , lew; ass M. Wilkinson i L , great in the comm Z Ss M @ 2/|D UEP ok Sie Eee in 18 in e of Mr. | Evart; Edward ¥ : >| world, is i ercial CORTEX. Cillae, (po. 35) extrine ... 8s@ 9 y; cae Aldean ie OE " oung. Detroit; Geo. W. ’ preventing them from bei Abi Soe wok 10@ 12] Ether Sulph...2.0.7... 10@ 12 not, at first, fi : a gh he did Thayer, Minden. i . W.| really useful oul eng ies, Canadian.....-....-- 18 arpus, Feeti- ulph........... 68@ WwW ig-tageh rat, find it all his fancy painted aa nt ’ —_ attaining that degree | C2#8i8e --aa----ee-setttt oo 11 yak po @ 3 Emery, all numbers.. @ ] e sell Liquors fi + 43 persisted in washing mortars and __~-»-2—.__ ss to which their actual abiliti Cinchona Flava ....-.--+--- 18 jana, Eng. (po.30) @ 2%/| E ae @ We gi or Medicinal Purp — charging soda founts aay = Changes in Our Coi aa otherwise entitle them. By kone: Myrica Cel — 30 | Zingiber a German... 15 20 eo _ 5 ant S give our Personal Attention to Mail 7 ning down : aa a : a ns. g their imagi , ci a ee res Sl Gineiber 4.0. 10 15) Gal 1 66 i i i another eee for htc aan Windom will probably before their oy a ee Ss Sas ae Se - aa ea — Gambier eee. o 28 ee om era and Guar : rn ¢ Ze.” * mme : ‘ : . : ; ems ae 9 BTA... sewers cence eg eee j fairly left the cellar and bec until he ean — to Congress in his into such a condition as to eff selves | Sassafras .....---.+:s-++ +++ 12 | Anis SEMEN. Gelatin, Cooper....... "= 1 nties ta rs are Shipped and Invoiced th penser, still in s : came a dis-},, ning report, that the i : shut out th isaac ectually ; Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 isum, (po. 20)...... @ ‘___ French....... em. Send i 2 e same da _ still in steady fees i ‘ coinage of e possibility of real Apium ( “) die be aa in a trial ord y we re= set up for himself in — jolie iree-cent pieces, gold dollars, three Whatever else may aes ce EXTRACTUM Bird, 1s — “oS atc by box fo ee — Sie self in a very small way | $0.4) gold pieces b lis ; : ee- | it. w i contributed t ; lla ge a e) Ginc. 3 70 less but confining his ci way}... pieces be discontinued. Th it, we believe real gr 0 | Glycyrrhiza Glab Tui, (po. 18).... ‘ ue, Brown. a alicia adler Y| director ef ti : i ej real greatness has n r ra... 24@ %|Cardamon............. w@ 12 7 a 9@ 15 ‘ clusively to prescripti _ almost ex- he mint recommended thes yet been attained mS REVET | scaieaton, te. bax... 383@ 35|Corlandrum........... 1 00@1 25 | Glyceri pe — = J scription business he has changes in his las : 1ese : ned, except by doing that Haematox,15lb. box.. 11 5 orlandgrum........ 1 ‘ yceerina ...... 25 i now anenviable position. T uf ae | Cor s last annual report, but which came to hand in the b _— gee ape .- 11@ 12] Cannabis Sativa a 12| Grana Paradisi........ 2R2@ 2 a i ; : a - ! ee eeemtanse is 14} Cydonium.... ....... 3%4@ 4|H eae @ the blood of the olds he name and gress was too busy to act up ‘¢}manner. And it is j e best possible ee ae onium.... . umulus...... 15 zi stock are in him f recommendations. T pon his . And it is just that thin ie Beer 14@ 15| Chenopodium ........ 75@1 00| Hydraag Chior Mite.. 25@ 40 take Ee im for 3 ations. The departm ‘| he who imagines hims g, that 566 16@ 17] Di odian ........ 1W@ 12 iraag Chlor Mite : : aithful and consci felt justified : irtment has f gines himself to be i Dipterix Odorate 7 ; Se => tious work is me eeunnaae ane stified, under its discreti -| destiny, fails great by FERRUM. Foeniculum........... —> i =. = = ee ae aeegroge Quiet and re- power, in limiting the issue oe ae = — Of course, it does | Carbonate Precip.....- @ 15 Foenugreek, po ‘RE :* Z suena @1 00 aj wh manner he knows the man coins to a small amount, t i ese! gently : is that all who dili- | Citrate and Quinia.... OID | Lint ceca -~ “© _-‘Ungue — == GRAN om he will make his friend, b felt justified i . but it has not| 009 and quietly make the bes Citrate Soluble Lini, grd, (bbl.4)..: 4 @ 4% | Hydrargyru oe D RAPIDS, MI he Se ae aa a c. Pe a suspending the issue al- sible use of their opportunities pnt ood Ferroeyanidum Sol... $ 5 Lobelia. Lote 7c codes ee = = 80 ° ti as a eee e likes _ | coined frou nas}. i mountain tops. Aeon SPIRITUS. Macis .. 55@ 60 ea — a ae each coin riggs flere re os So from his ace all ul - Anthems a 300 35 Frumenti, W., D. Co 2 00@2 Liguor Arsen’ et Hy- .* ar 932 : able that he will like it up proof ag s and keep] .; or predestined greatnes atricaria ....-- ---+ 30@ 35 “ D. F.R.....1 %3@2 rarg lod... ; = eo & bis dorms a6 precid ike it after proof sets. It has also been tk simply devotes i greatness, and ree 00 | Liquor Potass Arsinitis @ oe n as president has expired. This that, so long as : sthowmsl | all of his powers t FOLIA. ona 10@1 50| Magnesia, Su tsinitis 10@ 12 e 2. = seems like fuls : - This g asthe pieces were coi doing of that whi Ss to the | Baro ses ‘ iperis Co. 0. T....1 75@1 7 ia, Sulph (bbl SSS aaa oe ome flattery but lest we the department ought not to oe best possible —— comes to hand in the Cassia Acutifol, Tin- 10@ 12), .charum N Des 50 Manin ss tenet eee eens 3 a nBS salle nc ek Aang ie it ~~ be ee and unduly enchance their sible chance pe erns the best pos- nivelly ...... - Peis 25@ 28 — Vint Galli oe ; is oe Morphia ie 45@ 50 5 = 4 : a . so low from lofty yalue by keepi . 7 ming great,* a i Aix: 3@ 50| Vini Oporto ...--222.. & SHY os 65@2 90 o salads ate eo we ofty : ping the coinage too s whether he b i » and | gay ff “ ini Oporto ........... 1 25@2 00 NY Oe te eg Oe s persistent baseball Y | If it were o : g o small. ecomes great or not, wi via officinalis, 48 Vini Alba... 5 Cee... . +» 2 and he curls * * * crank, : nce forbidden by law it have the satisfacti ; or not, will | and 48...-.-0-+0+7" get 1 25@2 00} Moschus Canton... 2 65@2 9 = nae Club. at the Curling ————— aie oo ae justice to oe a eT oe Xs io asia Myristicn, No.1. sae 6G 7 & 33 He was el sis ry would be put to better us the faithful perf who neglects GUMMI, Florida sheeps’ Nux Vomica, (po 20) .- : . E52 gan eee ee = the Michi- ro ep not disposed to = oe duties of Se es eae . : bac small | Acacia, 18 picked.... @1 0 NM oaTEIRES wenn? 25@2 50 Oe Sere Ap 2» S 8 : ssociation at th use of the gold dollars b : Si sen emselves ‘ a es u sheeps’ wool Cc oy -v. a = annual meeting in Se ter ©! and simi gold dollars for adornment ecause he imagines he was ae ee SG ae carriage a CURES 8) * the association has r ptember, 1889, and | °” similar purposes because of h greater things, is s s he was created for “ gifted sorts... @ 80| Velvet extra sheeps’ 2 00| Picis Lig, N. C., ¥4 gal es — s resolved to hold hin tilation incidental to s the mu- : ings, is sure to find himself lef ‘“ 0 1 @ | ° rool carriage... Gone! agit : .~ strictly accountable for his condu oe to such use. behind, and that the only person i ©) Aloe, i a 75@1 00 | Extra cage aces 1 10| Picis Lig., quarts ..... @2 0) Liv 5 ing the next twelve : i. pments of these coins have the. world who places person in all | « "Cape, (po. 20 50@ 60} carriage — agra = and 2 2s ermine iy oom bebe ee ee ee ae ave | upon him, is ee ee Se Sc 25 | PLT arene, (po. 9). 3 Kidn 7 z8 2a. oe ee = manufacture ck ace Oe sieaies efbcssa men = = ad- | Catechu, 16, (4s, 14 4s, Fe anaes vas ooes es| Piper _ > ¢ BI sae a = 2 “I would like to — ‘lets and other similar articles ‘+ | we think they may ants because | Ammoniae -....-..... @ 1 | Yellow Reef, for siaié | Pix Burgun ss) @ oO isea Hs —- get a stamp,” sai It is likely that tk Saar y may profit by them mor ; PRO aces on aac 25@ 30 ef, for slate Plumbi Acet .......... @ ses gentleman as he ente p,’’ said a] 4; E : he proposition several than others, for th ie ore | Assafetida, (po. 30)... _@ 15 oe Pulvis CBG ecto t 14@ C e e 7 "NT 8 red a South Divisi times made to ai - . for the principle applies Benzoinu i ee 1 40| Bulvis Ipecac et opti onstipati ck ital Gal ‘ 1 Division ie i congress to authorize equally well to all ppiles Acoso W@ 55 Pyrethrum pii..1 10@1 3 on Warranted not : 2 % ' s “Pos ges in the designs of : i sce teh coe 35@ 38 ees & = any cli cee stamps for ate’? ‘a ecm of Postage b signs of the coins will merchants as well : » Eu horbium Acecacia BD. Co., do ny bg imate. Quality Guar or Mold in oy i e window e renewed at the ‘ aes a ’ as others, need ¢ oe. Oe Bie 59 | Pyrethrum, p . @i ND— by Freezing. All ot anteed Against Inj Yes, sir—don’t w : th coming session. Al- stantly to remember th ’ on , Galbanum. .....-- gp | Zingiber ....------ a ing. See quotati others worthless after frees. al ‘Ss i want to get a pair ough the motto, ‘‘In G estin : das at he who over-| Gamboge, po.....- A 50 assiae ........ . FB . See quotation. MARTELL rT trees _—o spose 977 I of was cdded ja 1866. be the okt se — his ability, deceives himself, — s 45) : Heriot - = ae ——- oe os q emale CO., Sole Manufacturers, as ane ye not.”’ eral coins, no ‘ . Sev- : » (po. 25).---- 20 Eee Rubia T R.... 33@ : “‘Jes- got Et ’ material change has t Of course, th a : Masiie we) oil. Rhei Arom....... 50 inctorum..... ( : beset Sa pain” new vons—only forty a The present ai ing oneself gas a a of ee an tes = “" ws oe Similax Officinali = ae Lactis py.. eo Or? »plain ts H “No, I don’t care f gle was adopted 1849; of th by a little effort » of things which, | shellac ee 55 | Senega Co 59| Sanguis Draconis... + a = OL! or any.” eagle, 1838: of th : e! plis ; , may easily be ac ella. w-evseeeess — a OC ": 50] Santoni ae = NA ar o r any. e half eagle, 1839: plished, is to : : com- pleached...... Scillae.............. : ine ............ i ae Cane ee aie tact oF the qunct-| = see nip eoagh Tragacanth -.....----- 2 ee 2: 2f' %| Being composed entirely of HERBS, | nama on? ; inings—von dol- gie, : of the gold dollar, 1854: do very littl cay 5 whole, to HERBA—In ounce package’ a 50 eo 8@ is the onl ) it : i e , 1854; of | |. e think Pe ges. Ss ee en y perfectly harm The “No, nothi the silver dollar, 1878; of the half doll ee come ee about one’s abili- | Absinthfum ......-+-+-000+7 2 Ss 50| Seldiitz Mixture...... @ 15| the market and a ae a « Best Furniture Finish i ket “Ve kee as a quarter-dollar and dime. 1838 °'The them, but sim I ver or under-estimate | [obelia....-..0s0cs0ss 20 EERE ee @ 7 | who use it ecommended by al Specially adapted fi 1" ae S 29 co é ; . oo. ’ eo Siac in a Y me ae eee ae ee 1 2B°| strength to the doing of that whi ee 25 | Aconitum Napellis R....... 0] "Woe Maccaboy, be Organsana Hard Woods. goots.”’ s to show dose lint to prepare the devi best to be done = ich seems | Men[na Piperita........ *) 23] Aloes.. Lo Wee ee ee a i ; ; “No.” pel ai coins, but the only aa future to _— time, leaving the! Rue Wir. ..-----.- at ode 60 — cae Se Voes S a Druggists will find it to Pelishi will remove and cen ath nc : sins, but the only new coln| oy shall not be ¢ ie ther greatne ey 30 Armia esos sees ees = Soda et =>; = = to keep the DIA- and a eats bake ich Sor ba ty ese but practically , , 5 : , and philosophic- | T iB eU AED ; ese ects oda C 7 33 al as it fu a . nt vor-diwenty tte, ao ton shoes | from very old a coins are made ally accepting the result. philosophic a a 25 Atrope Belladonna.......... po oe. Bi Carb a ao 2% is claimed, making aan Polishina pNomeree a oe i u full ie nas . ‘ y | meee eens mma * * di j se, as po X say I want Salas The will of the late B. T. Babbitt leaves the entire fortune of the testator to his wife and two daughters and directs that the soap business be continued. HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls out: Recswood, log ron .-..- 2.5.) 2. . 13 00@15 00 Birch, log-run..............-..-----+-- 15 00@16 00 Bireh, Nos. 1 and 2.............----+-- @22 00 Black Ash, log-run..........-.----+-++ 14 00@16 00 Cherry, log-rum......-.---. eee eree eee 25 00@40 00 Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2...........-.----- 60 00@65 00 Cherry, Call... ......-.-.... 25-0... 2-8 @12 00 Maple, log-run ..........-.--+++-- ..12 00@13 00 Maple, soft, log-run........- a 00@13 00 Maple, Nos. 1 and2........ @20 00 Maple, clear, flooring..... : @25 00 — white, selected........... a. @25 00 Red Oak, log-run.....-....-...----.--- 20 00@21 00 Red Oak, Nos 1 ane 2... ..<..2. 5-5. 26 00@2k 00 Red Oak, 4% sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00 Red Oak, 4 sawed,regalar...........- 30 32 00 Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.........-.. 125 00 Walnut) i0p TUM... 2... oak ons aes @55 00 Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........-..-..-. @75 00 Maines. Cau: - 3s55-... 5.65 ccc @25 00 Grey Elm, log-run..........-+.+++++++: 12 00@13 05 White. Aso, log ru...) 14 00@16 00 Whitewood, log-Tun..............-..-- 20 22 00 White Oak, lop-Tun..........:....-...- 17 00@18 00 White Oak, % sawed, Nos. 1 and2....42 00@43 00 CHAMOIS SANDALS. This new design of Chamois Sandal meets with universal acceptance wherever shown, and is destined to driye from the market all old styles of hard, shapeless and comfortless baby shoes, so long the torture of infants and despair of mothers. The Chamois Sandal Is recommended to the trade for the following reasons: Ist. It is Durable, Bertrei:is outworn, 2d. Tt is Blegant, being manufactured from the best English Chamois, daintily trimmed and embroidered with the finest silk. 1 as by the use of borax Bh It 18 Cleanly, and water it can be washed as easily as a piece of cotton cloth. H as there is no hard sole or Ath, It 18 Kasy, coarse stitches to hurt the foot. ‘ costing no more than the oth. It 18 Cheap, instruments of torture usually sold for infants’ wear. They are manufactured in three eolors, pink, blue and cardinal, and packed in 1 doz. cartons, colors assorted. Price, $2.25 per doz., Net. [ By Mail, Postpaid, $2.35 LOWEST PRICES ON ALL KINDS OF Findings, Shoe Store Supplies, kts. Whitcomb & Paine’s Calf Boots, Rubbers, ete. A Beautiful Smyrna Rug given with each gross dressing. G. R. MAYHEW, 86 Monroe S8t., Mich, FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids, A. J. BowNz, President. GEO. C. PIERCE, Vice President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. dake a Specialty of Collections. Accounts ef Country Merchants Solicited. tT. Banivitic. Manufacturer of LEATHER BELTING JOBBER OF Rubber Goods and Mill Supplies, 1 to 5 Peart Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Oct. 6, 1889. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive. Leave. 7:20am Traverse City Express...... 30am 11:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw.... 05pm 4:10pm From Cincinnati............ -- 45pm GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express.......-.--+++-- 7:00am Fort Wayne EXxpress.....---+++++++ 11:45am 12:45am Cincinnati Express.........- =... 6:30 Dp m 6:00 p m Kalamazoo and Chicago........--- 10:40pm 11:05pm Train leaving for Cincinnati at6p. m. and arriving from Cincinnati at 7p. m., runs daily, Sundays in- cluded. Other trains daily except Sunday. Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7 :20 a. m. and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for Mackinaw City. South—7 a. m. train has chair car and 6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati; 11:05 p. m. train has Wagner sleeping car for Chicago. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. Leave Arrive. TOO RM... ce cccesccccarcceeccecccasescccosvccore 10:15am 11:15 am.... : 3:45 p m 5:40 pm... Leaving time wee iets cies as atcha apogee 8:45 pm ridge street depot 7 minutes later. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. ¢Morning EXpress........+seseeees 12:50 pm 1:00pm +Through Mail.............. woes, £0 DM 4:20pm +Grand Rapids Express.. -10:40 pm *Night Express........ .--+- 6:40am 7:00am PIECE ooo oe cc ccewicw secs Scie 7:30am GOING EAST. +Detroit Express............0-s0 6:50am +Through Mail.... .10:10 am 10:20 am +Evening Express.. 3:35 pm 3:45pm *Night Express...... -.10:30 p m 10:55 p m +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New York 10:10 a. m. next day. Grand Rapids express has parlor car Detroit to Grand Rapids. Night express has Wagner sleeping ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. m. Through railroad tickets and ocean steamship tickets and sleeping car berths secured at D., G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. Jno. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. For Toledo and all points South and East, take the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail- way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and connections at Toledo with evening trains for Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin- nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi- nent points on connecting lines. ‘A, J. PaisLEY, Gen’! Pass. Agent Something New Bill Snort WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. We carry the VEBY BEST double or single bit, hand-shaved ax handle ever made. Houseman Block, - Grand Rapids, Mich. We guarantee this cigar the Rindge, Bertsch & Co., MICHIGAN AGENTS FOR THE best $35 cigar on the market. Send us trial order, and if not ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY return them. Advertising mat- ter sent with each order. Charlevoix Cigar Mfg 60., MICH. Grand Rapids, Mich. CHARLEVOIX, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS IN SPROUL» Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Brooks’ Hand Force Pump, In- Road Logging Delivery Pleasure SEND FOR CATALOGUE. The Belknap Wagon and Sleigh C0, SLKIGHS, BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CoO. We carry a full line in stock and guarantee terms and prices as good as any house gelling the line. Correspondence solicited. 12, 14 AND 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Michigan Fire ald Marine Insurance Co. ORGANIZED 1881. CASH CAPITAL $400,080. CASH ASSETS OVER $700,000. : LOSSES PAID $500,000, stantaneous Water Heater, Hot Air Furnaces, Mantels, Grates and Tiling, Gas Fixtures, Ete. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Plumbers’ Supplies. 184 East Fulton St, Head of Monroe, Telephone No. 147. 21 Seribner Street, Telephone No. 1109. GRAND RAPIDS, - Job Printing! MICH. printing for the trade. us for estimates. tion. ABSOLUTELY of stationery, “/| Pure’, Healthful! THE BEST SOAP MADE. Te a Try it once, and you will nse no other. stock. Send what you want. Fuller & Stowe rh Le . Of Sale by cis Grocers, Mail GOWANS & STOVER, 100 Louis St., Buffalo, N. Y. 25 wrappers from the We desire to call atten- tion to our facilities for producing first-class job If you live in a part of the State where you cannot get satisfactory work, write Samples and prices sent on applica- Wecarry a complete line papers—in fact all kinds of printers’ sample of Company, GRAND RAPIDS. D. Whitney, Jr., President. Eugene Harbeck, Sec’y. The Directors of ‘‘The Michigan’’ are representative business men of our own State. Fair Contracts, Equitable Rates, Prompt Settlements, Insure in “The Michigan.” WHO URGES YOU TO BEEP SA POLIO’? ‘Loe FU SLI! 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. Putnam Candy Co., JOBBERS OF (AK-|EAF SOAP a Ly eee J. DETTENTHALER, om ow ru copy of the ELOPEME*T after the painting by faeminerer, issued hy them at a cost of over JOBBER OF 5,000 dollars. ° a +57 4 wie i} ¢ * 296 Lot di 2 | —AND—— 6a + >is + |—WARRANTED NOT TO RIP.—|3 7 Every garment bearing the above ticket is WARRANTED NOT TO RIP, and, if not as re- presented, you are requested to return it to the Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive anew garment. STANTON, SAMPSON & CO., Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich. shi Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF WILD GAME SOLICITED. See Quotations in Another Column. FOreg Fruits, Nats aud Oysters. BEN. W. PUTNAM, Pres. JAMES M. BARNETT, Vice-Pres. FRED B. ALDRICH, Sec’y and Treas. WU SEARS & CO. Cracker Manvtacturers, 37, 39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. lonia Pants& Overall Co llers, Attenti 6, oll 100 E. D. Voorhees, Manager. We are making a Middlings Purifier and Flour Dresser that will save you their cost at least three times each year. They are guaranteed to do more work in less space (with less power and less waste) than any other machines of their class. Send for descriptive cata- logue with testimonials. Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MANUFACTURERS OF Warranted Not to Rip. Fit Guaranteed. to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. sent on application. IONIA, MICH. Pants. Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, kts. Workmanship Perfect. Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him Samples and prices BROWN & SEHLER;, DEALERS IN Engines, Boilers and Mill Machinery, Farm Machinery, Agricultural Implements, Wagons and Carriages. Fe =) ee # en an a a etna tl TT Corner West Bridge and North Front Sts., GRAND RAPIDS. K. G. SYUDLEY, Wholesale Dealer in Rubber Boots and Shoes Manufactured by CANDEE RUBBER 60. Send for Large Illustrated Catalogue {and Price List. FLOUR Owl, Crown Prince, White Lily, Standard, Rye, Graham. Bolted Meal, Feed, Ete. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. NEWAYGO ROLLER MILLS. TELEPHONE 464. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. No. 4 Monroe Street, No Combination Here - It is hardly necessary for us to inform the trade that we do not belong to the Wholesale Grocers’ Combination and that we do not sell goods at com- bination prices. P | Telfer Spice Company. | 1 AND 3 PEARL STREET.