7 oa G le he Michigan Trades 94 all. VOL, 7. Cook & Bergthold, MANUFACTURERS OF SHOW GASKS. Prices Lower than those of any competitor. Write for cata- logue and prices. 106 Kent St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. Magic Coffee Roaster. The Best in the World. Having on hand a large stock of No. 1 Roasters—capacity 35 Ibs.—1 will sell them at very low prices. Write for Special Discount. ROBT. S. WEST, 48-50 Long St., CLEVELAND, OHIO. Raton, kyon & 60, JOBBERS OF Albums, Dressing Cases, Books And a complete line of Fancy Holiday Goods. EATON, LYON & CO,, 20 & 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. Wm. Brummeler JOBBER OF Tinware, Glassware and Notions. Rags, Rubbers and Metals bought at Market Prices. 76 SPRING ST., GRAND RAPIDS, WE CAN UNDERSELL ANY ONE ON TINWARE. Something New Bill Snort We guarantee this cigar 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 6o., CHARLEVOIX, MICH. Daniel G. Garnsey, EXPERT ACCOUNTANT AND Adjuster of Fire Losses. Twenty Years Experience. References furnished if desir 24 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Voigt, Herpolshelmer & C0, 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. Muskegon Paper 6o,, Dealers in e FINE STATIONERY, WRAPPING PAPERS, PAPER BAGS, TWINES, WOODEN DISHES, ETC. Mail Orders Promptly Filled. 44 Pine St., Muskegon, Mich. COUGH DROPS Pk Playing Cards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. EDMUND B, DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, hi CANAL SY, Grand Rapids, - Mich. W arren’s "Riixir of Late” Cigar Price, $55 delivered. Send orders at once to GEO. Y. WARREN & GO., Flint, Wich. Fing Millinery! WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Bought Direct from Importers and Manufacturers. Adams & Co., 90 Monroe St., Opposite Morton Bouse. Cherryman &. Bowen, Undertakers and Kmbalmers, IMMEDIATE ATTENTION GIVEN TO CALLS DAY OR NIGHT. Telephone 1000. 5 South Division St. GRAND RAPIDS. Lady assistant when desired. inhi BUSINESS UNIVERSITY West Michigal “snp Norma. scHoot. (Originally Lean’s Business College—Est’blished 8 y’rs.) A thoroughly —— E praoemgg | estab- lished and pleasantly located College. The class rooms have been especially designed in accord- ance with the latest approved plans. The faculty is composed of the most competent and practical teachers. Students graduating from this Insti- tution MUST be efficient and PRACTICAL. The best of references furnished upon application. Our Normal Department is in charge of experi- enced teachers of established reputation. Satis- factory boarding places secured for all who apply to us. Do not go elsewhere without first personally interviewing or writing us for full particulars. Investigate and decide for your selves. 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 A. E. YEREX, J. U. LEAN, Sec’y and Treas. Principal. K. 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 an other housein the city. Perfect fit guaranteed. 20 West Bridge St., Grand pids. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1889. (Formerly Shriver, w eatherly & Co.) CONTRACTORS FOR Galuanized Iron Cornice, Plumbing & Heating Work. Dealers in Pumps, Pipes, Etc., Mantels and Grates. Weatherly & Pulte, GRAND RAPIDS. - - MICH. Fehsenfeld & Grammel, (Successors 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. Buckwheat. (ALWAYS PURE) "RISING SUN’ We again call your attention to the high grade of Buck- wheat Flour characteristic of our mill. Orders from the trade solicited. NEWAYGO ROLLER MILLS. SEEDS! If in want of Clover or Timot hy, Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed, send or write to the Seed Store, 71 Canal St. GRAND RAP IDS. W.T. LAMOREAUX. Apples, Potatoes, ns. Onio FOR PRICES, WRITE TO BARNETT BROS, Wholesale Dealers, CHICAGO. FF. Ranivill Manufacturer of ec, LEATHER BELTING JOBBER OF Rubber Goods and Mill Supplies, 1 to 5 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A.D. Spangler & Co WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FRUITS «xo PRODUGK And General Commission Merchants. 0 EAST SAGINAW, MICH. We buy and sell all kinds of fruit and produce and solicit correspondence with both buyers and sellers. FACT OR FICTION. A Drummer sat in his eas: chair, His children gathered near, For the thrilling tales that he could tell They dearly loved to hear. Softly the rain fell down outside, Mother to church had gone And left the father to entertain The children all alone. Ulysses, tt e eldest of the three, Jaited, serene and grave; And Juno, the little daughter fair, Her loviny presence gave. Hector, the youngest, all fire and push, Flung his feet high in air, And finally settled down = er’s chair. The arm of his fa That Drummer was not like Washington, Ah! no! for he could tell Stories abominably absurd, And he could tell them well. + ithout a twitch of muscle or chin, Or single eyelash quiver, He could make your hair stand up on end; The stoutest hearted quiver. And didn’t they enjoy themselves, How fast the minutes went, ’Til mama came and ascertained How they the time had spent. She reasoned long and she reasoned well, To make that Drummer see The mischief dire that he had wrought For the children at his knee. She lectured him in her loving way, Said she should dread the might, They surely would dream of horrid things Until the morning light. And then,in her thoughtful love and care, She called the children near, And read to them the Bible stories They always loved to hear. Her heart was sad as she kissed good night Each loving little face, Lest the thrilling tales of the morning Had left the deepest trace. The solemn stiliness of midnight On each one rested down, And silently the wee smal! hours Counted out one by one. Suddenly from his pillow starting, Young Hector fiercely sprung, “Just stand up like a man and hit him,” The childish voice outrung. Then he lay back, quietly sleeping Until the morning light, When they asked him, ‘pray tell us, Hector, What did you dream last night?” “1 dreamed of Jack, the Giant Killer, You know,” the boy replied; And the mother looked up at the father, Reproachfully, and sighed. “Ah! that is just what I was fearing, The dreadful tales you told, On the minds and hearts of the children, Will have a lasting hold.” But a few close questions aptly plied, With the skill a Drummer hath, Brought out the fact that the boy referred To the Giant Goliah of Gath, For the mother had read the story Of Dayid and his sling, How he killed the Giant, and afterward Became of Israel king. The Drummer gleefully rubbed his hands, His wife had lost, he won, And stood acquitted before the world Through Hector, the little son. And thus, with patient thought and care, This tale I’ve told to you, It is what the Drummer told himself, And—may be—it is true. A MAN OF BUSINESS. Eugene Field in Chicago News. ‘ Daniel was a very wretched man. As he sat with his head bowed upon his desk that evening he made up his mind that his life had been a failure. ‘‘I have labored long and diligently,’’ said he to himself, ‘‘and although I am known throughout the city as an industrious and shrewd business man, Iam still a poor man, and shall probably continue so to the end of my days, unless—’’ Here Daniel stopped and shivered. For a week or more he had been brooding over his unhappy lot. There seemed to be but one way out of his trouble, yet his soul revolted from taking that step. That was why he stopped and shivered. “But,’? he argued, ‘‘I must do some- thing! My nine children are growing up into big boys and girls. They must have those advantages which my limited means will not admit of! All my life, so far, has been pure, circumspect and rigid; poverty has at last broken my spirit—lI give up the fight—I am ready to sell my soul to the devil !”’ “The determination is a wise one!’ said a voice at Daniel’s elbow. Daniel looked up and beheld a grim-visaged stranger in the chair beside him. The stranger was arrayed all in black, and he exhaled a distinct odor of sulphur. ‘Am I to understand,’? asked the stranger, ‘‘that you are prepared to en- ter into a league with the devil ?”’ “Yes,”? said Daniel, firmly; and he set his teeth together after the fashion of a man who is not to be moved from his purpose. “Then Iam ready to treat with you,’’ said the stranger. ‘‘Are you the devil?’’? asked Daniel, eyeing the stranger critically. “No, but 1 am authorized to enter into contracts for him,’? exclaimed the stranger. ‘‘My name is Beelzebub and I am my master’s most trusted agent.”’ ‘“‘Sir,’? said Daniel, ‘‘tyou must pardon me (forI am loth to wound your feel- ings), but one of the rules governing my career as a business man has been to deal directly with principals and never to trust to the offices of middlemen. The affair now in hand is one concerning the devil and myself, and between us two and by us two only can the preliminaries be adjusted.”’ “As it so happens,’’ explained Beel- zebub, ‘“‘this is Friday—commonly called hangman’s day—and that is as busy a time in our particular locality as a Mon- day is in a laundry or as the first of every month is at a book-keeper’s desk. You can understand, perhaps, that this is the devil’s busy day; therefore be con- tent to make this deal with me, and you will find that my master will cheerfully accept any contract I may enter into as his agent and in his behalf.”’ But no—Daniel would not agree to this; with the devil himself, and only the devil. himself, would he treat. So he bade Beelzebub go to the devil and make known his wishes. Beelzebub departed, much chagrined. Presently back came the devil—and surely it was the devil this time—there could be no mistake about it, for he wore a scarlet cloak and had cloven feet and carried about with him as many suffocating smells as there are kinds of brimstone, sulphur and asafcetida. The two talked over all Daniel’s mis- eries; the devil sympathized with Dan- iel, and ever and anon a malodorous, gummy tear would trickle down the devil’s sinister nose and drop off on the carpet. ‘-What you want is money,’’ said the devil. ‘That will give you the comfort and contentment you crave.”’ “*Yes,”? said Daniel, ‘‘it will give me every opportunity to do good.”’ “To do good,’? repeated the devil. “To do good, indeed! Yes, its many a good time we shall have together, friend Daniel! Ha, ha, ha!’ and the devil laughed uproariously. Nothing seemed more humorous than the prospect of “doing good’? with the devil’s money ! But Daniel failed to see what the devil way so jolly about. Daniel was not a humorist; he was, as we have indicated, a plain business man. It was finally agreed that Daniel should sell his soul to the devil upon condition that for the space of twenty-four )ears the devil should serve Daniel faithfully, should provide him with riches, and should do whatsoever he was commanded to do; then, at the end of the twenty- fourth year, Daniel’s soul was to pass into the possession of the devil and was to remain there forever, without recourse or benefit of clergy. Surely a more hor- rible contract was never entered into! “You will have to sign your name to this contract,”’ said the devil, producing a sheet of asbestos paper upon which all the terms of the diabolical treaty were set forth exactly. ‘Certainly,’? replied Daniel. ‘‘I have been a business man long enough to know the propriety and necessity of written contracts. And as for you, you must, of course, give a bond for the faithful exe- cution of your part of this business.”’ ‘“‘That is something I have never done before,’ suggested the devil. “TI shall insist upon it,’’ said Daniel, firmly. ‘This is no affair of sentiment; it is strictly and coldly business—you are to do certain service and to receive cer- tain rewards therefor—”’ “Yes, your soul!’ cried the devil, gleefully, rubbing his callous hands to- gether; ‘‘your soul in twenty-four years !”’ ““Yes,’’? said Daniel. ‘‘Now, no con- tract is good unless there is a quid pro quo.”’ “That’s so,’? said the devil, ‘‘so let’s get a lawyer to draw up the paper for me to sign.”’ ‘Why a lawyer ?’’? queried Daniel. ‘‘A contract is a simple instrument. Iasa business man, can frame one sufficiently binding.’’ “But I prefer to have a lawyer to do it,’’? urged the devil. “And I prefer to do it myself,’’ said Daniel. * * * % * * * When a business man once gets his mind set, not even an Archimedian lever could stir it. So Daniel drew up the bond for the devil to sign, and this bond specified that in case the devil failed at any time during the next twenty-four years to do whatsoever Daniel com- manded him, then should the bond which the devil held against Daniel be null and void, and upon that same day should a thousand and one souls be released for- ever from the devil’s dominion. The devil winced; he hated to sign this agreement, but he had to. An awful clap of thunder ratified the abominable treaty, and every black cat within a radius of 100 leagues straightway fell to frothing and yowling grotesquely. Presently Daniel began to prosper; the devil was a faithful slave, and he served Daniel so artfully that no person on earth suspected that Daniel had leagued with the evil one. Daniel had the finest house in the city, his wife dressed mag- nificently and his children enjoyed every luxury wealth could provide. Still, Daniel was content to be known as a bus- iness man; he deported himself mod- estly and kindly; he pursued with all his old-time diligence the trade which he had found in earlier days so productive of riches. His indifference to the pleasures which money put within his reach was passing strange, and it cost the devil vast uneasiness. ‘“Paniel,’? said the devil one day, “you're not getting out of this thing all the fun there is in it. You go poking along in the same old rut with never a suspicion that you have it in your power to enjoy every pleasure of human life. Why don’t you break away from the old restraints? Why don’t you avail your- self of the advantages at your com- mand ?”’ “JT know what you’re driving at,’’ said Daniel, shrewdly. ‘‘Politics !’ “No, not at all,’? remonstrated the devil. ‘‘What I mean is fun—gayety. Why not have a good time, Daniel?’’ “But Iam having a good time,’ said Daniel. ‘‘My business is going along all right. Iam rich. Ive got a lovely home, my wife is happy, my children are healthy and contented, I am respected— what more could I ask? What better time could I demand?’’ “You don’t understand me,’’ explained the devil. ‘‘What I mean by a good time is that which makes the heart merry, and keeps the soul youthful and buoyant— wine, Daniel. Wine, and the theater, and pretty girls, and fast horses, and all that sort of happy, joyful life!’ “Tut, tut, tut!’ cried Daniel; ‘‘no more of that, sir! I sowed my wild-oats in college. What right have I to think of such silly follies, I, at 40 years of age, and a business man, too?’’ So not even the devil himself could persuade Daniel into a life of dissipa- tion. All you who have made a study of the business man will agree that of human beings he is the hardest to swerve from conservative methods. The devil groaned and began to wonder why he had ever tied up to a man like Daniel—a business man. * * * * * * * Pretty soon Daniel developed an am- bition. He wanted reputation, and he told the devil so. The devil’s eyes sparkled. ‘At last,?? murmured the devil, with a sigh of relief; ‘‘at last!’ ““Yes,”? said Daniel, ‘‘I want to be known far and wide. You must build a church for me.”’ ‘What!’ shrieked the devil. And the devil’s tail stiffened up like a sore thumb. “Yes,’’ said Daniel, calmly; ‘‘you must build a church for me, and it must be the largest and handsomest church in the city. The sittings shall be free and you shall provide the funds for its support forever.’’ The devil frothed at his mouth and blue fire issued from his ears and nos- trils. He was the maddest devil seen on earth. “] won’t do it!’ roared the devil, ‘‘my time building churehes and stultifying myself just for the sake of gratifying your idle whims? I won’t do it—never!”’ ‘Then the bond I gave is null and void,’’ said Daniel. “Take your old bond,’’ said the devil, petulantly. “But the bond you gave is operative,” continued Daniel. “So release the thousand and one souls you owe me when you refuse to obey me.”’ “Oh, Daniel!’ whimpered the devil, “how can you treat meso? Haven’t I always been good to you? Haven’t I given you riches and prosperity? Does no sentiment of friendship—’’ ‘‘Hush,’”? said Daniel, interrupting him, ‘“‘I have already told you a thousand times that our relations were simply those of one business man with another. It now behooves you to fulfill your part of our compact; eventually I shall fulfill mine. Come, now to business! Will you or will you not keep your word and save your bond?”’ ‘ The devil was surely put to his trumps. But when it came to releasing a thousand and one souls from hel!—ha! that staggered him! He had to build the ehurch, and a noble one it was, too. Then he endowed the church, and finally he built a parsonage; altogether it was a stupendous work, and Daniel got all the credit for it. The preacher whom Daniel installed in this magnificent temple was severely orthodox, and one of the first things he did was to preach a series of sermons upon the personality of the devil, wherein he inveighed most bitterly against that person and his work. By and by Daniel made the devil en- dow and build a number of hospitals, charity schools, free baths, libraries and other institutions of similar character. Then he made him secure the election of honest men to office and of upright judges to the bench. It almost broke the devil’s heart to doit, but the devil was prepared to do almost anything else than forfeit his bond and give up those thousand and one souls. By this time Daniel came to be known far and wide for his philanthropy and his piety. This gratified him, of course; but most of all he gloried in the circumstance that he was a business man. ‘Have you anything for me to do to- day?”’? asked the devil one morning. He had grown to be a very meek and courte- ous devil: steady employment in right- eous causes had chastened him to a degree and purged away somewhat of the vio- lence of his nature. On this particular morning he looked haggard and ill—yes, and he looked, too, as blue as a whet- stone. ‘J am not feeling robust,’’ explained the devil. ‘‘To tell the truth, ’m some- what ill.’’ “Tam sorry to hear it, said Daniel, ‘but, as 1am not running a sanitarium, I can do nothing further than express my regret that you are ailing. Of course, our business relations do not contemplate any interchange of sympathies; still, ri go easy with you to-day. You may go up to the house and look after the chil- dren; see that they don’t smoke cigar- ettes, or quarrel, or tease the cat, or do anything out of the way.” Now that was fine business for the devil to be in; but how could the devil help himself ? He was wholly at Daniel’s merey. He went groaning about the humiliating task. The crash came at last. It was when the devil informed Daniei one day that he wasn’t going to work for him any more. ‘You have ruined my business,’ said the devil, wearily. ‘‘A committee of imps waited upon me last night and told me that unless I severed my connection with you a permanent suspension of my interests down yonder would be necessi- tated. While I have been running around doing your insane errands, my personal business has gone to the dogs—I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I were to have to get anew plant together. Meanwhile, my reputation has suffered; I am no longer respected, and the number of my recruits is daily becoming smaller. I give up—lI can make no further sacrifice.” “Then you are prepared to forfeit your bond?’? asked Daniel. ‘Not by any means,’’ replied the devil. ‘I propose to throw the matter into the courts.”’ “That will hardly be to your interest,”’ said Daniel, ‘‘since, as you well know, we have recently elected honest men to the bench, and, as I recollect, most of our judges are members in good standing of the church we built some’ years ago!”’ The devil howled with rage. Then presently he began to whimper. “For the last time,’’? expostulated Dan- iel, ‘let me remind you that sentiment does not enter into this affair at all. We are simply two business parties co-opera- tive in a businessscheme. Ourrespective duties are exactly defined in the bonds we hold. You keep your contract and V’ll keep mine. Let me see, I still have a margin of thirteen years.”’ NO. 324. The devil groaned and writhed. ‘They call me a dude,’”’ whimpered the devil. *“‘Who do ?”’ asked Daniel. ‘“‘Beelzebub and the rest,’? said the devil. ‘I have been trotting around do- ing pious errands so long that I’ve lost all my sulphur-and-brimstone flavor, and now I smell like spikenard and myrrh.”’ “Pooh!’’ said Daniel. ‘‘Well, Ldo,’’ insisted the devil. ‘*You *ve humiliated me so I hain’t got any more ambition. Yes, Daniel. You’ve worked me shamefully hard!’’ ‘“Well,’? said Daniel, ‘‘I have a very distinct suspicion that when, thirteen years hence, I fall into your hands, I shall not enjoy what might be called a sedentary life.’’ The devil plucked up at this suggestion. ‘Indeed, you shall not,’’ he muttered. ‘“1?1] make it hot for you.”’ “But come, we waste time,’’ said Dan- iel. ‘I ama man of business and I can- not fritter away the precious moments parleying with you. I have important work for you. To-morrow is Sunday; you are to see that all the saloons are kept closed.”’ “T shan’t—I won't!’ yelled the devil. “But you must,’”’? said Daniel, firmly. ‘‘Do you really expect me to do that ?”” roared the devil. ‘Do you fancy that I am so arrant a fool as to shut off the very feeders whereby my hungry hell is sup- plied? That would be suicidal!’ “J don’t know anything about that,’’ said Daniel, ‘‘I am a business man, and by this business arrangement of ours it is explicitly stipulated—’’ “JT don’t care what the stipulations are!’ shrieked the devil. ‘I’m through with you, and may I be consumed in my own fires if lever again have anything to do with a business man!’’ The upshot of it all was that the devil forfeited his bond, and by this act Daniel was released from every obligation unto the devil, and one thousand and one souls were ransomed from the torture of the infernal fires. >.< __— Undrawn Poultry. From the American Analyst. The custom of selling undrawn poul- try, which still generally prevails, should be abolished as pernicious and danger- ous. In former days, when cold storage was not yet in vogue, there could not be much harm done, but now it has become a serious hygienic evil and should be effectually stopped by legislation. Un- drawn poultry cannot be kept even fora few hours without starting the processes of putrefaction. This poison is absorbed by the flesh, and therefore makes such poultry unfit for rood. Keeping it in the atmosphere of cold storage ware- houses, while it may arrest decomposi- tion, will not undo the deterioration that has already taken place, and the instant such poultry is removed from the cold atmosphere putrefaction sets in again with greater force. In many in- stances such poultry has been kept for a year, and sometimes longer. What its condition must be we refrain from further discussing. Some time since the New York aldermen attempted to pass an ordinance to prevent the sale of : undrawn poultry, but on a public hear- ing the dealers made it appear that drawn poultry, on account of its having so much more surface exposed to germs, would decompose more rapidly. This, no doubt, was true in one sense, but it was readily answered by the fact that no flesh is fit for human food that has been long exposed to germs. It is a poor argument to say that inasmuch as we must in any event eat putrefying poultry, that which is undrawn is the least likely to show its putrefaction. It is not ex- actly an appetizing subject, yet it is a very important one, and deserves popu- lar agitation, until by applying the proper remedy the public health is made more secure. Let us havea strict city ordinance against the sale of undrawn poultry, irrespective of the convenience and profit of the dealers. —_——_—_<—>- <> How They Carried a Million. New York correspondence Philadelphia Press. Two men walked rapidly down Wall street the other afternoon and entered one of the prominent banking institu- tions. They were sturdy, heavy-set men. One carried a small black satchel. Both kept their eyes roaming from side to side. I followed them into the bank. The man with the satchel sat down, dropping the bag carelessly on the floor. The other went into the receiving teller’s inclosure, reached down into his breast pocket and extracted a package of bills. These were hastily counted and the two strangers left. The teller jammed the bills into an envelope, sealed it and pitched it into a safe. afterward closing the door in a per- functory manner. The entire transaction occupied less than two minutes. Then the teller turned to me and said: “How much do you think was in that package ?”’ “Why, about $500.”’ “Yes, andalittle more. It contained one million four hundred and forty-odd thousand.’’ “You don’t mean it !”’ “Yes,”? he said, showing his memo- randa. ‘You see, it’s nearly all in $10,000 bills. There is not great danger in carrying notes of that denomination, because, except here in New York, they are so seldom used that suspicion would at once be directed toward any one who attempted to negotiate them.’’ One thing still puzzled me. ‘What did the messenger have in his satchel ?”’ “Nothing but a half-brick. The satchel is carried as a blind, to throw any pos- sible thief off the track.”’ —__—_>->- Harper’s Magazine of October, 1888, says ‘the best is none too good for The Chicago Herald.”” This is undoubtedly the reason why its growth is constant and its circulation is acquiring such enormous proportions. Chicago never had a better newspaper than The Herald. > The Michigan Tradesman AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Pease Bros. have re-engaged in the grocery business on East Bridge street. W. S. Hunt, grocer at 77 South Divis- ion street, proposes to remove his stock to Owosso shortly after January 1. E. J. Manshaem has engaged in the grocery business at Fisher. The Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. J. C. Benbow placed his order with the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. for a grocery stock, to be shipped to his new location at Hartford. Henry J. Pessink and Mr. Van Dom- melen have started a bakery at the cor- ner of South Division and Hall streets under the style of Henry J. Pessink & Co. Stephen Taylor is building a new store on Fifth avenue, in which he will embark in the grocery business. Amos S. Musselman & Co. have the order for the stock. The newly-organized Olney & Judson Grocer Co. is faring badly at the hands of the newspapers and trade press. The Grand Rapids Telegram-Herald puts its capital stock at $8,000, while the Chicago Grocer—whose Michigan news is almost invariably inaccurate—places the capital at $800,000. THE TRADESMAN reported the matter correctly, as usual, when it stated the capital of the corporation to be $80,000. The organization of the Ball—Barnhart— Putman Co. has been fully consummated, and business is now being done under the corporate style. No change is likely to be made in either the office or travel- ing forces, those who were prepared to take stock in the company having been accommodated. All connected with the establishment prophesy a career of in- creased usefulness for the institution. Blakeley & Jenison have secured the signatures of most of their creditors to an agreement to compromise their claims on the basis of 40 per cent. cash, in full settlement. It is understood that Wm. McMullen has agreed to furnish the funds to back the partners in this arrangement. Unless the signatures of all the creditors are secured, Assignee Jamison will sell the stock at mortgage sale on the 13th. AROUND THE STATE. Petoskey—John Shier has engaged in the meat business. Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler has sold his grocery stock to Wm. Young. Monroe—C. F. Collins succeeds J. C. Willetts in the drug business. Pentwater—H. H. Bunyea has sold his grocery stock to F. O. Gardner. Hudson—Chas. Crandall has opened a grocery store and meat market. Vermontville—Dunlap Bros. have sold their drug stock to Jones & Co. Augusta—J. P. Bristol has sold his biacksmith shop to Stuart Ogden. Mt. Pleasant— P. Halsey’s general store has been closed on execution. Drenthe—Henry K. Lanning has sold his general stock to John Riddering. Bancroft—J. H. Hutchings succeeds R. J. Pinkerton in the drug business. Alma—Stevens & Son succeed Miller Bros. in the agricultural implement bus- iness. Traverse City—S. W. Perkins succeeds Perkins & Sherwood in the grocery bus- iness. Yankee Springs—Wallace Watson con- templates engaging in the grocery bus- iness. Muskegon—H. Fenderluit & Co. have opened a meat market at 204 Spring street. East Saginaw—D. D. Burdick, of the firm of Burdick & Son, produce dealers, is dead. Dundee—W. H. Egabrod succeeds Geo. Hough in the grocery and boot and shoe business. Fowlerville — J. L. Cooper succeeds Lamereaux & Wert in the drug and gro- cery business. Saranac—E. L. Mosher has gone to Vicksburg, where he has engaged in the jewelry business. East Jordan—L. C. Madison & Co. have purchased C. W. Dunham & Co.’s stock of wall paper. Detroit—The assets of Edward P. Kel- logg & Co., furniture dealers, are $5,389; liabilities, $4,926.81. Caldwell—Chas. L. Moses has removed his grocery stock to Owens, where he has re-engaged in business. Charlevoix—Warne & Calkins have purchased the Beaman drug stock and will continue the business. Shelbyville—Geo. Dwight is about to move to Charlotte, where he will engage in the fresh meat business. Holland—M. Notier will shortly em- bark in the dry goods and grocery bus- iness, on a strictly cash basis. Montague—It is reported that G. H. Mason will establish a branch dry goods store at Whitehall in the near future. South Haven—Edgerton & Ransom, proprietors of the Pioneer clothing house, have dissolved partnership, Mr. Edgerton continuing. Hastings—Chas. E. Lunn has retired from the firm of Lunn Bros., merchant tailors. The business will be continued by the remaining partner, J. W. Lunn. Ionia—E. S. Welch, who recently ut- tered three chattel mortgages on his grocery stock. aggregating $1,100, offers to compromise with his creditors on the basis of 35 per cent. Acme—C. E. Silver, who recently sold his general stock to C. A. Barker, opened December 2 with a new line of drugs and groceries. The Hannah & Lay Mercan- tile Co. furnished the stock. Detroit—The Detroit Beef Co., with a paid-up capital of $12,000, has filed arti- cles of association. James D. Standish owns 950 shares, G. W. Simpson, of Chi- cago, 250, and C. D. Standish 50. Muskegon—Henry Elends, of the firm of Elends & Laughray, dealer in musical instruments, asks the Circuit Court for the appointment of a receiver on the ground that Laughray is not complying with the terms of the partnership. Matherton — Some miscreants broke into Francis Hall’s grocery a few nights ago and carried off some cigars and to- bacco, but got no money. The money drawer contained about $200 worth of notes, which were carried some distance and then thrown away. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Fremont—L. D. Foote & Co. opened a cigar factory. Cedar Springs—Solomon Ipe has sold his grist mill to D. G. Carpenter. Muskegon — S. S. Watson succeeds Johnson & Lind in the planing mill bus- iness. Elk Rapids—The Elk Rapids Iron Co. is turning out an average of fifty-three tons of pig iron per day. Battle Creek—The Kritzer cider mill property has been purchased by the Bunge Vinegar Co., of Chicago. : Shelbyville—Briggs & Deuel expect to add a shingle mill to their elevator soon. Pine stumps will furnish the shingle ma- terial. Holland—Notier & Bakelaar are now turning out 3,000 pounds of butter per week at their creamery. They run the year round. Jonia—C. T. Rogers, of Lansing, is en- deavoring to organize a stock company to engage in the manufacture of con- densed milk. Elk Rapids—The Bangor Chemical Co. turning out an average of 16,000 pounds of acetate and 200 gallons of wood alcohol per day. Traverse City—The Elmwood Man- ufacturing Co. is building a warehouse for storage purposes, 22x46 feet in di- mensions and two stories high. Fremont—The Fremont Evaporating and Canning Co. has under advisement the establishment of a chair factory, in connection with its other business. Detroit—Edward M. Benson has retired from the Detroit Cracker Co. The bus- iness will be continued by the remaining partners under the style of H. B. & A. W. Copeland. Eastmanville—Huizinga & Son have sold their steamer, Dr. Hanly, to Nelson Clough, Jr.. of Duck Lake, who will use it in transferring the product of his mill to Muskegon. Kent City—A. L. Power, the general dealer, proposes to build and equip a cheese factory early next season. Mr. Power’s brother, who is located at North- ville, conducts the largest cheese factory in the State. Detroit—The Standard Jluminating Co. (electric light and power), has filed articles of association with the county clerk. The paid-up capital is $10,000. The incorporators are Herbert E. Deyo, trustee, 9,993 shares, and seven others, one share each. Kalamazoo—Fuller Bros. have merged their washboard business into a stoek company, under the style of Fuller Bros. Manufacturing Co., the capital stock being $30,000. Geo. P. Fuller is Pres- ident of the corporation, Chas. D. Fuller Vice-President and Frank D. Fuller Sec- retary and Treasurer. Elk Rapids—The sawmill of the Elk Rapids Iron Co. cut 9,000,000 feet of merchantable hardwood lumber this sea- son, an average of 55,000 feet a day. The largest day’s cut was 82,000 feet of maple, which could have been increased 3,000 feet if the logs had not run out, as the day’s work was finished by cutting hemlock. Kalamazoo—Geo. W. Miller, Gardner T. Eames, Geo. S. Foster and Horace G. Haines have formed a copartnership un- der the style of the Eames Pulley Co. to engage in the manufacture of the patent wood pulleys invented by Gardner T. Eames. The firm has purchased the stock and machinery of the Eames Pul- ley Co., of Racine, Wis., and removed the same tothis city. Twenty-five men will be employed in the factory. 9 Manager Baxter is making a desperate effort to retain his position at the head of the local office of the Western Union Telegraph Co., a petition for his reten- tion now being clandestinely circulated among the friends of that gentleman. Some may sign the petition under a mis- apprehension as to the facts in the case, but a canvass of the business men of the city would show a large majority in favor of a change in thesmanagement. have is BLEED THROUGH P. of I. Gossip. Basswood correspondence Eaton Rap- ids Journal: “The school.ma’am is going to join the P. of I. at the next meeting. This gives us three of the craft.” A Stanton correspondent writes: “Fairbanks & Co., of this city, who are boot and shoe dealers ina small way, have contracted with the P. 1.—Poor, Ignorant farmers.”’ Eaton Center correspondence Charlotte Republican: ‘‘The Patrons of Industry are at present having a hard row to hoe, as they can get no trading places at Eaton Rapids, except boots and shoes and harness.’’ Detroit Journal: ‘‘The P. of I. organ- ization has struck Luther and itis ex- pected that everything the farmer buys will go down 10 per cent. and everything he sells will keep up to the top of the market. Mebbe it will—and mebbe it won't !”’ R. D. Wheeler, the Ravenna grocer, writes as follows: “I notice in THE TRADESMAN thatIamaP. of I. dealer. It is not so. [I am not guilty of the erime and you will please correct the mistake, asI donot want to go before the United States Court for treason.”’ Belding correspondence Saranac Local: “Thus far several of the P. of L.’s fail to see wherein they are benefited by the organization—financially, atleast. Some of the order have been examining the prices of other merchants on their wares and find no difference, much to their sur- prise and chagrin.”’ Detroit Jowrnal: ‘‘The Patrons of In- dustry are now alleged to have declared their itention of starving out the Hes- peria News and all the stores in town but their own. ‘The Hesperia News and some other Hesperia business enterprises will probably be alive when the P. of I. scheme is dead and in the soup.”’ Shelby Herald: ‘‘The Patrons of In- dustry are in our midst. Farmers will do well to investigate the thing thor- oughly before they invest their good money in this scheme. It may be all right, and we can’t say but it is, but where the farmer will gain by alliance with them is what we can’t see.’’ A Lakeview patron writes THE TRADESMAN that the statement recently made in relation to a member of the Cato P. of I. lodge is untrue. As the statement was made by a Greenville mer- chant, and was published as such, THE TRADESMAN gives equal publicity to the denial, leaving its readers to draw their own conclusions. Said a prominent Blissfield P. of I., the other day: ‘‘I think the stores of Bliss- field are selling goods just as low as competition will allow them, and as they carried me along when I needed help, I am not going back on them now. ButI do believe we are paying altogether too much for our machinery. There is where we are being swindled.”’ Dorr correspondence Allegan Journal: “The Patrons of Industry orgaized a goodly lodge east of here last week and now intend to buy goods at 10 per cent. above costs. The unwise are not all dead yet, and we fear that farmers will find. in the end that they are losers in- stead of gainers by this scheme to de- stroy competition, which is the life of trade the world over.”’ J. W. Pattison, who does business at Millbrook in the name of his son—T. O. Pattison—for reasons best known to himself, has contracted to sell the P. of I. people at that place. As Mr. Pattison has managed to fail in his own name, and in his daughter’s name, it is fair to infer that he is now on the verge of his third failure. A man who can beat his cred- itors will have little difficulty in swin- dling P. of I. farmers. Shelby Herald: ‘‘A Shelby merchant, speaking to us recently in regard to the P. of L., suggested that in case they re- fuse to buy of but one store (the one which agrees to sell for 10 per cent. profit), the other merchants could, with equal fairness, refuse to buy produce, ete., from any member of the order. It is to be hoped that the good feeling which now exists between the merchants of this place and the farmers of this vicinity will continue indefinitely The interest of one is the interest of both. Without Shelby’s merchants, farmers in this vicinity would not be so prosperous, and vice versa.’’ a The Finest Resort in the Land. Peninsular Correspondence Grand Traverse Herald. Traverse Point has been visited by about twenty gentlemen who will build themselves cottages next summer. We will be glad to see the place improved, as itis avery sightly place, and likea ‘‘city that is set on a hill which cannot be hid.’’ a A te Bank Notes. The Merchants’ National Bank and the Union National Bank, at Muskegon, have exchanged locations. The Marine Bank, of Marine City, will soon occupy a handsome and substantial brick building, now being erected for its use. > +2 Portraits for the Holidays. Send a good cabinet photograph to Hamilton’s Art Gallery, 79 Canal street, and get a first-class, life-size, crayon por- trait for $10. Correspondence solicited. ——— —_»>_ The P. & B. cough drops give great satisfaction. Interview, with a Local P. of I. Dealer. Three Canal street firms have signed with the P. of I.?s—Joseph Berles, F. W. Wurzburg and Abraham Wilzinski, Agt. Mr. Berles is a shrewd German, who can be depended upon to hold his own in any deal he may make with men who know less about the hardware business than he does. F. W. Wurzburg is a thrifty dry goods dealer, who stands well with the trade and has hosts of friends all over the county. +4 ee Geo. Kennan, the famous Siberian traveler and writer, will deliver a lecture at Hartman’s Hall on January 16. As Mr. Kennan’s fame is world-wide, the hall ought to be crowded on that occasion. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements wil: be inserted under this bead for two cents a word e first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE OR EX ‘'HANGE—NEW STOCK OF HATS, caps and gents’ furnishing goods; will invoice about $4,000. G. W. Watrous, Jackson, Mich. = PER CENT. PER ANNUM—OWNER OF RETAIL grocery wishes to engage in exclusive wholesale business and desires to sell; now carrying $15.000 stock; trade very good; profits as above; rent reason- able. Address, The West Coast Trade, Tacoma, Wash. 548 ROCERY WANTED—FOR $4,000 CASH AND FINE three-story brick block, in Ohio county seat, worth $8,000. J. & B., Box 57, Tiffin, Ohio. 547 thom ANNUAL DRY GOODS BUSINESS, $25,000 building and stock, for one-fourth cash and one, two or three years on balance; county seat, Franklin, Box E, Fostoria, Ohio. 549 V ‘7HAT WILL YOU PAY Us FOR PURCHASER offering half cash and half property for mer- chandise at fair invoice? Charles G. Barnd, Fostoria, Ohio. , 550 ;,OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—HOUSE AND LOT, TWO blocks from postoffice. in city of 5,000 inhabitants in Southern Michigan; also farm of 76 acres, two miles from same city, clay ioam soil, with good buildings; will exchange for stock of merchandise. Address No. 539, care Tradesman. 539 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. 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. 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. 5 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. 51, MISCELLANEOUS. es Se AND LOCAL AGENTS TO handle the New Patent Chemical Ink Erasing Pencil. Greatest novelty ever produced. Erases ink in two seconds, no abrasion of paper. 200 to 500 per cent. profit. One agent’s sales amounted to $620 in six days—an: ther $32 in two hours. Territory absolutely free. Salary to good men. No ladies need answer. Sample 35 cents. For terms and full particulars, ad- dress, The Monroe Eraser Co., Manufacturers, Crosse, Wis. 54 EGIN THE NEW YEAR BY DISCARDING THE : annoying Pass Book System and adopting in its place the Tradesman Credit Coupon. Send $1 for sample order, which will be sent prepaid. E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. V 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. 437 WHOLESALE La 5 Carpets, Qil Cloths, Rugs; China Mattings Draperies, and Parlor Screens Smith & Sanford, Ottawa and Pearl Sts., Ledyard Block. ESTABLISHED 1870. CHAS. SCHMIDT & BROS., Manufacturers and Dealers in Foreign and American Granite and Marble Monuments an Statvary Having erected a New Granite Factory with the Latest Improved Machinery, we can Guarantee all Work First Class and Fill Orders Promptly. WORKSHOP AND POLISHING MILLS: Cor. West Fulton and Straight Streets. OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 93 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, c MICH. FA, Wurzburg & Go., Exclusive Jobbers of DRY GOODS, HOSIERY, NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR, 19 & 21 SOUTH DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, - MIOH. Uo “fii IF YOU WANT The Best ACCEPT NONE BUT Silver Thread Sauerkraut. Order this brand from your wholesale grocer HA snide work. 63 AND 65 Grand Rapids, 6-ftcaselikeabove iN if f 6-ft case, square, with metal corners, same price. The above offer is no We shall continue to turn out only the BEST of work, other cases at equally low prices. ARYMAN & GOMPANY, CANAL “bluff” or All STREET, Mich. GEO, H. REEDER, State Agent Lycoming Rubbers and Jobber of Meditm Price Shoes, Grand Rapids, Mich. “reqqny Zaryo04g Bur 180M 29 BUI}ILA S8Oq OT, LION ; COFFEE < 4 hKeerss Merchants, YOU WASNT THiS CABINET Thousands of Them Are in use all over the land. It does away with the unsightly barrels so often seen on the floor of the average grocer. varnished and put together in the best possible manner. Beautifully grained and Inside each cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws. Kvery Wide- Awake Merchant Should Certainly Sell ON, THK KING OF COFFERS, An Article of Absolute Merit. It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees. only in one pound packages. 120 one-pound packages. 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. WV oolson Spice Co., TOLEDO, OHIO. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapidg. THE DETROIT NEWS COMPANY, WHOLESALE STATIONERY, FANOY PERIODICALS, The largest and most complete line of above goodsin the State, at reasonable prices. Dealers are invited to eall. Send for our circulars and price lists. OUR HOLIDAY LINE IS NOW COMPLETE. Corner Larned and Wayne Sts., Detroit. K. W. HALL PLATING WORKS, ALL KINDS OF Brass and Iron Polishing AND Nickle and Silver Plating Corner Pearl and Front Sts., Grand Rapids BOOKS, GOODS, ? ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. Michigan Business Men’s Association. L. Whitney, Muskegon. Vice-President—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint. Vice-President—M. C. Sherwood, Allegan. . Stowe, Grand Rapids. Ww. Parker, Owosso. Board—President; Frank Wells, Rogsing: Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lo Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; O. Conky Grand Rapids, Secretary. Oomnittas on Insurance—O. F. Conklin, et Rap ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Ow Committee on Legislation—Frank Wells, “Lansing; H. H. Pope, Allegan; C. H. May, Clio Committee on Trade Interests—Frank Hamilton, Trav erse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. W. Sprague, Greenv le. Committee on Transportation—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint; M. GC. Sherwood, Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee. Committee on Building and Loan Associations—N. B. Biain, Lowell; F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con neil, Muskeger. Local | Secretary—Jas. 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- Ne. 1—Traverse City B. M. A. President. J. Ww. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. No. 2—Lowell B. M. A. President, N. B. Plain; Secretary, Frank T. King. No. 5—Sturgis B. M. A. President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A. President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A. Président, John A. Miller; Secretary, C. L. Whitney. No. 6—Alba 8. 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. S—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. 10O—Harbor Springs B. M. A. President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. o.11—Kingsley B. M. A. President, a Pe 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, 2: R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. . 16—Sand Lake B. M. A. President, . x. Crandall; Secretary, W. Rasco. Noe. 17—Plainwell B. M.A. | President, Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle. No. 18—Qwosso B. M, A. President, Warren P. Woodard; Secretary, 8. 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: se A. Lyon. No. 24—Morley B. M. President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. Richmond. No. 25—Paio B. M. A, President, = D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson. o. 26—Greenville 1, M. A. President. ee C. Satterlee: Secretary, E. J. Clark. No 27—Derr KB. M. A. President, E. 8. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher. No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A President, * aie Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer. o. 29—Freeport B.M. A. President, Wan Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough. . 30—Oceana B. M. A. President, A 79 “avery; Secretary, E. 8. metteling. No. 31—Charlotte B. M. A. Eres _— J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury. o. 32—Coopersville B. M. A. eestieeat w. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson. No. 33—Charlevoix B. M. A. President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane. No. 34—Saranac B. M. A. President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P. T. Williams. _ No. 35—Bellaire B. M. A. President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, Cc. E. Densmere. ~ Ne. 36—Ithaca B. M. A. President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden. No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E. W. Moore. No. 38—Scottville B. M. A. President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, D. W. Higgins. No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A. President, W. 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 C. J. Rathbun. No. 43—Tustin B. M. A. President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom. No. 44—Reed City B. M. A. President, = B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith. o. 45—Hoytville B. M. A. President, = %. Hallenbeck; Secretary, OsA. Halladay. No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. President, Wm. ee M. Gould. No. 47—Flint M. U. t, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham. No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A. President, nor Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor. . 49—Leroy B M. A. President, al Wenzel. Secretary. Frank Smith. No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis. No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A. Erosion L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon. ne rT o. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. President, . 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos. No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald. No. 54— Douglas B. M.A. President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller. Ne. 55—Peteskey B. M. A. President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman. No. 56—Bangor BM: A. . W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman. o. 5%7—Rockford B. M. A. President, = G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham. No. 58—Fife Lake BR. M. A. President, L.S. Walter; Secretar} ,C.< Plakely. No. 59—Fennville B. M. A. President F.S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen. No. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt. No. 61—Hartford B. M. A. President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. No. 62—East saginaw M. A. President, at 2 .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mulholand. 63—Evart B. M. A. President, oo v. ee Secretary, C. E. Bell. , 64—Merrill B, M. A. President, C. - “Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton. No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A. President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8S. Blom. No. 66—Lansing B. M. A. President, — Wells; Secretary, Chas. Cowles. o. 67—Watervliet B. M. A. Pistons W.L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield. No. 68—ANegan 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, President, N No, 73—Belding B. M. A. President, A s "Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster. No. 74—Davison M. U. President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. C. W. Hurd. No. 75—Tecumsehb B. M. A. President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus. No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A. Preston: 8. 8.McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong. o. 77—South Haven B. M. A. ae E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross. No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A. President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders. Ne. 79—KEast 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. KB. Ransom. No. 82—Alma B M. A. President, B.S. Webb; Secretary, M. E. Pollasky. No. 83—Sherwood B. M,. A. President, a P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo. _ Standish B. uM. A. President, B i. Angus; Secretary, D. W. Richardson. No. 85—Clio B. M. A. President, J. M. Beeman; Secretary, C. H. May. No. 86—Millbrook a anaes — an ae Precitont T W, Preston: Secretary. H. ne nord B. M. = President, x D. Bent; Secretary, A. W. Hurst. Association Notes. Gladwin is moving in the matter of organizing aB.M.A. As the preliminary work isin good hands, the Association will probably soon be in - working order. The merchants of St. Catharines, Ont., organizing a B. M. A. and have sent for the working plans of the Michigan associations, which they consider the best in the country. President Whitney informs THz TRADESMAN that he proposes to visit Plainwell and Paw Paw next week or week after, and can stop over a day at any other town in either vicinity, if noti- fied to that ¢ffect at once. Plainwell correspondence Allegan Journal: | “The Scott Brothers, on the East Side, are erect- ing quite a saw mill. Would it not be a good idea for our Business Men’s Association to give these boys a lift? assistance they deserve, they will soon be em- ploying a number of men.” ————q,P Sa ___—— Good Words Unsolicited. E. Luther, grocer, Adrian: ‘I like the way | you handle the P. of I. isis That alone is | worth the price of the paper.’ Van Cleve Glass Co., manufacturers of glass, | Cleveland: ‘‘As we admire enterprise, we wish | to show our appreciation of your paper to the extent of a year’s subscription, for which you will find #1 enclosed.” H. A. Hitchcock, the Mt. Morris druggist and grocer, sends in three new subscribers, with the | following commendation: “I think it is just the | paper we want and am very much pleased with it. It certainly should be liberally supported.” a Points for Clerks. John E. Searles, Jr. of the Havemeyer Sugar Refining Co., recently delivered an interesting address to the young men connected with the grocery trade in the city of Brooklyn. There were, said he, nine words which, if combined, meant the word success. Capital did not make suecess. Character, for a young man, was far better for him to start in life with. The best capitalfor a young man was combined in the following words: Ambition—a young man without am- bition would never amount to anything. We are living at high-pressure time, and no young man should lack the important element in this country. Some young men wanted to be the Vanderbilts, but they were lazy and would never succeed. The next word—industry—was as im- portant to success as ambition. Without it the latter was no use. Every young man looking for success should settle down and acquire industrious habits. Honesty was absolutely essential for any young man starting out ona business eareer. There were exceptions, but hon- esty won in the long run. Sobriety, the next word, was also im- portant to assure success. The speaker could not bear to see many of those who had started out in life with him falling by the way through love of intoxicants. He advised all young men to let drink alone and thus cast a sheet anchor to the windward. Reliability meant the combination of interests with the employer and a care- ful and correct attention to business. Courtesy, in the grocery trade in par- ticular, is another most important word. Its use paid in the end, and everyone, rich and poor, was entitled to it. Thoughtfulness was the next. It meant, wake up, think, study, observe and read. Independence should be possessed by all young men looking for success. The man who cannot say no, and has no mind of his own, will never get along. The last word was nerve. At one time or another, Mr. Searles said, a young man was brought face to face with an important situation which called upon him for action. If he is afraid to meet it, if he cannot make a change, whena change is for the best, for want of nerve, he will not succeed. Nerve meant cour- age of convictions. And all of these words combined made the greatest word of all, and signified the kind of charac- ter the young man should have who is looking for success. It is— Courtesy, Honesty, Reliability, | Industry, Sobriety, ; Thoughtfulness, | Independence, Ambition, Nerve, J ‘These two words,’”’ said Mr. Searles, in conclusion, ‘‘embrace everything that will win in the long run, success in this world and in the world to come.’’ i Nearly Ready. The Detroit Journal Year Book for 1890, will be ready for issue about Japn- uary 1. It will be sent free to all old and new subscribers of the Journal. It has been thoroughly revised, and nearly all the matter it contains, as well as the cover, is entirely new, the latter being beautified by an elegant fioral design. It is a beauty. ——_— +4 << Both Satisfied. Lady (leaving a store)—I am up to the tricks of these merchants. I made him come down $2 on the price. Merchant (to himself)—I am up to the tricks of these lady customers. Iputthe price up $4. ee VISITING BUYERS. E Heintzelman, Logan Geo E Marvin, Clarksville L Lott, Elmdale Munger, Watson & Devoist, Hilton & Osborn, Morgan Sullivan LM Wolf, Hudsonville AM Porter. Moorland Geo Meijering, Vriesland Smith & Bristol, Ada CVanAmberg, Whitneyville Sisson & Watson, Ada S T Colson, Alaska C E Coburn, Pierson Isaac Quick, Allendale F M Carpenter & Co., Wm Riley, Dickenson Stanwood A Purchase, So Blendon G W Shearer, CedarSprings G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove W H McConnell, B Cohen, Hesperia Cedar Springs John Damstra, Gitchell John Giles & Co., Lowell J Raymond, Berlin M M Brooks, Austerlitz L Maier, Fisher Station G C Baker, Labarge Geo P Stark, Cascade R D Wheeler, Ravenna DenHerder & Tanis, Pickett, Bros., Wayland Vriesland Avery & Pollard, SH Ballard, Spart: locum’s Grove S J Martin, Sullivan Dr A Hanlon & Son Wm Barker, Sand fake Middleville Ezra Brown, Englishville P Brautigam, No Dorr W S Adkins, Morgan C B Shaver, Kalkaska John Smith, Ada 8 C Scott, Howard City Carrington & North, Trent PS Fancher, Mt Pleasant GH Walbrink, Allendale RA Hastings, Sparta ES Botsford, Dorr Padley Bros., Muskegon W HStruik, Forest Grove CH Adams, Otsego A Justema, Grand Haven Hessler Bros., Rockford M Heyboer & Bro,, Oakland J N Wait, Hudsonville J H Manning, Lake P O J W Armstrong, Caledonia John De Vries. Jamestown Maston & Hammond, H Meijering, Jamestown Grandville H Van Noord, Jamestown Walling Bros., Lamont Struik Bros, Byron Center Dr H C Peckham, Freeport Smallegan & Pickaard, EE Hewitt, Rockford ForestGrove Reed & Son, Mulliken W McWilliams, Conklin DO Watson, —— Jno Farrowe.SoBlendon L Steketee, Holland Character. E Hartgerink, RB Gooding&Son, Gooding New Promingen L Burns, Ada H Morley, Cedar Springs Geo A Sage, Rockford Tucker,Hoops & Co. —— T W Preston, —— = M Elder, Spencer Creek Eli Runnels, ‘Cornin W N Hutchinson, Grant John Gunstra, an nt N O Ward, Stanwood 8 T McLellan, Denison D D Harris, Shelbyville H Dalmon, Allendale A & E Bergy, Caledonia G F Cook, Grove E H Bok, Hudsonville ‘cue eo 3 BLEED THROUGH are | If the boys are given the. A CITY OF THE FUTURE. A Utopian Vision of a Remote Social Possibility. ,_ C. H. Shinn, in the Argonaut. In the year 2029, the leading Vander- bilt of his time came into his fortune. He had received a remarkable education, ,and one which the nineteenth century ' would have considered impossible. With- out going into details, young Vanderbilt was evenly developed, physically, men- tally and morally. He had been so edu- cated that he found happiness in the full and constant use of his money and his | brains for the good of humanity. But he was pre-eminently practical—a purified and perfected type of one of the indus- trial kings of the nineteenth century. ' He lived in a cottage in the hills, and he thought out his plans in long walks un- i der his trees. He was the richest man in | America, and yet he had as much free- dom as any plain farmer. To sum it all up, he had. become, without: knowing it, ithe most unselfish and at the same time | the most patient and persistent of living men. The friends he had were not ‘numerous, but each one of them was capable of great things. And he and his wife understood each other in that com- plete way which happens once in a thousand or so. Remember, [ am not trying to tell you how it all came about, because that would make a _ volume. Briefly, Vanderbilt wished to build a city more pleasant and better to live in than any the world had yet seen. He wanted to see whether such a city could be es- tablished under new conditions of social and industrial life, and in such a way that the enormous capital he proposed to invest could be restored unimpaired at the end of a term of years. The site which was chosen for the city of Arachne was in a sheltered and fertile part of the great valley plain of California, which extends from Shastato Tehachapi. The floor of the valley at this point wasa sloping plain, looking west, with: tree- clad foothills east, and hundreds of great oaks scattered here and there, like the ancestral oaks in the heart of Eng- land. The region was chiefly occupied by large wheat farms. Vanderbilt was able to purchase, through agents, a tract of land nearly twenty miles square. Then he sent for his engineers. ‘What I want,’? he said, ‘is a city capable of indefinite extension. The plan is to be based on the web of the geometric spider. Streets, sewerage, water, light, transportation and the other requirements of this Utopia are to be perfected as far as the science of the day will permit.’’ The engineers made their repart. It was a wonderful situation, they said. There was natural gas underlying the valley: water ceuld be brought from the Sierras; railroads from all parts of the continent could center in the heart of the city; commerce could occupy miles of wharves—if only people chose to come and live in Arachne. Then Vanderbilt sent for several great landscape garden- ers to work with the engineers, and he and his wife went with them over the valley, the golden foothills and the sea- green tule lowlands by the sloughs. As the work went on, so broad and beauti- ful were the plans developed, so mag- nificent the scale of operations, that the interest of the country was aroused, and many persons wished to buy and live in the as yet unbuilt city; but the reply sent out was: ‘‘Not yet. Wait until we are ready.’’ The landscape gardeners said: ‘‘With this soil and climate, every home can have its garden and every street can be an avenue of shade and fragrance. All the trees of the temper- ate zones, and many of the tropics, can thrive here, so we will have no street less than 100 feet wide, and some of our great avenues shall even be 150 feet across, and planted with date palms and magnolias, for twenty miles into the country. We shall lay out public squares on every street and two great parks, one on the lowlands by the river, another on the foothills which look down on the city. Weshall so arrange our squares as to preserve the best of the oaks, syca- mores and other trees of the valley. And, when the city is built, one of its officers shall be a city forester, educated and efficient, to preserve and develop all this beauty of streets, squares and parks.’? And that winter they planted miles of avenues and hundreds of acres of forests. There were 400 specimens of deciduous trees, forty-eight species of broad-leaved evergreens and 100 of con- ifers chosen to planton the streets. Some streets had one row of trees down the center; others had two rows near the sidewalks. The great parks were to be not only pleasure grounds, but also arboretums. A belt of forest, a mile wide, across the valley, was planted to protect the city from the occasional northers. The engineers arranged to have all the sewers of the city unite at the édge of a tule marsh, by the river, five miles beyond the city’s possible ex- tension, and there their contents were to be heated in vast furnaces, dried, ground to powder, and sold for fertilizers to farmers the world over. They arranged for water and natural gas for cooking and lighting, to be piped into every house, free to the consumer. They ar- ranged for cable cars up and down every street and avenue, all managed by one system. They laid out the city so that every lot, besides fronting on a street, ran back to a twenty-five-foot alley, and they arranged for a freight cable system on 21] these alleyways. They arranged for telegraph, telephone and _ phono- graph connections throughout the entire system. Railroad men in those days had come to run cars without smoke or noise, by electricity, and it was easy to arrange for the approach of all trains by two broad, sunken avenues, one north, the other south, over which the streets crossed. These avenues led to the cen- ter of the city, where a union depot, the great public buildings and the offices of all the departments of public works were Situated. It would be too long a story to explain further the physical details of the sytem of organization, in which beauty and utility were joined in perfect union. When the time came, there appeared one morning in every newspaper in the United States an announcement: ‘‘Lots for sale in Arachne, to actual settlers. Two hundred and fifty million dollars have already been invested here, and sales will be so conducted as nearly to restore this capital intact, at the end of twenty years, to the original investor. The object of this experiment is not money-making. Those who cannot read and write had. better..not. come to Arachne, as the charter which it is hoped will be adopted does not allow such to vote at ¢ity elections. Copies of the proposed charter mailed to all appli- eants.”’ Within a year Arachne was a city. Vanderbilt and his friend, succeeded in obtaining their charter, which could not be altered except by a three-fourths vote of the citizens. This charter was the most important part of Arachne, and so I will give a synopsis of some of its pro- visions. As Vanderbilt stated at the public meetings of the twenty or thirty thousand voters who finally adopted it, almost as it was written: ,‘‘It is intended, in this charter, to give intelligence, thrift, and honesty the controlling power in Arachne. Some things the people can do unitedly; some must for ever be left to the individual. Arachne will prob- ably contain both rich and poor, weak and strong, wise and foolish to the end of time, but we hope it will contain less crime, less unhappiness, and fewer fail- ures than any other city in the world. The charter of Arachne will suit neither nationalists nor silurians, but it is worth trying nevertheless.”” The charter pro- vided for the absolute equality of men and women before the law, and for non- sectarian free schools in a chain from the primary grades through the univer- sity, with schools of the arts and indus- tries. Then came the qualifications for yoters: ‘‘City elections shall be con- ducted separately from all other elec- tions. Voters at city elections must be able to read and write, and must be free- holders owning one ‘unit of real estate.’ ‘The unit of real estate’ is a lot of fifty feet frontage and not less than one hun- dred feet in depth extending to a Tear alley. This unit cannot be subdivided, though it may be held in several undi- vided interests. If used for residence, only one house can be built on such a lot, and it must have at least five full feet of space left on each side, ten feet in front, and twenty-five in the rear., If used for business, the plans of the build- ing must conform to the general ordi- nances of the board of building commis- sioners.”’ The sections relating to “qualfications of officers’? were remark- ably simple: ‘*All candidates for offices in the gift of the people shall have passed tbrough at least the grammar grade of the public school system. Heads of departments shall have passed through at least the high school grade.’? The system of voting provided for was unique. Voters were registered by residence. Besides telephonic and phonographic apparatus, and pneumatic tubes for receiving and sending mail, every house contained a ‘‘voting tube.’? connected with the city hall. At night, between the hours of six and nine, every voter sent from his own house or room, to the central voting office, his vote, recorded on a phonographic piece of metal, which passed at once without any human agency into a mechanical contrivance which counted and recorded the entire vote, and preserved the cylinders and _ tallies intact for twenty-five years. This gigan- tic machine was mathematically perfect, and had been tested in every possible way. The entire vote of the city was announced within an hour after the clos- ing of the polls. The introduction of a single unregistered vote, or of a vote from the wrong place, would cause the machine to throw out the entire vote of that house or room. Any voter could give his number at any time within twenty-five years, and hear his own vote read off by the machine. The city had printed on its ballots the names of all persons nominated by fifty or more free- holders. The veter merely read off the names of those he wished to vote for, and his phonograph recorded it. The voting-tubes and the machine were se- curely closed at all other times of the year except during the three voting hours. The register of the city was posted, page by page, in many promi- nent places, for weeks before the elec- tion, and the city:had a standing offer of a reward for the discovery of any fraud- ulent entry. After a few years it became evident that machinery had triumphed and hope- lessly broken up all the political ma- chines. Voters stayed at home, after dinner, long enough to vote, and then went to the theaters, libraries, or art gal- leries, returning in time to hear their phonographs report the results of the election. The organization of the city was said by the charter ‘‘to be for the purpose of carrying on, as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the business of the city.”’ The officers were expected to give their entire time to the city’sservice, and all were salaried. The head of the goy- ernment was called ‘‘the city president,’’ answering in some respects to the mayor, but with greater powers. He sent all nominations for heads of certain depart- ments to the legislative body, which con- sisted of twenty-seven members, nine of whom were chosen once in every two years. They were elected, not from dis- tricts, but at large, and were termed ‘‘the city legislature.’? The officials nomi- nated by the president and elected by the legislature were those belonging to what was termed the ‘‘Industrial Group of the City Departments’’—the chief forester, the sanitary engineer, the city architect, the chief railroad engineer, and the heads of the water supplies, the gas wells and the sewerage furnaces. TW@ese were all trained and educated specialists, for each department worked up to within certain test limits of error, just as the United States mintsnow do. The heads of the “Governing Group’’ Of officers, the city attorney, the school superintendent and directors, the chief librarian, the head of the art schools, the insurance, banking and fire commissioners, head of the tax department, chief of police, and similar: officers, were elected by the people. The judiciary were twice elected, once by the people and once by the president, legis- lature and other elected officers assem- bled in council on the following day. Usually they ratified the choice of the people, but there were many notable in- stances where they had reversed that decision. This, being a veto power, re- quired a two-thirds vote. In that case, the people presented new candidates. Taxes were arranged on the basis of the ‘cunit of real estate.’? This unit was taxed at a fixed rate, whether improved or unimproved. A fixed amount of water and gas was furnished free to each house —this amount being rated as ‘‘sufficient for the use of one family;’’ everything above this amount was charged at cost of.production. The sewerage furnaces turned in a large annual revenue to the eity. The transportation department, which included all the freight and pas- senger traffic, had rates of charges fixed from time to time by the city legislature. The income from this souree, added to the revenues of the sewerage department and the small fixed tax on the unit of real estate, was sufficient to pay all the ex- penses of the city government. The city had enabled its citizens to escape most of the indirect taxes of the cities of the nineteenth century, and the result was most astonishing in the tax department. It was not necessary to put a dollar of tax on the great buildings, for, as the city grew, the added transportation, at rates that lessened each year, paid all the expenses. The legislature had the right to raise the tax rate on the unit of real estate, and even to levy a graduated tax on all buildings which cost more than $5,000, but this was a right which it never exercised. The other sources of income were sufficient. As Arachne grew from a population of fifty thousand to one of half a million, and before the close of its first century, to more than two millions, the wisdom of its founders became more and mere manifest. It was a city of homes, of health, of happiness. Individuality had its proper play, competition had health- ful activity, but the sense of brotherhood was cultivated, and, as the powers and duties of the city grew, the service of the city increased in honor and responsi- bility, and the organization of public life became more perfect. The evils of cities like London and New York never existed in Arachne; there were no slums, no tenement houses, no pestilence-haunted rookeries, no dives and dance cellars and saloons, for the spirit of the community did not tolerate these things. Dry Goods. Prices Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Atlantic A.......... @g)intesrity XX. .....- 5 Atlanta A AL. °. 6% King, He fo = Archery Bunting... ae Ee es AMOTy 2. cc. i ©, Soin... Bi Beaver Dam A A.. be Lawrence LL....... = Berwick W.... 25. . 6% New Market B...... Bisekstone O, 32.... 5’ ENoibe Ro... — 4 Chapman. =). 0.22. 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These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. ves’, Old StylG = 2. .2252.50 55.002. d 60 1? a. 60 . 40 J ennings’, BENUINE.... 22... ee eee eee eee eee es Jennings’, imitation ..............-....--.-- 50&10 AXES. First =; Se Bronze... 8 7 00 HB Browse... ... 5.1... 11 00 ee & BS Steel... 8 50 . DB: Seeeb 13 00 BARROWS. dis. ere 8 14 00 Clare se net 30 00 BOLTS. OO a new Het... 0.0.3.2... see EE ee ui Sieigh BOG ee BUCKETS. Well plate $3 50 Well Swivel. 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Cast Loose Pin, figured........ ...--........ 70& Wrought Narrow, Siehit Hest O1NE. 2 60410 Wrought Loose eT Lea TS IE 60&10 Wrougnt Tabie............:................. 60&10 Wrought Inside Blind...............--....-- 60&10 Wrought Brass.............-0-s2.-eee- sees 15 Bind CMe Ss... ce Blind, Parker’s.. Blind, Shepard’s BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 40 CRADLES. Graig dis. 50&02 CROW BARS. @ase Steer. 62 perb 4% CAPS, Ig perm 65 = O00 ee ee a a Sh 60 se ele ig 35 Sueket Ce ee . 60 CARTRIDGES. Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 50 iim Fire, United Staies................. dis. 50 Contra: Mire 2... dis. 25 CHISELS. Socket Kirmer ..........- Socket Framing............ SOCRCCC GENCE. oo cs Soeckee SHGkS. 70&10 Butchers ‘Tanged Wirmer.................. - 0 COMBS. dis. Carty. PawreneGs 25.005. 40&10 Boveri 2 CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per i 28 Sou Cerone Pere ................ 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... 24 Cold Rolled, Ne 24 PGCOTHS oe 25 DRILLS. dis. Miocse's Hit SteGms.... 40 Paper and straight name... 12.8... 40 Morse’s Paper snank 00000 40 DRIPPING PANS. Small sizes, ser pouna 92.02). o7 Larce sizes, per poulid.....................- 6% ELBOWS. Com. 4 piece Gin...) - 5 ctl: doz. net 70 Coprueetee (2-62. 5. dis. 20&10&10 PGAUREAPAG oe dis. 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, #18; large, $26..... meet eee cose 30 ives’, 1. O18; & Oa. 3 Ge 25 FILES—New List. dis. Wessee ee 60106 New American 2.2 2 6 60&10 MICROINOG SS... ce — ICRC ee Hetior’s Horse Baspe......--..25.5.......... 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 2; 2% and 26; 27 28 List 12 13 14 15 18 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50 HAMMERS. —o CGR. tee. = 2 A 25 Yerkes Oe Pimme 6.8. oc acl. dis. “40&10 Mason's Solid Cast Steel. ................ 30¢ list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30c 40&10 HINGES. Gate Clerks 0.2,5.......-1. 06... dis.60&10 State r doz. net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 and OE ee oe ee 3% Screw Hook and Eye, De ee net 10 ee eee oe ews net 8% «s - “ Ne net 7% ‘ « “ ET net 7% Rican ane To ce dis. — 70 HANG Barn Door Kidder Mfg. ta Wood track.. 10 Champion antl friegon. 2.0 .-...5 5.2.5... 60&10 Kidder, wood track ......................... HOLLOW WARE ee ec ewee oes 60&05 CEO. ee 60&05 ree ca vedas cislewe = Gray enameled................--...2seeeeeee HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Pin Ware.... 2. ...06.5.0.. new list 70&10 Japanned Tin Ware........--.eeeseeeees ees: 25 Granite tron Ware ..-........-..; new list 334410 _ HORSE NAILS. Wit Sabie Gos. dis. 25&10@25&10&10 Pio ee dis. oS eae DEOPLIPWOSEOFI uc oe eco co dis. 10&10&5 KNOoBs—New List. os Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ...........-.. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 Door, porcelvin, trimmings....... So oecee 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Mallory, co & CO 6 oo ced. 55 ee ee Ce 55 Norwell ea 55 LEVELS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s....... ates eas 70 MATTOCKS. Coffee, Parkers Co. P.S. & W. Nite. Co.’s Malleables. . ‘Landers, Ferry & Clark’s............ . Enterprise . Pome ee ees ereeeeeseeeensees MOLASSES GATES, dis. Stebhin 6 Pattern os so coe, 60&10 Peephte 8 Genuine. ek 60410 Mnterprisce, aclfmeasnring.... 2... 2... 25 NAILS Advance above 12d nails. inal FENCE AND BRADS. ie _ to 60d Se es 25 10 25 40 60 100 150 1 00 1 50 2 00 CASEING AND BOX. Pe 50 ee 60 sd el % Ofte m 90 0S 10 Dead ie 150 COMMON BARREL, : inch ese ae aldol sie Cela duu See ee 2 2 CLINCH, Peand ta tnen 1% 2 and 2% eS a 1 15 eS ey 1 00 3 inch a ee 8 oe ond 46 ine % Each half keg 10 cents extra. te ae ‘ PLANES. dis. 10 Poon Ce. fanéy. ee — aa eee : et ee eee ceece auk 20 Sancusmy Poel Co.'s, fancg 40G10 Beneh, first quality........ d ee ee eee 50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... 20&10 = . PANS, fv, ACMG eo dis, Common, nasa ee dis. 20 RIVETS. 8. 5 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 vary according to composition. aia ANTIMONY, Pe sec cokes cece u Cuma ne hous r MIQCGO cee ™ oo ie TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal eueeeceeeelustecles beds cede 86 00 14x20 Ic, 10x14 IX, . 14x20 IX, . Each additional X on this grade, 81. . iV arcoa i ae Spode See seu ceuueceecuk occ sl. a eee ace Cabe ee abcd gal oy 6 ol he a Each be'dditional X on this grade 81.50, ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, « - WOrGeNEar:. ¢<; sotu eee cede a Oe 14x20 IX, * ‘ seine ticueadeacwe: en - - cic. <.o 98 Allaway Grade... wives) @W , ; Mo seee ects eens £3 “ “ eee : 18 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE rer ra ee nS dsc Gime cau e oa seicie cae aoe or No. 8 Boilers, | per pound... 09 Broken packs 4c vee pound extra. OPES, Sisal, 4% inch and iene Oe oe seul ree cae . ea ise SQUARES. dis. Pacer ane TOM % Wey ane Beveis. i 60 Eee een 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. : Nos Mitel. 4 20 83 0b Moe t5t0 te 4 20 3 00 Nos Steet 7 4 2 3 10 Won coco. 42 3 15 a -. 44 3 3 ee 4 60 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER, ase GCE To Oe dis. 40&10 Sil L ke, Whit a ilver Leake, ie A. Seseeeeees Drab A.. = = 50 55 35 SASH WEIGHTS, Solid Hyes. Heels, per ton $25 | ine SAWS. dis. ‘ Ee na: Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, a ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 ss a ecial Steel Dia, X Cuts, per foot.. 30 “© Champion and Electrieé Tooth xX mn per Oe TRAPS, dis. CCE Ce — Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’s. 70 GRC 70 P.S. & W. Mfg. eer 70 Mouse, Cagmer | 8 18¢ per daz, Mouse, Ge $1.50 per doz. WIRE, dis. PERCE 67% eMC? MAREE 70&10 WOUPCrCd TASEMC Ge 62% insed MWareee ae = PETG DOC wink ECE. er Barbed Fence, galvanized........ pet pond 03 PAM 2 80 i WIRE GOODS. dis. ee 70&10&10 Screw Eyes.. 70&10&10 Ee 70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Myes... 3.0002 oc 70&10&10 WRENCHES, dis, Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Coes Gentine... 1. 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ % Coes Patent, malleable. -.. o.oo... 75&10 MISCELLANEOUS, dis. Bnd CARCR es 50 PS, COROT = Merows, Now East eg Casters, Bed and Plate....... iés08%0 Dampers, American... (5..0-........ 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.;.... 65 METALS, 4 PIG TIN. < ee Oe ee cae a gt ae ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 24c per pound. 600 pound OHM ie ea 6% SOE POUMG ee coce 66% SOLDER. ee ede eee .16 EERE WE eee a ol The prices of the many other qualities - solder in the market indicated by private brands _— BARNHA WE ARE PREPARED TO MEET THE VIEWS The ssa 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, DECEMBER 4, 1839. MORE CONTINENTAL TRADE. Having seen as much of this country in the space of forty days as nine out of ten Americans see in the course of a lifetime, the Pan-American commission- ers are taking up the work of the con- ference with a vim which indicates that they have an adequate impression of the magnitude and the resources of the United States. They realize in a practical way that this is a country for the continent to have some pride in—not merely possess- ing a population and wealth greater than all the rest of the continent from Green- land and Alaska to Terra del Fuego, but also exceeding in wealth and population every European country, and behind none in industrial resources and energy, and the educational machinery to make an intelligent and orderly people. The programme suggested for discus- sion is sufficiently long. Popular inter- est, however, centers on that part of it which looks to the establishment of closer and more abundant commerce be- tween the different free states of the con- tinent. And of these proposals, those which relate to the subsidizing of ship- ping and the modification of tariffs are felt to be the most important. The sug- gestion of a common unit of interna- tional coinage, of identical laws for the administration of custom houses and the like, are secondary matters. No great and immediate effect will result from them, and they might well be left over for discussion after we have reached an understanding as to the other two points. As to the establishment of steamship lines by joint action on the part of these governments and our own, there seems to be a great unanimity among the dele- gates to the congress. The chief diffi- culty will be to determine the proportion of the burden which is to fall upon each. These sister states are notin the same financial position as ourselves. We have not heard of any of them being burdened with a surplus of revenue. As we said above, their entire population is much less than ours, and the disparity in wealth is even greater. Theseven states of Central America and the nine of South America represented in the conference had a population slightly more than 40,000,000, according to the census enum- erations they tdok between 1872 and 1881. Their collective wealth is not half thatof the United States. In set- tling the terms, therefore, of our co- operation with them, we must expect to bear the greater share of the burden, at least at the outset, as we are very well able to do, independent of the fact that it is we who are to derive the most im- mediate benefit from the arrangement suggested. In some respects, the solution of the shipping proplem solves everything. We now are selling in small and unsatisfac- tory quantities to these countries the very articles in which we desire an in- creased commerce with them. Neither their tariffs on manufactures nor ours on the raw materials of manufacture, nor our higher rate of wages stands in the way of this. In prices, in quality, in the adaptability of our goods, we are com- peting with Europe in the markets of these countries as regards hardware, boots and shoes, woolens and cottons, no less than flour and the like produce, so far as our inadequate provision of direct communication permits. And the rapid growth of our commerce with Venezuela, through the establishment of a single line of steamships between her ports and ours, shows what we fairly might expect if our neighbors could buy our manufactures and other products di- rectly, instead of getting them through the intervention of our commercial rivals. This, therefore, is the matter of greatest urgency at present, and we hope the deliberation will result in placing before our Congress definite proposals for this great object. Next in importance is it that we should sean carefully the actual conditions of commerce in all these countries, with a view to seeing what advantages and en- couragements each of these free states can extend to trade with the other, in order that the ties of friendship may be strengthened by mutual intercourse and reciprocal advantage. On our side, it is not difficult to see what might be done to increase our purchases from the free states of Central and South America. All that is needed is to divert to them the commerce we now maintain with Eu- ropean dependencies in the same region. From Cuba, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Jamaica, the Bermudas, Trinidad and the three Guianas we now make large pur- chases of tropical produce, which the free states could furnish with equal facility. And except with the British eolonies—if, indeed, that be an ex- ception—we are not allowed to trade with these dependencies on terms as favorable as their European rulers re- serve to themselves. Spain, for instance, excludes from Cuba and Porto Rico every kind of American produce she wishes to supply herself. We thus are submitting to commercial impositions of the most offensive kind, while we also make our- selves the patron of colonialism, to the disadvantage of the free states who would give us the fairest terms. There would be little difficulty in read- justing our tariff so as to foster the pro- duction by our sister republics of all the supplies we require to purchase. A re- mission of the duty on sugar imported from the countries now represented at Washington would convert the whole of the most northern states of South Amer- ica into heavy producers and exporters of that article, and this might be repaid by a similar remission of duties on im- ports of ours which they do not now or cannot conveniently produce for them- selves. It is in arrangements of this nature and not in the establishment of an American Continental Zollverein, that the best solution of our common problem is to be sought. No attempt should be made to interfere with the internal affairs of any. state. The richer they grow through the development of indus- trial association with the diversification of industry, the more valuable will be their commerce to us. Any arrangement which might tend to place a check to their industrial development would cost us dear.in the long run. Their highest prosperity is our truest interest. The State Board of Pharmacy was created for the purpose of protecting the people from incompetent druggists and relieving the trade from the distrust en- gendered by such men being permitted to dispense drugs. The Board has, in the main, discharged its duties satisfac- torily, but it owes the trade, and the public as well, an explanation for its failure to act in the case of a clear vio- lation of the law at Millbrook, as set forth on another page of this issue. Why the Board should have permitted an in- competent man to continue in business three years, without a license, while it prosecuted a competent man in another portion of the State, before he had been in business a month without complying with the law, is more than the average, law-abiding druggist is able to under- stand. If the farmers would devote one-half the time they are squandering on the P. of I. craze in improving the wagon roads of the country, they would have an in- vestment which would pay them a divi- dend every time they went to market. It has always been an axiom of trade that two sets of prices are contrary to good business principles and, if persisted in, will result in the ruin of any mer- chant pursuing such acourse. Yet over a hundred Michigan merchants have signed the stultifying contract of the P. of L, evidently thinking they can set the laws of trade at variance and still succeed. It cannot be done. Within less than a month THE TRADEs- MAN has published a letter from aP. of I. firm, crowing over the fact that it had secured a profitable line of trade on a strictly cash basis. Within an hour after the paper containing the item appeared, the mercantile agencies reported that the firm had uttered chattel mortgages to the full value of its stock. The creditors did not appear to feel so jubilant over the signing of the contract as the firm did. The contract entered into by the mer- chant who signs with the P. of I. is an ingenious document. It sets forth the rate of profit at which the merchant must sell his goods, but it does not bind the Patron to patronize the store which is alleged to give him inside figures. Such a one-sided agreement is entered into by but two classes of merchants—imbeciles and sharpers. Those who enter into the the agreement honestly are imbeciles. Those who use it as a cover for crooked- ness—and that is the size of nine-tenths of the contract dealers—are sharpers. An Incident of the Road. From the Chicago Mail. i A few weeks ago a couple of traveling men met in St. Louis. They were in the same line and had frequently met on the road. As a consequence, they had be- come friends. Both were young married men. One, a Pittsburger, was telling his friend, who was from Wheeling, about his new baby boy, and was going into raptures over the. youngster, as new fathers are apt to do. When he had poured out his soul without interruption, the Wheeling man told him that when he returned from the trip he was then making he would -be a father himself. Then his face took on a shade of sadness, and he lamented being engaged in a bus- iness which kept him away from his sweet young wife’s side at such a time. His friend sympathized with him in the hearty fashion of commercial travy- elers, and together they talked of the delights of home and home love, and each declared himself the husband of the sweetest little woman that ever sanctified aman’s life. Could the people who set the drummer down as a heartless per- son—the very butterfly of love with an uncurbed propensity for bestowing his affections indiscriminately on every handsome woman he met—have heard this exchange of confidence, I am sure they would have recanted and had a very different opinion of the married com- mercial traveler. These two men parted with their hearts as tender as the hearts of babes—the one full of rejoicing, the other hopefully exalted. Last week these two men met.at the Tremont House, in this city. They had not seen each other since the St. Louis meeting. The Pittsburg man, remem- bering all about their talk, rushed up to his Wheeling friend with congratulations expressed in a beaming countenance : ‘Hello, oldman! I’m mighty glad to see you,’’ he said, and then, poking the other in the ribs, laughed: ‘‘Well, was it a boy or girl ?” The Wheeling man turned away to hide the tears that sprang to his eyes. Then he swallowed a great lump in his throat and looked in the face of his friend. “The mother and child both died,’’ he said, with a half-sob. The Pittsburg man wrung his friend’s hand in silence and looked, with moist eyes, the sympathy he could not speak. ——_—__—»> +> In a Toy Store. Customer—I see that you advertise that your goods can’t be beat. Proprietor—That’s right, sir; no one can beat ’em. Customer—I’m glad of that; I want a drum for each of my little boys.’’ ~ HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock, measured merchantable, mill culls Crockery & Glassware out:’ LAMP BURNERS, Basswood, log-tun ....0).... 0 24... 13 15 00 45 Birch, Jog-run. ag 15 woe 00| N = pen: NOs Janae. se 22 00 Sick A, Gere 14 00@16 00 “ 75 4 ee WMA os sce ees 25 00@40 LAMP CHIMNEYS.—rer DOX. pci = Pana 60 00@65 00 “en box. as H erry, Ga. eee nH @i2 00 | No.OSun........ 2... cee eee cee eee tenes aving stood the tes i etiti Maple, log-run ....... 12 0@13 00 aoe ba TITTDTE RSET ETE eee ete c ee tees cease cee 2 00 com ff : . . nae oF fe ae _ — * competition and Maple, soft, log-run. ee ee 3 00 ome off victorious, we have no hesitation in recommending to the Maple, Nos. 1 and2.. on @20 00| _ First quality. trade our line of c Maple, clear, flooring es @25 00 No. a crimp top So eee ces cee cue Sock 215 Maple, white, selected. ............... @25 00} NO. 1 eee eeeeeeee eee tree eeee es 2 25 Red Oak lozran 00 20 00@21 -00 | No. 2 SO cece cece eens cece ee eeee cece 3 25 Red Oak, Nos. 1and2................. 26 00@2x 00 | _ XXX Flint. = Oak, _ seu 6 — and upw’d.38 00@40 00 _ oo crimp TOPs. ee eee ee eeee cere eee oes : = 0 h d : | | e a sawe regu ae 30 32 00 = u a Fe ac le cag em mt ahh | Red Oak, No. 1. step pian ee 00 . co Oboe eee cel cee ee. Soho cc 3 80 | Ur ba eT Cigars, | aint Gee ran 8 5 00] . ' | Walnut, Noo. anes or 00 _ : Sun, wrapped and labeled.. I Our Leader Smoking, | gine coe @25 00} N9-2 : i at |e 7! i | ice Bie, teeeum.............---..--- 12 00@13 05 | No. 2 Hinge, “ Ce | || White Aso, log: Te 4 oe 00 Nori Si sili eaion ae | | Our Leader Pine Cut, | Ipwood. tev-ram 000000001.) Se ee Oe ee Be re ite te re eo : i White Oak, slog Og -- 17 00618 00 =? ein el Na cea + : Our Leader Baking Powder, || te Oak, \% sawe os. 1 and 2.. 00 Joe ee 1 | | — oe 160] || OUr Leader Saleratus, | STONEWARE—AKRON. | Butter Croeis, per gal...) tt 06% 1 Our Leader Brooms, | R RD Jugs, # gal., per. doz.. . . Co | < oo eC Milk 2 Mae werd ‘} Acknowledged to be the eee ee WHICH ARE NOW Best on the Market. a FRUIT JARS—Per gro. ason’s, Di 89 50 BADERS 100 Louis St. K. A. STOWE & BRO, ckand Raps «“ a Ce 13 00 J Lightning, ae 12 00 SE OAUOM ce ee 16 00 A ROUL 3% OF rcy GURRIN | Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Brooks’ Hand Force Pump, In- stantaneous Water Heater, Hot Air Furnaces, Mantels, Grates and Tiling, Gas Fixtures, Etc. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Plumbers’ Supplies. 184 East Fulton St, Head of Monroe, Telephone No. 147. 21 Scribner Street, Telephone No. 1109. GRAND RAPID§, AND MICH. Millers, Attention We are making a Middlings Purifier and Flour Dresser that will save you their cost at least three times each year. They are guaranteed to do more work in less space (with less power and less waste) than any other machines of their class. Send for descriptive cata- logue with testimonials. Martin’s Middlings Purifier Co, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LESTER& CO. For Sale! This corner brick store, center of thriv- ing village, with well assorted stock of dry goods and millinery. Leading trade in the village. LESTER & CO., Lake Odessa, Mich. MANIFOLD Se da BLANKS. <€°Fo SAMPLE SHEET#*° PRICES Ta so iy Photo ts es es - sas a SS LEADS SWCS, BRass RULE ~*~ Naoko oS anal oN Ta hd AS NS hte Aran) eM TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Nov. 17, 1889. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive. vi Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7 ae = Traverse City Express....... ooee 9:3208M 11:30am Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 3:15pm 4:10pm Prom Cincinnat <<... 5.3.8 8:50 pm Cage (ee)... 0pm Through coaches for Saginaw on 7:10am nak 4:10 p m train. GOING SOUTH. Cincinnati Express........ o 7:55am Fort Wayne Express..... 2 “hn: 45am 12;50 pm Cineinnatd Express. ..........-00s 5:30 pm 6:00 p m From Mackinaw & Traverse City..10:40 p m rom CAMMIAG. es 9:55 am Train leaving for Cincinnati at6p. m. and arriving from Cincinnati at 9:20 p. m., runs daily, Sundays in- cluded. Other trains daily except Sunday. Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7::0 a.m. and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for Mackinaw City. South—7:15a. m. train has chair car and 6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Nov. 10, 1889. Leave Pp time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later. Through tickets and full information can be had by ealling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at depot, or Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket ent, 67 Monro Grand Rapids, _~— se of . L. LOCKWwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEsT. Leaves. —— be cetincesuceeus 12:50 p m 1:00 pm ?Througn Mall........... 4: 4:20pm +Grand Rapids — *Night Express........ 7:00am tMixed 7:30am 6:50am 10:20am 3:45 pm 10:55 p m y, Sundays excepted. *D: bear Sen cna P seor oa to Detroit, making rect connections for 10 ast, arriving — ~ = =~ next da: ss - New ran pids express as parlor car Detroit to Grand Rapids. Night express has hd pagel sleeping ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. Through railroad ticke’ >it and ocean eeu tickets and_ sleeping berths secured at D.,G. H. & M.R’ oftces, 28 Monroe 8t.,and at the depot. AMPBELL, Citv 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 In hundreds of stores throughout the State. If you are not handling these goods, send in sample order for the full line and see how your trade in these goods will increase. I. M. CLARK & SON. P. STEKETEE & SONS, WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, aoe Sell the follewing well-known brands of staple dry goods: : DENIMS., TICKS. ‘| Amoskeags, Warren, |; Clark’s, Amoskeag, | Everett, Garner, Lancaster, Pemberton, | Lawrence, Otis, =| Warren. Hamilton. 4 GINGHAMS, SHIRTINGS. Amoskeag, Otis, Westbrooks, Scotia, Wellington, Delhi, ; Lonsdale, Randelman, Bates, McAden, Cumberland, Amoskeag, napped. Lancaster. 83 Monroe and 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain Sis, GRAND RAPIDS. J. DETTENTHALER, JOBBER F. OF Uysters Salt Fish, Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Column. CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF WILD GAME SOLICITED. S. K. BOLLES. E. B. DIKEMAN S. K. Bolles & Co., 77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. W holesale Cigar Dealers. tr Voeow Ur We will forfeit $1,000 if the “TOSS UP” Cigar is not a Clear Long Havana Filler of excellent quality, equal to more than the aver- age ten cent cigars on the market. + RT Of the PuTMAN(o CLOSEST BUYERS IN WESTERN MICHIGAN The Michigan Tradesman WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER #4, 1889. SETTLING FOR PURCHASES. The Best Methods of Dealing with One’s Creditors. As very much of the retailer’s credit and standing among wholesale dealers will depend upon his manner of settling for his purchases, it may not be amiss to devote a few pages to that subject. Although it would seem more business like for the wholesale dealer, in giving eredit, especially as he renews it from time to time, to know that the retailer is conducting his business on correct prin- ciples, and that he is fully acquainted with the goods he deals in—buying only those which he has a good prospect of selling, and selling, too, at a fair profit— that he is, in short, a careful, prudent and intelligent business man, with suffi- cient means to himself bear any ordinary loss in his business, than to depend simply on the ene criterion of prompt- ness in paying; still we must take things as they are and not as we think they should be, and it may be that experience has taught the most of the wholesale dealers that irregularity in payments, by a retailer, is a pretty sure indication of some radical defect in his business quali- fications. The person who attends to giv- ing credit in many of the large wholesale houses—the financial member of the firm, as he his called—or his especial deputy or clerk, has often very little opportunity to learn, by personal intercourse with the retailer, anything about his general busi- ness qualifications, except in respect to his settlements for purchases, this being the only part of the business intercourse which comes directly under his super- vision. Consequently, when a retailer once obtains a credit in such a wholesale house, the confidence of this financial member continually increases in him, if he uniformly makes prompt settlements, according to the terms. Many a retailer is able to do this for years, though doing business at a loss all the time, and on the other hand, perfectly solvent retailers are found, who either from carelessness or disregard of its importance, half the time fail to pay their bills at maturity— allowiug their notes to go to protest with very little concern. The custom of requiring the retailer’s promissory note, in settlement of a bill of goods bought on credit, is found so advantageous to the wholesale dealer, that it is now almost uniformly required; and a beginner in the retail business will find it almost impossible to obtain a first- class credit without conforming to the custom. There are yet to be found afew old and substantial retailers, who were in business years ago, before this usage was so general, and whose credit is so well established, who are known to beso responsible that they can obtain goods on credit, and are courted for their cus- tom, even though they refuse to give their notes. But it would be a sign of weakness in aman just commencing to refuse to give such notes. If the creditis given after such a refusal at all, it will only be be- cause the sale is in some way specially desirabie to the wholesale dealer. He will place but little reliance in the debt- or’s punctuality, and will consider that the undertaking of the debtor is to pay at maturity, if convenieDt; and if he should not, he expects to Wait a reason- able time longer, till the d@btor finds it convenient; or relies on his ability to en- force payment at maturity. There is always one exception to this: Whenever the retailer is able to say and fulfill his promise, ‘‘I don’t give notes for my purchase, but will at any time give you the cash with the current rate of interest deducted,’’ he may stand on a par with the dealer who gives notes. Unfortunately, there are but few who commence the retail business with suffi- cient capital to warrant them in making such offers. A retailer will find it to his advantage to conform willingly to such well settled usages of the trade, and give notes, and govern his intercourse in accordance with the rules of the house in which he pur- chases. The knowledge that notes are to be given for a contemplated purchase, and that they must be paid at maturity, will tend to make him more cautious as to the amount of goods he buys, and that he buys only such as are sure to sell promptly. Such customs, therefore, tend in a measure to his own advantage, as he is not so likely to buy what he does not really want, or in excess of his wants, as when he has not the necessity for cau- tion so forcibly impressed on his mind. When he buys on open account, there is an easier feeling, it does not seem so im- portant to be careful in the selection of the goods; if they are only cheap enough, they will sell sooner or later, and if not all sold when the bill falls due, he will take a little extra time on 1f. Through this method of buying, dila- tory habits in paying are engendered, till soon the retailer falls into the way of buying without any special regard to the maturity of his purchases, or to his abil- ity to pay for them. He pays when he is dunned—if he has the money—becoming yearly less and less sensitive about the dunning. His business falls into confu- sion, and even though he may be abun- dantly solvent, his credit becomes im- paired. Those who have hitherto sold to him ‘do not care to continue selling, ex- cept they get increased profits, or can put off on him old and undesirable styles of goods, and he has not a record, which, when he gives a reference, will get him into credit in new houses. Indeed, with- out a radical change in his system of business, he would buy no cheaper or more favorably in new houses, so soon as his dilatory habits are known, than he does from his old creditors. Such experiences are sometimes en- countered by men who are abundantly solvent, who have employed too much of their capital in some outside enterprise or investment. Whatever changes from the regular known terms of credit in the house in which purchases are made, may be de- sired by the purchaser, should be applied for before the purchase is made. When some unforeseen or unexpected circum- stance has occurred after the goods are purchased, making a change in the terms desirable, it may, without objection, be still applied for, so long as the goods are yet under the control of the seller, and he is free to grant the buyer’s request or retain the goods. When they are once under the control of the buyer, such changes must be asked for as favors; be- fore, they are business arrangements, wherein buyer and seller stand on an equality. If the seller does not like the proposed change, he can refuse it, and the purchase can be annulled. After the goods have come into the buyer’s hands, it is better for him to come squarely up to the agreement and give his notes according to the terms, even though he may have doubts about his ability to meet them as given. At the worst, it is then only a future probability, and per- sistent effort may overcome the difficulty; and even if it does not, and the retailer has to fall back on the holder of the note at maturity for aid to carry him through, it is less objectionable than the other course would be. Such a reasonable request as to divide the purchase money into payments of the same average time as the terms, might be applied for at any time; as where a bill of $1,000 has been bought on six months’ credit, and it is found that so many other smaller purchases have been settled for by six months’ notes, that it is feared the payments at that period will be too large, a request to give two notes of $500 each, at five and seven, or four and eight months, will not be out of place, and will often be granted, to the great con- venience of the retailer. A request for two or three months extra time might well be thought an unreasonable one to make after the goods are delivered. Too often all such contemplated changes are left by the buyer until he gets the goods in his possession, when even to apply for an increase of time is regarded asa greater sign of weakness than it would be to ask aid in taking up the note at maturity. A perfectly solv- ent and responsible man may be so far out in his calculations as to be short of money to meet his note at its maturity, and prefer, as the lesser of two evils, to ack his creditor to extend it, rather than to borrow from his friends, or ask them to endorse a note to raise the necessary funds. Having given out the notes in accord- ance with the terms, or where the pur- chase is on open account, it becomes now the retailer’s duty to give his attention to making preparation for payment at maturity. If the instruction set forth in the previous chapters of this book, in re- lation to founding the maturity of the credits and the amounts thereof, on the receipts from the sales for each month in the year, has been strictly followed, and in the calculations enough margin has been allowed for contingencies, there will be sufficient money received from the sales to make the payments as they mature. Should it sometimes unfortunately happen by a miscalculation that a note is maturing at a period when the expec- tations from sales are not realized or* likely to be, and no arrangement can be made to raise money temporarily on a loan, or without unreasonable sacrifice, and the debtor is satisfied that beyond a doubt he is solvent and can meet his payments with the necessity of only the occasional indulgence, a good plan is to apply directly to the creditor holding the note for atemporary loan ora renewal of such part of the note as he is unable to pay. This application should be early enough to avoid a protest of the note, and the money for the part paid and the new note for matures. It opens the way to a bad habit to suffer a note to be pro- tested, or held over when it can be pos- sibly avoided. In all cases, when such a favor is so- licited, or from any cause any extra time is taken, interest for the time should always be added in making payment. It is not a pleasant way that dealers some- times have, when such a faver has been granted, to say, ‘I will pay you the in- terest if you wish,’’ with a look and tone that says plainly, ‘‘You ought not to wish it.”’ Unless the wholesale dealer is one who insists on strict obedience to business rules, by those he deals with, at the risk of being thought ’illiberal, he is very apt to say, if the interest is trifling in amount, ‘‘It is of no conse- quence,’’ even though he thinks that gratitude ought to induce the favored party to pay without hesitation. Most generally, an occasional favor of this kind, when the interest is cheer- fully and readily paid as though the favor was appreciated, will be granted with pleasure, and without any partic- ular disparagement to the retailer’s credit. In truth, occasional instances of this character sometimes induce greater confidence in the debtor, in showing his honorable appreciation of favors, and his systematic way of doing business. Men fear to give credit more from dan- ger of abad heart in the debtor than they do from a weak head. They are pretty generally willing to take a reason- able risk. if they can only feel sure that the person they credit will be honest and do the best he can under the circum- stances; and when he cannot pay promptly they prefer to help him. A debtor who craves such favors, and then shows his want of principle by subtle efforts to evade paying the interest, loses—if mercantile standing could be valued by dollars—a hundred times more than the interest in question. These little, or comparatively little, matters show the retailer’s character. Another small one often has great in- fluence—that of discount on uncurrent money, or exchange on a note or check, payable at some place more or l¢ss dis- tant from the place where the debt is created. Sometimes, after much wrang- ling and ill-feeling, the wholesale dealer may accept the currency or the check, and the retailer has thus ‘‘shaved’’ him out of the amount of the exchange, but if he could know at what a loss of rep- utation he has made the amount in ques- tion, he would hesitate before repeating the transaction. Possibly a retailer by such petty meanness may make $50 or $100 a year. but it is done at such a loss of character that he finds few honest men envy him his reputation or money, either. The retailer who has with due caution left sufficient margin for contingencies, in all his calculations .of the relative amounts and periods of purchases to his sales and collections, will often find him- self in possession of money in advance of the maturity of his payments. This is a great trouble to some weak minds— to have too much money. The difficulty may be surmounted in a bad way, as some do, by using the money to specu- late in wheat, cotton, wool, or other produce; or by the purchase of corner lots in some embryo city in Iowa or Kan- sas; or by lending it toa neighbor who is “Shard up,’’ ata high rate of interest; or even in buying lottery tickets; all pretty sure ways of investing it so per- manently that the owner will not be troubled with it again, nor get it back to pay his bills when they aredue. A good way to use such a surplus is in an- ticipating the retailer’s own indebted- ness, and making’ something by the dis- count. . There is scarcely any use to which a solvent man ean so profitably put any spare cash he may happen to have, as in paying his debts whether they are due or not. People who have not had much experience, sometimes think the comparatively small discount they get bears no comparison to what they might make by some temporary or speculative investment, but mature ex- perience teaches otherwise. When he owes nothing, the money which he may have on hand is his, to do with as he pleases, honestly, of course. But when he isin debt, he should remember his creditors and their claims. When a retailer is prepared to antici- pate some of his payments, it will be proper for him to consider whether he shall discount those soon to become due, or others more remote. The rate of dis- count will generally be greater the farther the day of payment is off, and the temptation will often be to get the greatest discount. If this course is adopted, it may turn out that he will be short of funds to meet the claims falling due earlier. It becomes necessary. therefore, to notice how it happens that the cash is in surplus, whether it arises from the nat- ural profits or increase of the business, or whether from some of the sales or collections, or both—being made earlier than was calculated. In the former case he would use the surplus cash to dis- count wherever it would be most to his advantage. In the latter, he would have to fear that the sales or collections in the following months would be short just in proportion as they were over in the then recent past. If, for instance, a dealer should make his estimate of $3,000 as the probable amount he would sell in the coming month of April, and should create an in- debtedness falling due that month, which, with current expenses, would about require the $3,000 to cover, an un- usually early spring might cause a de- mand for his goods in March, so that $1,000 of the $3,000 to be sold in April, are sold a month earlier, and at the end of the month of March he has the $1,000 in surplus of his payments. But it would be very unsafe under such cir- cumstances, to use it to pay debts falling due in June or July, as the sales would very probably fall off in April, and he would therefore not take in enough to pay his April indebtedness. Sometimes, though, it might be safe to conclude that the whole season would continue to be in advance of calcula- tions. Of this the dealer could judge by then selling, and comparing them with the sales of former years, and noticing whether certain classes of goods were sold to the same customers, in advance of the time when they were sold to them in previous years. If no difficulty of this kind is seen, and the anticipation of receipts of money for the next month or two seems likely to be realized, there is nothing that should prevent the dealer from discount- ing wherever he can get the greatest in- terest off. It is always, however, a matter of commendable prudence, to accept one or two per cent. per annum less discount, and take up the nearer indebtedness, so as to be on the safe side. There is an- other matter that should sometimes gov- ern the selection. The dealer may be buying more heavily than usual of some houses, or may desire to buy more goods of them, and know that his limit of eredit there is reached. It would be good policy to select such indebtedness in preference to others from whom he is not likely to want more goods before their bills regularly mature. As these larger creditors are apt to be the ones who have known him best, and sold him goods at the lowest prices, whereby he became for his own profit more largely indebted to them, itis often the case that they are unwilling to give him so large a discount for pre-payment as others can afford to give who have charged him the higher prices. But this should not in- fluence the dealer to pass them by in dis- counting his paper. It is better to deal so as to retain old friends, than to looking over the character of the goods merely secure new ones. GRAND Lemon & Pe ters, WHOLESALE GROCERS. SOLE AGENTS FOR Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Soaps, Niagara Starch, Amboy Cheese. RAPIDS. Go0d-Bue The Tradesman Coupon is the SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS. E. A. STOWE & BRO., to the Adopt the Tradesman Gredit Govpon Book, And you will find the saving of time to be so great that you will never permit the use of another pass book in your establishment. the market, being sold as follows: $ 2 Coupons, per hundred.......... $2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS: $5 re *¢ eluisie sci ae 3.00 | Orders for 200 orover....... 5 per cent. $10 5 Ce ee aa acl 4.00| ‘ Oe Oe os a ae 10 “ $20 va eae 5.00 - W0GG) cee 20 - Pass Book cheapest and most modern in Alfred J. Brown, WHOLESALE DFT UILS, Nuts, Dales, Figs, 16 and 18 North Division Street, Grand Rapids. EDWIN BPALLAS, JOBBER OF Batter, Egos, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Fruits, Mince Meat, Nuts, Rte. Butter and Sweet Potatoes Let your orders come. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Go, JOBBER OF FOREIGN FRUITS. Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty. 3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. MOSELEY BROS. —WHOLESALE—— Fruits, Seeds, Oysters? Produce. All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty. If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be pleased to hear from you. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., - - GRAND RAPIDS. BLIVEN & ALLYN, Sole Agents for the Celebrated “BIG F” Brand of Oysters. In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS. We make a specialty-of fine goods in our line and are adie “pte to quote prices at any time. We solicit consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, etc. H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. 63 Pearl St. CURTISS & CO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. We carry the VEBY BEST double or single bit, hand-shaved ax handle ever made. Houseman Block, - Grand Rapids, Mich. WM.SEARS & CO., Cracker Manufacturers, 37, 389 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. WM. R. KEELER & CO, Wholesale Confectioners, 412 SOUTH DIVISION STREET. TELEPHONE 92-3R. Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast. Going Like Hot Cakes. We wish to announce to the trade that we are prepared to meet all competition in our line, which comprises a full line of confectionery, fruit and nuts. We also carry the Finest Line of Christmas Goods in the City. Do not forget that we are agents for Rueckheim Bros.’ Penny Goods, which are the best goods made, although sold at the same price as other makes. Mail orders promptly attended to. PHREINS & 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. Putnam Gandy bo, Grand Rapids. 13, 15 AND 17 SOUTH IONIA ST. iG GROCERIES. enero | Seamer ere Gripsack Brigade. John H. Jewett has sold his residence on Paris avenue to M. K. Walton, who will take possession immediately. The Knights of the Grip promise to pay their respects to the P. of L. at their annual convention at Lansing on December 27. Chicago drummers now carry rubber stamps bearing the legend, ‘‘World’s Fair, 1892, Chicago,’’ and register at the hotels with them. Aaron B. Gates is no longer on the road for Morris H. Treusch & Bro., hav- ing dissolved his connection with that thouse last Saturday. Geo. F. Owen recently suffered another relapse, but is able to be about again. John D. Mangum will cover his territory for the next two weeks. Two additions have been made to the hotel list of the Knights of the Grip during the past week—the Aldine, at East Saginaw, and the Mansion House, at Imlay, City. One thousand copies of the invitation to the annual convention of the Knights of the Grip, i which is given in full in another column, are being sent out by Secretary Mills this week. Secretary Mills announces the receipt of the 875th application for membership in the Knights of the Grip. The mem- bership will certainly reach 900, and may touch 1,000, by the date of the annual convention. H. A. Hudson was the victim of a run- away while driving from Cadillac to Lake City, last Wednesday. He was thrown from the conveyance and suffered severe bruises on his legs, which are likely to confine him to his home for a week or ten days. The Railway Association of Michigan declined to grant reduced rates to the annual conventions of the Michigan Knights of the Grip. The action of the Association§ is coin accordance with a resolution adopted two or three months ago, refusing to grant concessions to any fonventions excepting political andG. A R. gatherings. Frank E. Chase, for eleven years trav- eling salesman*for A. C. McGraw & Co., of Detroit, but for the past year on the road for a Chicago house. has returned to his first love and will write Detroit after his name hereafter. He is in De- 4roit this week, fitting out his sample trunks, and will start out on the war- ypath next week. A Lansing correspondent writes: ‘‘At ameeting ofo the Lansing members of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, a per- manent organization was formed, to be known as Division A, Michigan Knights of the Grip of Lansing. The objects are to promote friendly feeling and social inter- course; also, to be more fully prepared to entertain the State society at its annual meeting, which will be held in Lansing. We propose to make it pleasant for any and all members of the K. of G. who may be here on December 27 and 28. There will be a banquet at6p. m., fol- Jowed by toasts, music, etc.: then to the Governor’s parlors, at the Capitol, where areception will be given by His Excel- Jency, Governor C. G. Luce; then to Armory hall, where the members may shake their feet to their hearts’ content. Iwill here state that we will have the gatling gun loaded and primed, andif that Spring Poet shows up, he will be blown so far that he will not get back in time for the next banquet.’’ ——___—~._2+._____ Hides, Pelts, Furs and Wool. The wool market is not only stronger, but actually higher. There have been large purchases the past week at }¢@1c advance from the previous week, with a 2c advance asked and held firmly in many eases. The bottom has been reached and the turn called, which makes dealers happy. Foreign markets advanced 10 per cent. last week, which was expected, which advance prohibits export on our market. If the cloth trade would revive, then wools would move freely. The sit- uation is better generally and cannot be fully given, as the week was broken by a holidfy and two immense fires at the centers of trade, which checked its vol- ume. Hides are weak and inclined to be lower at the East and firm at the West. A scant supply is claimed West and am- ple offerings East. In the meantime the leather trade is good. Large quantities were burned at Lynn and must be re- placed, but 8,000 to 10,000 boot and shoe workmen were burned out, who must find places to work before they will need an extra supply. Tallow is dull and low and in light de- mand, with large accumulations. It looks like lower prices. Furs do not come forward very fast and prices are not well established. —_ >< Prescription for Tramps. R_ Bark of dog, scru. ij. Commercial lead, dr. vij. Sig.: In pills. One every minute till disappearance. ee Brooklyn boasts of having the largest bread bakery in the world, 300 barrels of flour producing daily 70,000 loaves of bread. A FEW FACTS ABOUT TEA. Written for THE TRADESMAN. How few out of the many thousands who drink tea give any thought to the cultivation, picking, curing and packing of it! It requires a man of a great deal of study of tea and one who has a very acute taste to be a good judge of tea, spices or coffee; in fact, it requires more experience in this line than is necessary to handle dry goods. Few of the many who enter the retail grocery trade know anything of the line they handle, yet many of them make very successful merchants. Ido not say this in any dis- respect to the grocery merchant, but it is a mistake to fee] that we must have an experienced man to sell us our clothing, while we do not stop to consider the quality of the stuff poured into our stomachs to create disease and unhap- piness through life. Every state should have a law, which should be enforced, compelling every merchant who enters into the retail gro- cery trade to be one of experience in the business—one who knows how to test his goods and ascertain whether they are right. He will then not have to depend too much on the house or the represent- ative whom he buys of. No good house will knowingly sell a customer poor goods, but I am sorry to state that there are commercial men on the road who are so anxious to sell their wares that they cut prices and misrepresent their goods, and in most cases if the merchant would write the firm he buys of and ask if the goods were pure, the firm would write him they were not pure, and were not so understood to be from the agent’s order. I think it would be well for mer- chants to write the firm they buy of and satisfy themselves in regard to the hon- esty of the agent. The date of the first use of tea is quite uncertain, its native countries being China and Japan. Not being countries which spread their knowledge rapidly, we do not find it mentioned in Europe before 1559, nor used there until in 1600, but we find it mentioned in China as early as 750. Accounts of this date are very vague. The first American vessel sailed for China in 1774, and the year following two American vessels brought from China 880,000 pounds of tea. In order to raise a good tea, it is as necessary to have the right soilas to have a suitable climate. The soil must bea loam and the climate a wet, mild one. In order to make tea a profitable crop, it must be cultivated where wages are very low. The help employed mostly women and children, who are educated from the cradle for picking tea, and such care is taken in gathering the tea that the help is not allowed to pick the tea without gloves, and is not allowed to eat fish or other food considered unclean for three weeks before the harvesting. They are also required to take a bath three times a day. A good picker cannot gather over fifteen pounds per day of the first picking, andit takes four pounds of green leaves to make one pound when properly dried. The tea plant will begin to bear the third year and will yield but about two ounces of dried leaves to the tree or 80 pounds to the acre, or what we call a half chest at this picking, while a plant at the age of five years will produce ten times the amount, but the quality will not be as fine. In some sections, the trees are allowed to grow their full size untrimmed and such produce a coarse, large leaf which we call black tea, while in other localities they are kept trimmed low, for the convenience of pickers, and when the plants are six or seven years old they bear less leaves. They are then cut down close, and the young sprouts which spring up yield again the crop of young and tender leaves. This cutting down may be repeated for a dozen years, after which the tree is dug out entirely and a new tree planted instead. is The time of picking the tea takes place at different times of the year, ac- cording to the locality and quality of the leaf, from early in January until late in October. Much depends on the time of picking, as the finest crops may be changed to a worthless article in a few hours’ time by delay in picking. The first picking generally takes place, from March to May. This picking is the finest kind of tea, which consists of the young and tender leaves and buds, just beginning to expand, and is known on the market to commerce as ‘‘first chops.”’ The younger the leaves, the more delicate and fragrant their flavor. The gather- ing of these young leaves would prove injurious to the plant were it not for continual rain, which falls at this season, producing new leaves. Otherwise, the plant wouid be robbed of its clothing. The second picking occurs from May to June and is the largest and most impor- tant one and is known as the ‘‘second chops.’? This picking, with the ‘‘first chops,’”? is the kind all dealers seek for their trade. It varies from three to four hundred pounds to the acre, and an ex- perienced picker can gather about 20 pounds per day. The third picking takes place usually about July, and is known as the “‘third chops.’? Itis much inferior, the leaves being larger and coarser, but is an important crop. Some will not gather the third crop, while others even go so far as to gather a fourth crop, known as the ‘‘fourth chops.”? - This picking is very injurious to the plant and should not be gathered, as itis of little value. It is gathered in August and September and is used mostly among the poorer class for home con- sumption and also for dyeing or in blend- ing with finer grades, for which it is quite valuable. Green tea plants are never allowed to grow toa large size, but are kept pruned and so are kept ten- der. W. M. GIsBBs. << The Condition of Trade. From the New York Shipping List. The intervention of the Thanksgiving holiday since our last hasinterrupted the current of business and considerably re- duced the volume of transactions in the local market and throughout the country. The condition of trade has undergone no appreciable change, but, as usual at the close of the autumn season, the distribu- tion of many kinds of goods is generally decreasing. This is especially true of manufactures adapted to winter use. On the other hand, there is an increased movement in the leading grocery staples. Both raw and refined sugar have been re- markably active of late and prices have advanced considerably, as have also the prices of coffee, the basis of the rise in conceded strong statistical position. ducts, and as there is an absence of all features of an excited boom, law of supply and demand. The cotton goods trade is ina very satisfactory con- dition, while the woolen trade, though not nearly so prosperous as the cotton, is said to be, on the whole, better than it: was at this period last year. The export movement is not quite so brisk as it has been along back, but it is much larger than it was a year ago. The exports of this year’s cotton crop to date are nearly half a million bales in excess of the cor- responding period last year, whilst the outward movement of breadstuffs and provisions is also materially larger this year than last. On the whole, then, while there is some falling off in the volume of home trade, due wholly to seasonable influences, the business situa- tion is fairly satisfactory. The scarcity of loanable money and the high rates of interest continue to be an important fac- tor in some branches of business, es- pecially in speculative circles. Another retarding influence has been the circula- tion of unfounded reports and rumors as to what the Treasury policy is likely to be in connection with bonds and the cur- rency. But all doubts on this point will be set at rest before another issue of this paper. Probably no President’s message in a dozen years has been looked for by business men with greater interest that the one which will be issued at the beginning of next week. An unusually large number of questions of national concern have reached the burning stage, and as the President’s party controls both branches of Congress, merchants, bankers, manufacturers and others are naturally anxious to learn his views on those matters, knowing that his recom- mendations and suggestions will have considerable influence in molding legis- lation. ae Purely Personal. Wesley Hessler, the Rockford druggist, is in town for a day or two Frank E. Pickett, of the firm of Pickett Bros., general dealers at Wayland, is in town for a few days. Chas. Kernan, manager of the store of the Converse Manufacturing Co., at Newaygo, was in town Monday. Frank Hibbard, formerly engaged in the drug business at Evart and East Sag- inaw, is in town for a day or two. H. Edward Nicholson, of Muskegon, will take the position of assistant book- keeper for Samuel Lyon, at Chicago, on January 1. J. T. Borst has gone to Altona, where he will embark in the shingle mill bus- iness, using the mill formerly operated by his father. Roy Parmenter, formerly with Ball, Barnhart & Putman, has taken the po- sition of assistant book-keeper for the Grand Rapids Tank Line Co. E. Tracy Woodward, of the firm of J. H. Woodward & Co., the Frankfort clothiers and boot and shoe dealers, was in town a couple of days last week. Alfred W. Lyon left for Chicago Satur- day night and Samuel Lyon followed him Monday. The. work of shipping the stock to Chicago was completed Saturday. The Grocery Market. Sugars are a trifle firmer, owing toa stronger feeling among the holders of raw sugar in Europe, and the scarcity of refiners’ stock in this country. As the demand for refined stock is very active, standard grades are largely oversold all around, and all other grades are sold close up to the production. Teas are steady. Singapore pepper is a shade stronger. Domestic rice is strong. Rio coffees are firm, the package manufac- turers having advanced their prices ¥c. Cove oysters are a little firmer. Kero- sene oil is still unsettled, no regular price being established by either the tank companies or jobbers. the late. rise in prices has all the appearance of | being healthful, and in obedience to the | KNIGHTS OF THE GRIP. Call for the First Annual Convention, to be Held at Lansing. GRAND Raprps, Dee. 1, 1889. DEAR Str—I have the honor to inform you that the first annual convention of the Michigan Knights of the Grip will be held in Representative Hall, Lansing, Friday, December 27, 1889. Every mem- ber is earnestly requested to arrange to be present, if possible, accompanied by ladies, as special arrangements have been made to entertain them by the Lansing ladies, in visiting the State Re- form School, State Blind School and the War Museum at the Capitol. You are requested to report promptly upon your arrival in Lansing at the K. of G. head- quarters, at the Council Chamber, on Michigan avenue, where you will reg- ister and receive a badge for yourself and lady, which will admit you to all meetings and entertainments of the sessions. The convention will be called to order at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning, standard | time, for organization and the appoint- most these staple commodities being their | ment of committees, and adjourn at i noon, to meet promptly at K. of G. head- There also continues to be a good deal of | activity in iron and steel and their pro-| quarters at 1 p. m., to join in a parade through the principal streets to the Cap- itol, where the afternoon session will convene at 1:30 p. m. and adjourn at >. p. Ei. The banquet will be given in armory hall, with the following programme, being called to order at 6 p. m. sharp: Invocation, by Rev. Washington Gard- ner. Address of Welcome, by Hon. Jas. M. Turner, Mayor of Lansing. Response, by President A. F. Peake. Music, by Plymouth Quartette. Collation, closing with the following toasts: “Our Guests’’—S. H. Row, Lansing. ‘““My Michigan’’—Hon. Cyrus G. Luce. “Our Association’’—F. A. Warner, East Saginaw. “Our Sister Association’’—J. T. Lowry, President M. C. T. A. “The Press, an Important Factor of Commerce’’—E. A. Stowe, editor official organ. ‘“‘The lLadies’’—Hon. Jackson. “Our Manufactures’’—O. F. Barnes, Lansing. “Our Capital City’’—J. J. Bush, Lan- sing. “The Commercial Traveler of a Quar- ter of a Century Ago’’—A. C. Antrim, Grand Rapids. . “The Commercial Traveler of day’’—C. S. Kelsey, Battle Creek. “Our Merchants’? —C. L. Whitney, President Michigan B. M. A. ‘The Commercial Future of Our Coun- try’’—Hon. Jas. O’ Donnell, Jackson. ‘‘Mine Host’’—E. R. Egnew, President Michigan Hotel Keepers’ Association, Mt. Clemens. “Our Transportation Lines’? — Capt. W. A. Gavett, President Railway Asso- ciation of Michigan. The toasts will be interspersed with recitations by Brothers Reynolds and Frazer, and music by a quartette and orchestra. At the close of the banquet, a recep- tion will be tendered by the Governor in the executive parlors at the Capitol, to be followed by dancing at the armory. The following local committees have been appointed at Lansing, which en- sures an enjoyable and instructive gath- ering: General Arrangement—S. H. Row, Jas. G. Derby, W. K. Walker. On Finance — Geo. C. Cooper, E. J. Evans, C. F. Ballard, J. N. Alexander. On Rooms—E. A. Gilkey, W. E. French, W. J. Lee. On Reception—E. K. Bennett, F. G. Row, H. S. Seage, W. S. Jones, Ford J. North, Jos. Urquhart, C. F. Marple, B. W. Long. On Carriages—J. A. Smith, H. a W.S. Sullivan. On Press and Printing—W. S. Cia N. B. Jones, Hon. Wm. Van Buren. On Banquet—A. L. Field, J. J. Bush, Chas. Gilkey. On Music—L. A. Baker, J. J. Frost, H. Marple, J. H. Temmick. The banquet will be $1 per plate and the hotels will make $1 per day rates to members and ladies. If you expect to attend, please notify W. K. Walker, Lansing, to that effect at once, stating whether you will be accompanied by ladies, so that the Committee of Arrange- ments may be prepared to properly enter- tain all who may be present. Your dues for the ensuing year of 50 cents are payable on or before Jan. 1, 1890, and should be remitted to the Secre- tary previous to that date, or can be paid at the convention. Trusting you will make a special effort to attend what promises to be the largest convention of commercial travelers ever held in our State, we are Yours fraternally, I, M. Minas, See’ y. A. F. PEAKE, Pres. et A Flagrant Case. “Going to the druggists? wouldn’t go to Pestle’s.”’ ‘Why not ?”’ ‘‘“He’s so disobliging. I went there the other evening to get a postage stamp, and he actually refused to change a $5 bill for it. I made up my mind then that I should transfer my custom to some other druggist.’’ —_— > ____—_— It pays to handle the P. & B. cough drops. Erastus Peck, To- Well, I Gu Cane Ep nee Carfecherre Ty Serene sf Lo a 2 dank gow For Sale by Leading Wholesale Grocers. PRODUCE MARKET. ee hold winter fruit at #2.23@ $2.75 per b Beans—Dealers pay $1.25 for unpicked and $1.50 for picked, igi at $1.75@$2 per bu. Beets—40c per bu. Butter—The market is decidedly sick, there being no demand for the staple anywhere. The country merchants are loaded up with stock which they have paid 16@18e for, while the top of the market from jobbers’ =o is 20e. Cream- ig is in fair demand at ; es Flour—#.50 per ‘Dbl for New York stock Cabbages—$4@%5 per 1 Cheese—Jobbers hold ieee and October make at 11%@i2%c Cider—9@10¢ per gal. Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce barrels Cranberries—Cape Cod readily command $9 @$9.50 per bbl. Bell and Bugle are in good de- mand at $10 _ bbl. Dried Apples—New fate are held at 8&@ 8%c and new sundried at Egg SS 19@2e tor Sicsk and hold at 21@22c. Pickled and cold storage stock com- mands about 19c. Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, #4.35 per bu. ; medium, $4.35. Timothy, $1.50 per bu Grapes—N ew York Concords and Catawbas are in good demand at 50c per basket. Honey—In small deman Clean comb com- mands 15c per Ib. Onions—Dealers pay 4(@45c for clean stock, holding at 60@65c. Pop Corn—4c per Ib. Potatoes—There appears to be a “‘rift in the cloud,” the Southern demand showing evi- dences of looming up in good a within a short time. Squash—Hubbard, 2c per Ib. Sweet Potatoes _ Jerseys are out of market at present. Muscatines, $3.75 per bbl. Turnips—30c per bu. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Mesa Mew (25050000. eee 10 50 GEE COG ee oe 10 50 xtra clear pie short Obb...........0.... 5. 12 00 WESEGES CLCRT = OB cia osc ops ai Siew ctererre aie 12 00 lear tat Deer ee ee 12 00 Boston Clear, sUOre Cut... 12 00 Clear back, BRoruene ee ees 12 00 Standard clear, short cut, best.............. 12 00 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average ee ss ee 9% We ee ces 10 “ i Pte ieipa 10% ae #CHIG (ooo. - 6% - Pat POMEICRS. 280s 7. Se Bréeskfast Bacon, boneless:...-. 2.22500... 5... 8% adried Beck, ham prices .' 0.6.5. 2.216. 84 eng Clears, heavy. 050. .6. 15. 4.. 5.55. 644 Briskets, Shed TEE =. Gag BONG se te 6% LARD—Kettle Rendered. ee ee ee eee 1% OE gio uate ce T% OO TD. Pee es ee TM, LaRD—Refined. Oe ee ee 6 30 ang Sib, FURS. 2.5.2.2... Dect e wise ae 6% 31D. Pais 20 ta & Case 634 5 1b. Pails, de 1 CASC seelcoswe oe 65¢ 10 Ib. Pails, Gil DCRR ee 6% 20 Ib. Pails, Boo eo 63 PA AE OS ee 6% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 7 00 Extra Mess, Chicaco pucking. 2.0. 20.0.0..- 7 00 Boneless, rump Duties & 75 SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. POPE SOWBARG. oe 6% Ham Sausage... 12 Tongue Sausage.......-..- 9 PrankfGel SAUSAGC. 220.00... 0050 221. 8 loo Sansare oes +) OS OlGRIIR, SUEMIRNG se 5% BOera Wie ee 5% lead CHECKG. cc ca «1s 36 PIGS’ FEET. hn Gre Darrel 3 25 in queer BHErCIS oe 2 00 TRIPE. in Bight Derrers 2) is 3 00 en quarter barrela. 2 00 a ce %5 FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, Careeee oe ee 4@6 hind quarters Coed Re eee. 5 @5% oS fore ee 3 @4 ce ROM ee T @ ix ER Mi. @ 6% : MOMBECR Oo... 2c eee @10 ee a ee @i Perk 16608 (oo @ 8 - shoul@ers 2.2... @5 Beegnsa 2. 8. oe. . @5 Sausage, blood or head. é 5 Oe cce senic ge suae as Scie , 5 = Prankfoct eee eee @8 Magen os. --. 6 @6% OYSTERS and FISH, F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. Whitefish a @i% SIO OCU. 6 occ @8 Co a a ae @T% ee ee ee @20 Peedices ee ee @7 OYSTERS—Cans., Maircnayen CoUunts.--.°-. <3. 3 8c... @35 Selecta. 2 ee 22 @27 MS Pe ee @2 WCNGRR er SGamiP OS, oo ee @16 Mavories 002 @14 orstens—Bulk, NeauGnras. oo. @$1 15 SeleCGIS ee @15 ME ee ee @1 50 SCCINIBR 265 ots @1 50 SenuOpeR. 2 ee eee @1 50 Horseradish. ee . @ Shell oysters, per _—........... 1 00@1 50 go @ % CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK. Standard, 25 Ib. boxes Bee ene cic nee eas: 9 Twist, ee cee eee o. Cut Loaf, 2 ee ede oe dcs bocce ls oslo 10% MIXED. Royal, 25 Ib. pails... a ee 9 OUD. DOIN. sk ce ec 8% Extra, 2 i. pats se Bee acu! 10 PTD: OBIS oe sd 9% French ¢ Siemon, 2 1D. pate 11% FANCY—In 5 Ib. boxes. PeCmGH POM es ee cs 12 Bour DrGpe ceo 13 Peppermiing Preps. 14 Chocolate Props ws 14 tH Me Chocointe Prope. oc a 18 Cram PROMS oe 10 Eicorice PEOPR 2. 18 A. B Vaeeries Drops... os oe oe 14 Lozenges, en ee cee 14 MEMCOG. 8 15 MCR 14 OE ee 15 Cresm Bar 6000050. ee ee bee ee eee 13 Moiseses BAL. o. 2 e 13 WOOPARNCER oc, nee Hand Made Creams..... Lal anaes cease cous Plame Creams... is Decorated Creams... ~ 0 String HOeCK. 8. 15 Burnt Almonds... 22 Wintgerereen Berries... 0366 eo 14 FaNncy—In bulk. Lozenges, plain, in — hee ee ease oes 12 Soa US li ch printed, in = ecece tee cue cen cee 12% se oe ee i Chocolate Drops, in pails..........-........... Gum Drops, = nee See see eta ine ‘ty ee Moss Drops, in — eed, ee see ccc mpeg eee 10 pei on els soe laos a 9% Sour Drops, a sails Be ee eet cee te 12 Imperials, = DR ea 11 WOPBIA oo 10% RUIT Oranges, Florida, choice, 146 ta 226... .. @3 58 112 to 128.. @3 25 r fancy, 146 to 226.. @3 75 « . golden russets....... @3 50 Lemons, Messina, choice, BO aie cs tims @4 00 Be ce »ee0-4 25@4 50 . < fancy, 360)... .....- @4 50 - - ie PO ee, 4 50@5 (0 “ Malagas, choice, ripe......... 50 Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy IBvers. :<..: 14 @15 is - . echotce ce: 11 @12% - eholee.% Tp... -.. Sieaveddenes. eo Dates, frails, OB te @ 4% A frails, BG Pee oo ses @ 5% se Fard, 10-Ib. box Sas cde gacess fees @10 . AP ge as oa oe ae @ 8 = Sesaae DPe Bex es asa 6 @7% NUTS. : Almonds, — --17 @17% RV ROR ccs cfs @16 st California obese civic sone Cone @15 PSN oo cece cec ccs code cds cece ey Walnnw, Grenoble. .. .. 6. ccsi cee... . CRISTOTBAR. conv. kcseiesse secu “sa4atd Pecans, Texas, H, P.. be cdube seca @12 a cusne |ANUTS. | os MING COCKS... coo. 6 0564s. f ts cde WI choice sae Vers sc cust cocuaccseccseeeed.s @7 HOPS. 605...25 20355 aepe eaee @ Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. Arctic, % - cans, $ doz.. o a e 3 maces - TA 8 ee ae . Se ee 12 Absolute, * 8 cans, 100s..11 75 50s..10 00 ib - 50s..18 75 Telfer’s, ‘ a cans, doz.. = “ee gis oc oc 39 50 Acme, % tb. cans, 3 doz.. 1D ¥% Ib. +150 ah :*> 2 =... 800 ~ bulkiss a ,.... 20 Red Star, % 1 cans, = fs 4 1b - 1 50 AXLE GREASE, Wrgger soe #2 60 AUR. ee ee 1% Dimi: os ico rss 1 60 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in case..... 80 Bristol, 2 ‘ eee 75 American. 2doz.in case... 7 BLUING. Gross Aretic Lig, £ez............ 3 40 e cc ee . < 1 pt 10 Ov . ‘© 8-0z paper bot 7 20 “ Pepper Box No. 2 3 00 ord oe ““ oe 4 4 00 ““ ce “ oe 5 8 00 BROOMS. Wo. 2 Hurl eee is hae cons 1 70 Woe ee 1 90 No. BCarpet..:.. 3. .... a. 2 00 NOB ae 2 25 Parter Gem... 2... .... 4! 2 60 Common Whisk. --...-....- 90 Fancy eee coo. 1 00 We, 3 = WerenhOHne. 0000 2. os. 27 BUCKWHEAT. Kings 106 Th. cases... ...... 4 50 fe: 80 TD. C8808. 305.2... 54 3 85 BUTTERINE Dairy, sm packed. .:5 :.4 12% PIR ae a os 13 Creamery, poe peeet. . 18% TOUS _. . 4 CANDLES Hotel, 40 lb. boxes Bioeeei 10% Seer ee cl a% Pardmne .. .. 5.0. so . 12 Wienine. es. 25 CANNED Goops—Fish. Clams. 1 Ib, Little Neck..... 1 20 Clam Chéwder, 3 lb.. 2 10 Cove Oysters, 1 Ib. stand. 110 2 1b. 1 80 Lobsters, 1 Ib. picnic a 1 40 Sie @ 2.2. 2 65 1b. Soar 1 90 ° 3 Ip) Sear 3 00 Mackerel, in Tomato — 2 85 . Stand.. 1 20 . Sin SC 2 00 . 8 lb. in Mustard.:.2 85 = Sib. soused......: 2 85 Salmon, ; = Columbia.. ..1 80 Aisaka 2... 1 80 Sardines, domestic o58...... 5 oe... @ 9 ‘ Mustard %s...... 9 is imported \4s.. nee . spiced, 548......- Trout, 3 ib. brook......-.. CANNED coops—Fruits. _ Ja. gallons, stand. Blackberries, stands Cherries, red standard...... 1 20 iy pitted uc oe 1 40 Deamsens .......... . 2.2 30 Egg Plums, ane 1 15 Gooseberries . -1 00 Grazies .......- se Gesen CO ce. 18 Peaches, a 1 vs stand..1 70 . SECOUGE ...........- 14 “ Fie... 115 ae 1 2 Pineapples ......-..... 1 20@1 50 GOrineen 1 00 Raspberries, Gxtra. 0... i MOG 8 1 40 SETOWDEEFICS 20. (0505... || 123 Whortieberries.............. % CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... Beans, Lima, stand........ . 85 ‘© Green Limas.... @l1 0 Seen... - @ 2 “| Stringicss, Erie... .... ‘* Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40 Corn, Areher’s Trophy. ..... 1 00 . Morn’g Glory.1 00 . e Early Golden.1 00 Peas, Wrench... 1 68 extra marrofat.. @1 25 BORNEO el al oe 80 June, stand...) 6... 2. 1 40 - sifted. oo... 155 « Frenenh, extra fine... .f 50 Mushrooms, extra fine...... 215 Pumpkin, 3 1b. Golden...... 1 00 Succotesh, standard........ 90 Sameee os 1 10 Tomatoes, Red Coat.. @9 Good Enough 7... 95 — Ben Gar: ..:._.8 95 “ stand br.. @95 CHEESE Michigan Full Cream y 4@12 Sap Sago... 02... 2: @16% CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S. German Sweet... ........ 23 Pvcuii oo ko. 35 COCOR 38 Breakfast Cocoa......:.-. 48 Brena 37 CHEWING GUM. Rubber, 100 lumps... oh mC. 0 SPEWCG oe 30 CHICORY. Do ee ne 6 Bee ee 7% COFFEE—Green. Rio, Page 17 @ goo a prime.. “* fancy, washed *. golden... .... SHMtOR. 1% = Sen @23 PORDGETY 22.062... @23 dave, Eiterior......... 2 @25 ‘« MandGheling.. @29 Mocha, genuine....... 7 @27 To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. cCOFFEES—Package. 100 lbs mas... 2414 ce in cabinets ..-. 2-5... — MeLaughlin’s XXXX.. yy Doss ee eS 4 Thompson’ 8 Honey Bee.. Good jiecaiane ce ee 24% COFFEE EXTRACT. Walley City... 3. % CT 110 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 4075... ..:. ‘ iG) ios. - CONDENSED MILK. Eagle 7 AMgiG-SWISs. 2 ...2.-....- 6 CRACKERS. Kenosha Butter...........-.. o a S. Oyster City ‘Oyster, x ee. 6 Pieces as ss 6 CREAM TARTAR, Strictly spure.....:....-. +... CirGcers .. 2.5... DRIED FRUITS—Domestic. Apples, sun-dried..... 5 6 e —— Apricots, = , Blackberries ‘ Nectarines ‘ Peaches e 38 24 DRIED FRUITS—Citron. BA CPU os pease in DOSGS cos ol: @% DRIED FRUITS—Currants, Zante, in barrels...... «in less quantity @ 6% DRIED FRUITS—Prunes. Turkey CRPfernte. os cass. — FRUITS—Raisins, 44@ 6 iouna, ee aaa sol oe 5 ete 6% ‘ @ 9% Sultanas. i392. 3.6 co. 10%@ 12144 London Layers, Cali- fornia... 0352". 2. ' 55 London Layers, for’n. Muscatels, California .2 10g2 20 | DRIED FRUITS—Peel. Lemon ... 2355.00 ce 13 Orange... 2 ee, 14 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 1h kega........ Hominy, per Wer... . 2.2... 3 50 Macaroni, dom 12 1b box..:. 60 - imported ..... @ 9% Pearl Hariey........ @ 2% Peas, srcen.--... @1 10 1 Ope a @ 3 pace, German... ... @ 6% Tapioca, fk or pri... e 6%4 Wheat, cracked... .. @ 6% Vermicelli, import. . @10 domestic... @60 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Jennings’ D.C. Lemon Vanills 85 25 2 Oz. Panel, doz. 1 4 oz. 1 40 2 25 6 Oz. ~ " 220 3 2 NG. a * 10 1 60 No, & “ “12 4 00 Noig ‘ Ss 4:60 6 00 No. 4, Taper," 10 2 50 y pt, "Round, * 496 7 50 i * Seo 15 00 SH—SALT. Cod, hols Me Sc 44@ ~ Bencless. 3... .0 1. 7 @M%¢ Halibut . 94@10 Herring, round, } iy 6 bbl. 75 gibbed.. : 2 75 : Holland, “bbls... 12 00 kegs, new e Sealed . - Mack. sh’s, No. 3, ag ‘bbl 12 Ib Kit. -1 3% “ce “ 4 20 10 Trout, % 4 bls eee ale. 4 00@4 = b SWEET GOODs. Ginger Snaps,.. Sugar Creams 9% Frosted Creams....... 9% Graham Crackers..... 9 Oatmeal Crackers..... 9 zs SODA. NEG 6h Seite olga cout eue co 5 Kegs; Bugiiah. 00200) 2 ie TEAS. : JAPAN—Regular. WO cea c.. ®ecc ings 14 @16 Cone i. 18 @22 Core 24 @20 Cemmeeet 8. s 30 @34 ‘ SUN CURED. Ce 4 15 Goede 16 > CBee 24 @B Choteeat eo 30 @33 BASKET FIRED. ORE @20 Chelee @25 Chitose. @35 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 | GUNPOWDER. | Common to fair..... 2 @35 Extra fine to finest... .50 @65 Choicest faney........ 7 @S8s - ; oe mormon to fair... | 20 @35 Saperior tefine........ 40 @50 . YOUNG HYSON. Common to fair.......18 @2%6 Superior to fine....;.. 30 @A0 OOLONG, Common to fair... ...25 @30 Superior to fine....... 30 @50 | Fine to choicest.......55 @65 ENGLISH BREAKFAST, ee 2 Choice. 22s 30 @35 BO 55 @65 mem PHISE 8 @10 12 00. TOBACCOs—Plug. S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands, Nimrod, 4x02 and rie 37 Reception, 22-oX12, 16 OF. ..... 36 Vinco, 136, 4% to Se Wheel oto Be ‘Primket, 829. 9 og 5.5. 25 Jas. G. Butler & Co,’s Prantl. Something Good Double Pedro.. ReGCh Pie ee Wedding Cake bik. ||... |. RCC ee Hw TOBACccOs—Fine Cut. D. Seotten & Co.’s Brands, Sawagia ewees Cuts... 37 TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS. Big 5 Center, amie, 1202... _. 34. 37 $ 2, per hundred eee eccevas 2 50 ee 3 00 10, ** Me eee 4 00 mo: * ee es 00 5 Subject to the following dis- counts: 200 or over......... 5 per cent. “ce “cc we 10 me. 20 . VINEGAR. Cp ae I ee Sa q ee ee 9 $1 for barrel YEAST, Fermentum, Compressed. . MISCELLANEOUS. Cocoa Shells, bulk... ...... %% aelly, S0-2D, pails... . |... 4 oe 15 PAPER & WOODENWARE : PAPER. Curtiss & Co. quote as fol- Ows: ee ee 160 “| Sdigh¢ Weight... ..... 200- Bee, 180 MIGEGWENS My ee 2% ry GOOG ee 5 ome Manta. 8 Red Express = Dee eee 5 WGlS.... 0c... 4 TWINES. a8 Coen sl. 22 Cotton, No. ieee eee. 20 5 ae = Island, assorted Tubs, _ Re ee eee 7 & Nee. 6 25 ING. oo 5 25 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 60 No. 1, three-hoop.... 1 7% ' Clothespins, 5 gr.boxes.... 60 Howls, 11 tien... 5... sk 1 00 e BF eee cee as 1 25 a Oe es eee ce 2 00 ' ee ei 2% : assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50 15s, 17s and 19s 2 7%- , Baskets, WAEROE. 40 Dushel............ 1 50 ” ‘* with covers 1 90 18g willow er ths, _ 5% e No.2 6 25 a “ce oe No. 3 7 25 . splint * Nols ae oe “cc No. 2 4 25 se “ce “ce No. 3 5 00 ‘ben zeae and .\d FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT. New. Old. ¥ aoe ee Scecemeoc cua 78 7 ee es 7 7 An rockon bought on 60 ib. test. FLOUR, Straight, in sacks......... 460 ' Peerein........ 4 70 | Paten¢ © saens......... 5 50 6s ~ Derreia........ 5 70 MEAL, Bone... oo. 1 00 Granulated... ...:.......... 1 10 MILLSTUFFS. Bee 10 50 PIS ae oe ec cicieie s|s cima ae 11 00 Serceniies .... <2... 24.2. .,2. 11 00 Meanie es: 12 00 Mixed Weed..........0.... 14 00 Cosirse eal... 14 00 CORN. lomiell lois... 22.202. 35 Car Se eee eee cass 38 OATS. Sail) (ots... 8. 28 Car Oe eee oes a cece 25 } oe os White, No. dl, 4 Bbis........ 5 35 2 1b. Kits... - 1 00 a ny 10 Ib. Rita: 80 . Family, % bbis.... .2 50 = kit So 50 GUN POWDER. Mees ot fe... 5 25 Half eee 2 88 LAMP WICKS. . 30 40 50 30 -. = CE. 18 MOLASSES. Bisee Sartp. 23 Cuba Baking.. i. 2 ae Porto Rico.. uo vole ne, 24@35 New Orleans, “good... Bees ola. 25@30 choice... . . .33@38 “ fancy. .. ..45@48 One-half barrels, 3¢ extra OATMEAL. Muscatine, aoc oe cs 5 %5 Half _—. Looe 3 00 - Cases... .. 2 15@2 2 ROLLED OATS Muscatine, Barrels. . @5 75 J Half bbls.. @3 00 . Cases. :.. .. 2 15@2 25 OxL, miehiosn Test) 0. 2... 944 Water White: ....... 10144 PICKLES. Medium.. <2. - os GOQpe So % Be 2 @ . 00 Small, bbl ee 6 25 lage ..2 OO PIPES. aie Ne 26... 1 as full count._...... 75 Cob, No Se a 49 RICE. Carolina ee 6% ee 5% Nee 54G . We ooo Capen os 54@6% SALT Common Fine per bbl....... 80 Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 27 = pocket Sisco esece eee ee 1 95 i 2 00 00 Oe is 215 Ashton bu. bags ............ % Higgins ‘“‘ ee vis) Warsaw ‘‘ Olea ecu 35 . OM a ae 20 SALERATUS. Deland s, pure. ............. 5 Church's, Cap Sheaf........- 5 Dees, ol. 5 evlors... ..._.... 5 SEEDS. Maxed bird... :..... so... ae Caraway i s. 10 CORSE. 4 Hemp is 4 MS ce, 8% ON ee 4% Mustard....... 7% SHOE POLIS Jettine, 1 doz. in box. 75 SNUFF. Seoteh, in bladders. ........ 37 Maceaboy, 1 jars........... 35 French Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SOAP. Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands. SUperign . ss... 3 320 Geen Aue... s,s: 3 85 Geman Wamity.. ......... 2 40 Mottled German. .-......... 3 00 Old German |... 2 70 U.S. Bie Bargain..... .... 1 87 Mrost, Diemer... -...... ..: 37% Goees Casiie ...-. 1... 2... 3 00 Cocoa Castile, Fancy........ 3 36 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Happy Marpily, (5........... 2 95 Country, Oe 3 30 Ona a... 3 65 Howmecr, 100 3 15 sPIcEs—W hole. Allspiee. |... 8. <. Cassia, China In mats....... 8 “ Batavia in bund....11 . Saigon in rolls...... ..40 Cloves, Amboyna. el “ Zanzibar.. 20 Maee Batavia. ...... ....... 80 See Logs Seed ca ccc. 80 Cb cle eee vivian deoee ‘ " No 2 De eal es aie lala 70 Pepper, Singapore, black....18 white... .26 e RHOEs. oo 20 cue oie In Bulk. Allspice ....................- 15 ¢ assia, Batav ee 20 and Saigon .25 Saaeee 2... 42 Cloves, Amboyna... ......32 “ Yamaipar. oo | Ginger, (ACA osc cc: 12% OeGHM i. oc ..: Jamaica . a0 8 Mace Batavia. os. 3... 90 Mustard, English oie ais owes 22 and Trie. .25 - reste... 27 Nutmers; NOLS . ios... ccc, 80 Pepper, eee ak sisaek Bite... .. = ° Cay dinner ea caus Herbs & Spices, small... _: eS Taree... 1 25 STARCH. | Mystic, Cf Dees ct. 448 Darrel 2 oi. 6 SUGARS. Gut heats... 6.3. :. @ 8% Counce 8... @ 8 POWwderes «oo 6 sce. @8s Granulated, HM. &Bn.. @7.31 Franklin... @7.31 ‘ Knight's... @7.31 Confectionery = Sn @ 7% No. 1, White Extra C.. 6%@ 6% No. 2'Extra Ce cst 6 @ 6% ho. 3G, golden........ 54D 5% No. 4 Cc, MER... sits @D 5% No. 5c Se) cules cco tibe @ 5% SAL SODA 5 = BE PEE ISR ni SGN ER 1% Grenaleied: NOLES. ... 22-5. 2 SAPOLIO. Kitchen, 3 doz. in box See a 2 35 Hang, 2°: (3 ou. 23 SAUERKRAUT. Silver Thread, 15 gallons....2 95 “ a Ff lae oe PELTS and HIDES, FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: Green -c. 4.5. 4 @4% Part Cured....<. 2... .. @ 4% ei Feces eee @5 pee ucew sews o> cuss 5 @6 Da Bap ... 5 @6 Calfskins, green... 3 @4 cured. ..... 44@ 5 Deacon sking.:........ 0 ¥% off for No. 2. PELTS. Shearlings..:...-.... +: 10 Estimated wool, ae 20 oes FU Mink, ove Md eee em aas 40@1 25 253@ 80 Raccoon 80@1 00 Skunk 80@1 20 Muskrat 15@ Poe ted... os... 1 25@1 75 : 00@5 . y 40@ 7 Rage... 2... 75@1 00 Oat, Wie... sk % EE 4 00@6 00 i 3 00@5 00 Martin, Gnrk .:......° 1 00 pale & yellow 6@ % Otter, darks... ..5..; 6 00@10 00 Medes 2 00@3 00 ee 15 00@25 00 eaver ec cas acs 2 00@7 00 CODPORBETE, oo died wo 15@ 32 Deerskins, per 1. 15@ 35 Above prices for No. 1 skins only. WwooL, WAGE. ol cckeecl ccc WORN ocsns cocesc nea: ae ae 4 5 2 Ginseng......... 7% a 45 Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Two Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Three Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Four Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Five Years—James Vernor, Detroit. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Next Meeting—At Lansing November 5 and 6. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. z See’d Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs. Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. Treasurer— Wm Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E. T. Webb, Jackson; D.E. Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Me- Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit. t ' Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday of September, 1890. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. Grand = Drug Clerks’ Association. President, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, Albert Brower. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. President, C. S. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt, An Explanation Due from the Board. The attention of the State Board of ¢ Pharmacy is called to the case of pr. J. W. Pattison—or T. O. Pattison, as the business is now conducted—who is carry- ing on a drug business at Millbrook with- out any show of authority, no one con- nected with the store having a certificate from the Board. Ture TRADESMAN has good grounds for the statement that the Pattisons have not had a _ registered pharmacist in the store since the retire- ment of a daughter, two or three years ago, yet they continue to dispense drugs the same as when a certificate hung over the prescription case of their establish- ment. The attorney of the Board visited Millbrook a few months ago, but as yet no move has been made to prosecute the men who are violating the law and have violated it daily for years. ¢ A man recently opened a drug store at Manistee, without complying with the law as to registration, and was promptly prosecuted, although no question was raised as to his competency, he having been a pharmacist longer than a majority of the members of the Board. Why should men so manifestly incompetent as the Pattisons be permitted to violate the law for years, without the Board taking steps to make them pay the penalty ? Tue TRADESMAN would be pleased to hear from Secretary’ Vernor in relation te this case. — sas Should Druggists be Exempt from Jury Duty? From the Druggists’ Bulletin. Emphatically, yes! The incident por- trayed by Dickens in the account of the trial of Bardell vs. Pickwick, wherein a chemist drawn as juror requests to be a excused on the ground his business de- mands his attention, and when this is refused, his pathetic exclamation, ‘*some one will be killed before night,”’ as he had left only a boy in the shop ‘‘who firmly believes that ‘Epsom salts’ means oxalic acid,’? is none too realistic. A large number of pharmacists are unable to employ an assistant, other than a boy or apprentice whose knowledge does not extend beyond the details of shop drudg- ery, and, consequently, must be their own dispensers. To ask such to do jury duty is to jeopardize their business, and also the best interests of their patrons, which is too much to exact of any indi- vidual. More especially is this galling from the fact that millers, constables, attorney’s clerks, clergymen, volunteer and ex-volunteer firemen, ex-mayors, poor commissioners and superintendents, road overseers, etc., are universally exempt— individuals who have nothing, by com- parison, at least, to sacrifice. We are glad to find there are notable exceptions in this respect, and that the State of Missouri, at the last session of its Legislature, placed druggists on a par with other exempts; and it is to be hoped other states will speedily follow the ex- ample thus set. ——_>_2<—___—_- Immediate Relief for Hoarseness. The first Napoleon is said to have been subject to sudden attacks of severe hoarseness, for the immediate relief of which his physician was in the habit of prescribing the following, known as For- eau’s syrup: R Liquor ammoniz fortioris..........mx. Syruprervysrnt —- oo seru. iss. Smiusionis titi forum... --.._..- scru. iiss. M To be taken at one dose. Erysemum officinale (sisymbrium offic), or hedge mustard, is no longer official, but is easily obtained. Itis asmall an- nual growing almost everywhere in the United States and Canada, as well as in Europe. The infusion of linden (tilia) is used simply as an agreeable vehicle, and may be dispensed with or supplanted by any other pleasant vehicle. <> +9 << A Gallic Prescription. Mrs. : Take a wineglasful licker tree time a day over your meal, take a pill every morning, if that fisick you to mutch, slack on the licker, fer you got to take the pill One dollar and 75 cent for the hole ting. The foregoing is, verbatim et literatim, the directions accompanying the medi- cine prescribed by a Gallic M. D., who resides less than a thousand miles from @ Halifax. et tr The Drug Market. Tartaric acid, Rochelle salts, seidlitz mixtures and cream tartar are all firm at the advance and tend higher. Gum cam- phor is alsoin firmer position and higher prices are predicted: Quinine is un- changed. Gum opium is firmer. Mor- ¢ phia is steady. Nitrate silver has ad- vanced. Gambier is lower. — or -9 It Would Be a Change. “Oh, doctor, I don’t know, what to do with poor William. He’s working him- self into an early grave. Can’t you sug- gest something to prevent his going down hill so rapidly ?”’ ‘He might try the legislature, madam. There the decline is only gradual.’’ | HE LITTLE OLD DRUGGIST. | Dr. J. B. Naylor, in the American Druggist. | There’s a little old druggist 7 out of the way, | Ina long and dimly lighted room, And BS Compounds and wixes and filters all ay— Though his step is slow and his hair is gray; | And he looks like a ghost in a gilded tomb, | Till a chemical change seems wrought in him- self, And he looks as dry as the drugs on his shelf. His hair is as white as his calomel, His teeth are as yellow as golden seal; Perhaps he chews—it is hard to tell, For if he does he conceals it well; And his skin is the color of orange peel, While his eyes have a vacant and glassy stare, He talks in a piping, childish voice Of the druggists whom he knew in his youth; Of the drugs they obtained so rare and choice, Of the handsome profits that made them rejoice— For he never departs from the truth; And, as memory recalls those halcyon days, A chilly smile o’er his countenance plays. Yet he never utters avain regret For days that can ne’er return; “Tf you don’t get what you want, you must want what you get, For if you’d all you desired, you’d lack some- thing yet,” Is an adage he says he has learned. So among the thorns he plucks the flowers, This wrinkled, but jolly old druggist of ours. @»>——_— Drug Store Loafers. From the Druggists’ Magazine. A writer in an exchange says that next to the street corner pest, and the saloon frequenter, comes the bane of the drug- gist, the drug store loafer. He is usually a little older and more respectably dressed than those of the other varieties; but to the conscientious druggist, and to society at large, he is the greatest hin- drance, the most in the way, the biggest bore and the most consummate nuisance. The younger variety of drug store loaf- ers may hang round of an afternoon, smoke a cigar and ogle the female cus- tomers or the ladies who chance to pass that way: he bothers the clerks, too, who should be cleaning up, or- posting up in pharmacy, for a druggist should be a man of learning, and when not engaged in the manual part of his profession should apply himself to various sciences that pertain to his calling. Your full- fledged drug store loafer, however, calls in after supper: he doesn’t know that he is aloafer, and is just a little too re- spectable to be told so, but heis a greater pest to the proprietor than are flies in the syrup bottle. He is usually a small tradesman — a small office holder or played-out politician—who has a family near by. He is usually too old to go sporting around with the boys; too mean to pay duesat a lodge orclub; too wicked to attend a church or benevolent society; too lazy to stay at home and converse with his family, or read or improve his time. Supper being over, he deserts the family, and seeks the drug store, where he invests in one or more cheap cigars, and then, if the two or three chairs and stools owned by the establishment are in use by his fellow-loafers, he elbows the show-eases, leans in the doorway, ex- pectorates and throws ashes over the floor or in front of the door. Customers come and go, the proprietor has difficult prescriptions to fill, many questions to answer for those who seek his aid and advice; while his room should be clean, sweet and quiet, he must endure the clouds of smoke, political discussions, neighborhood gossip, and smutty stories from the drug store loafer, who persists in staying with him till the lights are turned out. oo <> - The Luck of an Arkansas Druggist. Opposite Memphis and about twenty miles inland I stopped at a general store to rest and get a bite to eat. Besides keeping hardware, woodenware, dry goods, groceries, saddlery, notions, boots and shoes, smoked and salt meats, there was astock of drugs inthe rear. 1 got some crackers and cheese, and while eat- ing there came inacolored man. He complained of pains in the chest, and wanted a_ remedy. The merchant scratched his nose reflectively, looked along the shelves, and finally took down a bottle, poured a two-ounce vial full, and corked it up and handed it over with the remark: “Take five drops of that in water every four hours. Fifty cents.’ d The negro paid and went away, and in a few minutes a woman came in for something for dyspepsia. He took down a chance bottle, poured some of the con- tents into a vial, and charged her sixty cents. Then I inquired if he was a doctor. ‘Well, sorter,’’? he replied. “‘And you know drugs?”’ “Yes, tolerably fair.’’ ‘You put up queer remedies for those two complaints.’ ‘Did I2 Do you know drugs?’ ‘“‘T have served five years as prescrip- tion clerk.’’ ‘‘Just the man I’ve been aching to see fora month! I took this stock on adebt. The fellow agreed to write on each bottle what the contents were good for, but he missed over half of ’em. I’ve been deal- ing out sorter on my own judgment, and I’ve had mighty good luck so far.”’ ‘‘Haven’t you killed anyone?’’ ‘“*>Bout a dozen, I reckon; but all but one have been niggers, and the one white man was no ’count anyhow. Now you just put in the afternoon marking up them bottles and I’ll keep ye over night and hand ye two big dollars in the morn- ing:’’ | a ———{ qo 2 __—_ ‘‘Quaker” Liniment. A Salina, Kansas, correspondent fur- nishes the following shotgun prescrip- tion, which he was recently called upon to fill: In a half gallon alekohol en copecwin ec 2 oz. Sp. tirpentme -..-. 2-2 i On Coder ee 436 * . a....... 1%. * © @Oripanie 2400 2 © Wormwood...) Ce aa OO) ARRW ERR ee eee eo Be i ee cee Lo Bo Camener 2 a arena Gh a. Saleeee er 2 ieee 6 7 Byrn eassatcriin, 22 2 Hie OL SHSROTIA) oo 2 1 Oe GanGame ooo. gl. 2 —__—_ The Spoils System. From the Christian Union. We have urged the corrupting in- fluence of the spoils system on our whole political life; the degradation of public men into place-hunters which itinvolves, the humiliating self-seeking which it stimulates, the machine element which it make possible, the waste of the time i Presidency, | enemies it had made for him. And his brow is wrinkled and drawn with care. | iof Government officers from the Presi- dent down which it necessitates, the en- ‘tire contradiction of all busiuess princi- ples and methods which it embodies; and now comes a public man of National ‘reputation (Hon. Chauneey M. Depew), and declares as ‘‘a bottom party fact’’ that the distribution of offices means the making of a host of active enemies to the party in power. Senator Sherman is re- ported to have said lately that the dis- tribution of patronage had cost him the so numerous were the It is clear that the spoils system is a hindrance to political succes~, and an enemy to the prosperity of every politi- body wants it—not even the politicians. It is a disgrace to the country, a source of corruption, a foe to capable and effi- “THE OLD ORIGINAL.” eal's [[ariage White Lead and eal party. It helps nobody but that pest of our politics, the local ‘‘boss.”” Why pavetomoshad not abolish it, root and braneh? No- ACME RE-PAINT Your Buggy for 75 cts. THE BEST cient government. = dru, RS MOST RELIABLE FOOD For Infants and Invalids. Used everywhere, with unqualified} Isuccess. Not a medicine, but asteam- cooked food, suited to the weakest stomach. Take no other. = ists. In cans, 35c. and upward. OOLRICH & Co. on every label. Coler Works, DETROIT, MICH. Paints Sold CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price forit. Address PECK BROS,, Wholesale Dru sta, GRAND RAPIDS. Wholesale Price Current. Declined—Gambier. ACIDUM. a Sees ( Sei 50) cide — df Acetioum ...... --.--- s@ 10 | Chlorate, (po. 20).-...- 1a 4 Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 Cy anide Seewccccepee ss < : 50@. 55 Baca a 39 | lodide.............--.. 2 80@2 90 (Gasholienn (0s 40@ 45 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 32@ 3 Citricum ee 50@ 55 Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15 Hydrochlor ce 3@ 5 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Nitrocum ........--.-- 10@ 12 | Potass Nitras.......... @ 9 Oxslicuni .......-..-.- 13@ 14 | Erussiate ............-- 25@ 28 Phosphorium dil...... 29 | Sulphate po........... 15@ 18 Salicylicum .........-- 1 mo = RADIX. i Sulphuricum.... ....- % : meueiienin2 2c 1 40@1 60 agg OE — = ee @ AMCHHRA, 1-6 i cco 15@ 2 AMMONIA. oe pO. a e BrsInuS.. 2. ak 2 Aqua, a a ce 3. 2 ; Gentiana, (po. 15)..... 10@ 12 Garbonas 21t., ". 11@ 13 | Glyehrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 Chloridum ........-.-. 12@ 14 a Canaden, a ANILINE. a AIS. pO... i. = Blaek. 26.3204 2 a. 2 00@2' 25 | Inula, po.-.----------- 2 Browe...:...0..--°---- 80@1 00 | Ipecac, po......-......2 002 20 aE 5@ 50 cee — 22S Wellow ....-.-4.:.-¢--- 2 50@3 00 Mamite tie kok, @ 3 BACCAE. Podophyllum, po...... 15@ 18 Cubeae (po. 1 60....... 1 85@2 00 Rhei - = ee ee — 00 Juniperus ....-- Se 8@ m4 - . nip. ieee 35 Xanthoxylum .....---- =e Suna a 53 BALSAMUM. Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2 Copaiba ......-.------- 65@ 70 | Serpentaria... .- 40@ 35 Pera. 2s. 05... en @i 30 } Senoega ...-.-.......-.-- 60@ 65 Terabin, Canada ..... 45@ 50 | Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 Polutan <...:,..---+-- -- 45@ 50 i - M @ Ww Seiliac, (po. 3d)... .-.- 10@ 12 CORTEX. Symplocarpus, Feti- Abies, Canadian..........-- 18 dus, po......... -... @ 35 @SRING |... 2-5... owes 11 | Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ 25 Cinchona Flava .....---+--- a8 ie German... 15@ 20 Euonymus atropurp......-- 30 Zingiber Bese. see eee 10@ 15 Myrica Cerifera, po.....---- rod Zanpaper 9.020200 0.. 6. 22@ 2 Prunus Virgini.........----- 2 Quillaia, grd......-...---++- 12 l See Sassafras .....-.-2--------:: 12] Anisum, (po. 20)...... @ 15 Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10| Apium (graveleons).. 10@ 12 Bird. is-). 4@ 6 EXTRACTUM. one (ne, 18). 2... : ai = iza Glabra... 244@ 2} Cardamon..... = S... @1 25 a cc eease 35 nese npr See. “ 3 12 atox, 15 lb. box.. 12 | Cannabis Sativa....... yd 4 — ee 141 Gvdontim.... _.1.... Go@i OO “ 15 | Chenopodium ........ 1u@ 12 “ ny ee idee bia 1 75@1 = SenicHltinl. 2.0.0.2 ee Foenugreek, po..... 1 6@ 8 Carbonate Precip.....- Bo rang ee @ 4% Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 | ini, grd, (bbl.4 )... 44@ 4% Citrate Soluble........ @ Oiviebelia wes el 40 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50} pharlarisCanarian.... 34@ 4% Solut Chloride........ @ Jo mena 6@ 7 Sulphate, com’l......- 1%@ 2] Sinapis, Albu......... 8@ 9 ‘6 pure....--+-- @ 7 eC Nigel 11@ 12 FLORA, : SPIRITUS. (Arado 2) ees oe 14@ 16] Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 Anthemis ........- . 30@ 3 . DF. B.-..: 1 75@2 00 Matricaria ...... ----- 30@ 35 ‘ eS = ..-1 10@1 50 LiA, uniperis Co. 0. T....1 75@1 75 7 oe eo 1 75@3 50 Barosma Stifol, Tin. 10@ 12) ssacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 SS 25@ 28 | Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50 re eee | Alx. 35@ 50 Vini — eee ; 25@2 S Salvia offieinalis, 4S Vini oe 25Q@2 and 148...... i 10e 12 SPONGES. Ure Urs 200. c 8@ 10 : Florida sheeps’ wool Coe Catrace ie 2 25@2 50 Acacia, ist picked.... @1 0C| Nassau sheeps’ wool eo Sq ae) earcape (20 le 2 00 te “4... @ 80] Velvet extra sheeps’ «gifted sorts... @ 65| wool carriage....... 1 10 FDO. ss cee =~ se 75@1 00| Extra yellow sheeps’ Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 50@ 60] carriage............. 85 «’ Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12] Grass sheeps’ wool car- « $Socotri, (po. 6). @ i riage esl... 65 Catechu, 1s, (448, 14 48, Hard for slate use.... %5 1 @ 1 | Yellow Reef, for slate Aummoniae |. 0210.6... QU) ae a a 1 40 Assafcetida, (po. 30)... _@ 15 Benzoinum.......-..-- W@ 55 SYRUPS. Camphore®.......-.--+- 2 ©) Accaein.. 6305002.) 50 Euphorbium po .....- So 10) Zinpiver ..2. 0051004. 0150 a: 50 Galbanum. .........-- @ 80) eens ee 60 Gamboge, po.......--- Sa) 9 | Mert fod. 50 Guaiacum, (po. 50)..-. @ 45} Aurentt Gertes...........:.. 50 Kino, (po. 25).--.---++ @ Behe Aram... 2.0... .-.. 50 Mastic... 2. 22.22. @1 00 | Similax Officinalis.......... 60 Myrrh, (po 45).....--. _@ 40 ss as Co... 50 Opii, (pc. 5 10).....--- Sos SO Nenera 50 Shellac .. ......-.---- Se@ Sai Serine 50 « pleached...... 23@ 30 Ge 50 Tragacanth .....-.---- 3@ | Polutan 0) t lee 50 HERBA—In ounce packages. Prous vire.....--.-. 50 Absinthium ........--+++++-- = TINCTURES. gt gag Sele ede. eee 25 | Aconitum Napellis oe: 60 Majorum...... .---------+- 28 i . eee 50 Mentha Piperita...........- 23 60 o Wait oc 25 60 MG. eel. 30 | 50 Manscetum, Vu....--+--++ ++: gp | Asafcetida................... 50 MHenas) Vole eee tae 25 | Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 : c Benson... 60 MAGNESIA. OO 50 Calcined, Pat........-. Soa, 60) Sanguinaria: (...... 2... 50 Carbonate, Pat ....... PO) Se ronal 50 Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25/| Cantharides................. 15 Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 36] Capsicum ................... 50 oLEUM. Se ee Absinthium. .......-.-. 5 O0@5 50 Caster 2200000060510 22 0. 1 00 Amyzgdalae, Dulce... .. a 75 | Sareea le Amydalae, Amarae....7 25@7 50 | Cinchona ..............----- 50 AIRY le te ee 1 90@2 00 me CO ee Ausenti Corex........ | @e 501 Columba ..(-. 2... 50 Bergamii .............2 Se 00) Conium 262.5. 0.5.) 50 Cajiputi ........--.-+-- Oe CCT Gubeba 50 Caryophylli ........... Ot Ob | Disitelig 3... ok es 50 COGaT occ. lle. Sa GRECO tase 50 Chenopodil ........... Gt (o VGCNAR ee 50 Cinnamonil ........4-. 1 35@1 40 as OG.....0:52. 60 Creronela ..-- 2... 2. @ 1 Gaetan... 50 Conium Mac.......... 35@ 65 SOR... 5... - > OG IGOPAIDA . 0 i. <5 cet oe S0m@t 00) Zimeiper . 2)... ce 50 Cubebae...........-- 16 00@16 50 | Hyoscyamus ................ 50 Jixechthitos........... t OO} toGiIme 6). tt 5 Hrigeron ..:..-.2...... 1 20@1 30 es MOlOEIERS. 5.8. % Gaultheria ..........-- 2 2@2 30 | Ferri Chioridum:..........- 35 Geranium, ounce..... @ iets 2 eee 50 Gossipii, Sem. gal..... Se@ so) Bepenrm fe 50 Hedeoma ......:-.-... 2 One 1s Myre 50 Jtpert. 8. Oi Nux Voricea.....-....-..3.. 50 Pavenguis:....2. 2... W@2 Opn. e . 85 Ponti te E501 80; Camphorated....:...... 50 Mentha Piper.........- 2 tae, «ss Peodor.-...... . 2 00 Mentha Verid......... 2 bogs GO | Anranti Cortex. .............. 50 Morrhuae, gal......... Oat G0} Guassia .-- os 50 Myrcia, ounce......... @ Set teantatig 2... 50 a 1 0OG@e 751 Bact es Se 50 Picis Liquida, (gal..35) 10@ 12] Cassia Acutifol............. 50 Meet a ce 1 4@I1 &¢ f OOo Sos 50 Mogmarint.. 5.2... Moga G0 t Serpentaria .— 2.2. c ss. 50 Rosae, Ounce.......... 6 OO | Stromontum...........5..... 60 Sueemt. 2.10... MOGe 25 F POlan ic se 60 Saneee oS Mt OF ft Valerian (2. 5 50 Same 20... os 3 50@7 00 | Veratrum Veride............ 50 BRSBEITOS. - 22 60 oe ess, ounce.... @ 65 MISCELLANEOUS. TE cts 5 eee Seo cea @1 50 Thyme figs cae cia cna as 50 _— ses Spts Nit, J - 2B 8 . ODS 0 5e305. @ 60 Alumen 4F.- we — Theobromas........... -—eA ee ee a POTASSIUM. Ch soeee cease eee os 3@ 4 Bl CGR ion os oes oie 16@. 0 Annee... 6s cc. 55@ 60 Bichromate...... 2... 13@ 14} Antimoni, po.......... 4@ 5 Bromide... 220.0 2... 37@ 40 * et PotassT. 55@ 60 TUT nieces 1 35@1 40 Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 68 Arseniewm .o0 006.605: 7 Balm Gilead Bud..... 38@ 40 Bismuth 8. N. ..-2 10@2 20 Calcium Chlor, 1s, (48 TES ER, Wey a Cantharides Russian, Is that Furnished by the Accident Insurance United States Mutual Accident Association CHARLES B. PEET, Oe ee @1 7% ; Capsici Fructus, af... @ 18 President. " . O55. @ 16 “ce oe 14 Cargophylius, (pos) 295 35|SAMES R. PITCHER, warmine, No. 4)....... @3 75 Cera Alba, S.&F..... 50@ 55 ; Cera Vinva Be 30 Sec y and Gen. ae: Cocemss -. eb). @ 40 phe ae Brciins.. ..- @ 15 : POHUEMEIA. 62 10 Cemscetm 0... g 35 390--394 Broadway New York Chiorotorm: .:.205...5, 32@ 35 ? : be squibbs .. @1 00 Chioral Hyd Crst...... 1 50@1 75 Chemirae 3... 3 20@ 25 Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ 20 cone ss aa “2 | IOLISHINA orks, list, dis. z cent eee ee ae @ 60 - : . Geto @ 50 .(TRADE MARK REGISTERED.) Creta, (DBE 7). ... -.: @ 2 i Repo. oh 5 . 3 . + oo a8 10 | The Best Furniture Finish in the Market. eae Oe an @ 8 Specially adapted for Pianos, Cu dent poet e = Organs and Hard Woods. Supri Sulph. — (s@ 9 Dextrine ... --- so@ ie . . will remove ) U grease and dirt, and Ether Sulph 07. ex@ 70| POLiShiNa Will adda lustre which for beauty mery, os numbers.. g : and durability cannot be excelled. ROLE EARS ae oha is clean and easy to use, as full a De = Polishina directions accompany each bottle Gels oot. sk @ | Delishing = ou: te es Gambier (ie 8@ 9 ila and is sold at the moderate price o Gelatin, Cooper oe @ 90} Twenty-five Cents. i Tener: 40@ 60 ‘oh; is the Best Furniture Finish in the Glassware flint, 75 & 10 per Polishina market. Try it, and make your old a by box 70 less furniture look fresh and new. : ae Ede oe 4 = p li hi is for sale by all Druggists, Furni Goan QE 5 0 18 ina ture Dealers, Grocery and Hard Grasia Paradisi........ a ni eee Hunureius. 6.35... 23@ 40 BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ Ww ¢ “ e cor ai @ 280 FOR SALE WHOLESALE a x Rubrum @i1 00 . Ammoniati-. | 110} HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG 60,, THydrarpyrui,.... 2... @ 8 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Ichthyobolla, Am..... 1 25@1 50 Indigo tec se 75@1 00 Iodine, Resubi....._.. 3 75@3 85 SUSPENDED! Sedotorm....5....-.... @4 70 een a en ie cet = Bx ycopodium (000000. Ss ° oo “ae ra T8¢ Liquor Arsen et Hy- ot oo drarg Todi)... 025. 2) = 2 = Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 S Soo — Sulph (bbl td mB = 4 ee 3 3 S Mannia, SB... 45@ 50} & ER Morphia, S. P. & W..2 ex@2 90 | @ a “ SEY ee sa-n-4 Ca 26502 9| @ > soe Moschus Canton...... @ 4019 Zz 2 SS Myristica, No.1....... Oe Wic aa PSS Nux Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10| * Sz Ro = Sepla.............. 28G a2 a ie epsin Saac, H. & P. D. — 60 Es peo ee ee aig esi eo} %»7Z be icis Liq, N. C., % gal 5 Me @2 0| b> XG \\ we Picis Liq., quarts ..... @1 00} NN > S ce pnts... a es : d SMC oS Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).. @ 50 = re ae cog (po. 22) .. @ 18 : r iper Alba, (po 95) .... 35 Hare ST oo TL IN boa Aeee | 15 Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20} Warranted not to Thicken, Sour or Mold in Py rethrum, boxes H any Climate. Quality Guaranteed Against Injury & PD Co), doz... . @1 25| by Freezing. All others worthless after frees Pyrethrum, py........ 35@ 40}ing. See quotation. MARTELL BLACKING Quassiae Cee eee 8@ 10|CO., Sole Manufacturers, Chicago, Ill. Quinta, 5. bP fw..... RQ 47 . S German.... 33@ 45 Rubia Tinctorum..... 1I2@ 14 Saccharum Lactis pv.. @ 3 SAINCHE foc. 2 25@2 35 oe Sanguis Draconis 40@ 50 c Santonine ee @A 50 Sapo, Wie. 12@ 14 LEA - = 8@ 10 ee 15 Seidlitz Mixture...... g 25 EMMOER oe @ 18 % Go @ 30 Snuff, Maccaboy, De Woes... @ 3 e Snuff, Scotch,De. Voes @ 35 ABSOLUTELY — oo == _. 1@ & Soda et Potass Tart... 30 33 Af soda Carpi: 0001... 2D 214 Pure i Healthful | Soda, Bi Carb.) 00500) 4@ 5 5 ? Sida Ash 1 3@ 4 Te HOds, SULpPRAS..... |. : ; Spts. Ether a bee 55 ee (| Myre, Dom... . @2 00 Cece : Myrcia Imp... .. @2 50 Try it once, and you will Vint Rect. bbl rse the i ep aa eel nas 2 15 a ee 3 _ 5¢ gal., cash ten days. a Sulphur, Subl.... 0... 21 336 For Sale by ali Grocers ae ee U4@ 3 7 . (PAMAPIAGS 2. 2... 10 Terebenth Venice... 23@ 30 Mail Crees ........ 50G 55 1 ‘ ; y Vania 9 10@16 00 — ee Zmei Suipe:..-.. 1... 7@ 8 - an Buffalo, N. ¥. Bbl. Gal , Whale, winter........ a 70 95 wrappers from the Zierd, xtra... <2... 55 60 ioe Ne tl . 45 50 Linseed, pure raw.... 58 61 Lindseed, boiled .... 61 64 Neat’s Foot, winter . = See oe ce 69 pirits Turpentine.... 3044 55 —. PAINTS. bbl. lb. | or a copy of the ELOPEMENT after the painting by Gos, see ak ee — Kaemimerer, issued by them at a cost of over ts “ Bor. 1% 2@3 5,000 dollars. 7, =. --.24% 2%@3 ‘¢ strict. are...) 2% 2 Vermilion Prime ae — FCO 13@16 Vermilion, English.... 70@75 Green, Peninsular..... @S Es : ioe, we 6%@7% Grand Rapids, Mich. ae. 6YOT4 : Whiting, white Span... @70 =. Gilders’....-.. @90 we ae ae 100| a. J. Bowne, President. iting, Paris Eng. —: Shoe eer ans GEo. C. PreRcsz, Vice President. oneer Prepared Pain Swiss Villa Prepared 2 eo MEG 1 00@1 20 VARNISHES. CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. med ae Coaeh. ..'. . 1 10@1 = BT del igs 1 | lee a 1 1 Cosee Boay..... <5. 2 00 Transacts a general banking business. No. 1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10 Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 mer Dryer, No. 1 OO eo esses 0G 7% Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts ef Country Merchants Solicited. The Most Celebrated Cigar in America . 2 Knew a Good Thing. Mr. Buyer—Those shoes that I got for my little boy, just a week ago to-night, are worn out. Mr. Shoeman—Well ? Mr. Buyer—I want another pair just like ’em. Never knew boys’ shoes to wear so long in my life. WHO URGES YOU SA POLIO’ THE PUBLIC! By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre ate a demand, and only ask the trade to mo goods iz stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. ithout effort on the grocer’s the goods sell themselves, bring purchar- ers to the store, and help sell less known goods. ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. Putnam Candy Co., Packers of the well wana PRB OYSTERS Selected Herbs mi Spices| Prepared by THOMSON & TAYLOR SPICE COMPANY, Chicago. Is a Combination of The Finest Ingredients for use in Seasoning Meats, Poultry, Game and Fish. SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. Ween Ly chee ALD Hl EK’ 5 YEAR. All the News Fine lsTRATious Good TORIES -Fall MARKET ReporT)-Able FDTORIAS plete Family Newspape” and — Democralic Weekly Ff 4be Northwest: 3 PAGES year *1.00 r Send for Sample Copy. e James WW. Scot J ublisher ago Lip. ARAVENRIGH BROS Wholesale Clothiers MANUFACTURERS OF Perfect-Fitting Tailor-Made Clothing AT LOWEST PRICES. 139-140 Jefferson Ave., 34-36 Woodbridge St., Detroit. MAIL ORDERS sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive PROMPT ATTENTION. BG. STUDLEY. Wholesale Dealer in Rubber Boots and Shoes Manufactured by ‘ GHNDEE RUBBER 60. Send for Large Illustrated Catalogue “and ~ ae 3 Price List. Sey ~ See TELEPHONE 464. No. 4 Monroe Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Putnam Candy Co., FLORIDA ORANGES. LEMONS, NUTS, ETC G in Toys for the fiolidays H. LEONARD & SONS., Grand Rapids, Mich. ASSORTED PACKAGE NO 110, TIN TOYS. The prices on this assortment of staple tin toys are lower this season than ever before, and is most carefully selected from the best sellers of the entire holiday line. The net price—only $14—for the assortment allowing a clear profit of seventy- five per cent. TO THE RETAILER—This advertisement appears but once. send order at once. Holiday bills due Jan. 1. Cut out and : oe Wholesale. Retail. e— i Doz. 3? Assorted Tin Animals... ... ss se = 1 (24 Srotting Horses.....:..--.-.-- 42— 42 5— 60 : = a So. ais cee SO ee 10—1.20 cs 1 ‘“ 38 Animals on Wheels.. _ %- i 10—1.20 ni 1 ‘* 219 Steamboats...... ..-..-- .-2.00— 67 25—1.00 = 1 “ 134 Horses and Carts....... ee 10—1.20 oe i. © Se . ity Cars. ........ so— 80 10—1.20 a e “137 4 Wagons. 1.25— 63 20—1 20 % ‘ 138B " Se ciel! eel ate 2.25 —1.13 25—1.50 a 1“ ie Witenes 5— 60 Cc > 1-6 ** 924B Picture Wagons.............-. 4.00— 67 50—1.10 1-12‘ 508-1 Trains of Cars Complete...... 9.00— 7 1.25—1.25 Cc 1-12° Bi “ lees 5.50— 46 %— % rom 1-6 ‘* 400-4 e e fae 4.25— 7 60—1.28 CO (o< eh week Sele. 6.8 2s... 450— 7 50—1.00 Para yy‘ 4 Toy Kitchens....... ...-. --. 3.75—1.25 50—2.00 = 1-6‘ 2 - ie ee lee 1.7%5— 3 25— 50 el xe 8 . eee: — 37 10— 60 a 9 ip a eeyes cos ewe 42— 21 5— 3) CA o= y “ 1% Stovesand Furniture........ — 7% 10—1.20 . 1.3 Crown Banks.................. 45— 4 5— = a 1-6 “* 500 Mechanical Locomotives.....4.75— 79 65—1.30 co $14.00 $24.00 SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, AS FOLLOWS: No. 98 -Woodenware, Tinware, Etc. - No. 99--Glassware and Crockery. No. 100--Holiday Goods. E No. 101--Lamps and Lamp Goods. No. 102--Silver Plated Ware. H. Leonard & Sons. NEW HOUSE AND NEW GOODS. A. E. BROOKS & CO., WHOLESALE Confectionery, Nuts and Figs. Our Specialty--Candy made from sugar and good to eat. CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, a - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH HESTER & FOX, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY ATL A ENGINE WORK INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A. MANUFACTURERS OF Send for Catalogue and Prices. > as a7 Cez-y Engines and Boilers in Stock pai tor immediate delivery. — a TAN 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 Samp): Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Write for Prices. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICK a Sy = g > ° < /f Sj Ji | Ee Sf 4 e 5 s \é {svt 2 5 bo “ > = iz 3 Fi] os e 3 eo a | re; © y/o 3S a» Se DIRECTIONS = a Z We have cooked the cornin this cau | ° Yaa) sutticienti: Should be Thvroughly a» Warmed ‘net cooked) adding piece ot = izooe Buiter (size of hen’s egg) and gil. Jj of fresh milk (preferable to water.) Season to suit when on the tabie. Nove genuine unless bearing the signature Davenport Cannirg Qo, Davenport, Ia. "EN ay sau © Putnam Gandy Go, 13, 15 AND 17 SOUTH IONIA ST. lonia Pants & Overall Co. E. D. Voorhees, Manager. MANUFACTURERS OF Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, kts, Warranted Not to Rip. Fit Guaranteed. Workmanship Perfect. Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. Samples and prices sent on application. IONIA, MICH. The Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Co, Grand Rapids, Mich. MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS IN SIGHS. FOR CATALOGUE. | SHAFTING, HANGERS, | ) AND PULLEYS A SPECIALTY. ‘FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. Send Specifications for Estimates before Contracting. THE LANE & BODLEY CO. ——_ 21043 JOHN ST., CINCINN’ 7! 0. % AIMES 8 * Shipper and Retail Dealer in . () | L Lehigh Valley Goal Go. s Office, 54 Pear! St. Grand Rapids, Mich. SHIPMENT. MICHIGAN CIGAR CO, Big Rapids, Mich. MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED “