» e The Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 7. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1889. NO. 325. 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 any other house in the city. Perfect fit guaranteed. 20 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids. dX GOUGH DROPS Cook & Bergthold, MANUFACTURERS OF SHOW GASKS. Prices Lower than those of Write for cata- any competitor. 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 lbs.—1 will sell them at very low prices. Write for Special Discount. ROBT. S. WEST, CLEVELAND, OHIO. ar 90 48-50 Long Raton, Lyon & Go, 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 aud Notions. 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A little corner with its crib, A little mug, a spoon, a bib, A little tooth, so pearly white, A little rubber ring to bite. A little plate ail lettered round, A little rattle to resound, A little creeping—see! she stands! A little step ‘twixt outstretched hands. A little doll with flaxen hair, A little willow rocking chair, A little dress of richest hue, A little pair of gaiters blue. A little school, day after day, A little schoolma’am to obey, A little study—soon ‘tis past, A little graduate at last. A little A little A little A little muff for wintry weather, jockey hat and feather, sack with funny pockets, charm, a ring and lockets, while to dance and bow, escort homeward now, party, some what late, lingering at the gate. little little little little little little little little walk in leafy June, talk while shines the moon, reference to papa, planning with mamma. See eee little ceremony grave, little struggle to be brave, little cottage on the lawn, little kiss—my girl was gone. JOHN S. ee ee ADAMS. ——————————.,. 2 > THE MISSING BRIG. When I was a boy sf sixteen, I laid aside my grammar and rhetoric ‘‘fora spell’? and ‘‘tended store.’? That is to say, I became first clerk, second clerk, salesman, book- keeper, porter and store- sweep to worthy Mr. Cricket, who kept a general assortment of what were then called English goods, West India goods and notions, in the snug village of Bunk- umville, on the coast of Maine. Our stock was very miscellaneous. We sold silks and molasses, fine cambries and rum, broadcloths, flatirons, rock salt, spices, codfish, raw cotton, books and stationery. grindstones, cheese, powder and shot—in short, matters and things in general. I took to my new occupation with great ardor, thinking, in my folly, thatit was a great piece of promotion to quit my studies and ‘*’tend store.”?’ My schoolmates envied me, and I thought myself almost a man. I left off ruffled shirts, the fashion for boys at the time, and wore a neckcloth, and my jacket was laid aside for a dress coat. I put my hair under a course of Macassar oil, and cultivated a foretop, that is, a bunch of hair sticking straight up over the fore- head, as you see represented in the med- als of the officers of the 1812 war, for that was the period of which I] am writing; and then foretops were univer- sal. 1 wore swell black boots, with silk tassels. These boots came nearly up to the knee and formed a brilliant feature in one’s dress. Thus attired, I set up for a village beau, and thought myself a pretty fellow. One day there came into the store a middle-aged countrywoman, who made a number of purchases. I observed that she eyed me rather narrowly; and when she heard Mr. Cricket call me Martin, she said to me: “Are you Martin Jones ?”’ ‘Yes, ma am,’ said L “Do tell! well, I never! so you Martin Jones ?”’ ‘To be sure I am.”’ ‘‘Well, Martin, I am so glad to see you. My name is Jerusha Thompson. Did you never hear your mother speak of me?’’ ‘No, ma’am,”’ said I. “Well. you must know, when I was a young woman, I was help in your fam- ily. Llived with your mother when you was a little baby, and I have tended you a thousand times before you were old enough to talk. Ido think you were the are prettiest baby I ever saw. How you have altered !”’ Iput up the woman’s packages as quickly as Leould, and bowed her out, not without much handshaking and many good wishes on her part. I did not take a particular fancy to her, however. In the autumn Mr. Cricket used to go to Boston to replenish his store with a new stock of goods. On one occasion, walking the streets of Boston, just as he was finishing his purchases, he met an old acquaintance. This was none other than Captain Life Jenkins (Life being the short for Eliphalet). The captain commanded- the brig Sally Ann, of Bunkumville Port, just three miles from Bunkumville, where our store was sit- uated. He had just returned from a freighting voyage in Europe, had taken out his eargo, and was bound for Bunk- umville Port. As his vessel was quite empty. he offered to take Mr. Cricket’s goods on board without charging any freight. Mr. Cricket was greatly obliged. To send them by the fast-sailing little packet which ran regularly between Bunkumville Port and Boston would cost afew dollars, and Captain Life’s offer would save all that. The brig, being a heavy, clumsy craft, built for large bur- dens, would be aday or two longer on the passage, probably. But what of that? A week would be quite sufficient for her passage, and the packet took two and sometimes three or four days. So the goods were put on board the Sally Ann, and Mr. Cricket came home to wait for their arrival. It was late in autumn, about two or three weeks before the annual Thanks- giving. Mr. Cricket, with a particular view to what would be required for this festival, so popular and so generally ob- served in New England, had purchased a good assortment of Thanksgiving goods. He had bought many barrels of choice family flour, dozens of hams, sugars of all sorts, spices, tea, coffee, figs, raisins, currants, oranges, lemons, citrons, West India preserves, to say nothing of the West India rum, French brandy, Holland gin and the choice as- sortment of wines, which were deemed absolutely necessary in those days to ren- der a Thanksgiving feast sufficiently merry. Besides these supplies, there was the usual assortment of English goods, hardware and crockery. ‘three This year Mr. Cricket was going to | cut out all the other storekeepers with | his splendid and rich assortment of | Thanksgiving goods; and he did not hes-| itate to tell the neighbors that, when the | Sally Ann should arrive, ‘‘they should | see what they should see. If Bunkum- ville did not have a merry Thanksgiving this year, it should not be his fault.’’ At the end of a week, the Sally Ann had not arrived. On the tenth day she had not arrived—had -not been heard from. Mr. Cricket was getting nervous about his goods, and especially those Thanksgiving goods. He got a spyglass and went to the top of the steeple of the village meeting-house, where he could see the entrance to thé harbor, and watched for an hour in the cold Novem- ber wind, hoping to see her come in. But she did not come in that day, nor the next, nor for several succeeding days, although Mr. Cricket climbed up to his post on the steeple and watched for her each day, as if that would hasten her coming. There had been a good deal of stormy weather — cold northwesters — two or snow storms. Mr. Cricket grew positively anxious as Thanksgiving day approached. He read the list of ship- wrecks in the newspapers, expecting to find that of the Sally Ann; but he could not find it. He rode down to Bunkum- ville Port to see the owners of the brig and ask them what they thought about it. But they were as much in the dark as Mr. Cricket, and they frankly told him they could not make it out at all. They did not know what had become of the Sally Ann, and, as she was fully in- sured, they probably did not care. Mr. Cricket thought they were altogether too indifferent about the affair, and he came home as wise as he went. At length Thanksgiving day came, and the Sally Ann had not arrived. Mr. Cricket ate his Thanksgiving dinner with avery long face, and did not give the usual dance in the evening. The neigh- bors, and especially the traders who had paid their freight and got their goods safely by the regular packet, did not sym- pathize with him; on the contrary, they laughed at him. They inquired what had become of those Thanksgiving goods, and wanted to know if freights were low. Another month rolled away. Christ- mas came; but the Sally Ann did not come. Probably she had foundered at sea. January and February had passed away. and stillnonews of the Sally Ann. Mr. Cricket began toconsole himself with having fully insured his goods. That would be hard cash in hand. March passed away: no news yet. On the first day of April, a boy, on horseback, with- out a saddle. came riding post-haste from Bunkumville Port, jumped off his horse in great haste, ran into our store and bawled out to Mr. Cricket: ‘*The Sally Ann is arriv!’ ‘When did she arrive?’ said Mr. Cricket. *‘This morning, bright and airly.’”’ said the boy. “Where is she from?” said Mr. Cricket. ‘“‘From St. Barts,’’ said the boy. ‘That wont de,” said Mr. Cricket. ‘Go back to the folks that sent you, and tell them they can’t make an April fool of me this time.’’ Poor Mr. Cricket had been badgered so much about the Sally Ann and those Thanksgiving goods that he had grown very suspicious. In vain did the boy relate, circum- stantially, all the particulars of her ar- rival, and protest, over and over again, that he was telling the truth. I was con- vineed of his sincerity and suggested to Mr. Cricket that it would do no harm to ride down to the harbor and see for him- self. He refused to go, but he said 1 might go if I chose. Glad of an opportunity to ride, I sad- dled the gray mare and set off inconti- nently for Bunkumville Port. I was not long in reaching it. Sure enough, there was the Sally Ann, with her colors fly- ing. She looked a good deal battered and weather-beaten, but all her spars were sound. Captain Life received me very cordially, inquired for Mr. Cricket’s health, and invited me into his cabin to take a glass of punch. When we were alone, I said to him: “Well, captain, how about our goods, especially the Thanksgiving goods ?’’ ‘‘Well, Martin,’’ said the captain, ‘‘the less we say about them Thanksgiving goods the better; but the other things are all rigcht.’’ ‘“Why.’’ said I, greatly alarmed, **what is the matter ?’’ ‘The fact is,’’ said the captain, ‘‘when I sailed from Boston I did not calkilate to be out more than two or three days, more particularly as we were so strong- handed: for there came aboard a dozen sailors, all belonging to Bunkumville Port, who had been discharged the day before, and I offered them a free passage home if they wou'd find their own grub. So I only laid in provisions for my own crew for four or five days. When we were off Marblehead, there set in the most awful nor’ wester I ever seed in my life. It blew, and it snew, and it sleeted. It was as dark as Egypt and as cold as Grinland. It held on this way all night. So we had to put off tosea. And this was only the beginning of our troubles. We got blowed off the same way every time we came near the coast. At last, in a dreadful nor’west gale, after we had scudded before the wind three days, our maintop-mast was carried away and we sprung a leak. We were in the latitude of the West Indies, and I had to put into St. Barts to refit. There we were both- ered and hindered for weeks before we could get our repairs done.’’ ‘‘Well,’’ said I, cutting short his rather long-winded story, ‘‘what has all this to do with those Thanksgiving goods of ours ?”’ ‘Why, Martin,’’ answered the captain, “the fact is, them Thanksgiving goods is all used up.’’ : ‘Used up!’ roared I. ‘“Yes, used up,’’ said the captain, with great suavity. “I don’t understand it,’’ said I. ‘‘Why, you see, Martin,’’ said the cap- tain, ‘‘the fact is, when we were four days out, our provisions guv out entirely, and I was obliged to use the Thanksgiv- ing goods. There was nothing else in the brig, you know. I had two crews on board for nine weeks, and they did eat very hearty.’’ I thought so when I came to see the remains of Mr. Cricket’s luckless_ in- voice. That fine flour was all gone, so were the fifty hams, the fifteen baskets of figs. the forty Connecticut cheese, the twelve boxes of layer raisins, the five kegs of Smyrna raisins, the four barrels of Zante currants, the nine jars of fresh grapes, the two barrels of oranges, the three boxes of lemons—it was awful to think of. They had used up the bar- rels of loaf sugar. This was to be ex- pected. But how they got through with the three barrels of coarser sugar was a mystery to me, until the captain kindly explained that a great deal of sugar was required to sweeten the toddy and punch which they made out of our lemons and our West India rum and French brandy. “It was so cold, you know,”’’ said the captain, ‘‘when we was off the coast, that the poor sailors was obliged to take a little toddy to keep them warm; and it was so hot off there in the West Indies that they had to take a little puneh to keep them cool.’’ A Hetie !? said L Bet where did they drink up twelve baskets of fine wine and the three barrels of other wines? They must have used them up where it was neither hot ner cold.”’ ‘‘QOh, ah,’’ said the captain, ‘‘the wine was only used in eases of sickness.”’ In short, every consumable article of Mr. Cricket’s invoice was gone, except one of the bags of coffee and part of a chest of tea. “Talk of adevouring element.’’ said I to myself; ‘‘there is no devouring ele- ment like a hungry sailor.”’ Mr. Cricket was dreadfully chopfallen when I got home and told him what I had seen and heard. He went down to Bunkumville Port the next day and had along talk with the captain and the owners. They did not offer to make any compensation. His insurance policy could not be used as aremedy; it insured him against the dangers of the sea, pirates and war, but not against famine. Mr. Cricket came home very much vexed. He wanted to go to law with somebody about it; but the neighbors now laughed at him worse than ever, and he finally contluded that if he commenced a law- suit he should be kept in the courts a great while, and, moreover, that he would never hear the last of those Thanksgiving goods as long as he lived. So he gave up the notion. The day after the Sally Ann's arrival, Captain Life called at our store, and kindly presented Mr. Cricket with a monkey and a gray parrot, which he had brought home from St. Barts. Mr. Cricket received them very graciously, considering all the circumstances of the ease; but when he had got them, he was at his wit’s end to know what to do with them. If there was anything in the world which he hated more thoroughly than the squalling of a parrot, it was the very sight of a monkey.”’ ‘Why did you receive them ?’’ said I, as he was scolding about it, after the captain had gone away. “Oh,” said Mr. Cricket, ‘‘I was afraid of hurting Captain Life’s feelings if I should refuse to take them.”’ Amiable Mr. Cricket! “Suppose you make a present of them to Miss Piper,’’ said I. “The very thing!’ said Mr. Cricket. “Take them, Martin, quick! run up to the Mansion House and present them to Miss Piper, with my compliments.”’ ‘Had you not better write her a little letter 2”’ I said. ‘It would seem more respectful, you know.”’ This suggestion was adopted. The let- ter was written in Mr. Cricket’s best big ledger handwriting, and, with the par- rot’s cage in one hand and the monkey’s chain in the other, I set out for the Man- sion House. Miss Piper was the chief personage in Bunkumville. She was a young lady of sixty, who had never been married, and yet nobody in Bunkumville presumed to call Miss Piper an old maid, for she was very rich — owned a large homestead called the Mansion House estate, two hundred acres and more, besides farms. bank stocks, bonds and mortgages and ‘‘all that sort of thing;’’ moreover, she was a gay, cheerful, lively little person and very charitable to the poor. She was at once the leader of fashion and the lady bountiful of the parish. I knew her very well. She used to pat me on the head, coming out of church, and tell my mother l was a very pretty boy. This was when I wore ruffled shirts and had not lost the good looks of my infancy, so much re- gretted by Jerusha Thompson. She received me very graciously, on the pres- ent occasion, and was perfectly delighted with Mr. Cricket’s present. Before I left, however, she told me that I was entirely out of my sphere in Mr,*Cricket’s store— that I must leave it, and fit for college forthwith. ‘‘I have been going to speak about it to your mother, Martin,’’ said she, very condescendingly. “You have got talents, Martin, and so had your father before you. He was a very good lawyer and you must be a lawyer, too.”’ As nobody in Bunkumville ever thought of disputing Miss Piper’s will, | was forthwith sent back to my grammars and Latin in order to become a lawyer. Meantime, Miss Piper began to patron- ize Mr. Cricket’s store. She not only bought her groceries and wines of him, but she made a great many costly pur- chases in the department of silks and laces. She sent for him to come to the Mansion House, and made him her agent for collecting rents, writing conveyances, and making himself generally useful. In a short time, he was her right-hand man —her prime minister. This gave Mr. Cricket position, as well as hard cash. He began to rise in the world; and, when I went home in the college vacations, I was told more than once that he was a rich man. After this, when the neigh- bors referred to the voyage of the Sally Ann, Mr. Cricket replied that ‘‘it was an ill wind that blew nobody good.’’ When Mr. Cricket had become very rich, the whole affair was discreetly and studiously forgotten, and no further mention was ever made of ‘‘those Thanks- giving goods.’’ MARTIN ARTHUR. i 2 Safeguards Against Fires. As the cold weather approaches, the more frequent conflagrations emphasize the necessity of looking after our fire- extinguishing apparatus. In city and country, in private house and factory, the water pipes and supply should bea special object of solicitude at this time. The causes of fires multiply with the cold, more open fires are in use, furnaces are started, and defective flues and ker- osene lamps begin to do their destructive work. The same cold weather that in- creases the sources of conflagration tends to impair the water supply of buildings and of street hydrants, so necessary for its extinction. Before the winter has begun, the pipes and faucets should be inspected. Many factories and stores have automatic ap- paratus, including sprinklers and other appliances. This class of work may be permanently injured by freezing. so that it will be useless in summer or winter. But if not thus injured it may be ren- dered quite useless by the stoppages in the water flow caused by ice forming in the pipes, back of valves, or in exposed places. A small amount of ice may in- terfere with the turning of a stop-cock. A minute spent in thawing it out when water is urgently needed may allowa fire to obtain considerable headway. This is the season for carefully specting all such apparatus. Hydrants and valves should be examined, should be opened and shut, and oiled in order to insure easy working. The oil is nota matter of indifference, as some oil cor- rodes brass, and will do more harm than good. By one authority, heavy mineral oil is recommended for the purpose. If this is properly made, it will never gum and will be non-corrosive. Sometimes the entire system of automatie sprink- lers and connections are emptied of water and kept so, the main supply valve being permanently closed and pet and drain cocks being opened for a_ short time, to remove the contents. In such cases the pet cocks should be closed as soon as the water ceases running, and eare should be taken to inform the proper people that the main valve for every alarm of fire is to be opened. Although this course is spoken of as one often followed, it is not a good one. The essence of an automatic system is to be always ready. Where the turning of a single valve by hand is required, the system loses much of its value. It would be far better to run the pipes in such places that they would not freeze and to keep the water permanently turned on. To prevent pipes from freezing, wrap- ping in non-conducting material is often recommended. It does protect to a cer- tain extent, but cold will in time pen- etrate the best packing. A very slow current of water through a_ protected pipe, however, will do more to prevent freezing than a more rapid flow through an exposed one. Fire hose is in many buildings hung against the walls, and is coupled always to the water pipes. Such hose is often of no use, and is too weak to stand the strain of use. Purchasers of this class of hose are often asked if it is for actual use or merely to satisfy the fire inspect- ors. Of course, a high quality is not needed, as it will never have over an hour’s service to perform. But it should be able to resist the water pressure. When coiled, it should be properly done. If of rubber and coiled with ‘*buckles.’’ or sharp bends, these impair its efficiency greatly, and may lead to rupture. Most of these remarks apply to fac- tories, large stores and hotels. But the private house owner should watch his fixtures with equal care, and should be assured that at short notice water can be drawn on all the floors of his residence, and that buckets shall be at hand for in- stant use. Where a more complicated system cannot be obtained, the use of fire buckets placed in the hallways or convenient localities should not be omit- ted. Many a fire has been nipped in the bud, especially in localities where a flow of water cannot be reached, by means of this simple precaution. Perhaps in the distant future better building methods will be adopted by us, and our houses may eventually be less exposed to fire. Until that period, we must not neglect applianees for extinguishing fires when they do occur. + A clergyman married a couple, re- ceived his fee and sent them away, ap- parently satisfied, but a day or two after the bridegroom returned and said he had come to pay more, as the woman had turned out better than he had expected. in- Perfection Scale. The Latest Improved and Best. ———ae a Require Down Weight. Will Soon Save Its Cost on any Counter. For sale by leading wholesale grocers. ay Tie Michigan Tradesman AMONG THE TRADE. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. H. P. Smith has removed his confec- tionery stock from 547 Ottawa to 168 Stocking street. Dayton & Pamenter have opened a grocery store at Sears. Lemon & Peters furnished the stock. R. Purdy has moved his grocery stock from Grant station to Walker, otherwise known as D. & M. juuction. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. booked the order for the grocery stock at Hol- land,putin by Notier & Verscheur. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. secured the dry goods order. Owen & Pinkney have engaged in the grocery and crockery business at Perrin- ton. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the grocery stock and H. Leonard & Sons the crockery stock. John R. Vance has engaged in general trade near East Jordan. The Ball—Barn- hart-Putman Co. furnished the groceries, Rindge, Bertsch & Co. the boots and shoes and Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. the dry goods. R. G. Dun & Co. have leased the fine front rooms on the third floor of the Widdicomb building and will occupy the same with the beginning of the new year. The new quarters afford plenty of room for the collection department which has lately been added to the agency business proper. Geo. W. Tubbs. for several years en- gaged in the meat business on Grandville avenue, but for the past three years em- ployed as patrolman on the city police force, has purchased the meat market of John Heinzelman, at 568 South Division street. and will take possession of the same on the 16th. AROUND THE STATE. Crystal—John Walsh has engaged in general trade. Sault Ste. Marie—Gilbert Brull opened a harness shop. Norway—C. T. McElroy has removed his general stock to Ironwood. Gardner’s Corners—Rodgers Bros. are closing out their general stock. Manistique — Cornelius Klogstad has engaged in the grocery business. Nunica—Mr. Jubb succeeds Judd & Needham in the grocery business. Yorkville—W. S. Wedge has added a dry goods stock to his grocery line. Traverse City—Capt. D. Matteson has re-engaged in the grocery business. Saginaw—John Diebel succeeds Phil Diebel in the boot and shoe business. Chelsea—Wm. Emmert succeeds E. M. Fleteher & Co. in the grocery business. Belding—F. Boelio has sold his restau- rant and bakery business to J. Dennison. Bloomingdale—John C. Speicher has sold his grocery stock to J. G. Lockhart & Son. Eden—Fay & Collier succeed John W. Tripp & Co. in the general merchandise business. Muskegon—Eistedt & De Vries succeed John Henry in the meat business at 21 Ottawa street. Muskegon—Laughray & Co. Laughray & Elends in the sale of musi- eal merchandise. Traverse City—Capt. Geo. Baldwin and his son, Thomas, will shortly embark in the meat business. Eaton Rapids—L. L. Kelch & Co., deal- ers in ladies’ furnishing goods, have been closed by creditors. Whitehall—J. & A. Van Kuren have removed their millinery and fancy goods stock to Grand Rapids. Big Rapids—Jno. R. Campbell has sold his boot and shoe stock, and will seek a new location elsewhere. Muskegon—A. Gagnon has removed his grocery stock from his old location on Catharine street to Blufiton. Charlette—C. P. Locke has purchased Fred Mygrant’s harness shop, and has consolidated the stock with his own. Elmira—cC. E. Mosher has admitted his son to partnership in the grocery busi- ness under the style of C. E. Mosher & Co. Traverse City—E. R. Kneeland has sold his meat market to Frank Brosch, has succeed who was the pioneer butcher of the Grand Traverse region. Holland — M. Notier and John Ver- scheur have formed a coparinership un- der the style of Notier & Verscheur and engaged in the dry goods and grocery business. 2ockford—The firm of McConnell & Woodruff has been dissolved. Mr. Mc- Connell will continue the furniture busi- ness and Mr. Woodruff the undertaking business. North Muskegon—J. W. Feighner, whose drug stock was recently destroyed by fire, is considering the idea of locating somewhere else. His loss was about $1,800, only partially covered by insur- ance. Manistee—John Hellesvig, the grocer, has torn down his old store and will re- place it with a new frame building, 35x66 feet in dimensions. The building will be two stories high and have an elevator running through it. Sparta—Frapk Heath succeeds Heath & Holt in the grocery business. Traverse City—M. Winnie has sold an interest in his grocery stock to J. W. Fleming, and the business will be con- tinued under the style of Winnie & Flem- ing. They will also run C. A. Baker’s store at Acme. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Muskegon—W. J. Danforth has en- gaged in the lumber business. Otsego—Duhammer Bros. their feed mill to J. M. Ballou. Memphis—John Clegg, of the firm of John Clegg & Son, founders, is dead. Detroit—The Detroit Sanitary Supply Co. has increased its capital stock from $5,000 to $50,000. Saginaw—Flatt, Bradley & Co., dealers in timber, staves, etc., have dissolved, M. F. Van Sickle & Co. continuing. Lamont—Homer Dennis and Robert Tucker have purchased the red mil], and will put in a broom handle factory. Traverse City—The new machine shop and foundry will start up under the style of the Traverse City Manufacturing Co. Manistee—P. N. Cardozo has contracted with the Filer Town Manufacturing Co. to manufacture 2,000 of his patent ribbon trays. Pentwater—Sands & Maxwell propose to build an addition to their furniture factory in the spring, 38x80 feet in di- mensions. Three Rivers—The Acme Manufactur- ing Co. has been formed to engage in the manufacture of Wegner’s patent thill coupler. Saginaw—The Whitney & Batchelor sawmill cut a little over 30,000,000 feet the past season, and the stoek has been pretty well sold up. Cheney—William Jackson, of Jackson, is putting up a small sawmill here. He has 3,000,000 feet of logs to cut, besides some for other parties. Bay City—Lever & Bobst have started their box factory and the Michigan Cen- tral has put ina switch at the works to facilitate shipment of products. South Haven—Mayhon & Son, proprie- tors of the extensive tannery here, are excavating a site for another large build- ing adjacent to their present group. Detroit—Judge Reilly has appointed William G. Smith receiver for the Wm. Dwight & Co. insolvent lumber estate. A bond is required in the sum of $25,000. Saginaw—The Ross Sapless Cedar Co., is reported to have the machinery on the ground foramill at the mouth of the Cedar, which will cut both lumber and cedar blocks for paving purposes. Mason—C. D. Huntington has removed his clothes pin factory to Shepherd, where he proposes to employ fifteen persons in turning out 100 boxes of old-fashioned have sold clothes pins per day. Charlotte—Judge Jennings has sold his interest in the furniture factory of C. M. Jennings & Co. to Seth Ketcham. Busi- ness will be continued uuder the style of the Charlotte Furniture Co. Lake George—Magoon & Touchette, of East Lake, have purchased the C. L. Gray shingle mill, at Knowles’ Siding, and the timber on 3,600 acres of land. A circu- lar saw will be putin next spring. Olivet—Pinch & Van Geison, dealers agricultural implements, have dis- E. B. Van Geisen continuing. Mr. Pinch as bought the grist mill prop- erty of Mrs. Harriet Beesher and will continue the business. Bay City—It is reported that a wood alcohol plant will soon be erected in this city that will employ seventy hands. There is an abundance of the raw ma- terial, as mill refuse will be consumed in the manufacture of the product. Bay City—C. H. Plummer’s at Ogemaw Springs, has gone out commission for the season. The mill will stocked this winter for next season. which will practically exhaust the timber owned by Mr. Plummer. in solved, sawmill, of be Manistee—All the mills shut down last week except that of Buckley & Douglas, which will run on hardwoods the greater part of the winter, or at least until they get their docks so full of lumber that they cannot conveniently hold any more. Chocolay—The C. T. Harvey sawmill, which had been leased to J. H. Gillet for six years, and has sawed almost entirely for the local market, has been turned over to its owners by Mr. Gillet, he hav- ing cut up all his timber and retired from the lumber business. , Michigamme—The T. W. Reed & Co. sawmill shut down for the season the fore part of last week. This concern will start a milk at Eagle Mills at once for their winter’s sawing. It will rail in some logs, but will depend largely for stock on logs to be hauled in by a steam logger. Manistee—E. D. Wheeler succeeds Canfield & Wheeler in the ownership of the sawmill at the mouth of the river, which stands on the site of the first mill that was built at Manistee. The firm has not a large amount of timber, and has for several years sawed by the thousand for John Canfield. Mr. Wheeler is some- what troubled with rheumatism, and as he has been limping around with a cane for the past week, has decided to try the effect of a water cure in the southern part of the State. Dowagiac—The Round Oak Stove Co. has brought suit against the Indianapolis Stove Co. for infringement of trade mark. Saginaw—The West Side Lumber Co. is the first to hand in statistics of its cut. The mill cut 8,100,000 feet of pine, 1,- 783,000 feet of hemlock, and 506,500 feet of hardwood lumber, and 1,987,000 lath. There is on the mill dock 4,515,500 feet of lumber, of which 680,000 feet has been sold. Detroit—Dr. John J. Mulheron went into partnership in the dairy business with G. A. Murney & Co., putting $700 into the business. He now asks for a dissolution of the partnership, and Judge Reilly has made an order restraining Murney from collecting any of the debts, pending a settlement. Ontonagon—The Diamond Match Com- pany is buying a good many logs from the homesteaders and pre-emptors on the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagan and Ontonagon & Brule River forfeiture lands. The logs are mostly bought de- livered in the Ontonagon river, the price paid being $8.50 a thousand. Manistee—Rumor has it that Peters’ logging railroad is sold again, but as it has been disposed of so often for the past two years, according to the newspapers, itis getting to be somewhat of a chest- nut. The officials of the Chippewa Val- ley Road were here a week or so ago and went up with Peters over the road, but it is not given out that any definite trade was closed. Charlotte—The council has voted John L. Dolson $5,000 in cash, conditional on his erecting two brick buildings, 100 feet long and two stories high, and engaging in the manufacture of his patent road wagon. The city is guaranteed immu- nity from any consequences which may follow in the wake of the appropriation by 102 responsible business men. Muskegon—The Muskegon Cracker Co. has been organized, with a capital stock of $12,000, all paid in, and will immedi- ately engage in the manufacture of crack- ers and sweet goods. Charles H. Hack- ley will serve the corporation in the ca- pacity of President, C. L. Gunn as Secre- tary and Treasurer, and Harry Fox as Superintendent. It is expected that the company will be in shape to begin busi- ness by Feb. 1. ——————-_-<——___— Candy by the Carload. GRAND Rapips, Dec. 7, 1889. Editor Michigan Tradesman: DEAR Str—We see a good deal of talk in the papers of late in regard to large orders of furniture, which we are very glad to see; but one would naturally come to the conclusion that there was no other manufacturing business in the town. Lest such an impression go abroad, we wish to record one transaction under the head of large orders, but of a different line. We are to-day shipping to one of the heaviest jobbers in Toledo a car load of candy, consisting of 100 barrels. This is a single order, but we have received within the past few weeks single orders from the same class of trade as high as three car loads, and we are informed by the contracting agent of one of the lead- ing transportation lines that we were the first parties in the State to apply fora full car rate on candy. Yours truly, Tue Putnam Canpy Co. ———— or ————_—— The Salt Outlook. The salt inspection year closed on Sat- urday, and the annual report of State Inspector Hill will be made about the middle of the month. The quantity in- spected is likely to slightly exceed that of last year. The quantity now in the hands of manufacturers is reported to be about the same as ata corresponding date last year, not far from 1,800,000 barrels. There is no change in quotations, and unless a combination is effected the out- look is anything but encouraging. The discovery of a new salt field in Ohio, with a stratum 100 feet thick, will not add to the consoling reflections of Michigan salt men. =_ > Change in the Brackett House, at Big Rapids. Bia Rapips, Dec. 6, 1889. To the Traveling Public: Having rented the Bracket House, in this city, and thoroughly refitted it and put in new furniture throughout, I am satisged 1 am in a position to please the traveling public, if ten years’ experience in the hotel business counts for anything. My wife and daughters will give the kitchen and dining room their personal supervision, and a leading feature of my management will be the most delicious cup of coffee to be had anywhere on the road. As my rates are only $1.50 per day, lam confident that one visit to my hotel will satisfy everyone that my house is the best place to put up at. Yours truly, A. J. JAKEWAY, Prop’r. $< 9 ae Wool, Hides and Tallow. Wools remain firm and are strongly | held at the late advance of 1!¢@2e per | pound. They are still below the seller’s ideas, or where they were in July last, when purchased. On the other hand, manufacturers say they would stock up if the goods market would warrant, but | in their present condition and price it is | of no object to buy wools and work them at aloss. The foreign markets are high | and strong and wools cannot be brought | into the states and sold on our market. | The lost by the Boston fire of knit goods was large and creates quite a stir in that | line. | | | | Hides remain quiet and low and are| likely to be lower, rather than higher. The leather trade is good and prices be- | gin to show a margin for tanning. Hides | are plenty and ‘the demand is fair, but | must be low in price to induce pur- | chasers. Tallow is plenty, low and weak, with | large supplies of stearine offering at low prices. It must rule low for some time to come, as at this time the kill is large and stocks aecumulate. Furs do not sell to the home trade, as the weather is warm and manufactured goods do not sell readily. —e 9 The P. & B. cough drops give great satisfaction. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. SS —EEEEEOEOEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. | Pe PAYING BUSINESS FOR A GOOD| $7,000 farm. Fifty-nine, Box E, Fostoria, | Ohio. 553 W snmp _t0 EXCHANGE HOUSE AND LOT IN F thriving city of Battle Creek for stock of dry H. E. goods, notions, boots and shoes or groceries. Merritt & Co., 666 Wealthy Ave., Grand Rapids. 551 a DEC. 16—SMALL STOCK OF MER- chandise, groceries preferred; will pay part cash, balance good realty. Address J. Leet, Reed City, Mich. 552 OR SALE OR EX ‘HANGE—NEW STOCK OF HATS, caps and gents’ furnishing goods; will invoiee about $4,000. G. W. Watreus, Jackson, Mich. 546 5O 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 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 loam soil, with good buildings; will exchange for stock of merchandise. Address No. 539, care Tradesman. HAVE SEVERAL FARMS WHICH I WILL EX- change for stock of goods; Grand Rapids city prop erty, or will sell on easy payments; these farms have the best of seil, are under good state of cultivation, and located batween 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. 531 Ho SALE—THE FINEST DRUG STORE IN THE ' city of Muskegon at 75 cents on the dollar; reasons 20 OR SALE—A GOOD GROCERY BUSINESS HAVING ' the cream of the trade; best location in the city; stock clean and well assorted; thisis a rare chance for any one to get a good paying business; poor health | the only reason. Address S. Stern, Kalamazoo, Mich. | 518 MISCELLANEOUS. ye Sy 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, La Crosse, Wis. 545 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.Stewe | & Bro., Grand Rapids. | 5 ANTED—SEND A POSTAL TO THE SUTLIFF COV- | pon Pass Book Co., Albany, N. Y., for samples | of the new Excelsior Pass Book, the most complete | and finest onthe market and just what every mer- chant should have progressive merchants all over the country are now using them. FA. Worgburg & Go. Exclusive Jobbers of DRY GOODS, HOSIERY, NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR, 19 & 21 SOUTH DIVISION S8T., GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. LION COFFEE ; Merchants, YOU WANT THIS CABINET Thousands of Them Are in use all over the land. varnished and put together in the It does away with the unsightly barrels so often seen on the floor of the average grocer. Beautifully grained and best possible manner. Inside each cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws. Kvery Wide-Awake Merchant Should Certainly Sell ON, THE 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. For sale Packed Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of by the wholesale trade every where. Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States. WV oolson spice Co, TOLEDO, OHIO. L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids. IF YOU WANT The Best ACCEPT NONE BUT Silver Thread Sauerkraut. Order this brand from your wholesale grocer 6-ftcaselike above U (}f} i 6-ft case, square, with metal corners, same price. The above offer is no We shall continue to snide work. turn out only the BEST of work, “Blan” oF All other cases at equally low prices. HEYMAN & 63 AND 65 CANAL Grand Rapids, COMPANY, STREET, Mich. z& GEO. H. REEDER, ce Lycoming Rubbers ‘“ E = or of = & Medium Price Shoes “ £ Grand Rapids, Mich. WANTED. | POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to} ship, or anything in the Produce line, let | us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. } | | EARL BROS... THE DETROIT NEWS COMPANY, WHOLESALE STATIONERY, FANCY PERIODICALS. The largest and most complete line of above goods in the S:ate, 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. E. W. HALL PLAYING WORKS, ALL KINDS OF BOOKS, GOODS, ComMIssION MEercHants Brass'and Iron Polishing 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapide. AND Nickle and Silver Plating Corner Pearl and Front Sts., Grand Rapids q4 ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT Association Notes % . PATRONS , ae age sages At the annual meet- = . ee goodly amount for turning the trade over Mi e A., held : i i chigan Business Men’s Association. J. W. Coch Wednesday evening, Succinct History of the Order f to him who will agree to sell goods on i Fr A Pointer. ; a. 1 ee Whitney, Muskegon. oe va ran, J. F. Powers, W. F. Griffin and the Beginni rom|10 per cent. margin. Of course, Id t eT ee ee- ent—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint. . W. Fleming were elected ng. f , I don’ Merchants faili : Becond Vice President M. C. Sherwoot members. The mat-| expect the merchant t oe Secrotary—E; 4. Stowe, Grand — ter of the annual banquet was left in the hands So many demands have been received the kind. I don’t Saas. eS What tay have ox & ee erieot, Frank Wells, Lansing; i CLOEE TE SORERAURE- Considerable rou- | £9F copies of the paper containing THE iness on a 10 per cent prolit. aa ed — day to day amilton, Traverse City; N. B. Blain, Lowell’ usiness was transacted and the old officers | TRADE 2s ex but all I ca ia tae ha ee Cannot very ss = a Flint; 0. F. Conklin, ‘Geana | Were re-elected. DESMAN’S exposure of the Patrons | farmers Nee cae for him to make the _ Well expect Committee or = Insurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap —___ —. +. of Industry—demands which it has been | agrees ve that he is doing as be) rWwitl setect 3; Oren Stone, Flint; W : : i i e sag > ae rn. op om Lepisiadion =framk Well Lancing Good Words Unsolicited. are to comply with, owing to the “What do you think of my scheme? en aa eee Wlegan; : C. i. May, Clio ae aa — Hawkins, general dealer, Hawkins: fact that everyedition containingthe series Don’t you think I have indeed eck a daa coe own, ——— Saginaw; L. W. Sprague,} = ae with THE Trapesman.” | of exposures has long been exhausted—it — ing on the credulity of the ifs 7 ear pam Contos: a Srxaapertniton—O. ©. Beth J. M. Shaffer, drugs and groceries, Gladwin: has be ‘ 4 — armers?’’ 2 , you ave “ / se ; ° s en . 7 * > : 2 2 CM. Sherwood: Allegan; A- 0 Seep Feet; I have received great benefit from your expos- | Jeadi deemed advisable to reprint the| Such is the plan that Vertican unfolded eee an an Al F x . z ing arti Sj a -o his nei ee % ; ees roe of the P. of I. Keep on in the good work.” g articles in the series, as follows: | ! his neighbors, Krause and Wadsworth i coe aca ona "Secretary Jes. H. Moore, Saginaw. Me I—THE ORIGINATORS ~ it is affirmed that those worthies lost Oft’ and well al tt : > S. : : eos : ‘ : cia] Organ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. One Way to Secure Business. si ie & beeen cee 2 o time in assuring Vertican that his Just the goods The following auxiliary associations @ A contemporary relates an amusi farmers are not, as a rule Se eat poe ee Rees oe they q ee eS , charters granted by the Michizan story in connection with the buy = i that they do not invent a a ae tae prs counted in on the deal. Ver- — |. en’s Association * an American dry goods house. The even their lightning rods; yet the a aa en prepared the skeleton work of| - VISITING BUYERS. Taney ability of this gentleman to rise, so to the constant prey of a. = er ei a and ritual, drawing | Clty, Eaton. Inland Lambert & VanN 1—Traverse City B. M. A. speak, to the occas : ? classes oe a argely on the ritual of the 8 S Schantz. Woodland anNorman, President. J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings. | illustration th ion never had a better | ;; , from the alleged inventor of a Husbandry and copying : atrons of Albert Retan, St Johns W R Lawton, B — : stration than in his conver ‘tin washing machine to th i entire sections | Hessler Bros. Rockford Al ; Beate > Swell eM. sion from Senay shine to the fellow who|from the constituti : os A C Wait, Coat’s G@: Alex Johnston, Reed City President, N. B. pol ae ae the cut atid dried methods of a retail secures a signature to a raised note. Ancient Ord ten and ritual of the | HM Roys, — ———— i a mantle buyer to the advanced expedients Considering the gullibility of the av-| order | eee of United Reformers an Sanus a Forest Grove Seccattrcn @ President. H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn. necessary mowadays to the proper dis verage farmer, ica te ko mk etal = 2 —_ sinee defunct. The trio fre- ao ae Tanis & Bierema,Muskegon No. 4—Grand Rapids M.A. semination of the same articles fr “| prising that three "me h at all sur-| quently met every evening in the week H H Childs, Rockford B Vecshorss Ovexiat X K 4 —— 5 Se wholesale house. A new i gotten their heads tesethor a 8 ae noting the progress made and debating a Mills & Mills, Ashland e endea V i i se. + ‘ s i" r Oo rer Cas ° ‘ President, john i Miller, Secretary, oe ao. name Moise, a bright, smart, a afew years ago and hatched ces . a = — Geo F Goodrich, Fennvill eG Seth Wayland nie to carr a full 0 eA fellow, had bese cheace’ tae ae by which the farmer could be made to| was — = , = of the order, Vertican Qsborn &Hammond. ‘Luther N ae y President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin. trade, his range extending from Texas t bleed most liberally. Nor is it ao — noderate in his views as to ae ee ae Allegan TH Condra, Lisbon asSsoO rt men t No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. the Indian Territory i xas [0 | surprising that none of these fe gett Bo oa to be made for admittance to Grand-Girand & Co. pAll ioe seenat " President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary N.H. Wid ° ‘ 7 se men were|Membership, but Wadsw A Big Rapids ullivan : ger. “Now. Moise.’’ exclai farmers, nor that ’ adsworth — having Goodyear & Ba pids E White, Lee No. 8—Eastport B. M. perp xclaimed Mr. Read one was at the same] great and abidi oe a mee J Raymond, Berli President, F. H. Thursten: oe es en instructively, when the salesman came time in the employ of a railroad — are —s - sa the farmers by | RB ncamechgne J Coon, Rockford i No. 9—Lawrence B. M. A. up for his samples of mantles, ‘‘you species of employment which a I ; te . : his occupation as a railway R Purdy, Walker — ae ae tal —_— ee Marshall; Secretary, J. H. Kelly. - t want to take water from anybody! usually tend to promote the ees se ee the more it cost the | 4°D Martin, Bitely” Carrington & North, Trent 0—Harbor Springs B. M. A. Mind you, wee sympatl : join, the more anxious Geo A sage, Rock! oS oe ae OS VV a President W. 3 J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson. mills; we hav pppoe several large cloth : . iy for the rural portion of our would be to solve the mysterie 3 he! Sc auc cee EGuacciacees r © eT; © cma © 1i—Kingsley B.M. A. ufacture ve a huge factory; we man- . — aco cei Mauda weellle al te . a ee eee H ade, Conklin ? O President. H. P. Wh pple: S — re our own goods: w a he OW , ie / : se usuaily side wi y _ allard, ring i ° a —— SS ae Wynkoop._| handred girls, eS Industry ae agg aol eas Patrons of |can and more moderate views ae Notiene VerScheur Holland b Ww shattack, Wayland 10 and 12 Monroe St., 33, 35, 37, 39 d 43 : sident, C. McKay; Secretary aiige Eoanon. less than six : ys Sen ie ma heen man, a superan- prevailed. Ass e ane . ‘arrowe,So Blendon CH Demi ’ ’ an i i ———— ’ S: SL dollars 2 WwW a = nuated Presby terial : : cee As soon as the constitu WmVerMeulen.BeaverD ing, Dutton ? oOuls S L 7 a Seacll ou dik Mowe. i eek board, fem at 1 preacher, about 60 and ritual were completed, and tt — GS Putnam, Fruitport am Avery & Poll ard, GRAND RAPIDS MICH t s president, H.B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin. | regard for a i : se; it — to their | ay p = last pastorate was ing of the necessary si - . word- Tucker, Hoops & Co.. ‘Luther Silas Loew, acum's Grove oo . No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A. > le Tair Sex, ear in mind, yre, Sanilac county. It is unde upon. copies ae decided | 8M Geary, Mapl Geo P Stark, Cascade . President, 8. A. Ho is also, Moise. we pay stood th engeae i aer- F nh, copies were printed and x _| John D y, Maple Hill T H Atkins,Carli:le St: H 4 ee is Fe oe Ei. — ek tae a hess = —. uae esi = _— with his las®| tion of officers was made. yoo on Hf Meljering, Jamestown A.& Bibergy ‘Caledonia, RDWARE. Stebbi MOLASSES GATES President, K. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase. under the market at that! Giv eorai tionate character saa — affec-|elected president, Wadsworth was pee joka Dasastca, Cachell Cutler & Wright, Morley Stebbin 8 Sema eR a seeeeceseees 60810 i ee ~ = — Lake B. M. A. straight, my boy, and you nieet em | rife to the effect eat Pongo rumors are the position of secretary and Krause took ag ,Cannonsburg i. i Pri Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 60410 andall; Secretary, W. Rasco. tion that the Ik ght MEN-| + ige to thrifty 1e gentleman is a the remaining office—that of treas cele bower John Canfield, Olga FIices Cee eee 25 aay No. 17—Plainwell B. M. A. oral girls are all tidy and gen- |, cai oO thrifty to be a consistent fol- Considerable discussi — : NAILS 4 resident, = Hi Andersons Secretary, J. A. Sidle. aka ee Let the customer —— of the Cross. the matter of evommegee —_ over These pri ee ee °o —Owo I ys of you e sec ar of + : ce : PS, l 1 sti D se ces are 2 FENCE 2 President, Warren P. W eee _Lamfrom. | !anthropist! It en a hi ee - Phi- | cails oe I . 9 — was finally settled by voting Veciaa 7s Goods. pay promptly 4 vith — fod 0a ae ee = aaa No. 19Ada B. ML A. and it “i1] £ m any harm, H : : me 0 | H. Krause. salary of $2.000 a y ee ? : y an uy in full packages ae 25 President, D. F. Watson; S : it will swell your orders every ti e is a German by birth, t : ‘ sich pestis paren hile the other i 5 i BOS. | Sek and Geese 10 No. so unentack Be a — Moise, I give a basket of a Yankee blood sate easter bsen as a. of the fact that one Prices Current ee old style sa insta esis “ ta ae een a = Sthnns. take © Oey ee : the man who sells : ‘ | to render hi i : s a situation on the Por , i aa Bl MMM cco scan ede de opuiacags Seen eee enry ; Secretary, N. L. Rowe. sells the biggest total of ender him atolerably shrewd s 2 na eae ; ort Huron & aoe ee 60 No. 21_Wayland B. M. A. mantles for the season.” ‘ii He is about forty years ia et. North we stery Railway and the other was : UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Jennings’, genuine iE 40 er eames toe henriies pares 1 00 Ciachieut, CT. Wharton: Seccciony, &. ¥. test. ‘i aise bh ars old, with a|the recipient of $120a month f : Atlantic A.......... 74]Integrity XX ere ee ee So ee 150 ace : oy Mr. Moise had several subsequent re- swarthy complexion, chin whiskers and Sam—ager $120 a month from Uncle} Atlanta A. A 614| Ki grity XX........ 5 ings’, imitation ..............--.. 50&10 | 44. FINE BLUED Rpt ts -—Grand Ledge B. M- A. a hearsals previous to departing upon his thick-set frame He does oy os oe py in their respective Archery Bunting... 4G one 6H First Qualit oe ee re 1 00 eS eee -y, W. R. Clarke. | tour and finally i cig S| chure i acities for $1,000 a year Amory ss ees j uality, S. 2 Bronze De ee 1 No. 23—Carson City B. M. A ’ nally sallied forth primed church regularly and his rept ' —: Pau aaa tal 2 EC, Sin... 5% AS | eee Ne al ne enna epee tects esene pene cae [> President. John W. Hallett: aes ca. with any number of sia argu- profanity is as wide as the Ssmaseng=clntad a sat AA es Lawrence L ....... Big “ ca B oe el Oe OO) aga eo sod CASEING AND BOX. 2 00 N ss Ss. a aes tA aces Son => ew “ ee Es -; ——— B. M.A. ments, besides being infused with a He formerly conducted a retail furnitur Ill. —THE STATE CONVENTION. Blackstone O, 32... 5 *|Nolbe aaa a Bly Dp seers a ats ee ert erreetineet 50 ecretary, W. H. Richmond. lar ge amount of enth store at Bad e As has | Chapman... (aoe 0 Ulm ee ee ee oe 60 a a a aang are usiasm. Never be- = ad Axe. but report has it that AS 1as been already shown in the pro- a, 4 — ton ......... .. 6% | Rail BARROWS. dee | Oe ween cece rte te cttetee eee "5 President, H. D. Pew: Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson. of K. 1istory of the wholesale trade 1€ enterprise ended in disaster—for his vious chapters of the History of th Gia oo Riv. — Best..... v a ee eee dec am acs 8 14 00 | 44 to Be eu 90 Pr No. 26—Greenville 4. M. A. f Kansas City had such a traffic in man- creditors. Krause came out of the failure Patrons of Industry, the constituti € | Clifton CO C.....-.. 6% poe = ere i ss ho @ esident. A. C. Satterlee: Secretary. E. J. Clark. = been done over the route which Mr the same way he is coming out of the = ritual of the order were aos oe _ a Re. 5 (sharon = a BOLTS. aa a at ey 1,50 : No 27—Dorr B.M. A. Moise traversed. Eac i ce | Ge , . 2 te LY 2 oD a : red in the ight Star.-.....-- 7\For of the Heap... Stove... % inch... mG aL. EE widens, B Bolicood: . : [ : . ach mail brought in . movement—first best. o i 10use of F. H. Krause, : Exeter A... ray, So 0 t e Heap.... 744 | Car cent e ete eee nett ee ee eee ee eens Sodi0 EMD. wn eee we weet ee nn nw cone President, E. 8: Botsford: Secretar — arattling good order. The new rhe occupation was as ge lansing boon ee Huron, | Pull Yard oes? = hice gg i ag en “a ssngee te Hinton eneen enn lie President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H.G. Dozer. man was voted a hummer, but the key- ments and tombstones, in which he eee Krause, Vertican and sr lag by ee = 2 ae << a4 Sleigh ee ssid 1% and 1% inch. De clears ee No. 29—Freeport B. M.A. =i of ; success was sounded by a eminently successful, owing to the om paragraph of dass pea rosair hae . One So eae om New Market L, 40in. ry ee 7 ae - . CG sor tbanaeEsnly ee : 35 No oe A. J. Cheesebrough. a himself in a letter to his chief in character of the business. He next ap- pared read as follows: oe) —— Well: oo See ea ae $ 3 50 3 inch. nce ve . wo o. 30— whic 3 Sey : - . = . : oer : ee fats iD COTTON oe ° os , Pe ee eat a eeae once uu, President, A. G. Avery; posse need — . ai _ stated: : When I describe the peared in the field as a detective in Unele The state convention shall meet pe ek ge ee : 8. ee ee 4 00 ~~ +4 ee 85 le No. 3i—Charlotte B M. A. ‘ at actory building to them in detail, Sam’s Secret Service, which brought him the third Wednesday in April, 1890, and Cleve 0 ae ee 44 Fruitof the Loom %. 8 s 1 Loose Pin figured. oe ~ ee ‘ President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury. yegin to weaken; but when I spring a stipend of $120 per month. In less on the same date every four years tl ' — a ae 7 |Fairmount.......... 4% | Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... lon PLAN Present 32—Coopersville a A - hundred tidy-looking girls, it just than a month after President Cleveland’s after. The. national convention ae Cie % oa —— Cambric. .10% — — ae. ee au a Tool Co.'s, tancy 48 = arnes: Secretary, J. B. Watson. 1rows ’em right down ue retirement, 1} meet a . 7 Shall | goat hacker nsdale : eae a z errr ster etme te 10 , : A subsequent 1ent, however. he was at on the first Wednesday i : wight Anchor. . 9 |Middles io een ak 6) Gus Taal Can foes o. 33—Charlevoix B. ™ letter fr ; “ : r . cme s removed | 199 : ednesday in May, see 3... 5% ought Inside Blind........... 7 usky Tool Co.'s, fancy................. 2 President, _ oe —— = ae = a announced that a office ae reasons best known to his << and -o four years thereafter on | Edwards shorts. eax view eee see 744 =e ee ae EO, — Bench, first quality saith ws Lee aa 40@10 i. 66 see ca tig x yn. who ran a store in s riors, when he resumed active con- he same date.”’ eee 6 720 ee in ae cues nley Rule and Level Co.'s, wood... .... President, HT. Johnson, Secretary, PT. Williams. — a 5 eas Sonic at ie nection with his newspaper, the Port By placing the date of the ‘state’? and Farwell... ....-... 7% Suniignt a 5% Bulag = ee ET 70&10 | Fry, Acme PANS, - 20610 President, No. S5—Beuaire B. M. A. a oe and was an excellent customer a Herold, a weekly publication in “national” conventions so far in ‘the Fitehville Loom.. 8%|Vinyard..00000...: a Peete tet sina ales ainelain cin | Common, polished... dis. 60 nin street; Secretary, C. E. Densmore. ne house, would shortly arrive i the German langua ; : s future, the wily origi a : : : ee aaa mo re Ordi T OCKS. eee ese ae dis. 70 Ne. 36—Itha L ee. os y arrive in wea guage. In the meantime] ment ; ily originators of the move- HALF ‘HE : ey ae p April 17,785)... Iron and Ti nie ecient. Soden — > a ansas City, and ‘‘would Mr. Read show he started a monthly paper in the inter- ment assumed that they would be able ; Cabot oe COTTONS. aaa i eo seach | cust : erden. | him some little attention.’ res ests of t F ) to squee; 2 : Ce ee Tu | Dwight Anch Grain.......... a eal ae No. 37—Battle Creek B. M. A. Ce i tention. Mr. Read he P. of I., the Patrons’ Guide yueeze the lemon dry before they Parwerk 0s so: +3; _ Ce ea dis. 50&02 | « PATENT FLANISHED I - esident, Laat e: Books a a we ae arama sani But when the mer- ie the most mercenary member would be compelled to render an i UNBLEACHED Ce EA Cast Steel Cee ae a — planished, Non oe ay to 0. 38—Scottville B. M -ranchman arrived, having in of the trio—or triangle, as it is €Y | counting to their consti yee vt. ‘ ee ae + ..per 4% vat. planished, N ' ; . l ’ ; ; > as Le ; 1eir cons nts: _| Trex N D 2 08. 25 to 27.. ‘ President, == anes eae”. W. Higgins. = 0 associate cowboys, Mr soa ca the Cronin murder oe Se se reckoned sat ee — ~— | Hamilton ee Middlesex No. 1....10 | Ely’s1-10 ot eee ee ie 9 ee ee: ce ne No. 39 —Burr Oak B M. A. ‘festival i fi “| wor Pe : Dae aS- | @ : a ae armers who! 7] ote Bt es eee nan aa r 25 | Sis oo PES. President, W. 8. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon. : al in hand he had scarcely bar-} Ww orth, who is a decidedly slim individual composed the membership of the order Middies eee. ie << - te go 2 ee te aan = Seal, ¥% inch and larger ...... SNe inion Rapids BML A. gained for. However, Kansas City cas Oe fifty winters, with black eves and a suspected that the trio were eae cr Cee = oa: | ec de GoD coesescetrertrsist energy “ 35 CE i President: ee ine Will Emmert. ssn Up in the most approved and | swarthy complexion. Until April : = cubes tin caniy oanabeseenlee Se = 3 | el ee ee eee. “ 60 | Steel and Iron. SQUARES a 4 No. — : > E sty ‘ ce ' . : oe oa i : Sy < c= soe cape a ol ca a » > Sees Heed, Sooretards ries oe — = visitors were eal sae cae he was General Passen- — and so long ago as last fall be | E Se ee him fre: = uc ivueeomwi 6S “a. SEER A MIN EON ANGI 60 r. sely gratified? Mr. Joe Gor er and Freight A gan clamoring f ees a3 _ ¥e- | Hamilton N vas im Fire, United Stat PM Re eI a Tea No ; ae 2 ordon, 5 ent of the P ing for a °% Teh | see eee a 4\M ee a ‘ shesidienie aon —. —— MA um. indeed, with cn ened anes ge eiidaar ee & Natheccee 2. ee a During the oe eee A = eting. Middlesex eT 8 ay iddlesex A A ns = Central Fire....... BER neon one ooo: i = SHEET IRON. : 20 Presid No. 43—Tustin B. M. A. — feeling, fell upon Mr. Read’s railroad man bears the farmer is ee became thoroughly ae i TAL ea e | i A O12 218% Socket Firmer cere dis. Nos 10 to 14............ 2... eas a pay ident, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom. shoulders during the ‘“‘good ni ht? Py erbial the world over it three men were livi e haa 7c x - mM 4. a 70&10| N 15 to 14 a 83 00 No. 44—Reed Ci ing of the last & Dany ee _over. Having spent] ex ' | living in clover at the 1044] Bo 16 | Sock RE ee ee ua TOE10 | Nos. 18 0 2... --.--2 eee e eee 420 300 ies ae le sag sant Mee sn = sa aed to ii = ening of his stay, and are A pete g while in the employ of the .. of the ruralists, and they! Rp; CORSET JEANS. a ee ane oe = to 2%4........ iN eo 3 10 Na ab iostville wo i sine 0 “ 1ost that there was only ral = devising methods of wringing continual pressure to bear on ee Sees ae 6 |Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..................- 70&10 | No. 27. $0 % -... eee sees es President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith. ce a ae — 0” yourn | how large his ine 1 no matter | salaries — end to the fat ae 644 greys..-... gig = Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... ........... 24 ‘ ee ‘ 50 a Se ioe 6. A ae gals, and I ask it as a special ge his income maybe. A leading ies and other perquisites they had i ong cloth B.10% Solid Dick 64 _— Rolled, ee | Dis Whee ee o 55 President, A. 0. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis. avor to show me through the plage be-! merchant of Port Huron asserts that he been the recipients of up to ‘ak tee | cs 7 814 |W ashington indigo. 6% ee ee a 25 ee B. M. A. fore I go back.” | would not trust him for a pound of tea The call for the meeting appeared in the | a on 10% soe eee. TS | oxsers Tat acer ar Ssiiheieonens aio — er W. C. Congdon. aa — my dear boy.” jad = it is — report that he still weit — issue of the Patron’s Guide aul | Berlin Turkey red. "1034! plain Tey X3 x% a Paper fii DoS cease ae ee Peer He a arate per ton 825 : . 52—Grand Haven B. M ri ———_— |S iden ea chee he cs : e men who plaster d his i 16 1artered asso < ti iu C, © | fae 5% | Morse’s T aS 40 te ee 8. President, A. 8. Kedzie; S » M. 2 | , cheerily, “‘come round stered is house, years : oe ee good standing | ‘*. oil blue x Sper Sem icon aiken dak Gia ain Mik, a= ; Secretary Fe Vos. sige row, and I will steal enough time rae | bewails the fact that it being entitled to one delegate. The | : ¢ green .... ia —- — a, 40 Suoctal Boel Dex x Geek. per foot,. 70 President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. oy iis : i.’ 1e day to gratify your emia es lots of money to run Wadsworth,”’ opening meeting was called to order by Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Martha Ww ashington Small sizes, ser pont... °.. i Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, = foot... 50 : fully. Yj and it a Ss “Grand Presi 33 aeeep \ madders... 6 | : Large sizes, per pound.........-...-.. -..-- 07 Champion per foot. 30 No. 54— : ppears to b res | Turkey 7 , per pound... es : p and peta Douglas B. M. A. that his i e an established fact ine resident Vertican on the | Eddystone fancy... 6 | Marth ee a 6% | Cuts, per foot Electric Tooth X” = a Secretary, C. B. Waller. The next morning Mr. Read visited the on Pp oe as Supreme Secretary of Sold be of April 17, three sessions being | Hamilton fancy. S| a gy | Com. 4 piece, 6 in casey i eg Ne. 55—Peteske . ae : i i site on ee aah 1 nae ilton fancy. ... 6%4| Turkey red........ 9% | Corrugated .........0-.----e-- Ss 3 Ss. ieiinink. G = Gone: > A an ae af 4 hes 4 | gare gate Deputy Col- 3 eg Pre and — succeeding day Manchester 4 meas § 6 Wa ae robes... 5 ype ne = 2g10810 Oneida psa gta cn 60é10 No. 56—Bangor B. M. A. . : stating his plight, asked the priv Pca mee ip 0 ort Huron, which session on the morning of the cont cen a ndsor fancy...... 6% ee dis. 40&10 | Queida Commu ity, Newhouse’s ........... 35 President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, Geo. Chapman ilege of passing the edifice off < - brings him $150 a month, are not sufti- 19th. In describing the tem ser of the | mettmack D fancy. 64 indi — Clark’ EXPANSIVE BITS. aie a Hawley & Norton’s.... 7 ” ae No. 57—Rockford B. M. A. cloak factory. The request si it a jcient to enable him to keep his head men composing the eathorin. a — omnes cp ween a Ives’, tga: &, SS 3 -= yaya eae terete a2 Weta a a ciglanak See ee tees oo y- ; st was readily | above water." 2 s ae ee ‘5 g t rause | Se eet ere ea Seow 70 ; . E. B. Lapham. granted; moreover, tt ] ae water., cently remarked to THE TR we ,. | Amoskeag AC A ll lL 25 er. oe No. 58—Fife Lake B. M oe ot er, the plan was feasible, Such, in bri : detective: : TRADESMAN’S | Hamilton’ .-1344| Pearl River.... 2B riLes—New List. di Mouse, delusion. i -18¢ per doz. President, L. §. Walter; Secretar3 ,€.¢ A. there being no sign upon tl ildi , in brief, are the men who origi- ee amilton N.......-- qelWaaren...... 5... DISRLOR A te Re en ni ".81.50 per doz. . 3 3.6.4 Blakely. eae pon the building. | nated and i gl “Befor : : : mae eo 60410 | Brigh WIRE. dis No. 59—Fennville B. M urnham, Hanna & Munger hav ; are are now at the head of the efore the first meeting was, called t Se Nichol Dee e eee eee eee eee ee teen ee eee 60410 right Market............- President #8. Ray : ne. A. aCe : e asmall | Grand Order ou ie order. we Laer aa octets d to | Amoskeag.. ..1314|Ev 0. — es Aeasalcd market 67% eat Se J. Capen. aa where they manufacture overalls of the Patrons of Industry. | phe a scene saw our jig was up. | 4moskeag, 9 0z.....15 Bret en 12% — Se Gappered Marken] ey 70&10 Bs Poot ie — =a B. M.A. - another street, and the buyer sent in- 1I—HATCHING THE PLAN. bl armers came to the meeting with Amaover. (os tite 18% eller’s Horse Rasps.......... Oe 50 Tinned Market.. Se ESOT ee 62% a n; Secretary, &. — ahagertes of his coming there. At noon The organization known as the Patror sae — eyes, bent on reducing our ROS a Ta % oe GALVANIZED Is ie Coppered Spring poe a . = ae a. . M.A. ime, ac i has i Ef iy : : rons | Salaries to a hard- ue see . : : cs and 24: es ea President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes. ime, accompanied by his customer, he of Industry owes its existence to the | Us se hard pan basis or throwing o—— ee 6% | Renfrew Dress...... 8 List 2 5 25 — 26; 27 28| Barbed Fence, galvanized.....--./. per poiuna 08 =k aka ee visited his friend’s factory, and Mr isiiend oat ob teae , »}us overboard altogether. It seem dj} N ashire.......... 6% Toil du Nord io Discount, 60 15) 38 so 83 45 Peciiens tan, Seeate: Hoaocmas, © are Gosden of Seaas aad =. le baa . WW Vecce © — men_—_‘‘Rey.”’ | pretty tough that the eciciesians of - Normandie......... gp aia pecan % : ’ Pee 2 se aoa s 80 : No. 63—Evart B. M. A. ‘| impressed by its i ae S aWy | wad nee ee rause, and I. R. | order should be compelled , CARPET WARP. tanley Rule and Level Co *s pe ee 7 i President, C. V. Priest; Secreta: I y its immensity. | Wadsworth. These men dc Pa : : pelled to take a back | Peerless, whi : i oA hee Bee 70&10&10 : st; Secretary, C. E. Bell. “But where are tt * 9 on9 ia > not live far | Seat. but it was back zeat or : s, white...... 1844|Peerless, colored...2 Maydol ee D&10& Ne, 64—Merrill B. M.A : f ne girls??? he asked part in Port Huron and during the ae oe a reat or nothing— ’ ed...21 wdole GS Cera. 0s dis 9 10 President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm wonderingly. “C | of 1885-86 tl year | We could take that or step out al le 2 ee . = Hooks and Ey es. 70&10&10 : Soa Neeretare! Was. Horton, i 3 2 they frequently visited back The f: : p out altogether. | GRAIN BAGS. Yerkes & Pl goctrtesrsse esses sees die “70810810 No. 65—Kalkasks : Oh, they ar al ge ack 1e fact of the matter was a Starke 0000 ‘ : , MDS ee e piuindeade coe aes B.M.A. ek a y e all at lunch on the id forth, oceasionally meeting together a wigaag forge was, the scheme | American... 1... 20 |Georgia............ 16 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............ dis. 40810 —— s apenas, ‘eed... dis. eretary, C. 8. Blom. oor, and to intrude upon them at at the house of Krause, where mos ig atched with so much care| Valley City.......--. 17 |Pacific............ qa Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand.’...30¢ ek OG GORI oo ccs sas ss ca 30 Secciibeiik: Barer Strep arse = A. ~ sacred meal-time hour would be constitution and ritual of the = of seep so numerous a brood that we! icici ahies 16) (Bandage os) 0 49% bemie: Cinck HINGES, .- -B0C 40410 —- Patent Agricultural, wrought acta = ies ary, Chas. Cowles. breaking an iron r : | ty : : » organiza-| could not control the : cee THREADS. , Olark’s,1,;2,3 ---.---...... ' nt, malleable...... ee pus presidente Og Waterviiet farmers in| us of being embezzlers, appoint d ¢ Holvoke 00 2014 | TSpeaibs.... _...:.88 RONGGE 221. an PRI Bi cose senecicrnar 50 President. H. H. & 2 cn i . | I pursued by the Patrons . : ’ p ited a com- YORE.....-. eee ee oe | Screw Ho eter ea $e | Senowa, New List... 0.0.0. 75 = ee Seoretery. 5. 7 ciatcaiid. — iframe 1% = stocks kept on hand at) Industry first found lodgment om: ~~ oo oS eas teas dad cad SEA iG ugar eee ok and Eye, 4 ee net 10 Casters, Bed oun ae doa os cle ala a al F 50 President, saci Cheeks ee Eg B. M, A. stume © e year; it is all in ‘| tile brain of the rev c at several instances of crooked-!w White. Colored.| Whi : “ “ “ = net 8% | Dampers, American.........-..-s..e.-+s 10810 y, F.8. Willison. : ae x s oar |. » reverend end of ness wer Se 3 ec No hite. Colored. “ a . hence eee ee eee e tees net 7 toe cis kee nak ae seve” vn 70—Nashville B. M. -: = —— down the street, and the | trio. who was unable to secure a oe ae disc " ered. It is pretty hard} “ 2 te [No. 14... 87 a2 | Strap and T a net te orks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... os as a 71k Secretary, Waiter Webster. | each Saat course of manufacture are |‘? preach and found it necessary to de nurtured ae — SS ~~ 40 |‘ 18 fae 39 id a aoe. ae dis. " METALS No. 71—Ashley B. M. 2 in a separate r | vise som Oa : since infancy, bu Se anat| tee pee one arn Door Kid i President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. * i ciatterbuck. | #¥0id confusion Brees ‘he = = apelinebd =. ee oF scouree 2 the shape we’re in now.”’ ao SS si - 45 | Champion, nose ‘Wood track.. --BOG10 Pig Large... re a No. 72—Edmore B. M. A. from lunch.’’ re of originating — — the plan At the first meeting of the conventi Slater ie Rese Kidder, wood track -... . SG Tepes nniieas a Pig UM ae ne 26¢ i oe in. : : £ g yrganization for Ct Ss Lee eee 2 pi | ae %4\Kid Glove......... ee baeiiiae —_ ee — ee Scott. what a system!” 'ing men, abeane oaagnonseertiasrier dice ter, = North Branch, was made Witte Star... 00.7: Fo roathirarat pa ix Pots. ey ee 7 WARE oe ces cue eee BING. 5 28c : r. rune G 733, @ i oe ; rs ee s “| ¢ rman, a »wis Baker. of ae : a See eee ae S °. 74— Davison ao. ace gai — the volatile | — by the Knights of Labor, Sons of | ton, was — Baker, of Lexing-} pireman eat a 60805 oa esas 04 artwright; Secretary. C. W. ’ ake you arot | Industry an rari s ite co eae ore : » serve as secret ee eee a ce Mag cere Wee: eee ea en eT 60405 | Per pound......-.-. ees ceeeeeeeeeeeeeceeee sige ae Hurd. ‘an a a ra 9 nd to the| r d the various trades unions, | Committees on cr oe : ee | Creedmore __ Pe a vey, | Gray enameled...........----. see ee eeeree es 50 soi Lae President, O vumseh B. M. A. : maller building where we but subsequent investigation — satisfi sie redentials, order of bus- | Talbot XXX. "30° ld +1211 BOY HOUSE FU Y@% ....-- . ae Secretary, F. Rosacraus. manufacture overalls.’’ ‘| him that no field aie so it ce Pasig — permanent organization and res Nameless....-......27% eee wteccerce 35 | Stamped Tin Ware raring means _ Extra W iping orca hgh oe a gab leaner = 16 nee BM A aaa pralis im t ol $ so inviting, and | lutions were als Fa Le UT epg Ipeekeye. 000.16. 5 ee new list 70410 | The prices of the many other’ qualities 13% President, — 8.MeCamly; 5 : _ the bewildered customer w _; promised such rich res Lae s e also appointed. MIXED FLANNE 7 panned Tin Ware...............-..-- prices of the many other au are Secretary, Chauncey Strong. Secthwith ineuicaied iat ro WAS | | wunttees uf esults. as the rural At the shcend seceien “On oa coe bites jase. EL. Granite Iron Ware ...........-.-. new list 3334 & solder in the market indicated by priv a of ‘ciadibek af Socunerd — a SB. wm. A. of the overall traul p24 the subleties * 1ities of the commonwealth The | tary”’ Wale usth a : ee Secre-| Union R pial a West Sew 17% | an Sabi HORSE NAILS. 44 &10 | vary according to composition. ate brands eae eked. Wotaey ee: > e i». while several of average faves: hs : : ae 5 ‘ “as asked 'to state Beet LReee eee eee ee ‘| restern W ce mee ANTI No. 78—Caledonia B. M. = best looking girls were sent by ep log athess $0 do his he argued, permitted | many members the cdioe aukudeee how —— Pe as Wee ise Peg eee Cookson........-----. eas President, J. 0. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders. dozen times in review | sent by a half- ait cent is = thinking for him, andj this state—a task he wa ae —— m | oe a = Hleehing Ree 2314 Northwestern ee ea : a oniogs Hallett’s. 00... eee econ a ae ig Ne. 79—EKast Jord ane aren ev ACW. s easily influenced when stirr Bea : mas unable tae fn 2214|Manitoba.... ....... 3312 KNOBS—New List. : TIN—MELYN GRAD % ° Passions, Obes. sg reeeay er a ae That _ a close call,’’ soliloquized | the subject of trusts and a . aig re . expert was appointed ot | ale Oa 23% Door, mineral, —a ~~ —_ = Charcoal...------ GRADE. eee No. 80—Bay City and W. B | were adopted condemning ee binder | Jreenwood, 74% 0z.. 9%} : 25. Dee Door, porcelwin, trim aon ree ey | Rack 2dditienss X ace 1 . d ae : : ‘ 2 ; a ee : r | 2 i” dll 7 a 5 ee Kery: Secretary &. E. Ransom. Pog is perhaps unnecessary to add tent with the new en Sg — — trust and approving the bill which | white, doz see Russell & I LOCKS—DOOR. dis v0 10x14 IC, Ch Se President, B. 8, Webb; Secretary, M. Poilask the graphic and go-ahead Mr. Moise that | B@ve struck a rich vein ne eT sequently passed the Legislature pro- | Colored, doz....... a bale, 40 doz....87 25 | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.%s. Se se "55 | 14x20 IC, ALCOA]... 2. eves ee ees tees eens B05 40 EEE No. << hn a A. y- season obtained the prize basket of wine | play on the gullibility of on ae | Moar veal an increase*in the bounty for ee oe aa Branford’s ee Sante Necees S ei x. rae a since bin ic me : 40 sident, L. P. Wilcox; Secretary, W. 8. Mandi eee eel pe : ‘erage | the destruction of English s ig Peer ee es Tene con > go. 2 < _ | farmer, making hin : nglish sparrows. Slater, Iron C a a ee President. BS M. inn: Beare = ae ~ Portraits for the Hol | are in league a vith the Standard Oil Co. The third session was es up with a | Red oon 9 Phage as _ deiindin Soule anit ie LEVELS, a 55| Each additional X on this grade 81.50. ary, ich e j | ir sae ii : Bec wee” eee Seal Wel Core (2.0.0) ' ROOFING 0. 85—Clio B. M. A sence Send : omer. /and the Diamond Match ia 2 il Co. | W rangle over the question of representa- ts — es 10% Bedford. (22 2. ss. 10% MAMTOCKS. 0 70 | 14x20 IC, vaaae.... aa aes J. Beeman! Secretary, C. H. May. H nd a good cabinet photograph to make the farmer hate the merch 1at will | tion in the ‘‘national’’ convention, result- | agi Pe “rage og ea — dis. 60 mae = “ Ke vet aeeeesenesees 7 00 = 86— Millbrook oe i naittienth A f | nerchants and |ing in the def ; , result- | CORSETS TMM aa se a C is Bnet ee eet eee ere es 00 President. T. W. Preston: a Bianchard B. M. A. s Art Gallery, 79 Canal street, I think it will be easy f : : efeat of the report of the | Corali : Tie ea $15.00, dis. 60|14x201C, ‘ Allaway Grade........... 11 50 tary, H. P. Blanchard. | and et, | sy for me to make|Committee on Resoluti | Coraline. ........... Sted uel CU ee $18.50, oe 204t10. ? Allaway Grade. » . $7—Shepherd B nd get a first-class, life-size, ¢ | money in two ways—compel tl ‘ . fesolutions, that the | Sbilling’s........ amin #4 75 14x201X, 49 President, x b Bent; Senretary. ; M. A. : i - crayon por- | ¢ ip 1e farmers | ‘‘state’’ conventi 3 a |Brighton.. ...... 4 75 | Sperry & Co.’s, P 20x28 IC ‘ i sete daaaeiss 6 40 A.W. Hurst. trait for $10. Corres 0 pay me well for or ntion select the delegates E . ost, handled an a ’ “ . respond ie ganizing them a t ‘ 3 2g ates ee ee : 20x28 IX, ee ese 10 50 } p ence solicited. |compel some merchant to oe | - ie the "eee convention. Corticelli, doz....... 85 (Corticelli knitting Coffee, Parkers Co.’ sca aun.” iccdshe seni save cae ies 13 50 CONTINUED ON FIPTHUPAG twist, doz. .42 er : P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 4x28 IX... eee e eee ee eee : oS [esi UL eee eee. lees i a mneterseer ccs 812 ——— = ioe for No. 8 Boilers, tye eg 18 de r pound... oo The Michigan 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 11, 1889. THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. In preparing his first message to Con- gress, itis rather unfortunate that Mr. Harrison the conven- tional type of message, in a way which exaggerates its defects. His communi- eation isa kind of summury of all the documents which preceded it, and the analysis of these is drawn out to an ex- tent which is wearisome. He _ begins with the usual communication the work of the State Department, which takes the place of a distinct report from the Secretary of State. Not until we get near the end do we come upon any discussion of topies which especially be- long to the President. If the middle of the document had been boiled down into as many sentences as there now are par- agraphs, those sentences consisting of brief references to the recommendations of the Secretaries, the whole would have gained in force as well as unity. As it stands it lacks both. It is chiefly made up of remarks—very sensible, perhaps, in themselves—but either not very im- portant or relating to matters on which the President has no special means of information. As a consequence, what is important and special loses its force, and the whole seems weak and even tiresome. In the opening of the the most important suggestion is that of a reconsideration of our treatment of China. Mr. Harrison favors the policy of excluding Chinese labor as ‘‘an ele- ment incompatible with our social life.’’ But he feels that we have not dealt courteously with a Power which always has shown courtesy to us, and which is entitled, at least, to the assurance that those of its subjects who are already in the country will enjoy the fullest pro- tection of our laws. The four topics on which the President evidently has felt constrained to speak his mind are Civil Service Reform, Na- tional Aid to Education, the Suppression of the Negro Vote in the South, and Our Merchant Marine. As to Civil Service Reform, on what is said of the classified service and the work of the commission created to administer it, we have little to remark. We are glad to see that the President gets full credit for making the best selection of commissioners that the country has had. But the classified service constitutes less than a fourth of the places under the National Government, and the most hon- est and capable administration of the law concerning it gives but little security against the demoralizing abuses which have grown out of the spoils system. As to National Aid to Education, the President expresses approval of the prin- ciple, but hints of serious objections to the Blair bill, in that it is not a vote of money from year to year, but an appro- priation extending over several years. He fears that this might cause some re- laxation in the efforts of the states afflicted with illiteracy for the education of theirown people. He suggésts that the plan of aiding state schools from the Treasury be undertaken in a tentative way, and so as not to weaken the energies of local effort in the same direction. We fear that this method of procedure would work badly. It would not be worth while for any state to create the ‘‘plant’’ of an educational system more extensive than it now has, unless it had the assur- ance that the aid to make it useful was likely to be extended over a series of years. An appropriation for one or two years is much more likely to quench local hopefulness and zeal for education, while the proposal of Senator Blair would awaken both. As to the legislation which should be undertaken for the vindication of the political and civil rights of the freed- men, Mr. Harrison is sufficiently consery- ative. He deprecates any attempt to stretch the powers granted to Congress for this purpose beyond their constitu- tional limit. He even deprecates the full exercise of the power to control and reg- ulate the elections of Congressmen and President. He would prefer that the partial control already exercised should be ‘‘strengthened”’ to such an extent as may be found necessary to secure the negro voter the right to have his ballot freely cast and honestly counted. And he would exercise the undoubted national authority to secure the freedman in his rights in the use of the United States courts, and asatraveler on those rail- roads which cross state lines. With all this we have no quarrel, but we should be sorry to see the people of this country rest Satisfied with this. It is the natural and inherent right of a nation as such to protect its citizens from wrong and violence, and the denial of this right to should revert to £ ot message, our national government is one of those anomalies of our system which threaten the peace and security of the whole structure. We confess we see no imme- diate way to its correction, but we think that, as in the case of slavery itself, every reference to it should be accom- panied by an acknowldgement of its being an anomaly which some day may have disastrous consequences to the country. The last, and on the whole the most satisfactory part of the message, is that which discusses the Nation’s policy with regard to the Merchant Marine. Here the President appears to the best advan- tage. Hecalis attention to the destruc- tion of our steamship lines through our withholding the aid so freely granted by subsidies and subvensions to foreign lines from their own governments. He points out our neighbors to the West and the South as those with whom we should at once establish close communication by the use of a similar policy, and expresses his confidence that the other independent states of the continent will co-operate with us this work. And he suggests that we follow the English example in securing the construction of ships—mer- chant ships which may be used as ships of war if that should be necessary. in MR. WINDOM’S DEPOSIT POLICY. Of the many excellent suggestions contained in the annual! report of the Secretary of the Treasury, none are so distinctively entitled to the immediate consideration of men as the argument in favor of withdrawing from the banks all deposits of the Government money. Against the plan of his prede- cessor, and in favor of his own, Mr: Windom marshals three distinct argu- ments: (1.) That making deposits of Govern- ment money in banks selected by the Secretary of the Treasury is favoritism, as to the banks chosen. (2.) That it gives him a dangerous power, by enabling him to increase or diminish, at pleasure, the amount of money in circulation. (3.) That the withdrawal of the money, when it may be needed for the Treasury’s use, is a delicate process, liable to dis- turb the business of the country. All of these arguments relate to the existing circumstances and conditions. They would not apply to a sound sys- tem. They do not reach the kernel of the subject. Mr. Windom is arguing as though there had been no financiers be- fore the day of Andrew Jackson and Roger B. Taney: as if the policy and methods of Alexander Hamilton, pur- sued by his successors until the time of Jacksot were not even defensible; and as if the course of all civilized nations except our own, in respect to the deposit of their cash, was unsound and unwise. Nothing that he says reaches the real question, which is, ‘‘Shall the Govern- ment’s balances be held out of the gen- eral circulation, or be a part of it ?’’ Mr. Windom does not need to be told that Hamilton, and Dexter, and Gallatin, and Dallas, and Crawford, and Rush worked under the latter plan—most of them, no doubt, believing that no other would have been statesmanlike—and that it was not until Jackson had destroyed the Bank of the United States, and then the erude and reckless policy which he sub- stituted had broken down, that finally refuge taken in the independent Treasury system, and it was decided to keep the Government money entirely out of circulation—this being, not a con- clusion of statesmanship, or of wise financiering, but one of politics, con- ceived under the shadow of circum- stances which did not then permit a wise or sound policy. lt does not need much argument to demonstrate that the withdrawal of vast sums of money from public use by the agents of the Government, and their con- cealment in hoards, out of touch with the business of the country, is bad finance. The greater the operations of the Goy- ernment,‘the worse the injury they must do. It was Mr. Fairchild’s sense of this which led him to put out the deposits that Mr. Windom now proposes to take back. Since the Cleveland policy was to nurse the surplus (and not to buy bonds, as Mr. Windom has done), he took the deposit plan of avoiding fatal injury to the country’s business. But such adam- age is always occurring, while the Goy- ernment’s funds are segregated and dead. It isa matter of degree only. As we have said, Mr. Fairchild avoided wounds which might have been too deep; but under the law he dealt blows every day at the economic functions of the nation. What Mr. Windom ought to have pro- posed was a plan which would have put the Government’s funds on deposit in the national banks, without risk and without favoritism; which would operate as naturally, continuously and publicly as any other function of the Government. We do not need a great bank of the United States; the depositaries are in existence, distributed, as they should be, through- out the country. They are easily reached, either to deposit in or draw upon. And presuming that a safe balance—which need not be large—should be held in the main treasury and the several sub-treas- uries, the movement of funds into and business was FADED/LIGHT TEXT out of the depositaries would be steady and without shock. The collections of the public revenues and their expendi- ture go on throughout the year; the sums in the Government’s hands change slowly, not suddenly: andif the methods we sug- gest were once settled upon a scientific plan, they would avoid all the objections which Mr. Windom advances, at the same time that they answered the demands of enlightened financiering. PROGRESS IN SORGHUM CULTURE. No daylight appears, yet, in the efforts to establish sorghum sugar culture in the West. The enterprise is still in the stage of experiment, and there has been no achievement of ‘ta commercial suc- cess. Prof. Wiley’s report on the op- erations of last year simply expresses confidence that the result will be satis- factory. But this year’s operations, if we may trust unofficial reports from Kansas, have been less encouraging than those of 1888. The deficiency in the crop of this year appears to have been mainly in the cane itself, which did not mature well, and did not form a satisfac- tory amount of saccharine matter. It must be anticipated that the official statements to be made concerning 1889 will be even less satisfactory than those for 1888, and that-we shall still have to feed on the hopes of accomplishing something of commercial importance, after further effort. The case, therefore, is simply that we are still in the stage of experiment as to sugar from sorghum. There is no in- crease, as yet, in our ability to supply ourselves with home-grown sugar, and the enormous collection of duties on what we import remains a revenue measure, and not one of protection. Of course, in view of the enormous gain which the country would make by creating its own sugar supply, some ad- equate means of encouraging and assist- ing the experimental operations in sor- ghum and beets ought to be maintained, but this can be well and easily done through a system of bounties, and while they are going on we shall undoubtedly serve the general interests of the country by using our sugar market as the lever with which to develop the trade which we are now so hopefully looking for with the sugar-producing countries south of us. Let us keep in mind the simple facts of the case: 1. That we have the greatest market in the world. 2. That we do not, and cannot now, produce ourselves one-tenth of our con- sumption. 3. That the countries with which we desire to build up trade are largely sugar growers. And keeping these points in mind, is thefe not here a clear case for statesman- like action ? 97 sugar MR. WANAMAKER’S RECOMMEN- DATIONS. The report of the Post Office Depart- ment contains a number of recommenda- tions in, the direction of the better organ- ization and more effective operation of the department. It is in dealing with such details that Mr. Wanamaker’s acute and energetic business sense shows it- self to best advantage. He proposes the division of the country into twenty-six postal districts. He urges that the office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General be created, to have direct charge of the great divisions of the railway mail, the foreign mail, the money order office, the registry and supplies divisions, and the Dead Letter office. He desires, also, a ‘“‘“General Manager.’’ Such an officer, he says, should have a large salary—$10,- 000 a year would not be too much—and be appointed for a ten years’ term. ‘I would have this place,’’ says the Post- master-General, ‘‘the apex of the whole postal service, the ambition of every su- perintendent of a bureau, chief inspect- or, division head, or postmaster, and sim- ilarly, and not too remotely, the ‘ambi- tion of every active, creative man in the service.’’ He is not prepared to accede to the pro- posol of reducing letter rates to one-half of what they are, as was proposed in the platform adopted by the National Repub- lican Convention last June, as he believes that would reduce the revenue from that source by some fifteen millions. Neither is he ready, for several reasons, to copy the example set by the British post office in establishing a ‘‘parcels-post,’’ although he intimates very clearly that he thinks it desirable todo so, when the facilities —the post office buildings, the railway mail cars, etec.—are adequate, and when it is ascertained that such service would not entail a loss of revenue. He recom- mends the extension of free delivery to every town of 5,000 people, where the local post office yields a revenue of $7,000 a year. And he advocates, as did several of his predecessors, the establish- ment of post office savings banks in ten thousand fourth-class offices, selecting these on the ground that they are in lo- calities where -depositaries are most needed. He omits, however, any sugges- tion what shall be done with the funds which shall be received on deposit. As the Government is not a borrower, but has already an excess of revenue, it does not need this money, and might with dif- ficulty provide for its care and invest- ment. : As to the postal telegraph, Mr. Wana- ure of his efforts to secure the co-opera- tion of the Western Union Company in The collapse of the cotton seed oil trust illustrates the point frequently made by THE TRADESMAN to the effect that the trusts contain within themselves elements of self-destruction. Their days are numbered. Sound legislation will finish the work. Trusts may come and gos; but large combinations of capital will remain. We have reached a period in the industrial development of the country specially marked by the aggre- gation of capital. It is taking place on little ones. The milling business illus- trates the change that is going on. The small mills are going. They cannot compete with the big mills. vert wheat into flour and in the hands of the cost than the small mill. of the great Minneapolis place milis has a A net profit of only fwe cents per barrel amounts to something in a mill like this. It is said that some of the big mills are making and selling flour ata profit of five cents per barrel as a regular business. Now, it is plain that the consumers are flour as cheaply as possible. There is no danger in a great combination of capital, as long as it is engaged in a strictly legit- imate business. So long as it does that, it is a great public benefit. Itis when it seizes control of the market, and fixes the price to both the producer and the consumer, that it is against the public welfare. This is what legislation must prevent, and when it has done that, it has done all that is necessary. Uncle John’s Story of the Shoes. From an English Exchange. Everybody in the world was barefooted a thousand years ago. ‘There were no new shoes in the shops, and old ones in the attics. There were none at all inthe whole wide world, and probably no shops or attics either. In those good old times, when all feet were bare, a man could step on his neighbor’s toes without bring- ing on spasms of agony, for bunions and corns were unknown. Finally, somebody—whether man or woman, nobody knows—made a pair of shoes. Not of calf skins, with high heels, foxed toes, and polished uppers, but flat, rough ‘‘foot-mats’’ of woven reeds. These, when tied on with leather thongs, kept the feet from the burning sands. More and more people wore these queer ‘‘foot mats’’ until there were hundreds, and thousands and hundreds of thou- sands of pairs in use. For everyday use they were light and strong. Some were gaily colored and bound with fancy thongs; and those of the soldiers were iron bound, with strong nails in the heels, and often whole soles of copper. In the days when all the shoes were new and before people had begun to pinch their feet, they were used for queer purposes. If a man purchased a piece of land, he threw a shoe over it as a sign of owner- ship; if he entered a house, he removed his shoes as a Sign of respect. There is an old story of ashoemaker of Rome, long years ago, who thought he must become a preacher. Taking his brother, he started out to tell the heath- ens of France and Britain about Christ. They were very poor, so they paid their way by making shoes. Very nice ones they made, and found plenty of custom. Fora long time they followed these oecu- pations, until at last, in savage Britain, they were martyred. And to this day, the 25th of October, the day upon which Crispin was killed, is called St. Crispin’s day, and every shoemaker in the world is called a son of St. Crispin. For hundreds and hundreds of years people have been wearing shoes of all kinds, of leather, wood and reeds; brass- bound, iron-bound, gold-bound; with wide, blunt toes, with narrow, pointed toes, a foot long; but the right shoe and the left shoe of each foot were exactly the same in shape. Aboutthe year 1800, a man invented ‘‘rights and lefts,’? which was a step in the right direction. EHigh- teen years later aman named Joseph Walker invented the shoe peg. Before this, all the shoes had been sewn by hand, a long, slow process; but now they were pegged. Inventors now began to construct all kinds of curious machines for making shoes. Great buildings were erected, machinery put in, and thousands of pairs turned outevery day, millions every year. 1f one had sharp enough ears, and could listen and hear the clatter of the millions of wooden shoes in China, Japan. France and Holland, the softer thud of the leather shoes in our own country, and in other parts of Europe, the click of the sandals in the sleepy lands of the East, the swish of the snow shoe over the Can- ada snow crust, or the ring of the four- teen-foot shoe of the Jemdtland winter hunter, what would these sounds tell ? Would the footfalls say to the listener, “These busy feet are all bound on er- rands of mercy; over the hill, through the valley, in steep and dangerous places, these shoes do not slip or falter, or tarry to do wrong; they belong to earth’s war- riors, who are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace ?’’ Would this be the answer of them all? Alas, no! In the broad way are many, many feet, hur- rying on to death. Clogged and heavy, weary with sin, they stumble on, blind, reckless, lost. Little shoes, strong, willing, eager to do right, beware of the first step out of the narrow way. There are mountains ; to climb, deserts to cross, rivers to ford; but little shoes, little feet, if you listen maker acknowledges with regret the fail- | that direction, and he asks for legislation which will enable him to begin the work. | every hand, and in every line of bus-' iness. Large manufactories are taking the place of small shops. The big | store has swallowed up half a dozen Why ?| Simply because the large mill can con- N it , consumer at a less | A single one eapacity of 7,500 barrels of flour per day. | benefited by having wheat converted into | ito the gentle voice that said ‘Follow | Me,” you may avoid every danger and get out of every difficulty, and at last ‘find rest, and peace and joy that will never pass away. >_< He Was Too Honest. The Hudson Enterprise says that one of the business men of that town was a | good deal taken back the other day to see 'a man walk into his store and, throwing down a $10 bill, exclaim: “Two years ; ago l came into your store and stolea pair of shoes; it has haunted me ever ; since, and I now ask you to take your | pay for them.’’ The merchant looked | upon him pityingly and made the desired change. About an hour later he was looking for that conscience-stricken man with a club, to invite him to return the change for that finely executed $10 bill. 1 Tempting Viands. Hungry Guest— What have you got good to eat ? New Waiter—We have some fine fried fish. Guest—Is it ready ? Waiter—Oh, yes: it was cooked day before yesterday. Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS, INO. OSGi 45 LO 48 Te cee han, Se esgedecs, qe | Ee 4 Soeemocs| te LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box. 6 doz. in box. 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NSPECIAL ADVANTAGES to PARTIES WHO Erect SS SAW-MILLS and FAC- TORIES, Mill machinery transported FREE. Choice farming lands cheap—mostly on time. Ratlway Com- pany pays cash for cordwood. For mapsand infor- mation address LAND DEPARTMENT “S00” Railway, Minneapolis. Minn. POPlOy BY ONE MAN, Write for descriptive cataiogue con- taining testimonials from hundreds of people who have sawed from 4 to 9 cords daily. 25,0.0now successfully used. Agency can be had where there is @ vacancy. A NEW INVENTION for filing saws sent free with each machine, by the use of this tool everybody ean file their own saws now and do it better than the greatest expert can with- out it. Adapted to all cross-cut saws. Every one who owns a saw should haveone. Ask your dealers or write FOLDING SAWING MACHINE CO., 808 to 811i South Canal Street, Chicago, ILL. LECTROTYPERS i (e) er Pat? NCEE ZAIN Wa 1 7c 1d eee Oa tid dk ttle teats eee 3 eve rein Laeg gt IY Va SEY Ga ; TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect Nov. 17, 1889. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Traverse City & Mackinaw. Traverse City Express... Traverse City & Mackinaw from Cinesinnati.. ..:....... oe iOaditise (ised) eco. s 6:30 p Through coaches for Saginaw on 7:10 a m and 4:10 m train. m Pp GOING SOUTH. Oincinnati Expross. ...........5... 7:15am Wort Wayne Express..........c00ce 11:45am 12:50 pm Cinotemett Expecms................ 5:30 pm 6:00 pm From Mackinaw & Traverse City..10:40 p m Myer Ca@ning. oo Acs 9:35 @m 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 Arrive. Oe Oe oct cca nsec pncwesevcensaséesseses 10:15am Pe ee ee ee ce 3:45pm 40 8 Through tickets and full information can be had by ealling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at depot, or Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEST. Arrives. Leaves. {Morning REpross...........dcscce 12:50 p m 1:00 pm {rerousn Man... .c. woo £10 Dm 4:20pm +Grand Rapids Express. -10:40 pm *Night Express........ ... 6:40am 7:00am ee ee oe 7:30am GOING EAST. TDCErOIG Rxpreees coe. oo cic cas 6:50 am Pirongh Mae oo 10:10am 10:20am TEN CrIee MEOrORS. oc. 6 coco ees e 3:35 p m 3:45 pm MIIGME REPT OMN nn ow cc eo ciccet 10:30 p m 10:55 p m tDaily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Detroit Express has parlor car to Detroit, making direct connections for all points East, arriving in New York 10:10 a. m. next day. Grand Rapids express has parlor car Detroit to Grand Rapids. Night express has Wagner sleeping car to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. m. Through railroad tickets and ocean tickets and _ sleeping car _ berths D., G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot. AS. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. Jno. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. For Toledo and all points South and East, take the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail- way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and connections at Toledo with evening trains for Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin- nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi- nent points on connecting lines. A. J, PaisLey, Gen’! Pass. Agent HARDWOOD LUMBER. 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Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Column. CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF WILD GAME SOLICITED. ‘Our Leader’ Goods. Having stood the test of time and the battle of competition and come off victorious, we: have no hesitation in recommending to the I Our Leader Cigars, / Our Leader Smoking, | Our header Fine Cut, Our Leader Baking Powder, i OUr Leader Saleratvs, Our Leader Brooms, LEADERS In hundreds of stores throughout the State. send in sample order for the full line and see how your trade in these goods will increase. I. M. CLARK & SON. WHICH ARE NOW IN BPACY If you are not handling these goods, WHOL ae > STARK, VALLEY CITy, . StBeRaTo®: & SONS, ESALE DRY GOODS, WE ARE HEADQUARTERS ON Red, White, Pink, Grey and Blue Flannels, inall weights and prices. Canton Flannels, Bleached Browns and Colors. kets, Comforts, Bed Robes. Also Domets, Blan- Wr SELL AMOSKEAG, Bags HARMONY, GEORGIA, PACIFIC, 10 oz. BURLAP 83 Monroe and 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18 Fovntain Sts, GRAND RAPIDS. Putnam Gandy Go, 13, 15 AND 17 SOUTH IONIA ST. H. M. BLIVEN, Manager. BLIVEN & ALLYN, Sole Agents for the Celebrated “BIG F” Brand of Oysters. In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepar consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, such as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete. CLAMS and OYSTERS. We make to quote prices at any time. We solicit 63 Pearl St. jo The Michigan Tradesman WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1889. BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. DEBTOR — CONVERSION — GARNISHMENT. | Where a debtor transfers his mortgaged | personal property to another, who con- | verts the same, he is answerable in gar-| nishee proceedings to the debtor’s credi- | tors for the value of the property in excess | of the liens, according to the decision of | the Supreme Court of Indiana, in the | case of Joseph vs. The People’s Savings | Bank. | NEGLIGENCE—TELEGRAPH WIRES. | The fact thata city ordinance prohibits | the use of neutral ground in a street to | vehicles does not justify the erection of | wires by a telephone and telegraph com- | pany along such neutral ground so low as to endanger the occupants of vehicles, and a company so erecting wires thereon is guilty of negligence, according to the decision of the Supreme Court of Louisi- | ana. NEGLIGENCE — EXTREME HEAT — FIRE. Where a porcelain factory in the city of New Orleans took fire while the kiln was left unattended and unguarded from the time the feeding of the fires had ceased, when the heat was at a very high degree, until the kiln cooled—a process requiring from twelve to fifteen hours— and set fire to an adjoining saw mill, the Supreme Court of Louisiana held that the owners of the porcelain factory were guilty of negligence. INSURANCE-LOSS--RECOVERY—LIMITA TION Where a policy of insurance against fire and wind storms provided that no action upon the policy should be sus-| tained unless commenced within six | months after the ‘‘loss or damage”’ should occur. and that the insurance company should have sixty days after the proofs | of loss had been made in which to pay the loss. the Superior Court of Kentucky held that the time limited for the begin- | ning of the suit did not begin to run | until after the expiration of the sixty) days. | i | | | | } | | BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE DECISION. | Vice-Chancellor Van Fleet, of New | Jersey, has rendered a decision of some | interest in the case of Britton vs. The | Royal Arcanum. This case was brought | to compel the payment of a $3,000 mem- | bership certificate to the mother of a | deceased member. When the latter joined the society, he assigned his certificate to one Brennan. to secure a debt, the latter being described as a cousin, though in fact unrelated, and the mother not being | mentioned in the member’s application. The Vice-Chancellor decided that the money must be paid to the mother of the deceased, holding that the object for | which the society was incorporated was to accumulate a fund to be paid to the dependent relatives of deceased mem- bers. ———_> a _ The Condition of Trade. From the New York Shipping List. The fall season having passed, the volume of home trade naturally shows a gradual diminution, though it is still above the usual average at this period, despite the influence of a close money market. which is likely to continue until after the holidays. The eurrency re- quirements of the West and South for crop movement and trade purposes have been largely met, but the reflux move- ment has not yet fairly commenced. True, the local bank statement for the | past week is more favorable, but the re- | serve limit is still some ten millions less than it was a yearago. We are nearing | the end of the year, when large amounts | of money will be needed by corporate companies for dividend and interest pay- | ments, so that the banks are naturally disposed to husband their resources. The rates for money have seldom in re- | cent years remained so long at such a | high level, and present indications do not warrant the expectation of any ma- terial decline until after the requirements incident to the annual settlements have been met. Meanwhile, most of the more prominent industries of the country are in a healthful condition, whilst general trade has seldom been on a better basis. The flourishing condition of the iron in- dustry is emphasized by the starting up of a number of new stacks in Pennsyl- vania and Alabama, and most of the fur- naces that have been idle during the summer and autumn have been putin blast. Contingent industries are also doing an increased business. The cotton manufacturing industries have dune so well that new mills are being erected and many old ones improved, both in the North and South. The export trade con- tinues in the main active. Complete statistics of the export trade of the whole country show that only once in its history has the value of products sent abroad in October ($97,669,417) been ex- ceeded. That was in the month of De- cember, 1880. Our imports, it is true, are also large, amounting in October to $68,127,520; but the increase in imports is decidedly less than that of our ex- ports, so that the balance of foreign trade is greatly in our favor, the excess of exports over imports for that month having been more than $29,000,000, which is the largest excess on record. This renders an outgo of gold from this coun- try very improbable, and in the present condition of the money market is a very encouraging feature. We have been hampered in some respects, prices fora number of our articles being on a high basis, but the improvement in the bus- iness situation abroad has been felt in an increased demand for a number of our products, which demand we are, for- tunately, in a position to satisfy. —_ —_— He .Had Studied It. Old Gentleman—Oh, young man, you do not know the power of rum. It is an evil, destroying element. You have never studied it in all its phases, have you ? Young Man—No, sir; but I’ve studied it in some faces, and, as you say, sir, it 'and make it over again. is a destroying element. PATRONS OF INDUSTRY. [CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE. | The fourth session was occupied by the election of two delegates to the ‘national’? convention, when a commit- tee was appointed to confer with the “grand officers’’—the mercenary trio— for tLe purpose of ascertaining whether such delegates would be permitted to serve. - The fifth session ordered the Putron’s Guide sent to every local member in the State: decided to make the ‘‘state’’ association permanent and hold the next convention in Flint the last Wednesday |in February of next year. Amendments to the constitution were referred to the ‘national’? association, and the following officers were elected : President—F. 8. Porter, North Branch. Vice-President — A. F. Partridge, Flushing. Secretary—Peter Scott, Romeo. Treasurer—J. J. England, Caro. Sentinel—H. A. Daniels, Elva. The sixth session invited ‘‘Grand Pres- ident’? Vertiecan to ‘texemplify the secret work’? at the following session and ap- pointed county delegates to tHe ‘na- tional’’ convention. At the last session a special committee on inventory reported that the associa- | tion had property in fixtures and supplies to the amount of $198.19. Every one was given a vote of thanks and the farce was lat an end. Such, in short, were the proceedings of the first ‘‘state’? convention of the Patrons of Industry. Much of the pro- ceedings was mere child’s play, the en- tire seven sessions comprising much less effective work than would be accom- plished by a convention of business men within the space of a single session. IV.—THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. About two years ago, twenty-seven men assembled at Washington, voted to call themselves the ‘‘National Pure Food Association,’? and proceeded to instruct Congress what sort of a measure the sixty millions of people of this country needed to protect themselves from being imposed upon by the manufacturers and vendors of sophisticated food and drink. The proposed law endorsed by that con- vention is covered so deeply with dust that it is doubtful whether any of the framers of the measure could put their hands on a copy of the document. Both the convention and its work have long since passed into obscurity and forgetful- ness. So it will be with another so-called “National’’ eonvention, held at Port Huron on May 1, 2 and 3, 1889, and at- tended by thirty-three persons. The original constitution of the Pat- rons of Industry, which was prepared in Krause’s house by Vertican, Krause and Wadsworth, contained the following pro- vision: “The national convention shall meet on the first Wednesday in May, 1892, and every four years thereafter, on the same date.’’ In placing the date of the first conven- tion so far in the future, the conspirators imagined that they would be able to line their pockets with the contributions of the farmers, before being compelled to render an accounting; but the victims of the conspiracy were not so green as the trio supposed them to be. They argued that the hand which made could also unmake—that if three men could make a constitution, thirty men could unmake it Acting under this belief, the lay members of the order demanded a ‘‘ National’’ convention, to the end that such revisions in the consti- tution be made as to curtail the perqui- sites of the three men who had up to that time received all the ‘‘benefits’? which had resulted from the inauguration of the order. The convention convened on the morn- ing of May 1, but immediately adjourned | until afternoon, when the following reso- lution was adopted: “The National convention shall be ‘composed of the officers of the Grand Association, with the Grand Auditing Committee, together with two delegates from the state and two delegates from each county, the said delegates having been elected by the state convention.”’ Under this rule the following would be entitled to seats in the convention: Officers of Grand Association—F. S. Porter, North Branch; A. F. Partridge, Flushing; Peter Scott, Romeo; Joseph J. England, Caro; H. A. Daniels, Elva. Grand Auditing Committee—H. B. Gil- lard. Redman: Louis Baker, Lexington; M. D. York, Millington. Delegates at Large—H. M. Buchanan, Lapeer; John Chalmers, Sparta. County Delegates — Lapeer, Carlton Peck, James P. Smith; Calhoun, F. A. Stark, M A. Lamb; Huron, Henry B. Gillard, John Hunt; Tuscola, Robert Smith, M, H. Smith; St. Clair, David Quail, Wm. Mason; Genesee, B. F. Long, A. W. Whipple; Sanilac, John Nicholson, John Mitchell; Isabella and Gratiot, A. Townsend: Oakland, G. W. Scott; Eaton, Clinton Hockenberry, C. H. Whittum; Livingston, Chas. Abbott, Chas. Whited; Kent, Charles J. Rice; Lenawee, B. E. Niles, Howard Dowell; Newaygo, Wm. R. Wolfe; Macomb, Peter Scott. Not all the above were present at the sesions of the convention, but the Supreme President and Vice-President, Supreme Secretary and Deputy and Su- preme Treasurer were on hand at all times, so that at one session there were as many as thirty-three men who answered to the roll-call of the first ‘‘National’’ convention! The sessions of the second day of the convention were given up wholly to amendments to the constitution, leaving it in the revised form published in a re- cent issue of THE TRADESMAN. During the last day’s session, the report that Secretary Wadsworth wasadefaulter was denied: each delegate was voted three cents per mile milage and $3 per diem; it was voted to hold the next convention in Lansing the third Wednesday in March, 1891, and the following officers were elected: Supreme President—F. W. Vertican. Supreme Vice-President — John Anr drew. Supreme Secretary—I. R. Wadsworth. } Supreme Treasurer—F. H. Krause. Supreme Trustees—H. B. Gillard, B. E. Niles, C. H. Whittum. Taken as a whole, the convention was chiefly remarkable for what it failed to ve accomplish, as the amount of work actu- ally effected was next to nothing. V.—THE CONTRACT AGREEMENT. It is generally considered contrary to good business policy to have two se s of prices in any kind of a store, or to favor one class, clique or clan at the expense of another. Such, however, does not appear to be the guiding star of the P. of I. dealer who is foolish enough to sign the following contract: “This agreement, made and entered into by and between , OL dealer iu , of the first part, and the Patrons of Industry, of the second part. witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the covenants to be performed by the parties of ‘he second part, hereby agree with the parties of the second part as follows: ‘1. To sell goods to members of said Order as follows, to wit: will sell all lines of goods in store or that may hereafter offer for sale at store, at the following named prices (and furnish invoice of same if required) for cash or its equivalent in produce to be taken at the market price: * a * * * “2. In case that any goods are sold to persons not members of the Order, as a ‘leader’ or ‘specialty,’ or for other cause, at less than the above rate, then the same kind of goods shall be sold to all mem- bers of the Order at such special price. “3. The party of the first part agrees to show the invoice of said goods to any member of said Order, having authority of said Order, to be copied by said mem- ber if he so desires. And the said party of the first part further agrees that will not sell goods to persons not mem- bers of the Order, at the prices afore- said. ‘And the Patrons of Industry, parties of the second part, agree to and with the said part— of the first part, to patronize said part— of the first part in line of goods, and to protect by their efforts and influence. And the parties of the second part further agree that they will not make known to persons not mem- bers of said Order the prices they pay for goods. ‘Should any member of the order feel himself wronged by any deal, he shall furnish the president of his association with the bill and adescription of the goods purchased, giving kind, marks, ete., sufficient to identify them, and said president shall investigate the same and, if he cannot satisfactorily arrange the matter, he shall refer the same to the proper committee, who shall take action thereon. “And itis further agreed by and be- tween the parties that this contract shall be and remain in force for from this date, to be renewed if desired by the parties. ‘Witness our hands and seals the —— day of , A. Dis?’ * * The dealer who signs the above con- tract ties his hands pretty effectually and becomes party to agreements which no honorable man would abide by. No more iniquitous provision could be con- ceived than the last paragraph of arti- ele 3, to the effect that low prices are not to be granted anyone notaP. of I. In other words, the mechanic who goes into the store with the money in his fist is not to receive the same consideration as the farmer who brings ina basket of poor butter or ancient eggs. Any merchant who agrees to such an arrangement should not receive acent’s worth of trade from persons not members of the Patrons of Industry, and the chances are that he will not be troubled with their patronage as soon as it comes to be understood that he is making fish of one class of custom- ers and fleshof another. The usual ex- perience of the village merchant is that the sighing of the contract. deprives him of the better part of his village trade, as well as the loss of the better class of farmers—a class which is seldom seen identified with the P. of I. VI.—WEAKNESS OF THE PLAN. To make the P. of I. a success, two things are essential—the organization must attract the better class of farmers and the dealers who sign with the Patrons must live up to the spirit of the contract. The first condition is absolutely essen- tial to the success of the movement, as the Patrons start out with the determina- tion to pay cash for everything they buy, and only the better class of farmers are situated so they can pay cash the year round. Such men are always favored by the dealer, because they are generally desirable customers and are entitled to more consideration than the individual who runs along-winded book account, which he pays with truck which he can- not dispose of elsewhere, but turns over to his creditor as a last resort. This ex- plains why the better class of farmers have not been attracted by the ingenious clap-trap of the Patrons of Industry, but have steadily declined to identify them- selves with the organization, being satis- fied that they can obtain better prices, quality of goods considered, on theirown account than their deluded neighbors can through the medium of a foolish and im- potent organization. At rare intervals a representative farmer is wheedled into the ranks, but such cases are about as scarce as hens’ teeth. Hard as it is to find a representative farmer in the ranks of the P, of L., it is very much harder to find a contract dealer who does as he agrees. Supreme Treasurer Krause admitted to a reporter of THe TRADESMAN that it was next to impossible to find a merchant who would not swindle the Patrons unmercifully, whenever he had them so completely in his power, and it is amatter of common. knowledge that, in nine cases out of ten, the Patrons are paying more for goods than they ever did before. Take the case of Henry Strope, at Morley, for instance : He purports to sell goods ona basis of 10 per cent. profit. A dry doods salesman was in the store a few days ago, but the customers were so numerous that he couldn’t get a chance to talk with the dealer, who asked him to step behind the counter and wait on a customer or two. He did as requested and showed a woman some ticking. Sat- isfied with the quality of the goods, she asked the price—P. I. price, of course— and was told it was 14 cents a yard. The salesman recognized the goods as the same he had sold the owner of. the store for 9 cents a yard. Of course, there isn’t so much difference been 55 percent. |and 10 per cent., but there is enough to show the Patron that when he thinks he can beat the merchant, at the merchant’s own game, he is handling the gun at the wrong end. Take another case in point: A certain wholesale grocery house sends out a bun- dle of blank invoices with each bill of goods sent to P. of I. dealers, thus en- abling the dealer to figure the ‘‘cost price’? anywhere he wants to. A farmer recently entered a P. of L store in a neighboring town and informed the mer- chant that he would buy five pounds of tea, if he could be assured that he got it at 10 per cent. above cost. The mer- chant offered to dicker on that basis, and the farmer picked out a variety which he thought would suit the ‘‘old woman.”’ The merchant went behind his desk and billed himself a chest of tea at 50 cents a pound, and the farmer was not shrewd enough to notice that the ink was still green when the bill was shown him. He paid 55 cents a pound and went out as happy as a basket of chips, telling every- body what a snap the P. of I. is, and what an advantage he gained through being a member of the organization. That tea cost the merchant 22 cents and his regular price was only 30 cents a pound! In the light of the above facts, THE TRADESMAN believes that the movement of the Port Huron trio will never be a suecess for the reasons above given— neither the membership of the order nor the contract merchants are composed of the right material. The leaders of the movement are sharpers, and the follow- ers, asaclass, are ignorant and unso- phisticated. The dealers are taking advantage of their opportunity and fairly skinning the poor devils alive. VU.—FALLACY OF REASONING. It is the stock threat of the P. of I organizers that the merchants who re- fuse to contract with the organization will live to see ‘‘grass grow in the streets’’ of their towns and villages. They viv- idly picture a condition of affairs when every merchant who refuses to listen to the entreaties or threats of the P. of I. will be following a plow in the field, while their vacant stores in the villages and the grass in the streets in front of every building but the P. of 1. store will be a constant reminder of the supremacy of the new doctrine. In other words, they argue on the assumption that the nearer the Patrons can crush out all competition in merchandising, the nearer they will be to the farmers’ millenium. The fallacy of such reasoning is readily apparent to any man of ordinary abili- ties. Carried to a legitimate conclusion, such a policy would leave but one mer- chantin towns of ordinary size and not to exceed a dozen stores in cities as large as Grand Rapids and Detroit. Under such a curtailment of the number of mer- chants, a pool or understanding would necessarily follow—the prices on mer- chandise would not be held to the 10 per cent. basis, while the prices paid for agricultural products of all kinds would suffer a corresponding reduction. The farmers would find themselves unable to extricate themselves from the trap into which they had unconsciously fallen. Farm property would decline in value until it would be next to worthless—all because of the absence of a home market, which is the best market the farmer ever had or ever will have. Bankruptcy and starvation would necessarily follow, as a legitimate result of the absence of com- petition. THE TRADESMAN Wishes it to be under- stood that it does not predict such a con- dition of affairs. The sturdy good sense of the rank and file of the farmers of this country would never permit their being led into so ruinous a pitfall as the P. of I. organizers are endeavoring to precipi- tate. The pitiful wail of the miners and lumbermen who suffer at the hands of the company store—or ‘‘pluck me’’ store, as it has come to be known—warns the farmer against placing himself in a posi- tion where he could be made the prey of designing and unscrupulous men. The experience of those who espoused the cause of the P. of I. a year ago, and have found that, instead of being a benefit, it is a positive detriment to the farmers, should also warn the thinking men of the farming community that the officers and organizers of the P. of I. are teaching a false doctrine, knowing it to be false, and that the man who listens to their seduc- tive promises and prophesies is sure to regret it before many months have passed. ——__<_>_0_<— California Raisins. California is beginning to outstrip Spain in the production of raisins. Con- sul Marston, of Malaga, indeed, makes the significant statement thatthe Spanish vinedressers who have suffered of late years from the phylloxera have replaced vines that have been destroyed by Amer- ican stock. In 1882 the crop of raisins produced in Malaga reached 1,900,000 boxes, of which there were shipped to the United States nearly 1,000,000 boxes. Since that time shipments to the United States have been gradually but steadily decreasing... In 1888, when the total pro- duction amounted to about 700,000 boxes, only 112,000 were exported to this coun- try. Mr. Marston adds that many Span- iards predict that the vintage of 1889 will reduce still further the purchases made for exportation to the United States, and thatin afew years Malaga raisins will be replaced even for consump- tion in Spain by those produced in Cali- fornia. —— 2 <—_____— A Girl on a Step Ladder. A New York retail shoe establishment makes a point of having a particularly neat girl on a step-ladder in the window. She is kept there arranging and re- arranging the exhibits, and shopping ladies do not fail to see that her un- usually small and shapely feet are shod in the newest and nicest shoes. The very latest novelties in gaiters and slip- pers are displayed by means of her, and in an artful manner that has all the ap- pearance of artlessness. 2.2 His Tailor. ‘Will you trust me, Fanny ?’’ he cried. ‘With all my heart, with all my soul, with all myself, Augustus,’’ she whis- pered, nestling on his manly bosom. ‘Would to heaven that you were my tailor,’?> he murmured to himself, and took her tenderly in his arms. TRICKS OF COUNTERFEITERS. How Some People Pass Bogus Money on Themselves. Several merchants sat chatting around a table at the Peninsular Club the other night and their conversation drifted upon counterfeit money and the methods, new and old, which those who ‘‘shove the queer,’’ as the rogues say, have of im- posing upon their victims. “IT must tell you what happened to me not lohg ago,’’ said one. ‘‘A drunken man came tottering along the sidewalk and fell heavily against one of our smaller plate glass windows. The clerks rushed out and grabbed him and the shock seemed to sober him somewhat. He was inclined to be impertinent, how- ever, and said we’d better send for a policeman, as he’d like nothing better than aterm in jail, now that cold weather was coming on. Isaid I did not carea rap what became of him, what I wanted was pay for my broken glass. He de- clared he had not a cent in the world, at the same time turning his trousers pock- ets inside out to show how empty they were. I noticed that he buttoned up his coat, however, in a suspicious manner and something about him gave me the impression that he was lying. ‘*What have you got in your waist- coat pockets,’ I said, ‘turn them out, too.’ ‘* ‘] hain’t got no money, I tell you,’ he replied, angrily, as he tried to jerk away from the two clerks who were hold- ing him. ‘Send for a cop, I say,’ he added, ‘that’s all you’ve a right to do. You hain’t got no right to search my pockets and take my money: besides, I hain’t got none.’ ‘By this time I felt sure he had some, and, as having him locked up for dis- orderly conduct was not going to do me any good and was evidently just the thing he wanted, I resolved to disappoint him. Sol began to go through his waistcoat pockets, and in a little one inside, in the lining, what should I find but an old $20 bill. The tramp set up a howl of rage and imprecation when I took the bill and gave him back eight big silver dollars, but we fired him out of the shop and he disappeared down the street. ‘‘When my book-keeper took that bill with the rest of the day’s receipts over to the bank that afternoon, it was promptly returned to him as a danger- ous counterfeit. Imagine my disgust and how my clerks grinned. AndI don’t even believe I could prosecute the rascal, for he certainly made no attempt to pass the money on me. In fact, I passed iton myself.”’ “Well, that is a pretty good joke on you, old man, said another of the party, ‘‘and I never heard of that particular trick before, though it somewhat resem- bles one that is played now and again on merchants who are suspected of being dishonest. Isawit done myself, once, in a store where I was calling to sell goods, in the days when I was a drummer. A drunken man came along, as in your case, between daylight and dark, just before the lamps, kerosene in those days, were lighted. He bought some tobacco and then began a slow and lumbering search through his pockets for change. From one he pulled out a crumpled bill, looked at it awhile, and then continued the search for so long that the merchant became impatient. ‘“* *Give me the bill, then,’ testily, ‘I’1] change it for you.’ ** ‘Sh’my lash two-dollar,’ hiccoughed the inebriate, ‘and don’t want schanger.’ ** «All right,’ snapped the merchant, as he grabbed the parcel of tobacco from the man’s feeble grasp, and threw it back into a drawer with a bang, ‘when you find your change let me know and [ll give you the parcel, I can’t wait all day on you.’ ‘¢ ‘Now, don’ get ’xcited, ol’ fel’,’ said the man, ‘take the bill. Shmy lash two- dollar, but take it,’ and he threw down on the counter a bill that you could see plainly, even in the dim light of the store, wasa‘V.’ The crafty merchant saw the mistake in a jiffy and looked at me sharply out of the corner of his eye. 1 thought it was none of my business, anyway, and pretended not to have no- ticed anything. So old skinflint swept the bill into his drawer, made change for two dollars, and got his bibulous cus- tomer out of the store as quickly as pos- sible. “The next time he went to the cash drawer, after the lamps were lighted, how he did swear. He was so mad he forgot his own duplicity and gave him- selffaway. The bill was a ‘V,’ to be sure, but so bad a counterfeit that if he had taken time to examine it, and had not been in such a hurry to get it out of sight, he would have spotted it in an instant.’’ Valuable Liquid Glue. Liquid glue, possessing great resisting power and particularly recommended for wood and iron, is prepared as follows: Clear gelatine, 100 parts; cabinet-makers’ glue, 100 parts; alcohol, 25 parts; alum, 2 parts; the whole mixed with 200 parts of 20 per cent. acetic acid and heated on a water bath six hours. An ordinary liquid glue, also well adapted for wood and iron, is made by boiling together for several hours 100 parts glue, 260 parts water and 16 parts of nitric acid. said he, 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. Alfred J. Brown, WHOLESALE POGUE TUS, Nuts, Bates, Figs, 16 and 18 North Division Street, Grand Rapids. EDWIN BFALLAS, JOBBER OF Batter, Revs, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Froits, Mince Meat, Nuts, Ete. Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast. Going Like Hot Cakes. Butter and Sweet Potatoes Let your orders come. Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce bo,, JOBBER OF FOREIGN FRUITS. Oranges, Lemons and Bananas a Specialty. a 3 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. Michigan Fire and Marie Insurance Co. ORGANIZED 1881. CASH CAPITAL $400,080. CASH ASSETS OVER $700,000. LOSSES PAID $500,008. D. Whitney, Jr., President. Eugene Harbeck, Sec’y. The Directors of ‘‘The Michigan’ are representative business men of our own State. Fair Contracts, Equitable Rates, Prompt Settlements, Insure in “The Michigan.’ Lemoni{& Peters, WHOLESALE GROCERS. SOLE AGENTS FOR Lautz Bros.£&iCo.’s Soaps, Niagara Starch, Amboy Cheese, GRAND RAPIDS. Go0d-Bteie Pass Book 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 Tradesman Coupon is the cheapest and most modern in the market, being sold as follows: $ 2 Coupons, per hundred........ . $2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS: s6 - seccescees 300| Ordersfor 200 0r OVer....... 5 per eent. $10 _ ‘ Jeecee cas Sou i ee 10 - $20 . it Lo. Dooe . “<< 1008 aE vi SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND PUT YOUR BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS, E. A. STOWE & BRO, Grand Rapids. GROCERIES. Gripsack Brigade. The Park House, at Richland, has signed the hotel agreement of the K. of the G. Thos. Macleod, traveling representa- tive for H. P. Baldwin 2nd & Co., was in tewn last Saturday. The Lansing traveling “men whose slumbers have been clouded by visions of the ‘‘Spring Poet?’ will be compelled to turn their gatling gun from the direc- tion of Grand Rapids to that of Mt. Glemens on the occasion of the annual convention of the K. of G. A. F. Peake’s weather indicator played him false last week, in consequence of which he made his territory clad ina summer overcoat. The ridiculous part of the mistake was that he invariably charged the shivering condition of his system during the week to the lack of covering on the hotel beds. V. E. Winchell, J. H. Myers, W. S. Turner and George T. Lewis are now on the road for the DiamondaWall Finish Co. and the Gypsine Co. Mr. Winchell started Saturday for a trip through the Eastern states. Mr. Wykes left Sunday for atrip through the West. > Mr. Turner is working through Illinois and Missouri, and Mr. Lewis in Ohio and Indiana. ‘Honest John’? Eaman, who has cov- ered this territory for the past twenty years for the Fuller & Fuller Co., of Chicago, has been directed to confine his operations to the Indiana trade hreafter. His successor Alford E. Dore. Mr. Eaman has formed hundreds of acquaint- ances during the past two decades who will regret to learn of his enforced re- tirement from this State. A special car has been secured to con- vey the Grand Rapids and Muskegon members of the K. ofthe G. to Lansing on the occasion of the annual convention. It will be attached to the 6:55 a. m. train on the D., L. & N. Railway, leaving the union depot the morning of the 27th. The Ionia members will join the party at Grand Ledge. 0 The Bay City, Saginaw and Owosso members will go in a special ear over the J.. L. & S. Railway. The contlict of dates for the annual meetings of the M. C. T. A. and K. of G. is due to a misunderstanding on the part of the latter organization, which pur- posely fixed upon Friday, as the annual meetings of the former forganization have always been held on Saturday. The ehange from Saturday to Friday. made at the last annual meeting. was unknown to several members offthe M. C. T. A., were present at the birth of the K. of G., and on whose advice the annual meeting was voted to be held on Friday. Robert Beattie, a traveler employed by Beatty. Fitzsimons & Co., at Detroit, about $2.000 short in accounts. Donald Maclean | is who ran | his indorsed his note Beatty, presented the Maclean began a suit strain them from negotiating it, claiming that the firm had agreed to retain Beattie in their until thecshortage was paid, whereas they had discharged him. Judge Reilly has ,thrown the cas@ out of eourt, holding that the proper remedy in law and not in chancery. M. J. Matthews ward by his friends for Secretary of the Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. THe TRADEsS- MAN is informed that Mr. Matthews was was loth to have his name considered in such connection, but has been persuaded to waive his objections. 5 Whether there are any other candidates in the field, THE TRADESMAN not informed, but cer- tainly no better choice could be made than the enthusiastic old veteran who has grown grey in the service, as he car- ries into his work all the bouyancy of youth and the activity of a naturally aggressive character.u Secretary Silverstone announces his in- tention of resigning the Secretaryship of the T. P. A. at the:next meeting of the National Board.¥jThe State «Secretaries have failed to send in the amounts owing to the National Association, the finances are such that he unable to draw his salary.—jHe feels that his first duty is to his family, Zand this is his chief reason for taking the step. Gen- eral Manager Van Pelt andj Chairman Hirshberg, of the Hotel Committee, also announce their intention ofzresigning at the next meeting ofothe Board, when the work of burying the T. P. A. as an or- ganization willg probably be mated, American Commercial Traveler: **The Michigan Knights of the have adopted a method of conducting their legislative work which, it seems, should meet with great success. A Vice-Presi- dent is elected in‘ every Congressional district in the State. This Vice-Presi- dent circulates a petition, setting forth the wishes of the Knights, in his own district, the petition being addressed to the Congressman representing that dis- trict. Pressure is thus brought to bear upon each Congressman from his own constituency, and the results certainly should be greater than where the ‘de- mands come from entire strangers in whom the Congressmen have no special interest.’’ Fitzsimmons & Co. subsequently payment. Dr. chancery to re- note for in employ is is being pushed for- the position of is and is consum- Grip P. of I. Gossip. Four P. of I. dealers have thrown up their contracts during the past week— Elias Underhill, Diamondale; John Evans, Bellevue; Michael Bowerman, Williams- ton; Ward Bres., Harvard. A Gladwin correspondent writes: ‘Jno. Graham (groceries), J. D. Sandford (dry goods), and Jas. Croskery (boots and shoes) are running P. of lL. stores here, but the P. of 1.’s do not stick to them very close.”’ Fremont Indicator: ‘‘The Sheridan Center Patrons of Industry, without a dissenting vote, have passed the following resolution: Resolved, That if the Grange and Farmers’ Alliance and other inter- ested organizations will co-operate with us after December 1, or any other date fixed upon, we will not buy any more sugar for 30, 60 or 90 days, or longer, if necessary, to break the sugar trust.’’ Evart Review: ‘‘There have been nearly forty P. of I. associations organ- ized in Osceola county since the middle of September. As the organizer gets $10 for each one organized, it can readily be seen that he, at least. is not satisfied with a profit of 10 percent. Four hundred dollars for less than three months’ work is a very fair salary, taking into con- sideration the amount of capital in- vested.”’ Muskegon News: ‘‘The Patrons of In- dustry have eight organizations in the eastern part of this county, with a mem- bership. as estimatéd by them. of 1,000. At their general meeting last Friday, at Ravenna, they had a P. I. dinner, and all the edibles were ‘home-made,’ except the salt and soda. They will meet at Trent on the second Wednesday in Jan- uary. when they will give another P. L. dinner. An organizer will be in Mus- kegon soon.’’ Lisbon correspondence Sparta Sentinel: “There is considerable talk nowadays about 10 per cent.—selling goods for two or three prices—boycotting the town by the P. of L.’s, and the like. I have no quarrel with the Patrons of Industry, and the worst wish I could make for them would be that, if they think a man can run a store and pay taxes, insurance, clerk hire and numerous other expenses, he just try it. The fact is, it is a strug- gle for ninety-nine out of a hundred of those in trade to-day to make anything more than a living.’ Stanton Clipper: ‘‘It appears that the Dr ‘tion, embracing the entire county, for, be formed. that amount to make the shortage good. | er P. of 1.’s in this county have two county associations, owing to the invasion of the county from two different directions. There was ameeting of delegates from the two associations. at the court house, in this city, Tuesday, for the purpose of merging the two organizations into one. It was agreed to let matters stand until | the first of January, when a new associa- will They claim there are seventy in the county, with a mem- | bership of 2,500.’" Dorr correspondence Allegan Journal: ‘The P. of I. organizers are still at work around here and have been trying to or- ganize the Smith and Gilbert neighbor- hood, but the people of that section are not to be gulled by any such swindle, and only three men signified their willing- ness to bind themselves to trade with one merchant the schemers betook themselves to better fields. As an ex- ample of how the P. of I.’s get a low price at a 10 per cent. rate, 1 will give an example which any man can prove for himself, viz: The best steel carpenter’s square is sold in Dorr for 85 cents, while the P. of I. hardware store at Grand Rapids sells the same tool for $1. This is an example of how P. of I. prices are cheap and way down below other deal- ers. Now, if the P. of I. store at Grand Rapids only makes 10 per cent. above cost, how can the Dorr hardware mer- chant sell the same article for 85 cents and still make a margin on cost? If any of the P. of I.’s ean explain this, let him stand up and answer. The fact of the matter is, no merchant can do business for 10 per cent., and those who contract to do so must use the same schemes as shown in the above example or go to the wall. We are glad to note, however, that the shrewdest and best of the community give the scheme a wide berth and will have nothing to do with it, willing that sharp competition fix prices for them.’’ only, so et 9 The Grocery Market. Raw sugar is strong, having advanced faster than the refined. The difference between the raw and the refined has ruled 1c @ 144¢ during the past eighteen months, butitis now only %e, which gives good ground for the belief that re- fined grades will shortly meet a sharp advance. Syrups are without change. Low grades of Japan tea are very firm. The pumpkin pack has passed out of packers’ hands and is the strongest ar- ticle in the canned goods line. The new crop of rice appears to be all running to high grades, the quality being the best for years, in consequence of which it is selling at the price of low grades. An advance is in prospect, as the crop is not heavy. Corn syrup and kerosene oil are still in open market, no price being established on either article. ————qq1-2_- It pays to handle the P. & B. cough drops. THE LONDON TRADESMAN. How He Does Business and How He Does the American. London Correspondence New York Tribune. The cry of the tradesman for fair rent has been met by acry from the consumer for fair prices and full weight. So much might have been foreseen. The customer is a worm, but he turns at last. He is tired of paying too much and not getting what he pays for. He begins with coals —J put itin the plural because he does. Your true John Bull never orders coal to be put on the fire, butcoals. | He’writes to one of his favorite organs to complain that the coal merchant gives him short weight. The innocent soul! Asif there had not been for years acoal ring in Lon- don which charges what it likes for coal. Whether it robs the consumer by putting a dollar a ton on the price or by taking off a few hundred weight, makes but lit- tle difference to the victim. He is robbed as effectually in one way as the other. A London coal merchant says the cheat- ing by weight is done only or mainly by dealers of an inferior sort. Another says you may order coals from any five mer- chants and four out of the five will be short weight, and you will be lucky if the fifth is not short, too. The remedy? There is none, or no practical remedy. There is a law which has every merit but that of accomplishing its end, which is to prevent dishonesty. The law says—or is it custom ?—that coal shall be delivered in sacks, each containing two hundred weight,and ten of these sacks go to the ton, and you have only to count them from the dining room window. Sometimes the confiding house- holder does count, finds there are ten sacks, and retires happy in the belief that he has the ton of coals he has paid for. Butitis now explained that some sacks are made narrow, and some are not filled, and the sack test is a delusion. But they may be weighed. ‘The carman is by law commanded to carry scales, and to weigh each sack, if the skeptical cus- tomer shall require it. But his seales, alas! are constructed with cunning in the interest of the seller, and not of the buyer, and even if they be honest scales, it is not everybody who can tell whether the weighing be honest. Nor does the British householder like to stand on the sidewalk and superintend these opera- tions, and be jeered at by a sidewalk committee. It is believed that a sidewalk committee ean be collected in London more quickly and in greater numbers, within a given time, than anywhere else in the world. This discussion became interesting, from the moment the coal merchants took partin it. There are jealousies in the coal trade: even members of the ring are not all content. and there must be mer- chants, big or little, outside the ring, who know something of what is done in- side. One of these gentlemen declares that the buyer does not get more than 38 cwt. for every 40 ewt. purchased and paid for. He could tell of worse things, and hints at other revelations which for the present he withholds. Then a *‘‘coal agent’? appears on the scene. ‘There is,”’ says the coal agent, ‘‘a piquancy about this confession, coming from so authentic a source, which is seasonable as well as charming: and as coal this winter will undoubtedly be dearer than it has been for ten years,’’—why, he ap- peals to the merchant to unravel the mystery, and promises to do so himself if the merchant does not. The excellent coal agent is, it ajypears, a colliery man- ager, and is prepared to indicate *‘several ways’? in which the public is mulcted. This sounds well. The colliery owners and managers are understood to be of the opinion that the coal merchants get far more than their fair share of the profits of the coal business. They must know how it is done, and there seems no good reason why they should not tell. Then the big coal merchants who ape respectability are on ill terms with the guerrillas of the trade, who sell by the sack off ‘‘trellies’ in the street, and with other merchants who sell by circular, offering coal at prices which of them- selves imply cheating. Well, there is an adage that when certain people fall out certain other people come by their own, and the public lives in hope; vague, no doubt, and faint and oft-deferred, but still it is hope. And, meantime, a poor wretch of a carman has been charged with stealing coal from his employer and committed for trial. When taken into eustody, he only said, *‘They all do it.’’ When the employer is in custody, too—I don’t mean this particular employer, but the coal merchant in general—beautiful disclosures may be expected. There ought to be, say the reformers, a body of coal inspectors. There are milk inspectors already. They perambulate London, stop what milk-cart they will; and may then and there compulsorily test the milk on its way to the milk drinker. Milk dealers have inspectors of their own to stand between them and their distributing servants. Yet, with all this, I never heard that the quality of London milk was reckoned to be very high, or that the pump had been alto- gether put down, or that dairymen took prizes for virtue. The milk inspection, however, with the help of science and lactometers and suitable fees to the in- spectors, does some good. if not all the good it might, and some similar propor- tion of good and some approach to the standard, not of ideal honesty, but of the honesty of the market place, might be attained by a similar or better system of inspecting coal. When that has been done, there will be still something left for the reformer and the champion of honesty to attempt. There is a short letter in another journal headed by a suggestive editor, ‘‘The Morals of Trade,’’ asking plaintively whether it might not be well for buyers to look into other matters than coal, and he tells this instructive little anecdote : “A young man, who has quite re- cently been behind the counter in a large provision shop, told me this morning that when he was selling bacon his firm ex- pected him to make a profit out of short weights at the rate of one shilling for each eight pounds of bacon sold.’’ Tea, sugar, coffee and many other things are notoriously not always what they pretend to be, nor is the pound always a pound. The plain truth is that the London tradesman is not content with honest profits, no matter how large. He grows fat on dishonest profits. He and your servants are in collusion to rob you, and rob you they do and will, spite; of any scrutiny or supervision possible | to enforce. It is no novelty. There is a kind of tradition that the British man- ufacturer and the British merchant, at some unknown past period, prided them- selves on making honest goods and sell- ing them honestly. A great authority, perhaps the greatest in such matters, once told me his opinion on this subject. There never was, in his opinion, a foun- dation for this tradition. There was, perhaps, a time when things were not so bad as now, but never a time when adul- teration and fraud were not habitually and generally practiced. The matter touches individual Amer- icans rather closely, because Americans buy largely in the retail shops of Lon- don. The American trader or merchant can, I presume, be trusted to look after himself. But how is the American trav- eler, who visits London for the first time, to know how he is dealt with? He may not even know that he is known as an American, but he is. There is not a clerk in any shop in the West End of London who does not spot him as an American the moment he sets foot inside the door. It is not merely his speech that betrays him: he is identified by his dress, his manner, his way of looking about him, and a hundred other notes of differentiation. Whether his accent or his apparel be better or worse than his British cousin’s is not the point. The point is that they are unlike, and so un- like as to be instantly recognizable by the least expert of shop-walkers or coun- ter-jumpers. What does it signify whether he is recognized or not? It signifies this, that an extra price is at once put on for his benefit. There are shops in London where they have two regular and au- thorized scales of charges—one for the Englishman, another and a much higher one for the American. Some of the West End tradesmen who go in for American custom have reduced it toa system. It is systematized robbery. The American is supposed not to know the value of what he is buying, or not to care; it matters nothing to the shop- keeper whether it be ignorance or indif- ference: up goes the price andthe Amer- ican pays. as the phrase is, through the nose. In other shops the two tariffs, English and American, may not be enacted by the proprietor himself, but the clerk is expected to vary his demand according to the nationality of the cus- tomer, and does. Not in vain is the British net spread in sight of the Amer- ican bird, He is addressed specifically through the advertising columns of the London press. ‘‘To Americans in Lon- don’’ is acommon enough headline, and the American flag may be seen flying over shops in Regent street, and Bond street, and Oxford street, and elsewhere. The American, I must say, has himself, and especially herself, to thank for some of the extra attention bestowed on him or her, and to some part of the extra prices charged. We have invited extor- tion, and all the London tradesman has done is to accept the invitation with alacrity. ——_?___§.|@ oe The P. of I. Dealers. The following are the P. of I. dealers who had not cancelled their contracts at last accounts: Adrian—Powers & Burnham, Anton Wehle, L. T. Lochner. Almont—Colerick & Martin. Altona—HEli Lyons. Assyria—J. W. Abbey. Belding—L. S. Roell. Big Rapids—W. A. Verity,A. V. Young, E. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk. Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr. Brice—J. B. Gardner. Burnside—Jno. G. Bruce & Son. Capac—H. C. Sigel. Carson City—A. B. Loomis, sions. Casnovia—Ed. Hayward, John E. Par- cell. Cedar Fish. Charlotte—John J. Richardson, Daron A. Y. Ses- Springs—John Beucus, B. A. & Smith, J. Andrews, C. FP. Lock, F. H. Goodby. Chester—P. C. Smith. Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell. Clio—Nixon & Hubbell. Coral—J. S. Newell & Co. East Saginaw—John P. Derby. Evart—Mark Ardis, F. Shaw, Stev- ens & Farrar. Flint—John B. Wilson. Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark. Fremont—Boone & Pearson, Ketchum. Gladwin—John Graham, J. D. Sanford, Jas. Croskery. Gowan—Rasmus Neilson. Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son. Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wil- zinski, F. W. Wurzburg. Hersey—John Finkbeiner. Hesperia—B. Cohen. Howard City—Henry Henkel. Hoytville—Mrs. A. E. Combs. Hubbardston—M. Cahalen. Imlay City—Cohn Bros. Jackson—Hall & Rowan. Kent City—R. McKinnon, M. L. Whit- ney. Lake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co. Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen- nings. McBride’s—J. McCrae. Maple Rapids—L. 8. Aldrich. Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep- per & Son, Jno. Butler. Richard Butler, John Fletcher. Mecosta—Parks Bros. Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. 8.) Knight. Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison. Millington—Chas. H. Valentine. Morley—Henry Strope. Mt. Morris—H. E. Lamb, & Son, F. H. Cowles. Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M. Lee. Ss eee J. Vermett Ogden—A. J. Pence. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Otisco—C. V. Snyder & Co. Remus—Geo. Blank. Riverdale—J. B. Adams. Rockford—B. A. Fish. Sand Lake—Brayman & Blanchard. Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow. Sparta—Dole & Haynes. Stanton—Fairbanks & Co. Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter. Vassar—McHose & Gage. Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson, H. -C. Breckenridge. White Cloud—J. C. Townsend. Williamston—Thos. Horton. PRODUCE MARKET Apples—Dealers hold winter fruit at $2.2@ $2.75 per bbl., Beans—Dealers pay $1.25 for unpicked and $1.50 for a = ding 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 merehants are loaded up with stock which they have paid 16@18¢ for, while the top of the market from jobbers’ hands is 20c. Cream- ery is in fair demand at 24@25c. Buckwheat Flour—#.50 per bbl. for New York stock. Cabbages—M@#55 pe Cheese—Jobbers Pela. euios and October | make at 11@i2c. Cider—9@10c pe Cooperage—Pork acne $1.25; produce barrels Granberries—Cape Cod readily command §9 @#9.50 per bbl. Bell and Bugle are in good de mand at #10 per bbl. Dried Apples—New evaporated are held at 8@ 8%c and new sundried at 5@514c. Eggs—Jobbers ey 19@20c for fresh and hold at 21a esc. Pickled and cold storage stock com- mands about 19c. Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, &.35 per bu.; medium, #4.35. Timothy, $1.50 per bu Grapes—New York Conecords and Catawbas are in good demand at 50c per basket. Honey—In small deman Clean comb com- mands 15¢ per lb. Onions—Dealers pay 40@45¢ for clean stock, holding at 60@65c. Pop Corn—4c per lb. Potatoes—There appears to be a ‘“‘rift in the cloud,” the Southern demand showing evi- dences of looming up in good shape within a short time. Squash—Hubbard, 2¢ per 1b. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys and Muscatine stock are out of market at present. Tllinois stock commands $4 per bbl. Turnips—30e per bu. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Mess WOW a SROrPGMG ee 10 50 jixtra clear pig, Bhort cub..2.....--....-...- 12 00 Wixtrea Clear, Heavy... 252... 12 00 lean fat PRON se ee. 11 50 Boston Clear shercent.:....05..5. 2.0.50. =. 12 60 Clear back, shorgenut. 12 00 Standard clear, short cut, best.............. 12 00 SMOKED EATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average ro ee 9% S618 ox a mio ee............. ee or ee ee eee ‘= - PAU DONCIGES. 3 oc 84 Breakfast Bacon, boneless... 6... .0.0......-.. 8% Dried beef, ham prices Peek ge eae oc 84 Long Clears, HO 64 Briskets, medium. De 64% . Pe a 64 LaRD—Kettle Rendered. a Oe ee a ee a 7 Tu 50 Ib. ae ae LaRD—Refined. PRICRGGR 20 20s. i ee 6 0 and 50 1b. Tubs .-..----- 6% 310, basin, 2) in af Case. 2... .. GX bib Pais, 12 in a case... ... Seu e aac 6% 101, Pails Gin wease, a. 6% Sih: Pais, 40 a CASC. 63g SO 1b Cons oe ee. 6% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs..............-. 7 Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......... ce 7 Bonciess, rump Dut 6. & 75 SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. POrck SHUSASC 6% Waste SAWSACe 12 Tongue Sausage. .......... peleboceuicse co sues. 9 Bronutor suusage -. se. 8 PIGOG SAUNGRe lc eee ecu 5% BOOpnha SereIeNG 5% Boene: thiem 2 ae cam Cheese) es. 5% PIGS’ FEET. dn Hate Barrels 2 ce 3 25 in querer Darren... ce 2 00 TRIPE, In fal bartels: se 3 00 im quapeter barrels... 62... ee. Do ee ee qi FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, Cone 4@6 Wind quneters. 020 ste. 5 @5% fore a ee 3 @4 POE , @y PIS @ 6% HOGER 2 2 8 cS @10 Oe. @5 Pots 16068 cc. @i ss shoulders. . oes @5 BelOpHA 06 @5 Sausage, — orneed. @5 ee eu @5 - Frankfort ee s. @ 8 a _.. 6 @ GX OYSTERS and FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. WHicheh: 622 @ 9 “ SHIOKCG. (20005000500. 212 @é& rope... @s& Me @20 PisdGiee @i7 OYSTERS—Cans, wasemeven. COUNIS..-.--.- 0... te @35 Seleecn. 22 @27 oS. ee @20 PA CTIOENS se. @18 Stan@ords. 65 @16 Wageaniees 6. @14 oYsTERS—Bulk. SGanagares. 0006s ee. @#1 15 OlCChe @ 1 50 Go @1 50 Serres... 66000-0- e @1 50 OS ee eee @1 50 SIGEsCraGtee @ 7% Shell oysters, per 1000 (15. 50 Co GRAIBR ee 15 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK. Standard, 25 lb. boxes See oe eet eee ce ls 9 Twist, eel ee Cut Loaf, 5 ee eae ee cae 10% MIXED. Royal, oe BAUS ee ee 9 206 Ip: bbls: ..... . i eae Extra, 2 Ib. pais. ... Sess ee ce ues ee MO ib: OPIS. so ae piesa cs Cream 25 1b. pats... 2-21.22... 11% FaNncy—In 5 lb. boxes. Lemon Drops....... Bee eee eee ace 12 Sour Drops ..-.. 20.222 eee eee e eee eee ee eee 13 Pepperianit MPOpe 14 Chocolnte Prope... 14 HM Chocetaic Draps.....-. 2... cs 18 rere ee 10 RR COEDCS PION as 18 A Eieorice Prope: 14 Lozenges, pied... |. i ee cil csc 14 EPNGON 15 Se ee ee 14 Barasses GALE)... LS ea gs CarasnOrs oe 16@18 mand Made Creams. 3. 3.2... oe 18 Winin Creams... 2306s. tea Decordted Creams .... 20 String Hoek. 8 eee 15 Burst Almonds. ee 22 Wintersreen Berries. 0 14 Fancy—In bulk. Lozenges, plain, = Pale 2 UR eo ce 11 a printed, = eh ora ee See ees sete 12% . le 11% Chocolate Drops, in ane Oe ee 12 Gum Drops, in pails. ............--...-...e2- ee 6% . I 5% Moss Dr ops, in pails. . to IS oS ae Sour Drops, in pails....................-.+---- 12 Tmiperigis, i pals. (22.0... 6 6s 11 e ee ee 10% FRUITS. Oranges, Florida, choice, 146 to 226.... @3 25 112 to 128....3 00@3 25 fancy, 146 to 226.... @3 75 . golden russets....... 2 75@3 00 Lemons, Messina, choice, : oe 50@4 00 Pe eee suas sree 50 r “ fancy, a. |... 5. ‘ 25@4 50 o OE ie ce 4 50@5 (0 . Malagas, choice, ripe.........3 25@3 50 Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers. loos. 14 @i5 choice ~ 11 @12% ac. @noice 7 ID... poe ouee eos @ Dates, frails, OG Wee oe es @ 4% he tress, SO 1 sc @ 5% Fard, 10-Ib. box Dees eo we sec @10 a hae ae @8 6 Persian OE-1D, POR. cic... ccs 5l 6 @7% NUTS. Almonds, Werrecene. o.oo. @18 TOGGR 2 eet @1i7 ee CenrOrnin: oS @ié rage eos co es oe ee Walnuts, Grenoble. . California Pecans, Texas, HH Poco. es sce e eee PEANUTS. — COCR ee sates @8s ee ee oe ae @7 PAOONG oS ea io a a @b Wholesale Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash bwyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. Arctic, % Ib. cans, 6 doz... “ 4% lb. ae 4 ae a 45 eee Sib, ee ee “ fib 2 2 ee - Sib i Se Absolute, 4 = cans, 100s..11 75 se 50s. .10 00 - 7 a G08. 26 Fb Telfer’s, % ’ cans, doz.. = ay % Wb. “ ee ae 50 Acme, a I. cans, oo: 05 2 - 1 ot tg * ib, eee . 3 00 sid PHI, 20 Red Star, % = cans, = - 2 dg 1 50 AXLE GREASE, Wresers.: 003. 2 $2 60 ORAS a Le DismOne (oe .. 1 60 BATH BRICK. English, 2 doz. in case..... 80 Bre 2 75 American. 2 doz. in case... 70 BLUING. Gross Arctic Lig, 26 sod 3 40 % Heo 7 00 . Se es soo 0 Ou . ¥ é- oz paper bot 7 20 " Pepper Box No. 2 3 00 “< ae oe “ 4 4 00 ae ec oe ae 5 8 00 BROOMS. ING 2 etl. oe 17 NOt 7 oo 1 90 WG. CAEpes: 6.020502... 2 00 No. 2D Rarlor Gem 2 60 Common Whisk...........- 90 Fancy ee ee eee 1 00 es 3 25 Warehouse.. S 2 a BUCKWHEAT. Kings TOO IR. Gases <0. 5.2: 4 50 80 Tb. cases... ....... 3 85 BUTTERINE Dairy, — packed... .:: 12% Ce. 13 Creamery, solid —- . 18% rolls 14 CANDLES Hotel, 40 Ip. boxes,........- 10% Siar 4 IM Pore. 2 12 Wicca... ° 5.2. 2 CANNED Goops—Fish. Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck..... 1 20 Clam Chowder, 3 Ib.. 210 Cove Oy sters, 1 Ib. stand.. Fine to choicest.......55 65 boneless. . _. @ 7 ENGLISH BREAKFAST, PIONS " 94@16 Mate 23 @30 Herring, round, % bbl.. Zoo Choice 2. 30 @35 fy gibped......... Zo Bee: 55 @65 : ne bois.: 1200 Tee Dost... .... 8 @10 : . egs,new @ °%5 TOBAccos—Plug. cs caled 22 S. W. Venable & Co. ain d Mack. sh’s 8, No. 2, 3 ese. : 12 = Nimrod, 4x12 and 2x12...... . oo i i i eception, 2 2-5x12, 16 oz...... " oo | 20 Vinco, 1x6, 4% to Ss 7 Trout, 4 a a oe 4 00@4 a we 5 Center, omnis, 1208.2... 4. 34 ee 5 eel, 5to b. 7 White, No. 5, % Dbis........ 525 Trinket, 3x9, 9 0z 5 i ' 12 lb. kits.....100 Jas. G. Butler & Co.'s iced. ' TO EDS ate. ... 80: Somethings Good... 0.) 005. 37 ' ore bbis.... .2 = Pouvre Pears. 37 . . a 50 Peach Pie.. ics ce GUN POWDER, i es (ike Be 37 bee es. Seo fOmseee Halt ee _.... 2 Se - ToBaccos—Fine Cut. ' i KS. Scotten & Co.’s B ee oo iiawathia ... 1... a No. 1 ee ee ao Sweet Coba...: | 37 NG Bee 50 TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS, LICORICE. 8 2, per hundred coe. 2 50 ee e 30 85 3 00 ~ oases 25 $10" . . . £0 Me. Ss oo, 5 00 oak — ps Subject t to ; following dis- as... 23 counts: Cuba Baking. woe 25 200 r Porto Rico.. ol 4 500 . Co ae — New Orleans, “good. oe oe 2530 1000 ‘ Bae oa " choice.... ..38@38 VINEGAR, faney....._; TAs, fee 7 One- half barrels, 3¢ extra ay 9 OATMEAL. i for barrel es Muscatine, barrels... .. 5 YEAST. pores ani = Fermentum, Compressed. . ‘ BREA... 2 15@2 2 MISCELLANEOUS. ROLLED OaTS | Cocoa Shelis, bulk. :....... % Muscatine, fear a @5 75! Jelly, 30-Ib. paiis........... 4 nee «Ot fee 15 Cases......2 15@2 25 ' ea i OIL. PAPER & IN c Michigan Oe 9% oo — Water es Cone 10% | Curtiss & Co. quote as fol- Medium. a a He SC golden... Seep oe | Mardin, daak....c. 5 1 25@3 00 No. 4 C, Gare 3c: - ® 5% . pale & yellow 60@ 75 NOS... @t sone’ Gack... 2.20... 6 00@10 = Kegs........ ce eee 13g | BEBE eeeeceeceeee: 6 ones 00 Granulated, boxes.......... 2; a on i % SAPOLIO. , ox | Deerskins, per ee 1b@ 35 Kitchen, 3 doz. i HOE... 2 35; Above prices for No. 1 skins Hand, 3 2 en 2 35 | only. SAUERKRAUT. . WwooL Silver —— er. - 7 = i seat aoe = D “ “6 ‘ Boe | TOG ees Vise cies 2@22z SYRUPS. MISCELLANEOUS. Corn, barrais.....:.-...... Q27 API os vced iano 3%@ 4 «* one-half barrels.. @29;| Grease butter ........3 @5 Pure Sugar, ce a | -28@36 SOWRUO RO os co eae seis 1%@ 2 half barrel....30@38 | Ginseng.......... -... 2 00@2 75 \o% s 2 | Drugs & Medicines. “How's the ace disposed to view the , beli ste e believes them té act i eo as law ? chair oxioeal © in conformity with State B | 3 orm. Qne Year—Ottmar a elon | “Those who have taken the trouble to | 3 The Chinese pharmacists are a very in “THE OLD ORIGINAL.” ; ( . I y ears—Geo. McDonald, Kal & |eomply with its ee i se uential caste, : ae py a RT we Fire sean fear e Pasgll Cree oe ee oS ae S & CO Five Yours James Vernon, are as . because they feel it to be a manifest similar to th t eS 5 e9 ee Jesson, Muskegon. | injustice to compel one elass of |}man, i ji of the well-ie ay temtee- WwW soeretary igs, Nebonald, Ral ae a pints 6 pe ee HOLESALE Soxt Mocting—At ee ee on ° permit another class to go iieal straw hat, which in summer i WwW i 5 and 6. | unregistered Th covered with hors i i for © are making a Middli 7 s : ose who ar ge vee orse hair, and in wi ; 1 s — State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. | pharmacy with . practicing ' with velvet. As they are w +t . — ——a Purifier and Flour Dresser fe er President —Frank Inglis, Detroit. ? out the requisite author- | that their exteri ae 75 cts ill i i Ou. saree vce eresiiont—Honry Kepha sok | ity are uneasy, because they realize th | with the exieiet phon be ” will save you their cost at least e tit Wice regen Jan Vermor; eros | EY are liable to prosecuti ve that within —. wisdom that dwells three times each year We carry the VEBY BEST double or si ee cee |time. i seeccention av any |e oe ee One ee cae 5 They are guaranteed — Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E. | e. Either the law ought to be on ness, make use of sententious utter- . to do H ever made. Neat amen: Oe es sCheboysan; Fire; forced or be repealed. In its pres Cn and do not disdain to have recourse more work in less space (with ouseman Block, - Grand . ect Macting As cag on lena | cect 4 ks i present | to all sorts of artistic legerdemain to im- less power and less W te - Rapids, Mich. @ of September, 1890. ———— oe it is an incubus on the trade | Press the laity with their intellectual su ————— than an th — F a 1 is . iori v su- EEE i imi Gased Maplds Phocumpeutical Soelet and a disgrace to the State.”’ | periority. thei 1 y oO er machines of | ac Simile of the Label of President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Geos | ‘ins —_— | —_ ooo MADE ONLY BY elr Ciass. Grand Rapi ; | OPINION OF A REPRESEN TE aT: Th Sear | > Grand Rapids Drug Clerks! Association. — NTATIVE DRUG-| Gum elon — Market. ACME 1 Send for descriptive cata- »4 : } GIST. i > : s . my { 2 Detreit Pharmaceutical Society Bie Raprps, D 9 | is very fir i ge ao White Lead and — with testimonials. President Wn a ere” A F. Jackman E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids | M : rm. Gum opium ts higher. oe Muskegon Drug a a ee ore tapids: 'Morphia is uncha Juini i M Tt | President, C. 8. Koon; Secretary, J. —_— DEAR Sir—Y our article in relation to steady Zals — — - Coler Works, d lll 5 | INOS Purifier C0 o —: of the pharmacy law re ae _ copabia is tending high- DETROIT, MICH. Se 3 “ TRADESMAN of las is vicinity, w e ked fe i 5 | » ate cath na vicinity, whom I have met during | eke 08 een other. Bad Se We pay the highest price for it. . calling attention to a violation of the week. "4 Seimei. In cans, Soc. and upwar PECK BR Wholesal ae : i" u : : Rec a | olesale D the pharmacy law, at Millbrook, appears Be _ e never wavered in the belief that | gounicH & Coon every lebeld 0 ty GRAND RAPE . | to i i a i aw is a g¢ i eee iii To GC : have caused considerable comment enforced aon giana = itie ee Wh << G a er the trade, if the subjoined commu- of an injury to the trade oan a tonehe | —__—— olesale Price Current 2 a —— nications are any criterion. Secretary | 3 those who live up to the law | Advanced if AND assie—,. Vernor’s rejoine i * | disadvants ware ata) —— Advanced—Gum Camphor, Gum Opium, Ch nor’s rejoiner was as follows: sadvantage, as compared with those | : pium, Chloroform. . 3 a Scams Sec. 5 ae. _— espana its provisions. I oan | Accacase ACIDUM. = Pa ad 12@ 15| Antipyrin Plumbing, i xg i. & s Stowe, Grand Rapids: ee ed gerne myself and keep | Benzoicum German.. 2 hs canis’ = ee 18@ 20) Argenti ee a _- 2 Steam and Hot Water Heating ae Dear Sir—Yours, enclosing printed | One or the pharmacist in my employ. | BOTACIG «-2-----++--+- ee nee... B02 90 Se nes 7 Brooks’ Hand Force Pum In- LOGOURAN = in relation to violation of the} store oe — of us is always in the — serene: 40@ 45 | Dotassa, —— pure.. 32@ 34 ok os 38@ | 40 stantaneous Water eater. : Hot G aw by Dr. Pattison =< : s -ing business hours O > | Citricum ..-..--------+ B0@ 55 assa, Bitart, com... : : S.No... 2... 2 10@2 2 . a Yr, son, Millbrook, at : : S. ne of my | Hydrochlor .. Petass Ni ‘ @ 15| Calcium Chior, 1 Air Furnaces, M ls s hand. Thes ea ’ competitors is regularly regis See 3@ 5 ss Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 . Hor, ts, Cas ; a s, Mantels, Grates corer Mes he — — eive immediate employs a eda oe = aoe eC i = a ee 7@ 9 Cutieece imuadinn. 9 and Tiling, Gas Fixtures, Etc. you have seen fit to ee the publicity latter puts up more oe ai Phosphorium —. 3p | Sulphate po.l...2..... oo eos — ew Wholesale and Retail Dealers in i a i = 1e matter, there-| employer’s abs : s—in the | Salicylicum .......---- aa : | Capsici Fructus, a ae ; : by making it much harder to procure the ae is ‘i . absence—than the employer Sulphuricum.... ...--, 1%@ 5 RADIX. : ul po... 3 ie Plumbers Supplies. necessary evidence upon which to secure a aa ae the rest of the day. You pearl Eh 1 40@1 —= Ts 20@ icaeitaiatisil joes @ 141194 Kast Fulton St b ae I thank you for the informa- | tage, as : see —_ I am 2. 40@ moma oa 25@ 30 Carmine, oo 28) — 25 on " Head of Monroe, (\ /\ A jon on behalf of the Board. — —— with my competitor, A eae Sed We < 35 | Cera Alba, S.&F..... 50@ S Telephone No. 147. WN A A A ‘ Respectfully, 8 s getting the same work for $40 Aque, = <— een aan 3@ 5 Calin... 2 50 — ny a 21 Scribne St = juss Vuunon, See’s as agpams — costs me $75. Ihave acticin eg ee = s eames - eo: 10@ 12 Cassia Fructus... @ 4 - r reet, e Best Scouring and Cleaning Seapin the World . i y. » severa a : z " cae ae 5 ‘ ig 15). ~ 2 1 - es ou aa complaints to the Board of aaa, R@ 14 Hydrastis io aa 16@ 18) Centraria.............. = = ‘elephone No. 1109. rune ae a to manufacture as Sapolio, ye ‘ata pe Seen rmacy, but have never | 5 ; Cetaceum GRAND RAP out half the price (82.75 , yet sells at J. H : Ki OF ATTORNEY KINNANE. faction even of ime = = — ANILINE. cies Min oo 13 45| Chloroform «=... 108 2 IDS, - MICH. ee with’ equal = coc a J. H. Kinnane, of Kalamazoo, who is| ment of a n acknowledg- | Black......------- 2 00@2 25 | Inula, po... ee eas squibbs .. Se a a oe ee 2 100, < a 25 Poe eee 1 20/ C q s.. @1 00 cak : s generally sold at the legal counselor and prosecutor of While I = Sas — eae 80@1 00 es oe 00@2 20 oa Grab T 1 30@1 75 Son oe Pride of oe — Jobber to aon the Board, was in the city last Wednes matter, in the way ae Soe ae Yellow 2020 scsee 50@3 00 Jalapa — satis 250 3) Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ >) OLISHI nina " as . S- |: i iy gE sess sie e769) +0. ‘6 < dav - 6 : S-| indicates you 5 : Maranta, 148.........- aie . German NA gk and was seen by a reporter of THE | help forties that it will os = eas Cubeae (po = 1 Podophyiltim, po... 158 8 “cent ee ae (TRADE MARK REGISTERED.) RR. fe ADESMAN. 1 5 fill result in good to} Juni 1 ...---- 85@2 00 ee a CONE... - eee seen eee @ 60 MALE Eee ee Cc) all eoncerned—to the B Juniperus y -- We eee Ge: Hi FR a : , oard, by s : funiperus ..--------+-- 8@ 10 Cs ace crc @1 75|C ete @ ° : = sas have seen the Pattison article si i rigid enforcement of the os ee — spigelia i aa ED 71 35 care rep. miata’ 50 pe in HE oS + 7? pene re oO Ht . ao vm eet . ‘oe ee Seeie see 5 mt ° . E TRADESMAN,”’ said Mr. Kinnane, = wre at large, by stimulating a a a Sanguinaria, (po 25).. = = u a a “. 3a 10 Specially adapted for Pianos, i i as ee ae holesome a ee te eae Ss gel gman oo, 1 eae ies a @ 8 Organs and Hard Woods. : are correct, so far as my know g ipoanutegee erefore, I say, g0 On exposing Terabin, Canada ..... 45@ 50 | Similax, Officinalis, H 60@ 65 eM co — = —— . my knowledge of | those who daily violate the law, and & | Tolutan ....----++0+++- 45@ 50, “ cinalis, H = @ 40/ Cupri Sulph.....--. = p tohing Will r | he case goes. I went to Millbrook a the Board continues to turn a deaf oar = CORTEX Scillae, (po. - an = Dextrine 2.0.20... Be zs blishina will er oe ae cae few months ago to secure evidence against —— from those who live up to the | AbIcS: ma... we — — a ae aan 6s@ 70] 7 ne be excelled: — the old gentleman, but he evidently had senators statute and are subjected to ascend 18 Valerians, Eng. (p0.30) @ 2 Ergota Xpo.) 45. @ 8 Polishina directions accompany each bi ttle. } been apprised of my coming, as he de- oS oe cae a ars = Myrica Ce a 2 Zinger avn iva Gaile emeaien ha "mg B Polishina a ais sa LARGE BOTmgs li it r ; o et ys nd together My Yerifera, pO....--.-- 20 | Zingi Ss Se aia : and is s € ; . is ned to sell me any articles which would secure the repeal of the law ee Quillai Virgin Te 12 en Re Re © — ee af - Twenty-five Cents. oe Comprising many New Sh ylae i . ours truly i uillaia, grd......---- 3 z ‘elatin, Cooper....... ‘ 4s . New apes i 3 es place him under the ban of the law. I Yours truly, ae B Ani a eee ee Polishina x the Best Furniture Finish in the Glass S Ee meee Brass Stands, China Stands thought then—and do yet—that he is —~oasrenen Puammacisr. {| ° =" Po (Ground 12)...... 10 oe ee 10a 2B Glassware flint, 75 & 10 per 60 | furniture ast your old ass Stands, Wicker Stands, from running an illegal li . ——— : Bird) te i 2) cent. by box 70 less cee 5 quor business under bein EXTRACTUM. as ee 4@ 6| Glue, Bro Polishina is for sale by all Druggi Pa : : aC -OM OLD LENAWEE ie : Darul, (po. 18).....- as 3 Own... 18 2 ruggists, Furni e the guise of a drug store, but ae >) LENAWEE. Glycyrrhiza Glabra... UG % ae Oe ong! = Gly Write. Be = ware shina ture Dealers, Grocery and Hard e no authority to do either.” Oe ApRIAN, Dec. 7, 1889. | Haematox, 15 Ib. box.. R Gorlandram.-.--+---- 10@ 12 asta. RQ BEWARE OF I} ' 10 © . 3. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: | nnabis Sativa’...... 3%@ 4 Hi S1........ @ 15 7 MITATIONS “How successful hay Dear S . 14 | Cydonium on umulus....... ‘ ae canbe ee es a Ga ell a ee 4|C Eo ee (3@1 00| Hydraag Chior Mite. 2@ 40 FOR SALE - prosecuting cases of this kind?’ ae 3 Board of Pharmacy for ied aay 1% Dipterte Odoraie foc 1 1a & co nore. @ 30 ca enagae 3 Seen 2’? asked | When the Board’s lawyer has made mince Cc ama ee fees @ 15 : neat =< HALELTINE k PERKINS DRUG C0 | | / meat of the Pattisons, ask hi -€ | Carbonate Precip.....- @ 15! Lini ugreek, pO....- . 8 a TU niati.. @t1 10 yi " 2emark ue : : sons, ask | x ‘ = g GRAN te emarkably so, considering the diffi- run through Lenawee eae — — gs 30 — ee 5 4 ‘4 Hydrargeru as *< 05 D RAPIDS, MICH. Grand Rapids, Mich culties av . i ‘ (l ’ y Z Solubie.....--- oo? . oe. & y 2 Sema ree canes an ® ities I have had to contend with. We point out a dozen violations of the law Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 as tenes set neees 35@ 40 a Am..... 1 25@1 50 AT have had about forty prosecutions, and — as many miles of the county seat ae cont Mane we % “= pean SO “4 fodine, Resubl........ P i303 83 a 2 — — PROMPTLY ees ee Geel Ss, respectfully, = iphate, com’l.....-- h P a a a ( 7| Iodoform...#......... T5@3_ 85 oe. ; » cases have we failed to con- ea aa pure......--- a 7 eS eee ia 9) Gupulme @A 70 S ict 7 3 ' Wigts 2... -: g ipulin ....--....-.... 85@ aT vict. When you consider the obstacles Chinese Apoth eo a — pias ne Bo 80 = a oe Ps a we hav ae . i & ecaries. Arni { 3. Macis ................. te = = i - uve to overcome in eases of this Dr. Yvans gives an int eae i qa ee 2 e Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 Liquor Arsen et Hy- iets = mes ] TA e kind—the difficulty of securi ce f th gives an interesting descxip-| Nanas 5 “ D.F.R.....1 %3@2 rare dedi ye) 0, aioe a tye Z [ at } securing evidence | U0? ° the apothecaries in China. The ee 30G 3 «“ ne toot = —— Potass Arsinitis 108 32 a8 SSS acessary aaa . eae : a e eee eee 1 50| Magnesia, Sulph (1 ( - = . : wa . to —_ ict, and the apathy of pcs ees house, he says, include the | Barosma ene ; 4 Juniperis Co. O. T....1 75@1 1 Tie Sulph (bbl a Z = 1e prosecuting attorneys—apathy fre- — basement fronting on the | Cassia Acutifol, Tin- 0@ !? | ssacharum N. E.. 1 75@3 50) Mannia, SF oo. 2a: 2\ 2 aoe ed ule ) -| street, a storeroom in th ‘ 9 : ivelly ' Be S arum N. E......1 75@2 00| Morphia, S ea 45@ 50| + Sam quently approaching opposition—I think reached by a windi 2 Se Alx. = Sent Opo 1 ‘ SN Y QS 65G2 9] po = 5 a iG : : acne y a windi stai a es - - lx. 35 Fini Oporeo ..... 0... : DS oo eee. i a warranted in declaring our record | ¢T¢e in the open akg 2 oe : Salvia. oficinalts, 48 ed se i mae 00 on: Lo = = is S £6 DR f convictionsa © ae t ° store-| Bd 48.--.--+-eeeee- ‘ Moschus Canton... @ < f= e convictions a remarkable one.”’ so also serves as a laboratory. — Ura Ure. oo — =, SPONGES. ee aa f a @ so = Sos | c. CO OWhes rs s as W : & 2 i aoa Ss = | What will be your policy in regard to aS _— S — gallery connected eUMMI. Florida sheeps’ wool ae ada (po 20).. : @ 10| " 2 » future prosecutions? Do you propose medicinal eseicccbcig = a —o | ey 2a — = = Nissan sheep” wool — cm oe &P.D. a a =e Importers and Jobbers of to investigate every violatior ae Le ne toots and herbs | ‘ ae carriage Pinte Tig MN Oak Bat @2 00 ze ' : I ation brought to are dried on the terrace ra i eee : 3d “i ce @ 80| velvet a ea : 2 99} 7 1CcisS Liq, N. C., % gal by aa your attention?” light. The door to the a ub a ot g5| Pil Secale , | any Climat to Thicken, Sour or Mold ix | 5 3 1ave no discretionary powers} public 7 = its from the gaze of the; ———— i. 3@ 55 re Fysethraw, owen ST 0@1 2 ene ye ge beng Against Injury | in the premises Ne oe a , chairs pen ~d i | Camphors......-.-.--> 7 i . ae aE bee : ers worthles = 'Ch . a 1e premises. I do asl am directed | Space of the shop red ean te = = horbium po <..... 300 1 ingibe Le 50 aoa a => Co. Sol ee aa MPA RIECL BLACKING emicals and D i ; @ and aim to do it well. I institute the latter Se e convenience of | Galbanum. ..--..----- @ 80 faneaer 50 aa. 5G 0 |, Sole Manufacturers, Chieago, Ill | ruggists Sundri : i . institute no| 0. er. The walls are ornament q | Gamboge po 7 0} Ipecac......-. 0) Quinia, § oe 8@ 10 Pee | 6s. suits until so directed by a | with signs : ee ented: | araqie ran Boy) a > oon ae as iene : inia, 5. P.& W..... 42@) 47 ected by the Board, and! art of h and maxims bearing on the | Guaiacum, (po. 50).... @ 45| Auranti Cortes... 50 _ S. German 3O = then only after a personal i i f ‘art of healing. The wall i S 0 2 | Kino, (po. Se @ 2\Rh anti Cortes..... 59| Rubia Tinctorum “++. SB 45 ‘ 5 : : ’ : personal investigation | opposite tl ee immediately | Mastic... ..-------+- @1 00 | Si ei Arom.......----+- ‘** 35] Saccharum Lactis pv.. ~_ = ealers in for the purpose of securing evid a? P yeni entrance receives’ the | Myrrh, (po 45)...----- @ 40 Similax Officinalis..-....... 60) Salacin............ . ra — : 5 om necessary to convict.’’ i mas. of oe attention in the line | a 5 10)... 2s... 3 55@3 60 | Senega Co...... = ae Draconis..... = q s 8 “ . is ; entation. Here porcelain j eer yeaa gs Sh aelles ooo oa S ee 4 | “You La | are arranged i elain jars|_ ‘ _ bleached...... BO : Mae... 0. eee eeee eer ees 50 | Sapo, W...... -- _ @4 50 5 88 — - do not know, then, whether the] . e arranged in an orderly manner, inter. | TTagacamth .....------ 300 = Tol ce: a ee 12@ 14 j § policy of the Board will be more ag | spersed with carefully labeled drawers HERBA—In ounce packages Scenes deta ee ees ceca es mt Be = 2 Sole A : . ca dine i 9 ag: | and the whole is crowned by | Abetnth ie se ec a 5) | Seidlitz Mixture...... ef 9 - gents for the Celebrated Pi games ; ie future than in the past ?’’ | onal urn of zine or some ott am —— upatorium oe = TENCTUBES. SIMAPIS. oe sees evens o is ABSOLU — Prepared Paints. : That is a question Lam not cutee | metal, whilst above all an sandler Lobelia. -...-000s sts soo 25 | Aconitum Napellis R 60 Snuff Date we a2 — 70 i if i lq Ml ia € enta Maiorum ....-. ‘ ts 4 C1118 te.--.--- > ss - “ e i a d to answer, as it concerns the Board | oe the name of the proprietor Mentha Piperita cen = Aloes ce ete 50 Snuff, Scotch, eo @ 3 PURE. or w - a ? one ecorne . : . “cc PIPCTEUR. «on ee cos = ¢ a POCS cee eee a 4 oe 3 » Ve. Joes Q- which I do not wish to speak.”’ ame ieesaiae 2 = drug store is an| Rue.... Vir... eeee eres vee = a mee 60 Bede Horna, (po. 12) i ue = @ THE BEST FOF): We are Sole Proprietors of Ve ee t s memory of his | Tanacetum, V ees : MICA oe esse eee cree eee ee 50lc et Potass Tart... 30@ 33 J ieee soos nines | ancestors. Upon this J S| etum, V...-------+++-+ a2 | Asafcetida.............--. ¥} Soda Carb... .... oy age - THE ain IEW WITH A TRAVELER, | the favorite eho = raga are placed Waves, Vs 25 | Atrope Belladonna.......... = Soda, tCar. a“ a ; W EATHERLY’S MICHIG oo 7 — the Board of Pharmacy | perfumed candles are here isis eatin _ Galcined Longe a a sine peee ate cee se Soda. Guiriad ena 3@ 4 <= LAUNDRY AN CATARRH REMEDY to task for failing to enforce the law in| rhe proprietor of the ae cory s Carbonate, Pat ....... oa. 50| Spts.'Ether Co .2...... ie : regard to registration,” sai i | usually found sitting store is| Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 2 Barosma ......- 50) “ Myrcia Dom... = THE BATH Hn ¢ gistration,” said a Chicago) his shop, f sitting at the entrance of Carbonate, JenningS.. 35@ 25 | Cantharides........ "5 Myrcia Imp... .. = drug salesman, wl ea a | $3 hop, from where he supervises his ’ §o.- $3) Cogs .... co.cc ee. % a ae @2 50 AND who made THE TRADEs-| business. All prescri ti Ps OLEUM Cate 50] 2 05) a oes GE yo call one day last week. | to him; he sect oo i oe 5 00@5 50 Castor CO. eee ceeeeeees 75 gee ee gal. cash ten days. e NERAL HOUSEHOLD Se of ‘“‘Yes, the Board appe turns tt i im . and then | Amygdalae, Dulc. meee 100! ¢ nia Crystal..... @1 ss. USE appeared to have) s them over to his assistants All | A@Y ; een 75 | Catechu W | Sulphur, Subl @1_10 : _ ee aa +! eons aT SSIs Ss. 1, | Amydalae, Amarae....7 25@7 PREOCHH «...-- 0. 2rrersseeers 50 phur, Subl......... 2u@ $ : Bote a violation of the law in the | me gierenaE tt take place here also aa | ete i 902 oo a ee 50| Tamari = ore 2 3” — For Sele by all Grocers. Whiskies, Brandies Millbrook case,”’ repli : | the prices are agreed u casi mucins | uranti Cortex....... @2 50|C : Sooo ee PEGs “S@ ASK FOR IT se, plied the office man/| granit pon. A few large | Bergamii 2 80@3 ( Colnmba fl 0s) a 59 | neTebenth Venice ig q of THe TRADESMAN | gue aie: ee ee 0@8 00] Conium ........... cess eee 50] Theobromae .......... B@ 30 2ADESMAN. | and several freer : : Zs sieves | Gary See ceeaieees 90@1 00} Gubeba...... ON SOs eee ypan cnn cnc ng 50@ 55 a ee ral fireproof crucibles represent carvopnyiif 2000200 Gp 9) | Digits 20000020 | Yaa? Oe ELOPEMENT. Cins, Wines, Rume. us bea : Stet . : : : a Chinese | Chen eee See Ne a gant re i n . why, I can cite a hundred cases | ence It is true, afew ane aot os 1 = = Geli : a ee oe aa —— where the law is not enfi ses substances are prepared by he cal | Citronella .......-.+-+- 35@1 4 Me ee 2, | Whale, wit . Gal an a . ed by us at a cost of ovel : ot enforced. I saw); pharmacists a= y the native|Gonium Mac.....--..- Oe Sadie 8. cee 6 » WATISEE-~- == ov =o | °0J0 dollars, your article on the Pattison case T c pharmacists, but without any knowledge Coeatin Mac......-.-- 35@_ 65 fs aeenon oe oe 50 Lard, extra........... 55 60| -ccipt of A copy sent free to any address or mM .« s ttison ease Tuesday | °f the principles involved SY | Gebehen. 16 a ae = a | era 45 50 [a WW »yening, and since that time—f | Te aed : mde cence 6 00@16 ®) | Hyoscyamus .............-.- 50 | Linseed, pure raw ... 58 i ar . : : es t ne four days—! ser pothecary manifests the most er en 1 00 = gaara won ecnne cece sees 50 Lindseed, boiled .... 61 G1 ws ° © Sole Agents in Michi an fi ave run across twenty-four clear vio-| j gs ous care in gathering and prepar See Soc ee ees eee 1 20@1 30 ie aca Lol. aS gee s Fooet, winter 64) 4 a FAF or . . Co., lations of Co : - an ants : ah ReTIA ..-.-----~-- 2 5 , Coloriess..--.---.---- "FE strained ....... ) | 2 ations Oe a products of nature Geranium, ‘une... 2ng2 90 | Ferei Chloridum...0 0.00.0 | spirits Turpentine... 0% 55| © OAP Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash tne proprietor is not hi ° _ a : re ascribed to th yOSSipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 75 beer reese cee set es 50 PAINTS. 7 : : s 1imself registered | buds, flowers, roots d e@| Hedeoma .. 2 G2 Be Tope 59 | Red Venetia ne bbl. Ib. : : and has ; oe Pr arent 3 s and leaves of the|Jumiperi......-- ae Be Mgr eal € apt tune ea 1% 2@3 Cc ' ; ’ : the sto 8 a ee aut gene ae parts of a medicinal iaventuia 2. nes 00 | Opit Wome ola ee = — es — GOWANS & STOVER, Buffalo, N.Y. Whiskyyand Druggists Favorite store, or where the store is : o be gathered a : i Sala. Pn ees ae ccesc. SSL Pee: © fal 2 @3 hares oF tore is left in stages of their develo a Mentha Piper.........- ; cons * Camphorated.......°... ¥ a ee ae 2%4@3 \ Rye Whisk person who never attended follows that. they a — uae — Verid.........2 50@2 60 1 DBO wns seve nes 9 OD oo Prime Amer-” — y: ap examination of the Boa 1 sales usy the year | Morrauae ne ea 80@, 7 ti Cortex.. ican . [ i : i J @ rd and has no around gathering them : : Myrcia pasar Scars @1 00 Quassia ee o- Ve Rac rtine pen ititins o- 13@16 e intention of doing so, until compelled to they are in preparing ee Olive es Soe ooge _ Rhatany Sg eee 70g \ co Ls o 4 -| drugs is s : serving icis iquida, A osagtgae" ; Lead, ra iM : I ee with a couple of drug sales- oe . on - ae i ae oer 240 36 ee ee a0 wh wie eae exatlg Grand Rapids Mich = cell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes onl men down at Kalamazoo, a f { S e colors i dri Osmpaini....... T3@1 =] 50 Vhiting white S se etces 4% > ° ° y- /, i. ew days ago flowers buds and 1 Ss i2 ried Rosae, oun . OO Serpentaria a Whiti re span... @70 8 give our Personal Atte ti ; ; : t : aabiae. , e, ee 80018 cag OT 50 iting, Gilders’..... ie ‘ z ntion to and we agreed that from one-third to planation of the et ces aores ain Sabina, ae 10 45 aun: ee = Whive, Bars American Poo antee Satisfaction. ee . of the men who are selling = direction may be am og ae oe . — © Valerian amie = iting, Paris Eng. a A. J. Bowne, President. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced th s ri ; * : a Geueea ae MN) atr See ye ne. OEE ~ oe cere totic ais > - s drugs within the line drawn by the law act that the Chinese ascribe diff Sassafras. ............ 553@ 60 um Verde. ........... 50 | Pioneer Prepared Paint! 20@1 4 Guo. C. PrercE, Vice President. ceive them. i j e same day Wé ree y the law powers oe erent | Sinapis, ess, ou Swiss Vill in a trial order are not entitled to do so—that a strict Sa to medicines according to the Tiglii....... ee é, . MISCELLANEOUS. en a Prepared H. W. NAsH, Cashier f s 8 ‘ a3 ig to the | myme o.oo. ee ee . enforcement : a i — in which they are applied. T Thyme ...,--..-.--+-+- 40@ 50 Ather, Spts Nit,3F.. 26@ --1 00@1 2 of the statute would add physician, for example P : he Ome :. 22.55; @ 60 : - a 4 20@ 28) \ fea ogee CAPITAL - fully 2,000 names to the list of registered der, pills and solutions, oe pow- Teas. See bonti eave tes SD aig a 10@1 20 ; - - $300,000. : 1 and assistant pharmacists.” ae = mt their divisibility or solubetity, 2 cece Be ok : os - Traniasts . ut ra er fo s ' > B csbdasicches sacle 8 No. 1 Tur F eooee Cc a general bankin r the reason that he firmly Bichromate +..2....... 13@ 14 tae tak ome 1 00@1 10 ores Wes ee ccew wees 37Q@ 40 Japan Dryer, Wood 55@1 60 es : ty ee ek ; 75 a Specialty of Collections. A eee 0G ef Country Merchants Soli« ccounts eited. GRAND RAPIDS , MICH. year cannot start an objection. The Michigan Tradesman NUISANCES IN Law. Brief Inquiry into the Legal Meaning of the Word Nuisance. The law relative to the abatement of nuisances rests on one of the most funda- mental principles of government—that every man shall so use his own as not to injure another in the enjoyment of his rights. We call government a ‘‘social compact.’’ In the savage state, society is a jungle for wild beasts, in which every rattlesnake has an_ inalienable right to bite, when life is a battle—a struggle for existence. Society is or- ganized to do away with this struggle and to guarantee to all equal rights. We form a social compact. lL give up my liberty to murder you and you give up your liberty to murderme. Your hobby may be a hog-pen, another’s a cess-pool, mine a slaughter-house, but we mutually give up our liberty to injure one another with our hog-pens, cess- pools and slaughter-houses. Strictly speaking, any use of property annoying to another’s rights is a nuisance. Two things are necessary —a right and an injury. Nomatter how much your re- fined taste may be violated by the archi- | tectural structure of your neighbor’s house. it is not a nuisance, because no right is violated. So I may not like the looks of your pig-pen, but I can look the other way. When, however, your pig- pen gives off offensive odors it is a nuis- ance, because every man has aright to pure air. There must be not simply a violation of a right to constitute a nuis- ance, but the violation of the right must make somebody uncomfortable. One cannot urge that he is especially dainty or fastidious, but any use of property which renders uncomfortable a plain or- dinary American is a nuisance. The nuisance need not be injurious to health; it is enough if is annoying to the senses. Nuisances are classified as public, pri- vate. and mixed—the latter being a public nuisance in which some private person is entitled to special damages for some special injury. Nuisances are also classified as (1) nuisances per se — in themselves, and (2) occupations which may become nuisances through neglect or improper use. Decaying matter is a nuisance in itself: a slaughter-house may become such because of its improper location. Most nuisances may be classi- fied as violations either of our rights to pure air or pure water. Every man has a right to air uncontaminated by noxious vapors, odors, and noises. Among the trades which under certain circumstances have been declared to be nuisances be- eause of the contamination by noxious vapors may be mentioned bone mills, chemical works, veterinary stables {where horse’s hoofs are burned). dye houses—all legitimate occupations but earried on so near dwellings as to interfere with rights to pure air. Thecourts have 65 held that a blacksmith’s shop was a nuisance when the cinders discolored well-water and entered ap adjoining house: glass works are nuisances when the smoke from them produces an un- pleasant taste in the mouth, also lead works and breweries which give off noxious vapors. If a neighbor is eulti- vating foreign plants, smoke which de- stroys them is a nuisance, even though this smoke is not injurious to ordinary vegetation. Among those occupations which are nuisances because of the of- fensive odors which they give off may be mentioned: ‘Tallow factories, soap fac- tories. tanneries. boiling carrion, pig- pens, vaults, cess-pools and slaughter- houses. - > The Proper Length. A lawyer is presumed to be always able to suggest a difficulty, no matter how self-evident the case may seeni; but the truly great lawyer knows how to state a point so that even a brother law-} Stephen J A. Dowglas aiid Mr. Lovejoy were gos- siping together when Abraham Lincoln came in. The two men immediately turned their conversation upon the proper length of a man’s legs. ‘“‘Now,’’ said Lovejoy, ‘‘Abe’s legs are altogether too long, and yours, Douglas, I think, are alittle too short. Let’s ask Abe what he thinks about it it.’’ The conversation had been carried on with a view to Lincoln’s overhearing it, and they closed it by saying: ‘Abe, what do you think about it ?”’ “Mr. Lincoln had a far-away look as he sat with one leg twisted around the other, but he responded to the question, “Think of what ?’’ ‘Well, we’re talking about the proper length of aman’s leg. We think that yours are too long and Douglas’ too short, and we’d like to know what you think is the proper length.’’ ‘“‘Well,?? said Mr. Lincoln, ‘‘that’s a matter that I’ve never given any thought to, so, of course, I may be mistaken, but my first impression is that a man’s legs ought to be long enough to reach from his body to the ground.”’ : ————__——>> A Novel Sign. A sign that is attracting hundreds of people to where it hangs, on a carpenter shop, in Pattersen, N. J., reads: ‘Coffins made and repaired. Extra strong ones for country people.””’ The old man who owns this establishment has his own coffin on hand. Itis made of pine wood and is covered with a neat pattern of Putnam Candy Co., HEADQUARTERS FOR FLORIDA ORANGES, LEMONS, NUTS, ETC. WHO URGES YOU TO HRhEEP SA POLIO ‘se THe PUBLIC! By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas- ers to the store, and help sell less known goods. ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD. TO FILL YOUR ORDERS. ‘Putnam Candy Co. Packers of the well PRB OYSTERS —— THE Selected Herbs » Spices Prepared by THOMSON & TAYLOR SPICE COMPANY, Cnicago. Is a Combination of The Finest Ingredients for use in Seasoning Meats, Poultry, Game and Fish. SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. known brand of S. K. BOLLES. E. B. DIKEMA}h S. K. Bolles & Co., CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ~~ aé W holesale Cigar Dealers. “TOSS tir: " 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. WM.SEARS & CO. Cracker Manviacturers, 37,89 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. PEHEREINS & 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. ARAVENRIGH BRUS. W holesale Clothiers MANUFACTURERS OF Perfect-Fitting Tailor-Made Clothing AT LOWEST PRICES. 138-140 Jefferson Ave., 34-36 Woodbridge St., Detroit. MAIL ORDERS sent in care L. W. ATKINS will receive PROMPT ATTENTION. K. 6. SYUDLBY, Wholesale Dealer in Rubber Boots and Shoes Manufactured by CANDEE RUBBER 60. Send for Large Illustrated Catalogue and Price List. TELEPHONE 464. No. 4 Monroe Street, wall paper. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. lonia Pants & OverallCo. 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 in Toys for the fiotidays 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 ~ | DNs Gee DO? ht ht CY ~ 2 16 a Wholesale. Retail. = ‘ 1 Doz.37 Assorted Tin Animals.... ... 42— # 5— 6 =_. £ 1 ‘Prottimge Horses. ..........—..- 42— 42 5— 60 7; 2 . oo T— 5 10—1.20 7 1 38 Animals on Wheels........... i 2p 10—1.20 eee a O19 “Slesimbonts ..-. 3 ce 2.00— 67 25—1.00 = 1 “ 134 Horses and Carts............. G0— 70 10—1.20 TFT - -— 36 . Gity Cars. 2.00... 3 10—1.20 ee ma i388 Wagons...........43 ; 20—1.20 —= % ‘* 138B tea . Pouce oes 25—1.50 a= 1 eae Win Pittes... .. ........-..... 5— 60 Cc 16 °° G48 Picture Wasonus......-.:..... 4, 50—-1.00 1-12‘ 508-1 Trains of Cars Complete 1,.25—1.25 CX ) 1-12° 400-5 . o 5 T— 7% eh CO i = : a . - pe 60—1.20 1 : E citenen Seis... |... 50—1.00 = 4 Toy Kitehens. 50—2.00 Cc 1- 2 e " : iz : > < 8 ts we yy ° 9 td So ae 2— 21 5— 30 ox 3 [de Stoves and Furniture........ T— 5 10—1.20 ore) 1 Crown Bemis 02.0000 00060 3: 45— 45 5— o a 1-6 500 Mechanical Locomotives.....4.75— 79 65—1.30 co #14.00 $24.00 SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, No. 98--Woodenware, Tinware, Etc. No. 99--Glassware and Crockery. No. 100--Holiday Goods. _No. 101--Lamps and Lamp Goods. No. 102--Silver Plated Ware. H. Leonard & Sons. NEW HOUSE AND NEW GOODS. A. EF. BROOKS & CO., WHOLESALE Confectionery, Nuts and Figs. Our Specialty--Candy made from sugar and good to eat. CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, ~ - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH BEST BEH & FO=z, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY, AS FOLLOWS: 2. BL ATLAS woxs 4 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A. MANUFACTURERS OF Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock for immediate delivery. Saws, Belting and Oils. ' And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sampk Pulley and become convinced of their superiority. Write for Prices. 44, 46 and 48 So. Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH DIRECTIONS 7 We nave cooked the cornin this can gem) sutticienti, Shouid be Thoroughly Warmed ‘not cooked) adding piece of Gooe Butter (size of hen’s egg) and gil: of fresh milk ( a tO water.) Season to suit when onthe table. None genuine unless bearing the signature of Davenport Cannirg Qo, , (Davenport, Ia. 9 : "EN AT THIS EN? nam Gandy Go, 13, 15 AND 17 SOUTH IONIA ST. se THR WALSH--DR ROO MILLING CO. HOLLAND, MICH. Daily {Capacity, 400 Bbis. BRANDS: SUNLIGHT, DAISY, PURITY, MORNING STAR, IDLEWILD, DAILY BREAD, = ——_} Waist pe 00 MILLING. —— ‘2 a ei R z Sa ECONOMY. MILL ELEVATOR |® > Bice a 2 SPECIALTIES: Graham, Wheatena, Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Bolted Meal, Rye Meal, Wheat Grits, Buckwheat Grits, Pearl Barley, Oat Meal, Rolled Oats, igh OO, Mich. == Solicited. The Belknay Wagon ad § Grand Rapids, neon Le : SS Correspondenc MANUFACTURERS AND Road Logging iesiet.. SIRIGHS. Pleasure SEND FOR CATALOGUE. § if MELANE & BODLEY Ce. AUTOMATIC CUT OFF » ENGINES UNRivALLED forSTRENGTH oP. DURABILITY AnD —CLOSE REGULATION. 2 to 48 JOHN STREET, "HE LANE & BODLEY Ci., CINCINNATI, O: A. HIMES, Shipper and Retail Dealer in . () | t Lehigh Valley Goal Go, s Office, 54 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich. SHIPMENT. WM. R. KEELER & CO., Wholesale Confectioners, 412 SOUTH DIVISION STREET. TELEPHONE 92-3R. THE ABOVE COMPANY'S COAL IN ALWAYS ON TRACK READY FOR 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. DETROIT SOAP CO., Manufacturers of the following well-known brands: QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, CZAR, TRUE BLUE, SUPERIOR, MASCOTTE, CAMEO, PHENIX, AND OTHERS, aR RNR RSE RR ee For quotations in single box lots, see Price Current. quantities, address, W, G. HAWKINS, voce sox 1s. "GRAND ‘RAPIDS. NEW MOLASSES! For quotations in larger We have received large shipments of molasses, direct from the planters in Louisi- ana, which we are offering to the trade at our usual low prices. Telfer Spice Company, COFFEES AND SPICES. STREET. IMPORTERS OF TEAS, 1 AND 3 PEARL Rindge, Bertsch & Co,, MICHIGAN AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CQO. We carry a full line in stock and guarantee terms and prices as good as any house selling the line. Correspondence solicited. 12, 14 AND 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. *