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The Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1890.

NO. 333.

 

VOL. 7.
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And a complete line of

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———». 2 <2 ______

A CANDIDATE FOR BEDLAM.

Timothy Whithouse was a phenome-
non. Everything about him, from his
character to his clothes, was considered
peculiar. He was quite aware of the
opinion entertained of him by the world,
but it did not impress him disagreeably.
‘‘What’s Hecuba to me, or I to Hecuba?”’
he would exclaim with scorn. And,
indeed, why should he trouble himself
as to what others thought of him—he
who considered himself as much above
humanity as the stars are distant from
the earth? The truth must be con-
fessed that Timothy was a philosopher.
He knew perfectly well that there is no
more mistaken idea than that which as-
sociates an erratic temperament with a
weak mental capacity, and when warned
by officious acquaintances of the sad
future doubtless in store for him, his
only answer was a contemptuous smile
and a steady adherence to the course he
had marked out for himself. At the
age of forty, consequently, he had not a
friend in the world. He had always
been an indefatigable student and had
theories of his own which many consid-
ered dangerous and absurd.

A thousand years ago he would have
been looked up to as a greatman. Un-
fortunately, he lived inan age of com-
mon sense and a matter-of-fact shrewd-
ness, which persisted in dealing with
him as though he were alunatic.  Per-
haps it had some reason for so doing.
Look at him now, as he stands upon
Manhattan Beach in front of the mam-
moth hotel. It is a bright summer
morning. About him is a busy, eager
crowd of men and women, but among
them all he stands apart silent, thought-
ful, unnoticed, though not by any means
unobservant.

His face was eminently peculiar, in
accordance with the rest of his person-
ality. Any one who took the trouble to
notice him would say unhesitatingly
that he was a man who had been sad-
dened and rendered callous by some un-
deserved suffering, but nothing could be
more erroneous than this supposition.
His life had been singularly free from
care and annoyance. There seemed
actually to be no place for them in his
strange existence. Leaving his books
only that he might go out into the open
air and speculate upon the persistence
of Force or the incomprehensibility of a
First Cause, it was no wonder that he
was exempt from trouble.

In every one’s life some uncommon
and, perhaps, unwished-for incident is
sure to happen when we least expect it,
or when we flatter ourselves that we
have placed an impassable barrier be-
tween itand us. Such an incident was
about to occur to Timothy Whithouse,
but, fortunately for him, he did not
know it.

As he stood on the beach that morn-
ing, he certainly was a curious figure.
In all probability he had been struck by
some novel thought just as he got out of
bed, and, consequently, had appeared in
public cladin a long dressing-gown of
faded green, bordered with a deep band
of fur. As he left the hotel and walked
past the beds of brilliant flowers toward
the beach, it was not surprising that
several new-comers, unfamiliar with his
appearance, looked at him with vague
astonishment.

Timothy looked at all that went on
around him and sighed. Perhaps a rem-
iniscence of his childhood, more vivid
by comparison, occurred to him. Soon,
however, he gave his individual atten-
tion to his book, and began to read, as
was often his custom, standing facing
the sea. He turned over several pages,
and finally raised his eyes to the cloud-
less sky overhead, in mute admiration
of nature, perhaps, when he felt a light
touch suddenly upon his arm and heard
a fresh, young voice exclaim:

‘TI beg your pardon, sir, but I think
this belongs to you.”’

Timothy turned in faint surprise. It
was such an unusual thing for any one
to address him that, for the moment, he
was taken aback. A young girl was
standing beside him—a girl with golden
hair and blue eyes, at once mischievous
and serious. In her extended hand she
held a tiny, vellum-bound volume.

Now, it was avery unusual thing in-
deed for Timothy to notice awoman’s
dress, but on this occasion he took in
all the details of the girl’s personality at
a glance—her white gown, and even the
pale pink feathers in her hat. He
placed the book in his pocket, presently,
and thanked her with an awkward bow.

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Then he turned away in the direction of |
the bathers beyond.

“Can anything,’’ he said half to him-
self, ‘“‘be more intensely absurd than a|
spectacle like—like that??? He pointed!
to the bathers as he spoke. ‘‘Why is it,
I wonder, that men must always remain
children, following childish pursuits and
satisfied with childish pleasures?’ He
stopped abruptly and fixed his attention
again upon his book.

“Oh, sir,’’ said the girl’s gentle voice
behind him, ‘‘are we not all of us the
better for a little innocent enjoyment ?”’

Timothy wheeled around sharply. He
did not like to be interrupted when he
was reading.

“Child,’? he said gravely, “I thought
you had gone. Do you want anything
of me ?”’

There was nothing encouraging in his
manner. Still, the girl did not seem
daunted, although a faint blush over-
spread her face. ‘‘I thought—it seemed
to me—that your were so utterly alone,”’’
she stammered.

Timothy started and stared. Then his
features relaxed, and when he spoke
again it was in a gentler tone.

‘‘How came you to think of me 2?’’
asked.

‘‘T have noticed you for several days—
ever since we came here, in fact,’’ she
answered frankly. ‘‘I was on the beach
when you passed by this morning and
I saw you drop the book from your
pocket. I was almost afraid to return it
to you, you looked so grave and ab-
sorbed. Besides’’—she hesitated and
colored.

‘“Well,’? said Timothy sharply, ‘‘be-
sides what, child ?’’

“Oh, [hope you are not angry. I
dare say it was only meant for fun,’’
she said in some confusion. ‘‘They told
me i must be careful how I spoke to you
—that is all.’’

“Ah!? said Timothy with a grim
smile. ‘‘Well,’? he added presently,
glancing at her with keen interest, ‘‘do
you think I am a lunatic ?’’

“‘Of course not.’’

“Thank you,’’? he said dryly. a
know perfectly well what people say of
me, and so do you, no doubt. However,
it has no effect upon me—none whatever.
Being superior to most people, I can af-
ford to treat their opinions with con-
tempt. Besides, there is no one in the
world, perhaps, whom I would willingly
choose for a companion. I have my
books and my thoughts. I appreciate
both too highly to wish for anything
better.”’

‘Surely,’? she said earnestly, ‘“‘you
must sometimes feel the need of other
companionship.”’

‘*You are mistaken,’’ he replied briefly;
**I do not.”7

“Why, then,’’? she asked after a short
pause, ‘‘do you not bid me leave you 2”’

A vague sense of astonishment began
to steal over Timothy. He turned
abruptly and looked steadily at her.

‘Because, child,’’ he said, letting his
gaze wander once more to something
else, ‘‘I admire you, very likely, for not
allowing yourself to be guided by the
opinions of others.’’

“IT have always been accustomed to
judge for myself.’’

“Then you are an exceptional woman,”’
he replied, dropping his momentary soft-
ness of tone and relapsing, again into
cynical indifference.

Then a pause, Then thes girl said,
gently:

‘“T must be going now. My aunt will
wonder what has become of me.’’

‘“*“Yes, I suppose so,’’ he said, mechan-
ically.

‘You are not vexed because I spoke to
you ?”?

“No, child—no.”’’

‘*T feel sorry’’—she began, timidly.

His forehead contracted suddenly.
“Sorry for what??? he asked, vehe-
mently. ‘I desire no sympathy. Why
should you feel called upon to regret for
me that which I do dot regret myself? I
have chosen my life. It suits me. Don’t
pity me, or—’’

‘‘Forgive me,’’ she said, in a voice that
was slightly tremulous. ‘‘Indeed, I only
meant to be kind.”’

“Well, well; but do not think that I
require sympathy, child.”’

She hesitated an instant, and then said,
gravely, ‘‘Good-by, sir.’’

‘*Good-by,’’ he replied.

She turned and left him. Timothy
watched her as she ran lightly down the
beach, her white dress fluttering behind
her. He was now quite alone, and at
liberty to turn his thoughts te nature and
the universe, but, strange to say, he did
nothing of the kind. He drew from the
pocket of his dressing gown the volume
which had just been returned to him and
examined it attentively, to make sure
that it had sustained no injury from its
recent unceremonious acquaintance with
the earth. Having satisfied himself on
this point, he opened the book at random
and began to read aloud. By degrees he
became conscious that he paused often,
and that he had no very clear idea of
what he was doing. Finally, the book
dropped from his hand unobserved.

“For fifteen years,’’ he said, slowly,
“T may say that no human creature has
voluntarily addressed me. And now to
think that this girl, this child—oh, it is
absurd !”? he concluded, abruptly, with
an expressive shrug of his shoulders.
“It has spoiled my best morning
thoughts.’’ :

As he spoke he made his way toward
the hotel, and, catching sight of his gro-
tesque shadow upon the sand, something
like a smile crossed his lips.

On the following morning, as he saun-
tered slowly along the beach, his eyes
generally downcast, or else looking up
sharply from beneath their heavy brows,
glanced furtively from. side to side.
When he met his companion of the day
before, as it is perhaps needless to say he
did, she attempted, with a degree of per-
sistence that was almost heroic, to draw
him into something approaching a sus-
tained conversation. She was tolerably

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successful, for Timothy so far forgot
himself once or twice as to give a little
vent to his ideas, many of which were
both new and startling to the girl. They
were, however, none the less interesting
on that account.

A week passed in this manner. Then
Timothy recognized the fact that a
change was somehow being effected
within him. He perceived, with almost
passionate despair, that his attention
wandered continually from his studies.
The ponderous weight of the universe
began gradually to be lifted from his
shoulders. It seemed almost as if a
portion of his youth had returned to him
in the midst of his full manhood, just as
sometimes upon the branch of a with-
ered tree we see a few leaves of tender
green spring forth. :

‘‘Is it possible,’”? he would say to him-
self, ‘‘that Iam no better than the rest
of men? After seeking for so long to
elevate myself above the level of human-
ity, am I at last to fall ignominiously
below its lowest depths? But no!’ he
cried, suddenly, striking his forehead.
‘‘T trust that lam not weak enough to
fly from phantoms. Poor, miserable
wretch,’’ he continued, accosting his re-
flection in the looking-glass, ‘‘can it be
that you have attributed to yourself all
this time virtues which you in no wise
possess ? Go, fool and return to your
books !’

All this sounded reasonable enough,
but in reality it meant nothing at all. In
the seclusion of his room Timothy was
one person, but in the society of his new
companion he was another. It occurred
to him one day, with a sense of semi-
absurdity, that he did not ¢ven know
her name. So when he next spoke to
her he took occasion to inquire it.

“It is nothing at all pretty, or even
nice-sounding,’’ she replied. oh an
called Deborah Smithson. It is some-
times abbreviated into Debbie.”’

‘(Deborah Smithson,’’ repeated Tim-
othy, with a curious sensation of relief;
*‘why, it’s as ugly, every bit, as T*mothy
Whithouse.’’

The girl laughed. She seemed to be
unconscious of the fact that in spite of
his evident gratification, Timothy was
ill at ease. He had grown restless and
gloomy. He felt that a change had taken
place in his existence, and a change very
much for the worse. Irrelevant thoughts
would forcibly intrude themselves upon
his most profound meditations, and his
hitherto peaceful life, he felt, had de-
parted from him forever. He began to
avoid Deborah Smithson, reproaching
himself the while for his childish weak-
ness in being unable to surmount a com-
paratively trifling difficulty.

One morning some one obstructed his
path as he walked toward the sea, and
looking up he saw Deborah standing
there. He was about to pass on with
only a slight inclination of his head,
when an expression upon her face ar-
rested him and he stopped short. There
were tears in her eyes. Instantly his
manner softened, and he extended his
hand.

“Child,”
ter ?”’

“There is nothing the matter with
me,’’ she said, gravely. ‘‘Why should
there be ?’’

He put out his hand hastily and then
drew it back. ‘‘My child,’? he began,
“if you could only know—’’ He broke
off suddenly, and a faint color stole into
his face. There was a world of meaning
in his tone which did not escape her.
She did not speak, however, until they
had reached the wooden bench.

‘What have you to tell me2’ she
asked.

‘‘Indeed, I hardly know,’’ he answered.
‘‘Your companionship has become very
precious to me. I do not understand
how it has come to be so, but it is true,
nevertheless. You know what my life
has been. Lonely and solitary, but
surely peaceful. I have lost the solitude
and the peace has gone with it.’’

‘‘No matter,’’ she said, striving to
speak lightly; ‘‘they will both return to
you again—when I am gone.”’

‘*You are mistaken,’’ he said, quickly.
“They can never come back to me
again.’

His voice was sad and tremulous. For
several moments there was silence be-
tween them. ‘‘When once,’’ he contin-
ued, finally, ‘‘a life such as mine has
been interrupted, it is not apt to return
again to its more particular groove.
With a younger man it might be differ-
ent, or with one who had adopted a sim-
ilar mode of existence late in life after a
free, joyous youth. But with me it is
not so; I have always been the same,
and, therefore, a change with me is felt
more keenly than it would be with an-
other. Is my meaning clear to you,
Deborah? Do you understand what you
have done ?”’

**Yes,’’? she said, gently;
could undo it I would.’’

“But, indeed, I do not wish it un-
done,’’ he interposed, hastily. ‘That is
the worst of it. That is what makes me
have such an utter contempt for myself.
You came tome uninvited and perhaps
unwelcomed. You have turned my
thoughts from grand and solemn subjects
to others of comparative lightness and
frivolity. I would not have it so, for I
am no longer happy. And yet,’’ he
added, softly, ‘‘to undo it would be to
remove the one bright spot in my life.”

He rose while speaking and paced the
sand thoughtfully. Deborah sat silent
and troubled, hardly knowing what to
make of his strange words.

‘‘T will go away and leave you to your-
self,’’? she said, at last. ‘I will not an-
noy you any more. Indeed—indeed, you
may yet be happy and contented.”’

“No,’’? he said, slowly, ‘not you; but
I—I will go.’’

He turned as he uttered the last word
and began to walk back toward the hotel,
while Deborah sat and looked at the
waves through a mist of tears. All that
day he remained shut up in his room
plunged in thought, his head resting

he said, ‘‘what is the mat-

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upon his hands. He felt bowed down
and oppressed by
“The bosom weight
That no philosophy can lift.”

“Why should this have happened to
me, of all men?’’? he exclaimed. ‘I
have asked nothing, required nothing of
any one, and yet my happiness has been
destroyed, while those about me whose
lives are a constant demand for support
and assisthnce are peaceful and con-
tented. It is unjust; I have eleyated
myself only to be cast down in the end.”?

When it was dark and he had swal-
lowed a mouthful of food that he had
sent for, he approached the window and
looked out. Below him stretched a won-
drous panorama. Masses of people
moved gayly backward and _ forward
among the grass and flowers. Further
on, the waves dashed witha sullen roar
upon the beach. In a charming kiosk of
blue and gold a military band was
making preparation for the usual even-
ing concert, while an eager, expectant
crowd stood waiting to eatch the first
strains of music. The western sky was
flooded with a pale rose-colored light,
which lent an additional charm to the
picture. Timothy stood motionless and
watched it all, while twilight descended
gradually and stole away again to give
place to night. Then, all at once, the
scene grew still more wonderful and
brilliant. Hundreds of tiny lamps were
lighted among the flower-beds and
gleamed brightly with soft sapphire or
ruby flames. Quaint Chinese lanterns
were suspended everywhere—upon the
facade of the hotel, upon the kiosk and
among the foliage of the trees and
shrubs. Presently the musicians began
to play the ‘‘Shadow Song’’ from Dinorah.
It was like a glimpse of fairyland, but
Timothy’s heart was too sorrowful to ap-
preciate it. He left his room in afew
moments and went out into the open air,
passing through the joyous throng un-
observed. ‘I have no place among
them,’’ he said to himself, with a touch
of his former cynicism. On the beach
numbers of people were sitting, many of
them lovers, undoubtedly. He shrugged
his shoulders expressively. ‘‘Too late—
too late,’’ he said aloud, and repeated the
words over and over again as he walked
along, until he found himself beside the
bench which it was his habit to occupy
in the morning. It was the hour gen-
erally devoted by every one to musie, late
dining, or flirtation. The moon was
almost entirely hidden behind a heavy
cloud. Timothy stood by the water’s
edge and looked about him. ‘He was not
too far off to catch a faint sound of the
music. He drew his hand wearily across
his forehead. ‘‘I have lost my peace,’”’ he
said, mechanically, ‘‘but I shall soon find
it again—not here, though,’’ he contin-
ued, stretching out his arms, “but
there—far off—in space—in eternity !”’

The last words were spoken almost in
a whisper. Again he glanced about him
furtively. There was no one in sight.
He stepped deliberately into the water.
The moon was still vainly struggling to
penetrate the heavy veil of clouds. The
starlight was dim, almost imperceptible.
“I shall soon find it now,’’ he said,
calmly, and went on step by step in the
dark, invisible blue of the water, until
finally he disappeared.

About half an hour later, as Deborah
was strolling carelessly along the beach
with her aunt, she saw a black, im-
movable mass lying directly in front of
her. She was unable to tell at once what
it was, owing to the obscurity of the
night, but she advanced fearlessly and
bent down and touched it.

“Why, Aunt Jane!’ she cried, sud-
denly, ‘‘I do believe it’s a man, and that
he’s drowned! See,’’ she added, looking
closely at the motionless form, ‘‘he has
long hair and is dressed in a gown of
some sort, and he has a little book, I
think, clasped in one hand.’’ As her
mind grasped all these details, she
started up witha little cry. ‘Oh, Aunt
Jane,’’ she exclaimed, excitedly, ‘‘it is
my dear professor! Help me to call as-
sistance, or he will die—perhaps he is
already dead. Come quickly, we have
no time to lose!’ Deborah ran toward
the hotel as fast as her trembling limbs
would allow her, leaving her bewildered
aunt to follow more slowly. The various
couples seated about on benches, and
those of more sedate minds who were
occupied in other ways, were suddenly
startled by the appearance in their midst
of a young girl wild with terror and
alarm. ‘Oh, do help me!’ she cried.
“There is a gentleman lying yonder
upon the beach, and I fear he is dead—
drowned. Come—come at once.’? With-
out waiting to observe the effect of Her
words, she sped as fast as possible back
to the spot where poor Timothy lay. In
a few moments the intelligence she had
imparted spread like wildfire, and an
eager, excited mass of people, armed
with lanterns and restoratives, reached
the unfortunate man’s side almost as
soon as Deborah. The lamplight, falling
across his face, revealed a ghastly but
perfectly calm countenance, which, of
course, was instantly recognized.
‘“‘Why,’’ exclaimed several voices, simul-
taneously, ‘‘it?s old Whithouse! I knew
he would do something of this sort,
eventually. He was as mad as a hatter.”’

Some brandy was finally forced be-
tween his tightly-closed lips, while
Deborah knelt by his’side and sought to
warm his hands between her own, un-
mindful of the curious glances which
took note of the action. When he was
carried back to the hotel and laid upon
the bed in his own room, a physician was

summoned. Life was not extinct. A
wave had_ probably washed him
ashore a few moments after he

had tried to put an end to his existence.
Poor Deborah, watching anxiously by
his bedside, was at last rewarded by
seeing his eyes open slowly with a gleam
of returning consciousness. For the

first time that evening, tears came to her
relief, but she turned away and tried to
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The Michigan Tradesman

 

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
The Feldner-Palmer Shirt Co. has dis-
solved. Oscar L. Palmer will continue
the business.

 

Heyman & Company have arranged to
add a full line of crockery to their house
furnishing goods stock.

 

Lotterman & Warrink have opened a
general store at 79 Fourth avenue.
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. furnished
the stock.

As foreshadowed a couple of weeks ago,
the Steele meat market, on South Di-
vision street, has been purchased by W.
G. Sinclair & Co.

 

Pomeroy & Lawton, grocers at 152
West Fulton street, have assigned to
I. M. Turner. No inventory has yet
been taken of the stock.

 

The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. has
put a new style of safety gate on its ele-
vator, which is ahead of anything of the
kind heretofore seen here.

Ex-Judge Birney Hoyt has attached
the real estate of Geo. T. Smith, of Jack-
son, for the John T. Noye Manufactur-
ing Co., of New York, on a claim of
$2,000.

The general store of S. Schack, at Reed
City, was closed recently under chattel
mortgage. Ex-Judge Hatch represented
the first mortgage on the stock and his
claim was satisfied by Krolick & Co., of
Detroit. Subsequently the stock was sold
to Simon & Co., of Detroit, for $4,800,
and they, in turn, disposed of it to
Kositchek & Bros., of Eaton Rapids.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Parmelee—J. L. Ash has sold his drug
and grocery stock to Jas. D. Gale.

Ludington—Moon & Nichols succeed
S. D. Moon in the grocery business.

East Saginaw—G. Happ continues the
grocery business of Happ & Kremer.

Thurber—Wm. M. Thurber has sold
his general store to John W. Tolford.

St. Joseph—M. B. Rice succeeds Rice
& Kingsley in the hardware business.

Alpena—J. P. Healy, grocer, has failed.
Liabilities, $8,227.21; assets, $5,291.58.

Greenville—Lang & Hamburger have
removed their general stock to Detroit.

Harbor Springs—W. E. Hardy has em-
barked in the meat and bakery business.

East Jordan—H. L. Page, hardware
dealer, is succeded by H. L. Page & Co.

Manistee—Ferris & James’ meat mar-
ket has been closed, for want of patron-
age.

Mattawan—Jas. McCarter has sold his
stock of groceries to W. Davis, of Kala-
mazoo.

Augusta—P. B. Swick has located him-
self with J. A. Cairns in the harness
business.

Holland—James A. Bower succeeds
Meyer, Bower & Co. in the furniture
business.

Fremont—Boone & Pearson, hardware
dealers, have sold their stock to Frank
Cole & Co.

Marquette—F. H. Des Jardins contin-
ues the drug business of F. H. Des Jar-
dins & Co.

Bloomingdale—Henry Miller has sold
his furniture business to Milo Hoey, late
of Waverly.

Petoskey—Tom Quinlan has sold his
grocery stock to Lyons Bros., late of
Manistique.

Detroit—Chas. W. Rudd succeeds Rudd
& Dewey in the commission produce and
flour business.

Fowler—R. G. Mattison, of Pewamo,
has purchased the general stock of Con-
stantine Gruler.

Greenville—Hyde Bros., grocers, have
dissolved. The business will be contin-
ued by D. L. Hyde.

Owosso—W. J. Parkhurst has pur-
chased Mr. Webb’s interest in the Ho-
mer & Webb market.

West Sebewa—The general store of
W. H. Chilson & Son has been closed un-
der chattel mortgage.

¥remont—Wesley Pearson has bought
the harness stock of A. Sweet, and will
continue the business.

Jackson—Feldher & Zillioux, tailors,
have dissolved. Anthony Feldher will
continue the business.

Shelby—Reosen Bros. have discontinued
their clothing business here and will unite
their forces in Muskegon.

Hanover—Chas. D. Potter, dealer in
groceries and meats, has sold his stock
of groceries to Frank Bates.

Detroit—J. A. Brown & Co. have
bought the stock of drugs belonging to
the estate of John’C. Mueller.

Hickory Corners — Jay Kellogg, of
Allegan, has gone into the grocery bus-
iness here with Bert Pennock.

Mt. Clemens—Francis P. Ulrich has
bought the stock of boots and shoes of
Henrietta (Mrs. Geo. C.) Fenton.

Frankfort—A. Crandall, general mer-
chant, has made an assignment. The

assets are $6,000 and the liabilities $1,000
more.

Dexter—Warner & McLain, dealers in
lumber and hardware, have dissolved.
The business will be continued by Owen
MeLain.

 

Battle Creek—Davis & Bayley, dealers
in agricultural implements, haye dis-
solved. The business will be continued
by Alva Davis.

Durand—Charles Clark, having dis-
posed of the Nichols stock of goods at
Vernon, has returned and is doing busi-
ness at the old stand here.

Sault Ste. Marie—The drug store of
Joseph Trempe has been closed on chat-
tel mortgage. The assets are $5,000 and
the liabilities considerably higher.

Detroit—Philip R. Muller, one of the
creditors of James H. Lynch, has en-
tered suit in the Circuit Court against
Lynch, with damages set at $5,000.

Lakeside—Byron Parker has opened a
drug store here. He has engaged I. W.
Feighner, formerly in the drug business
in North Muskegon, as prescription clerk.

Freeport—F. A. Moore, dealer in boots,
shoes, and groceries, has taken his brother
into partnership, and they will continue
the business under the style of F. A.
Moore & Co.

Harbor Springs—A. J. Southard has
sold his general stock to J. P. Southard
and M. A. Southard, who will continue
the business under the style of J. P.
Southard & Co.

Allegan—Chas. Young has exchanged
his grocery and crockery stock for the
novelty goods of J. N. Kellogg. Mr.
Kellogg will have as his partner Mr.
Pennock of Hickory Corners.

Potts—Charles Suedekum, the drug-
gist, who died afew days ago, was the
first person in Oscoda county to lose his
life from lagrippe. He came from Bay
City, and had been in Potts but a short
time.

Detroit—Parker, Webb & Co. is the
name of a new firm formed by the con-
solidation of two of the oldest pork-
packing houses in Detroit, the two firms
turning over $95,000 worth of property
to the new corporation.

Whitehall—G. CC. Funk’s tailoring
stock, which was attached January 18,
was recently replevined by Field, Bene-
dict & Co., of Chicago, by virtue of a
chattel mortgage. The attaching cred-
itors will contest the validity of the
mortgage.

East Jordan—S. G. Isamon, who re-
cently mortgaged his real estate to Burn-
ham, Stoepel & Co., of Detroit, for
$1,500, has uttered a chattel mortgage for
$2,960 to Geo. B. Martin, as trustee, for
the benefit of his other creditors. His
stock is estimated at $6,000 and his out-
standing accounts at $2,000.

Detroit—The firm of Standart Bros.,
wholesale hardware dealers, has been re-
organized by the admission of D. L.
Swasey, John J. McLeod and Edward A.
Fowler. The two last named have been
employes of the house for sixteen years,
while Mr. Swasey has been connected
with the firm of Ducharme, Fletcher &
Co. for the same length of time.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Delton—Whittemore & Sons are about
to move their sawmill to Howard City.

Sunfield—R. & W. Ramsey have pur-
chased the Haddix & Perkins Co.’s
planing mill.

Monroe—Wm. C. Kull, of the firm of
Kull Bros., blacksmiths and wagon
makers, is dead.

Coopersville — Bert Lillie has pur-
chased a picket mill, and will saw pick-
ets, table legs, handles, ete.

Harriette—The Gaston Lumber & Man-
ufacturing Co. will erect a mill here for
cutting and planing hardwood timber.

oO White Cloud—E. T. Lockerby has ar-
ranged to remove his shingle mill and
supply store to Keno in the near future.

Muskegon—S. T. Williams, of Wheel-
ing, W. Va., having been granted a
$10,000 bonus, will erect a rolling mill
here at a cost of $90,000.

Otsego—Nevins & Lindsey, proprie-
tors of the Novelty wood works, have
taken a contract to build 5,000 step-lad-
ders, to be delivered May 1.

Copemish—The foundation has been
laid for aroller flouring mill, to be known
as the Copemish Roller Milling Co., with
a capital stock of $10,000. C. B. Caniff
is President.

Paw Paw—Frank Millington has re-
tired from the firms of Bartram & Milling-
ton, dealers in drugs, groceries and
crockery, and L. Perrigo & Co., manu-
facturers of extracts and proprietary
remedies. The business will be con-
tinued by E. W. Bartram, L. Perrigo, A.
C. Martin and an Eastern gentleman,
under the style of L. Perrigo & Co.

Jackson—When the inventory was
taken of the Geo. T. Smith Purifier Co.,
the license to manufacture purifiérs, etc.,
was overlooked. lis discovery, last
Tuesday, vindicates the claims of both
the assignees and Mr. Smith, as the
former held that the patents were to be
counted among the assets, and the latter
claimed that the eompany had a perpetual
license.

Ypsilanti—S. W. Parsons & Co., lum-
ber dealers and sash, door and blind
manufacturers, who recently made an
assignment to protect their creditors,
have perfected arrangements whereby
the plant will soon be put in motion un-
der the firm name of S. W. Parsons’
Manufacturing Co. The lumber yard
formerly managed by the firm has been
sold to Geo. W. Gill, who now conducts
that branch of the business.

 

Gripsack Brigade.

W. F. Wurzburg started out on his
northern trip on Monday.

Chas. J. Slover, of Mendon, has gone
on the road for the Upjohn Pill and
Granule Co.

Dr. Josiah B. Evans is laid up again
this week and his route is being covered
by Fred. D. Ball.

Cornelius Crawford has purchased an
English pug pup of E. W. Bertram, the
Paw Paw breeder.

J. B. Josselyn, formerly with the Tel-
fer Spice Co., is now on the road for J.
H. Thompson & Co., of Detroit.

Willis P. Townsend has engaged to
travel for S. K. Bolles & Co., having
started out on his initial trip last week.

H. W. Russell, who traveled for Frank
Woodmancy, of Cincinnati, died at Lans-
ing, last Wednesday, of apoplexy, aged
60 years.

A. B. Hirth, traveling representative for
Hirth & Krause, is headed for the Upper
Peninsula, where he will spend the next
four weeks.

D. S. Hatfield, better known as ‘‘Doc.,”’
will visit the trade in the central and
eastern part of the State for W. F. & W.
M. Wurzburg.

C. N. Rapp, of the Grand Rapids Fruit
and Produce Co., has returned from a
trip of four weeks’ duration among the
eastern cities.

A. H. Cohn, of Chicago, has engaged
to travel for W. F. & W. M. Wurzburg.
He will cover the southern and western
part of Michigan.

Chas. S. Withey, better known as
‘“Doe,”’? has engaged to travel for N. K.
Fairbanks & Co., of Chicago. taking the
place of Geo. B. Peck.

A. L. Paine, the Reed City hardware
dealer, has gone on the road for Sherman
S. Jewett, of Buffalo. His business will
be continued under the management of
his sister.

Wm. Judson and Heman G. Barlow
leave to-day for a visit to Cadillac, Man-
eelona and Petoskey. The dealers in
those towns might as well throw up their
hands without further ado.

J. J. Van Leuven, for the past three
years traveling salesman for the Bissell
Carpet Sweeper Co., with headquarters
at Boston, has retired from the road and
returned to Grand Rapids to reside.

D. W. Johns succeeds E. D. Ellis as
traveling salesman for the Belknap
Wagon & Sleigh Co. Mr. Johns has had
previous experience on the road, and
will undoubtedly make his mark in his
present position.

B. F. Emery has severed his connection
witb John A. Tolman & Co., of Chicago,
and engaged to travel for Hobson &
Svanoe, of the Garden City. His terri-
tory will include all the available towns
in this State and Northern Indiana.

E. C. Groesbeck, formerly on the road
for the West Michigan Lumber Co., but
for the past four years with the Battle
Creek Knitting Co.—the past year as
manager—has engaged to travel on the
road for the Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co.,
starting out on his initial trip last
Thursday.

Chas. R. Smith, formerly engaged in
the grocery business at Cadillac, but for
several years past landlord of the
McKinnon House, at the same place, has
engaged to travel for I. M. Clark & Son,
taking the territory formerly covered by

C. H. Bayley. He started out on his
initial trip on Monday.
A Middleton correspondent writes:

‘We are told that Vanderbilt and Gould
have incomes of $5,000 per day, but
Michigan has a man who had an income
at the rate of $2,400 per day for three
consecutive hours one day last week.
The man who can make $300 in three
hours is wasting his time talking quinine
and whisky.’’

Secretary M. J. Matthews writes as
follows: ‘‘The regular monthly meeting
of the Board of Trustees of the M. C. T.
A. was held on Saturday evening, Feb-
ruary 1. The usual routine of business
presented and disposed of, and six
applications for membership were ap-
proved, making on increase in member-
ship for January of eleven.

—_——>-<.s___—
John Spring’s Joke.

An enthusiastic P. of I. was talking
loudly of his knowledge of goods in
Spring & Company’s store, the other
day, when John Spring stepped up and
enquired if he could tell the difierence in
value in the various grades of men’s
clothing.

‘““Of course I can,’”’ responded the P. of
I. ‘Any man of good judgment can do
that.”’

“That may be,’’ said the genial John,
“but itis my opinion that such a man
would be worth $10,000 a year to any
large jobbing house.”’

“Show me any two articles of men’s
wear,’ said the former, “and I will
prove my claim.”’

Samples of two grades of men’s under-
shirts were brought forward, and, after
a critical examination, they were pro-
nouned to be of uniform value.

‘Your knowledge of goods is just as I
expected it was,”’ said Mr. Spring. ‘‘One
of those shirts cost exactly double what
the other did.”’

——_—»>>—_—_

The People’s Bank is anew one at

Marine City.

Wool, Hides, Furs and Tallow.

Wools change but little if any in
price. Only the best for combing bring
good prices and are sought after, while
the heavy and poor grades are lower, if
anything, than one week ago. Foreign
markets are firm, with a slight advance.
The position of our home market can be
said to be strong on wool and weak on
cloths, with little doing and large offer-
ings from points which were supposed to
have none.

Hides had quite a flurry the past week
and advanced 4%@¥e per pound, which
brought to the surface large stocks
which were being held. This has tended
to weaken prices, and the advance can-
not be obtained readily, if at all, now.
They are duller, with stocks accumulat-
ing, as tanners are holding off. Leather
does not revive, and the market is slow.
The outlook is for a dull market, at
lower prices, until hides are better.;

Tallow is dull and lower. Reports
from all sections say lower prices are
looked for. Quotations are nominal.

Furs, as was anticipated, got a ‘‘black
eye’’ at the London sales. Skunk, coon,
rat, opossum and mink declined fully
20 per cent. and finer goods 10 to 15 per
cent. Lower prices and dull sales are
looked for in March. Prices will range
low for another year.

ne

Cadillac—Isaac Murphy has sold his
interest in the firm of Cobbs, Mitchell &
Co. to Mr. Cobbs, and the business will
be conducted in the future by the old
firm of Cobbs & Mitchell.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

pe eee

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 lessthan 25cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

7 SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS, LOCATED IN A VIL-

lage surrounded by a good country; good trade;

Address Dr. H. E. Hun-
572.

 

object of selling, practice here.

gerford, Stetson, Mich.

V ANTED—TO TRADE—A HALF SECTION UNIN-
cumbered land for stock of dry goods, groceries,

boots and shoes or hardware. Address. F. A. Thorns,

Newark, South Dakota. 579

OR RENT—GROCERY AND MEAT MARKET—GOOD
location; with or without stock. Apply at office

of Tradesman, Swift & Co.. or Telfer Spice Co. 580
Types SALE—AT ONCE—A NEW, WELL-SELECTED
stock of general merchandise in a live town and
wealthy and prosperous farming community on the
Michigan Centra) Railroad; inventory about $5,000;
annual business $28,000; new, modern, double, brick
store; best location; low rent and insurance; can re-
duce stock; reason for selling, poor health. Address,

Box 178, care Tradesman. 575
ARE CHANCE TO BUY THE ONLY DRUG STORE
in Central Michigan railroad town of nearly 400,
with fast-growing farming country; stock and fixtures
invoice $1,300; half eash, balance on easy payments;
good new fixtures; only drug, book, stationery, wail
paper, paint and jewelry stock in town; splendid
opening for young man; good reasons for selling. If
you wantit, address for particulars, L. M, Mills, 568

Wealthy Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 578
bo 1) OC STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHAN-
$10,000 dise to exchange for city property,
lumber’or shingles; we also have 3 drug stocks, 4 gro-
cery stocks, 3 hardware stocks and 3 cigar stocks for
sale or exchange. A.J. Fogg & Co.,3 & 4 Tower Block

 

 

 

 

576
} es SALE—$5,000 STOCK OF HARDWARE, STOVES,
furniture and crockery, with full stock of tools
for tin, water and gas jobs; a bargain for cash or part
cashandtime; lowrent for building. Lock box 73,
Greenville, Mich. 571.
eS. EXCHANGE FARM OF 120 ACRES OR
) village property for stock of goods, hardware
preferred. Address No. 573, care Michigan Tradesman.
573.
Eger SALE—HARDWARE STOCK, INVENTORING
about $4,000, doing a very prosperous business;
can reduce the stock to suit purchaser; best of reason
for selling. Address A. L. Paine & Co., Reed City
Mich. : 568
rr SALE—STOCK OF CLOTHING, FURNISHING
goods and hats and caps in the best city of 6,000
inhabitants in the State; other business; no trade
taken. W. R. Dennis & Co., Cadillac, Mich. 567
F YOU WANT TO EXCHANGE YOUR STOCK OF
goods for a farm, large or small, write to No. 563,
care Michigan Tradesman. 563
r= SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS, GRO-
ceries. boots and shoes, hardware and drugs,
situated in good trading point; will inventory about
$3,000; sales for past three years, $42,000; reason for
selling, owner has other business. Address No. 559,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 559
{ 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 soil, are under good state of cultivation,
and located between the cities of Grand Rapids and
Muskegon. O.F. Conklin, Grand Rapids, Mich.
fig SALE—WE OFFER FOR SALE, ON VERY
favorable terms, the F.- H. Escott drug stock, at 75
Canal street, Grand Rapids, Hazeltine & Perkins
Co. Price, $4,000.

SITUATIONS WANTED.
) =... BY REGISTERED PHAR-
macist, with six years’ experience; good refer-
Address No. 581, care Tradesman. 581

 

 

 

 

 

Drug
531

ence.
MISCELLANEOUS.
OMPLETE HISTORY OF THE PATRONS OF IN-
dustry, from the inception of the organization;
only a few copies left; sent postpaid for 10 cents per
copy. Address The Tradesman Company, G’d Rapids
ye TRAVELING MEN TO CARRY
paying side line; light samples; quick sales,
Merchants’ Specialty Co., Chicago, Ill. 577
EGIN THE NEW YEAR BY DISCARDING THE
annoying Paes Book System and adopting in
its place the Tradesman Credit Coupon. Send $1 for
sample order, which will be sent prepaid. E. A.Stowe
& Bro., Grand Rapids.
GAMPLES OF TWO KINDS OF COUPONS FOR
retailers will be sent free to any dealer who wil]
write for them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book @o.,,
Albany, N. Y. 564

 

 

 

 

DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the copartnership
heretofore existing between Leonard L, Conkey
and J. H. Goulding, under the firm name of
Conkey and Goulding, veterinary surgeons and
publishers, has been this day dissolved by the
retirement of J. H. Goulding. The business
will be continued by the said Leonard L. Con
key, who now owns all the tools, books, copy-
rights, cuts and publications of the former firm.

LEoNARD L. CONKEY,
J. H. GOULDING.

Dated at Grand Rapids, this 27th day of Janu-

ary, 1890.

 

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar is weaker and a little lower.
Pickles are firm. Fisharefirm. Canned
goods are moving off freely. Carpet
tacks are higher. Starch is weaker and
lower. Saleratus manufacturers have
advanced prices 4c, and threaten fur-
ther advances, if the following letter
from Church & Co. to the jobbing trade
is any criterion:

In consequence of the large advance
in raw materials and other supplies, we
have this day advanced the price of our
soda and saleratus in packages to 434
cents per pound for one-pound cartoons.

On April 1 we shall make a further ad-
vance of 14 cent per pound, making price
for one-pound packages 5 cents per
pound. ®

During the summer of this year we ex-
pect to still further advance the price
of our brand 4 cent per pound, with
the intention of refunding this advance
to buyers, in accordance with certain
conditions which are necessary in order
to insure fair profit to the jobber.

This last step will be taken in defer-
ence to the wishes of a large percentage
of our customers, and is delayed solely
because we desire to meet the views of
all jobbers as nearly as practicable, and
we need time to arrange equitable job-
bing prices.

——————qqq— 2 ___—_—_

It pays to handle the P & B. cough

drops.

 

 

Nelson,
Matter
a CO.

FOR

Urniture.

See what they can do
for you.

 

 

 

 

 

FEA. Wurzburg & Co,,

°

Exclusive Jobbers of

DRY GOODS, HOSIERY,

 

 

 

NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR,

 

 

 

19 & 21 SOUTH DIVISION ST.,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH.

 

 

 

Ror Sale !

THE ENTIRE STOCK OF

DRY GOODS,

Notions and Fixtures

Of John J. Timmer, Muskegon, Mich.. the ap-
praised value of which is 82,200. Will be sold
at a great bargain.

FOR FULL PARTICULARS, APPLY TO

SPRING & COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Wholesale

Jewelry

 

Messrs.

jewelry center of the world) and will soon

line of jewelry ever shown in Michigan.

in Ladies’ Lace Pins, Bar Pins, Brooches,
A full line of Children’s

ments, Chains, Bracelets, etc.

stock of Men’s Cuff and Collar Buttons, Searf Pins,

W. F. & W.M. Wurzburg have returned from Providence (the

call on the trade with the most attractive
Our line comprises all the new novelties
Cuff and Collar Buttons, Hair Orna-
Jewelry, and an elegant
Chains, Charms and Lockets

for the Dry Goods and Furnishing Goods trade.

Wir. & VW.M.

WURZABURG,

EXCLUSIVE JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF JEWELRY,

NEW YORK—
202 Broadway, Room 7.

 

Widdicomd Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Will send dealers small sample line, if desired, on approval.

 

Nothing 1s as Satistactory ”

To a merchant as selling good goods; goods that are “‘right;’? goods that, of the
Class, are the best obtainable.

That, too, is a good thing for a merchant to get in the habit of doing. Geta
reputation for handling such goods; educate your clerks to honestly talk it, believe
in it yourself; convince the customer that your goods are bought with a view to
giving him extra value for his money; that you don’t handle shoddy goods. On
that policy your trade will soon begin to increase.

The public appreciates values; It’s a good advertisement; like honesty, it
pays as an investment.

It doesn’t take long for the public to get on to the fact that your goods are
better than your neighbors.

Take Overalls,

For instance. Did you ever stop to think how poor some overalls are, how they
never fit; never ‘“‘hang’’ right; never are right; always covered with loose threads3
generally imperfectly sewed; most always small,especially through the ‘‘seat;’’ how
when showing them you never dare turn them inside out to let the customer exam-
ine them; how in fact you feel like apologizing for keeping such goods!

Then did you ever stop to think of the ideal overall ?

A garment made with as much care as any pant; cut, in reality, on the same
patterns as the highest priced pant, made with Xelled seams throughout, so that
no raw threads or edges show; so that the ‘‘wrong”’ side is as perfect as the right
side; double sewed throughout, so that they cannot rip; made ample through the
‘“‘seat:’? cut so that they always fit; perfectly made, so that they bring the buyer
back after another pair. We (Michigan Overall Mfg. Co., Ionia, Mich.) make just
such a line of goods. The trade appreciates them, we know, from the way our
orders come in; there is an indescribable something about them that makes them

go. We have an idea that that ‘‘indescribable something”’ is merit.
Would you like to try a better grade of such goods than you have been
handling? Would you like to look at them? If so, write us to send samples by

express, prepaid.

 

LION
COFFEE

Merchants,
YOU WANT THIS CABINET

Thousands of Them

It does away with the unsightly barrels so
Beautifully grained and
Inside each

  

 

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

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

Rvery Wide-Awake Merchant

Should Certainly Sell

ON, YHE KING OF COFFERS.

An Article of Absolute Merit.

It is fast supplanting the scores of inferior roasted coffees. Packed

only in one pound packages. Put up in 100-lb cases, also in cabinets of

# 120 one-pound packages. For sale by the wholesale trade everywhere.
Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States.

 

Woolson Spice Co. 4

TOLLEY), OFIO.

L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids.

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AN

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Begin the New Year Right!

By using the “Complete Business Register,”
the best arranged book for keeping a record of
Daily, Weekly and Monthly Sales, Expenditures,
etc. Call at “The Tradesman” office and inspect
the books.

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Grand Rapids.

 

 

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Grand Rapids.

 
  
  

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$1.80 Per Foot—6 Feet or Over.

We still continue to sell our
HBYMAN & CO.,

oval or square front show cases

with metal corners for

 

 

 

 

BASEMENT TO RENT.

The large, light and dry basement
under the Steele meat market, in the
McMullen block, 19 and 21 So. Division
street. Large doors in rear open even to
alley. Apply on premises to

W. G. SINCLAIR & CO.

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ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT.

Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President—C. L. Whitney," Muskegon. :

First Vice-President—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint.

Second Vice-President—M. C. Sherwood, Allegan.

Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—H. W. Parker, Owosso.

Executive Board—President; Frank Wells, Lansing;
Frank Hamilton, Traverse City; N. B.Blain, Lowell
Chas. T. Bridgeman, Flint; O. F. Conklin, Grand
Rapids, Secretary.

munittee on Insurance—O. F. Conklin, Grand Rap
ids; Oren Stone, Flint; Wm. Woodard, Owosso.

Committee on Legislation—Frank | Wells, Lansing;
H. H. Pope, Allegan; C. H. May, Clio.

Committee on Trade Interests—Frank Hamilton, Trav
erse City: Geo. R. Hoyt, Saginaw; L. W. Sprague,
Greenville. : :

Committee on Transportation—C. T. Bridgeman, Flint;
M. C. Sherwood, Allegan; A. O. Wheeler, Manistee.
Committee on Building and Loan Associations—N. B.
Blain, Lowell; F. L. Fuller, Cedar Springs; P. J. Con

nell, Muskegen.

Local Secretary—Jas. H. Moore, Saginaw.

Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

The following auxiliary associations are oper-
ating under charters granted by the Michigan
Business Men’s Association

 

 

 

 

e. 1—Traverse City B. M. A.
President. J. W. Milliken; Secretary, E. W. Hastings.

No. 2—Lowell 8B. M.A.
President, N. B. Plain; Secretary, Frank T. King.
. No. 3—Sturgis B. M.A.
President, H. 8. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jorn.

No. 4—Grand Rapids M. A.
President, E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
No. 5—Muskegon B. M. A.

President; Secretary, C. L. Whitney.
No. 6—Alba B. M. A.
President, F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.
No. 7—Dimondale B. M. A.
President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.
No. 8—EHastport B. M. A.
President, F. H. Thursten: Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.
No. 9—Lawrence B. M.A.
President, H. M. MarshaH; Secretary, J. H. Kelly.
No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A.
President, W. J. Clark; Secretary, A. L. Thompson.
No.11—Kingsley B. M. A.
President, H. P. Whipple: Secretary, D. E. Wynkoop.
Prcnse0), ee
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
President, Edson Blackman; secretary, W. H. Lockerby.
No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. '
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W. J. Austin.
No. 14—No. Muskegon B. M, A.
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
No. 15—Boyne City B. M. A.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.
No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A.
President, J. V. Crandall; Secretary, W- Rasco.
No. 17—Plainwell B. M. a.
President, Geo. H. Anderson; Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
No. 18—Owosso B. M, A.
President, Warren P. Woodard; Secretary, S. Lamfrom.
No. 19—Ada B. M. A.
President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
No. 20—Saugatuck B. M. A.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, N. L. Rowe.
No. 21—Wayland B. M. A.
President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.

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

President, John W. Hallett; Secretary, L. A. Lyon.
No. 24—Morley B. M.A. __
President, J. E. Thurkow; Secretary, W. H. Richmond.
No. 25—Palo B. M. A.
President, F. A. Hargrave; Secretary, I.S. Jeffers.
No. 26—Greenville B. M. A.
President, A. C. Satterlee: Secretary, E. J. Clark.
President, A. C. Satterlee:
No. 27—Dorr B.M. A. _
President, E. 8. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.
No. 28—Cheboygan B. M. A
President, A. J. Paddock; Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
No. 29—Freeport B. M. A.
President, Wm. Moore; Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A. i
President, A.G. Avery; Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.
ee ui
No. 31—Charlotie B. M. A.
President, Thos. J. Green; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.
No. 32—Coopersvilie B. M. A.
President, W. G. Barnes; Secretary, J. B. Watson.
No. 33—Charlevoix B. M. A.
President, L. D. Bartholomew; Secretary, R. W. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac B.M. A.
President, H. T. Johnson; Secretary, P.T. Williams.

 

No. 35—Bellaire B. M.A.
President, H. M. Hemstreet; Secretary, C- E. Densmore.
"| (Ne. 36—lthaca B. MM. A.

President, O. F. Jackson; Secretary, John M. Everden.
No. 3i—Battle Creek B. M. A.
President, Chas. F. Bock; Secretary, E.W. Moore. _

No. 38—Scottville B. M.A. |
President, H. E. Symons; Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A.
President, W. S. Willer; Secretary, F. W. Sheldon.
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A.
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Will Emmert.
No. 41—Breckenridge B.M. A.
President, C. H. Howd; Secretary, L. Waggoner.
No. 42—Fremont B. M. A.
President, Jos. Gerber; Secretary Cc. J. Rathbun.
—————_— :
No.43 Tustin BM. A,
President, Frank J. Luick; Secretary, J. A. Lindstrom.
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W- H. Smith.

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

President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.
No. 47—Flint M. U.

President, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
eS ee —
No. 48—Hubbarédston B. M. A.

President, Boyd Redner; Secretary,{W. J. Tabor.
No. 49—Leroy B. M. A.
President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A.
President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary,C. Grannis.
No. 51—Cedar Springs B. M. A.
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W- C. Congdon.
No. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A.
President, A. 8. Kedzie; Secretary, F. D. Vos.
No, 53—Bellevue B. M. A.
President, Frank Phelps; Secretary, A. E. Fitzgerald.
No. 54— Douglas B. M. A.
President, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.
Wo. 55—Peteskey B. M. A.
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. Cc. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B. M. A.
President, Silas DeLong; Secretary, Geo. Chapman.
No. 5%7—Rockford B. M. A.
resident. Geo. A. Sage; Secretary, H. S. Holden.
No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A.
President, L. 8. Walter; Secretar3 ,¢.& Plakely.
No. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
President F. S. Raymond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
No. 60—South Boardman B. M.A.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, 8. E. Neihardt.
No. 61—Hartford B. M.A.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
No. 62—East Saginaw M. A.
President, Jas. H .Moore; Secretary, C. W. Mulholland.
No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
President, C. V. Priest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
No, 64—Merrill B, M. A.
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
President, Alf. G. Drake; Secretary, C. 8. Blom.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.
President, Frank Wells; Seeretary, Chas. Cowles.
No. 67—Watervliet Bb. M. A.
President, W. L. Garrett; Secretary, F. H. Merrifield.
No. 68—Allegan B. M.A.
President, H. H. Pope; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M, A.
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
No. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
President, Wm. Boston; Secretary, Walter Webster.
No. 71—Ashley B. M. A,
President, M. Netzorg; Secretary, Geo. E. Clutterbuck.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
President, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. Webster.
No. 74—Davison M. U.
President, J. F. Cartwright; Secretary. C. W. Hurd.
No. 75—Tecumseh B. M. A.
President, Oscar P. Bills; Secretary, F. Rosacraus.
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M.A.
President, 8. 8. McCamly; Secretary, Chauncey Strong.
No. 77—South Haven B. M. A.
President, E. J. Lockwood; Secretary, Volney Ross.
No. 78—Caledonia B. M. A.
President, J. O. Seibert; Secretary, J. W. Saunders.
No. 79—East Jordan and So. Arm B. M.A,
President, Chas. F. Dixon; Secretary, L. C. Madison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 80—Bay City and W. Bay City RK. M, A.
President, F. L. Harrison; Secretary, Lee E. Joslyn.
No. 81—Flushing B. M. A.
President. L. A. Vickery; Secretary, A. E. Ransom.
No. 82—Alma B M. A.
President, B. 8. Webb; Secretary, M. E Pollasky.
No. 83—Sherwood B. M. A.
President, L. P. Wileox; Secretary, W. R. Mandigo.
No. 84—Standish B. M. A.
President, P. M. Angus; Secretary, D. W. Richardson.
No. 85—Clio B. M. A.
President, J. M. Beeman; Secretary, C. H. May.
No. 86—Millbrook and Blanchard B. M. A.
President. T. W. Preston: Secretary, H. P. Blanchard.
No. 87—Shepherd B. M. A.
t, H. D. Bent; Secretary, A. W. Hurst.

No. 88—Ovid B. M. A.
President, J. A. Andrews; Secretary, L. D. Cooley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Association Notes.

A Centerville paper contains the following:
‘A few of our merchants got together at the
court house hall Monday evening for the pur-
pose of talking up a Business Men’s Association.
The attendance was too small to do much, but
W. F. Pack was instructed to write to the head
quarters of the State Association for instructions
in regard to organizing a branch association
here. Those who are starting the movement
propose to do some vigorous pushing and will
see if something can be done to improve the
business condition of the town. Such organiza-
tions, acting judiciously and harmoniously,
have been known to accomplish much good in
other towns, and there is no reason why it may
not be the same here. Something of that kind is

certainly needed.”
<< <—_______-

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, Burleigh Bros.

Allendale—Henry Dalman.

Almont—Colerick & Martin.

Altona—Eli Lyons.

Assyria—J. W. Abbey.

Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co.

Belding—L. S. Roell.

Big Rapids—W. A. Verity,A. V. Young,
E. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk,
J. K. Sharp. ‘

Blanchard—L. A. Wait.

Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.

Brice—J. B. Gardner.

Bridgeton—Geo. H. Lainonard.

Burnside—Jno. G. Bruce & Son.

Capac—H. C. Sigel.

Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Ses-
sions.

Casnovia—Ed. Hayward, John E. Par-
cell.

Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A.
Fish.

Charlotte—John J. Richardson, Daron
& Smith, J. Andrews, C. P. Lock, F. H.
Goodby.

Chester—P. C. Smith.

Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell.

Clio—Nixon & Hubbell.

Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.

Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.

Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt.

Eaton Rapids—Knapp & Rich, H. Kosit-
chek & Bro.

Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, Stev-
ens & Farrar, John C. Devitt.

Fenwick—Thompson Bros.

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, Brown & Sehler, Volmari & Von
Keppel.

Hart—Rhodes & Leonard.

Hersey—John Finkbeiner.

Hesperia—B. Cohen.

Howard City — O. J. Knapp, Herold
Bros., E. C. Pelton.

Hubbardston—M. Cahalen.

Imlay City—Cohn Bros.

Jackson—Hall & Rowan.

Kalamo—L. R. Cessna.

Kent City—M. L. Whitney.

Laingsburg—D. Lebar.

Lake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co.,
E. F. Colwell & Son, McCartney Bros.,
Fred Miller.

Lakeview—H. C. Thompson.

Langston—F. D. Briggs.

Lansing—R. A. Bailey,
Israel) Glicman.

Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jen-
nings.

Lowell—Patrick Kelly.

McBride’s—J. McCrae.

Maple Rapids—L. S. Aldrich.

Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lep-
per & Son, Jno. Butler. Richard Butler,
John Fletcher.

Mecosta—Parks Bros.

Milan—cC. C. (Mrs. H. 8S.) Knight.

Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison.

Millington—Chas. H. Valentine.

Milton Junction—C. A. Warren.

Morley—Henry Strope.

Mt. Morris—H. E. Lamb, J. Vermett
& Son, F. H. Cowles.

Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara.

Nashville—Powers & Stringham, H. M.
Lee.

North Dorr—John Homrich.

Ogden—A. J. Pence.

Olivet—F. H. Gage.

Onondaga—John Sillik.

Orono—C. A. Warren.

Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co.

Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.

Remus—C. V. Hane.

Richmond—Knight & Cudworth.

Riverdale—J. B. Adams.

Rockford—B. A. Fish.

Sand Lake—Brayman
Frank E. Shattuck & Co.

Shelby—Angus Rankin.

Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow.

Sheridan—M. Gray.

Sparta—Dole & Haynes.

Springport—Powers & Johnson, Well-
ington & Hammond.

Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling &

J. 2.

Etta (Mrs.

& Blanchard,

Co.
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.
Trufant—I. Terwilliger.
Vassar—McHose & Gage.
Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson,
H. C. Breckenridge.

White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W.
Wiley.

Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Haver-
kate.

Williamston—Thos. Horton.

 

<3 <-__—_—
Address from President Mills.
GRAND Rapips, Feb. 3, 1890.
ee Members of the Michigan Knights of the
rip

It was with afull realization of the
responsibilities and duties of the office
you so unanimously honored me with,
and also a conviction that I would have
the active support and aggressive aid of
every member of our organization in the
furtherance of every object, or the im-
provement of every opportunity, for the
advancement or success of our. associa-
tion and its members, that I accepted
this trust. -

The first year in our history was a re-
markable one, and the earnestness and
unanimity with which the commercial
men of our State accepted our ideas and
our hopes is almost without parallel.
The first year was one of expectation—
our present year must be one of realiza-
tion. Our first important effort will be
in the matter of legislation, and it is

 

earnestly hoped that every member will

use every effort to the furtherance of the
work being done in this direction. Ask
your employer or some influential busi-
ness man to write a personal letter to
your Congressman, requesting his efforts
in behalf of the amendment to be pre-
sented to the present Congress, allowing
railroads to sell mileage to commercial
travelers at reduced rates, and also to
grantus week-end tickets. The railway
officials of our State are in a very favorable
attitude toward our fraternity and their
policy was as liberal as those of any other
State in the Union. Until the enactment
of the unjust inter-state commerce law,
every railroad in the State, with one
exception, was granting us every con-
cession we had asked for, and they ex-
press themselves as still willing to recog-
nize the justice of our claims, so soon as
suitable legislation or amended acts will
grant them the authority to do so.

I would earnestly request every mem-

honorable manner, at all times nnd under
all circumstances, the action of all com-
mittees or officers, as herein lies our
strength. Don’t leave all the work and

fact that every member has an influence
and a responsibility, and that we want
no drones in our membership, as they
are not characteristic of our profession.
Our Secretary will soon publish the com-
plete list of committees and officers for
1890 and we hope that they may be up-
held in their efforts by every member
and every name on our list be that of an
active, earnest one.
Fraternally yours,
L. M. Mrs, Pres’ t.
$1. 2s —__—_

An Ionia County Farmer on the P. ofI.
©. Grove in the Lyons Herald.

While we believe the producers ought
to organize for mutual benefit, we do not
believe they should deprive themselves
of the power they most need. The P.
of I. have organized to secure their
rights and interests. Now, there is but
one way to secure their rights and inter-
ests, and through that way they can and
do secure their wrongs, also. That way
is the law. The laws of a country show
the condition of the people, so said the
Earl of Chatham. The P. of I. have de-
prived themselves of this power in their
constitution, which says they are non-
partisan. Hence, non-political — non-
law-making.

Yet they say they will nominate their
men for office, and elect through the par-
ties who made these oppressive laws that
now burden us. That would be follow-
ing in the same foolish footsteps that the
organizations of the Wheel, the Farmers’
Allianee, the Farmers’ Union and Grang-
ers have gone. They are all non-par-
tisan, hence their weakness. Ever since
they started, prices of farm produce
have gone down, down, steadily down,
without their ever. calling a halt, until
farmers are feeding their grain to their
stock, then selling their stock for less
than the grain would have brought be-
fore they fed it. Yet Organizer McKeown
says he does not want farm produce to
come up in price, but wants to bring
other articles down in price equal to
farm produce. That must be to ruin
altogether. Would not the P. of I. bet-
ter send him home? Dealers cannot sell
goods less than cost any more than
farmers can sell their produce less than
cost. If any party is obliged to deal in
an article at so low a price that there is
no profit, it has a tendency to make the
dealer dishonest, and, if they guarantee
a dealer 10 per cent. profit, he is very
likely to become a careless buyer and
you would have to pay much more for
your goods than you would if your
dealer had to compete with his neighbor.
If there was aconstant demand for an
article, the dealer could turn it over a
great many times in a year. If he
should turn it over once a month, he
would make 120 per cent., which the P.
of I. have agreed to give him, while the
farmer turns his produce off only once a
year and very likely at only 3 per cent.
This is your contract system. Organ-
izer Stoudt says that they have and are
going to contract with the millers so they
(the millers) will be obliged to give the
P. of I. more flour for a pound of wheat
than they will anybody else. That is,
the miller must be honest with the P. of
I., but they force the miller to be dis-
honest with everybody else, even if he
wanted to be honest. If a widow should
take a grist to his mill, he would be
obliged to cheat her if he lived up to his
contract.

The P. of I. are after the middlemen.
Now, of anecessity there must be mid-
dlemen. The farm hand is a middle
man, for if the farmer would do his work
himself, he could save his wages for
profit, or sell it to the consumer that
much less.

A traveling agent selis bills of goods
to ten different merchants in one day; his
time, car fare and hotel bill have to be
added to the bills of goods. If those ten
merchants went for their goods, there
would be ten car fares, ten hotel bills
and their time that must be added to the
cost of the goods. Which is the cheaper
way to secure the goods?

What the people want is to secure
equal profits for each individual, accord-
ing to the amount of capital or labor
each one has put in the business. Things
must come to a water level, and the
things that are affecting our condition
most the P. of I. do not touch!

—_—_—__—>_ <<
P. of I. Gossip.

Detroit News, Febuary 1: ‘‘A Bliss-
field Patron’s store held an auction yes-
terday, not being able to stand the 10-
per-cent. diet longer.’’

Detroit News: ‘‘Patrons of Industry in
Genesee county are claiming that their
store managers are reaping a 20 per cent.
harvest from them, and there seems to
be trouble ahead.”’

Flint News: ‘‘The Patrons are kick-
ing on the management of the P. of I.
store at Davison, some going so far as to
declare that instead of buying goods at
cost they are fleeced out of 20 per cent.
over current prices.”’

Kent City correspondence Sparta Sen-
tinel: *“‘A delegation of P.’s of I. waited
on Holmes & Co., Tuesday, to try and
make arrangements to purchase goods of

them. Mr. Holmes told them he did not

 

consider it good policy to discriminate

ber of our association to support in every |
| Laws of the Bellaire Farmers and Labor-

responsibility for them, but consider the |

 

between his customers. He was willing
to make arrangements with them if they
would give him the privilege of selling
to all alike. They did not want to do
that at this time.’’

Flint News: ‘‘A pleasant-faced re-
former swooped down upon Arenac
county last week and organized several
lodges of the Patrons of Toil. The
bloomin’ thing was to settle all the diffi-
culties that now trouble the sons of men.
The organizer collected from $7 to $10
from each lodge and then vanished. It
transpires that he had no authority to
represent the Sons of Toil; further than
that, there is no such organization any-
where except in Arenac county.”’

Bellaire Breeze: ‘‘We have at this office
a hundred little books entitled, ‘By-

ing Men’s Association.’? This work was
done a long, long time ago, but has not
been paid for as yet. We understand
that the men who ordered this printing
are at the present time engaged in assist-
ing to organize a similar society. Would
it not be a good plan, in order that the
new arrangement may start out in a bus-
iness-like and honorable way, to see this
account settled; and, further, would it
not be an excellent plan for each member
who is indebted to any of our merchants
to call around and see that he is clear on
their books, before entering into this new
scheme too heartily.”’ i
—_—_—>>_ <> _  *
Purely Personal.

Victor Roussin, the Ludington drug-
gist, is rejoicing over the advent of a
bright boy.

A. Heyman, of the firm of Heyman &
Company, is spending a month among
friends in New York City.

Chas. E. Smith, the Fountain street
grocer, is the happy father of a newly-
arrived infant of the female persuasion.

Homer Klap, formerly with Wasson &
Lamb, is now behind the counter for
Chas. Smith, the Fountain street grocer.

F. M. Hentig, formerly engaged in
business at Casnovia, but now a grocer at
Topeka, was in town a couple of days
last week.

L. G. Clapp, the Mendon druggist, is
so proud of his new daughter that he has
sent cards to his friends announcing her
arrival on January 22.

Wm. G. Herpolsheimer and Howard
Morley, the Cedar Springs merchant,
have gone to Harriman, the embryo city
recently founded in Eastern Tennessee.

Frank E. Leonard left for New York
Monday and Frank Stone will leave for
the same place on Wednesday. They
will spend a couple of weeks, making
purchases of goods for the spring trade.

A. L. Power, the Kent City general
dealer, was in town last Saturday, on his
way to Farmington with the remains of
his wife, who died of pneumonia on
Thursday. Mr. Power’s son accom-
panied him.

Chas. W. Jennings has the sympathy
of the trade in the loss of his estimable
wife, who died last Friday and was
buried Monday. Mrs. Jennings was a
lady of many admirable qualities and
her demise will be deplored by a large
circle of friends.

—___-_—~»> +. <.—
Good-Bye to the P. of I.

The following are among some of the
merchants who have been under contract
with the P. of I., but have thrown them
overboard:

Springport—Cartright & Griffin.

Sparta—Woodin & Van Wickle.

Rockford—H. Colby & Co.

Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van
Driele & Katvis, John Cordes.

Sand Lake—C. O. Cain.

Sumner—J. B. Tucker.

Kent City—R. McKinnon.

Chapin—J. I. Vanderhoof.

Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler.

Olivet—F. H. Gage.

Nashville—Powers & Stringham.

Millin gton—Forester & Clough.

St. Louis—Mary A. Brice.

Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner.

Minden City—I. Springer & Co., F. O.
Hetfield & Son.

Clio—Nixon & Hubble.

Dimondale—Elias Underhill.

Bellevue—John Evans.

Williamston—Michael Bowerman.

Harvard—Ward Bros.

Otisco—G. V. Snyder & Co.

Howard City—Henry Henkel.

 

a
The Massage Cure.

Everybody has heard of what hap-
pened to the man who insisted on work-
ing the ‘‘“McGinty gag.” An ambulence
was found necessary. And now comes a
man, courting death, who tells how he
caught “la grippe.’? He begins in a
very low tone and stands a few feet
from the interested listener and says:

“J had a pet hen and called her Enza.
One day I was sitting by the open win-
dow and in-flew-Enza. I———’”

But he got no further. There was a
war-whoop, a wild rush for the mis-
creant, and he was doubled up like a
hinge, given fifteen minutes of first-class
massage treatment and thrown into the
snow.
<-->

A Use for the Useless.

Druggist—Mr. Mixer, what is all that
stuff down cellar?

Clerk—Oh, that’s some medicine that
there’s no sale for. It’s Drake’s Di-
gestion Provocative. I thought of get-
ting the old junk man to carry it off.

Druggist — Nonsense! Change it’s
name. Call it the Influenza Annihilator,
and we’ll get rid of it fast enough.

—_———— or

Good Words Unsolicited.
H. L. Day, druggist, Farwell: ‘Success to
THE TRADESMAN.”

 

 

Dry Goods.

 

 

Prices Current.

UNBLEACHED COTTONS.

 

 
  

 

 

 

Atlantic A........-. 744|Clifton CCC........ 6%
- Eth s. % |Conqueror XX...... 5
ee os aes 6 |}Dwight Star......... 4
. Doce: 6%] Exeter A............ 6%
Ses. secs. as 5%|Full Yard Wide..... 6%

Atlanta A.A... 6%4|Great Falls E....... 7

Archery Bunting... 444/Honest Width....... 6%

AANOLY S230. = V4 iHartford A........-- 5%

Beaver Dam AA... 5%jIntegrity XX........ 5

Berwick L..........- Gazi hing, HF... ....- 6%

Blackstone O, 32.... 5 a ee 6%

Black Hock ..::...- ic co ee, oe. s 5%

Boat, PE: ..25..-.<. 6%|LawrenceLL....... 5

(Ros. ees 6 |New MarketB...... 5g
“ OE) cb heels SMI NGG Te... 2 61.22. 2s 5%
AG ees. TiciNewton 2.0.0... .. Of
“ PL, 40 inch... 844)Our Level Best..... 7

Continental, C...... 74 \Riverside XX....... 4%

. D, 40-in 8%|Sea Island R........ 6%
- Wy, 42-Ini0 jSharonB ........... 6%
. W,45-ini1 |Top of the Heap.... 7%
ie H, 48-ini2 |Williamsville. ...... 7

Chapman...... ..-.- 4 i@omet, 40in........ 84

Cohasset A.......... TigiCarlisice “ °........ 6

Comiot. =... % \New MarketL,40in. 7%

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Amsbure.--. - .----- Glen Mills... 7

Blackstone AA..... 8 jiGold Medal... 7%

Beate AM. 3... 4%|\Green Ticket. -. Sig

Cleveland ...... ..:- © iG@reat Malis. ......... 644

COUOG.... 255...) 5. -- We One sc a, 7%

Cabot, %.--..-.---+- 6%\Just Out...... 44%@ 5

Dwight Anchor..... 9 Kane Phillip. ....-.- 7%

. < ‘shorts. 0% a 33 yeeen 7%

Hdwards. ..:..>....- 6 {Lonsdale Cambric..10%

Empire.......-..---- q. \Lonsaale...:.. .-...- 8h

Marywel... .-.-..-.. Mid @icsem..-) .. 54

Fruit of the Loom.. 8%|No Name............ T%

Witenyille..... ..:- 742|\Oak View..... eee 6

Hirat Prize.... 2... 7 (Our Own. .. 2-22. 5%

Fruit of the Loom %. 8 |Pride of the West...12

Warrmount..-.. ..--- eo Rossing. 00... :. 7%

Pull Vaime... 2.3... 6x Sunhient. 2c... 4%

Geo. Washington... 8%|Vinyard............. 8%

HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
GCapet. 5 =... : 7%4| Dwight Anchor..... 9
Barwell... -:-. 2... 734|
UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.

remone N22... 2 --. 5144(Middlesex No. 1....10

Hamilton N...-..--- 6% " ee
- Re ce eae < . mo eee

Middlesex AT.....- 8 . < 7.2.38
nea 9 de < 3) 2
ei No. 25.... 9

BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.

Hamilton N_.....-.- 74|Middlesex AA...... 1

Middlesex P T...... 8 ne Soe 12
ie A Ee: 9 AG: 13%
me A so 9 - 2:12. 17%
- ye = 10% _ eos. a 16

DRESS GOODS.
tianien = --- S (Namelcas -... | | 20

ee oe 9 es 25
Ce 10% ed 27%

GG Cashmere...... 21 et ee a ce 30

INaMmelesS...- ...-... 16 cates e 3214
Se: 18 | ee 35

SATINES.

Simpson... -------- Qo (pemial. 8k. 10%
cee ee ceo a5: (Blaek 20.6. c: 2... 91%
Ce 16 a 10%

@ocechee .......<.- 10%

CORSET JEANS.
Biddetord........--. 6 |Naumkeagsatteen.. 7%
Brunswick. .... .--- G56 ROCK port....:. . .... 6%

PRINTS.
Alien, staple.......- 6 |Merrim’ckshirtings. 5%
on fanley:-...-.: 6% Reppfurn . 8%
fr £Oben.....--- 64|Pacifie fancy........ 6

American fancy.... 6 | PODER. 620205: 6%

Americanindigo.... 6%|Portsmouth robes... 6

‘American shirtings. 544|Simpson mourning... 6%

Arnold - 64 . greys ... 4. 6

cece 2 %
“ Jong cloth B.10% solid black, 6%
- is “ ©. 8%|Washington indigo. 6%
Turkey robes.. 7%

« 6century cloth 7 “
India robes.... 7%

*  goid seal _-- 1036) |

« Turkey red..10%| ‘‘ plain T’ky X % 8%
Berlin soids._.-.. -- 54} * - oe
oil blue... .-- 6%| ‘* Ottoman Tur-

«<  «¢ sreen .:.. 6441 Keyred.:.......... 6
Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Martha Washington
“cr

madders... 6
Eddystone fancy... 6

Turkey red %..... TY,
Martha Washington '

 

 

Hamilton fancy. ... 64%} Turkey red........ 9%
- staple.... 6 |Riverpoint robes.... 5
Manchester fancy.. 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6%
Le new era. 6% . gold ticket
Merrimack D fancy. 6%} indigo blue....... 10%

TICKINGS.

 

 

 

   

 

  

 

 

 

 

Amoskeag AC A....18%|A C A............... 2%
Hamilton N_.....--- %7%4|\Pemberton AAA....17
ce .. Sic York......- 1... 10%
< Awning. 11 |Swift River... _- 6%
Mermer. 0.2. ---5-.. S (Pearl Rivyer......... 12%
Hirst Prize......-..- fe, Waren. :. 3... 14
DEMINS.
Amoskeag...... .-..1244(Jafirey......-. ...... 11%
es 9 0z o45¢|Vancaster.... 5 12%
Lawrence, 90z...... 13%
. No. 220... .13
. No. 250....11%
. ‘ No. 280....10%
COTTON DRILL.

Atianta, 3). 2... --- 6% |Stark.............5- 7%

Bbow.. ... .--. ye q

GClnton Ko 21 2. 10

GINGHAMS.

Glenarven.......---. 6%|Lancaster, staple... 6%

Laneashire......-.-- 6% e fancies .... 7

Normandic.....-..-- 8 . Normandie 8%

Renfrew Dress.....-. § |Westbrook...5...... 8%

Toil du Nord........ LO cis 10%

Amoskeag ...... ..-- (CC a 6%

. sar... 10'4| Bampton.... ....... 6%

Persian) lu. 8%|Windermeer........ 54

Ee 6%|Cumberland.... .... 4%

Warwick... ....-. Bignnesem.:2 0s. es 4%

CARPET WARP,
Peerless, white...... 184%4|Peerless, colored. ..21
GRAIN BAGS.

Azmoskeae.........-- a7 [Valley City ......--. 16

Harmony .... ...---- 16 Gcerria 22.60... 16

Stark. .-:. 2 oe eaeree 14

American... 3... a7 (pereap.......... ... 11%

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile Hind....45 |Barbour’s...-......- 88

Caste do a b.:-...: 45° |Marsitait a... ... 2s: 88

Holyeke...........-- 2214

KNITPING COTTON.
White. Colored. White. Colored.

No. 6... 2.23 a8 iNoO. 14....... 37 42

. 8... ... a4 sot: iG 38

. we 35 40 & 48.-....80 44

«12... 36 a. OU .-40 45
CAMBRICS.

Sister... 2... .-.....- 4%|Washington......... 4%

White Star......... 441Hed Oross..........- 4%

Kid Glove..........- 4x6i\Lock wood... -..... 4%

Newmarket......... Se Woods... .... ...- 434

Edwards. ........._- 4%|Brunswick ......... 456

RED FLANNEL.

Pireman...... ....- Soret We -----es e 22%

Creedmore........-- Seg ee 32h,

Talpot aM... 6. © jf ah Mee 35

Nameless...... ..-.. 2734)|Buckeye.... ........ 32%

MIXED FLANNEL.

Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17%

Union Ho)... Sac Westorn Wo ...-....- 18%

Windser....-. .....- 1Ste)D HP... ... es. 8%

6 oz Western........ St  |Plushing XXxX.....- 23%

Bunion B......e.:. 2214|Mamitoba........... 23%

DOMET FLANNEL.
Nameless ..... 8 @ | ee 9 @10%
ce 8%@10 ey 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.
Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.
9% 9 914/13 3 13

10% 10% 10%4|15 15 15

11% 11% 114%4)17 17 Biv

12% 12% 1244|20 20 20

DUCKS.

Severen, 8 0Z.......- 9144|Greenwood, 8 oz....11%

Mayland, 80z....... 11 |West Point,80z.... 9%

Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 9% - 00z....10%

WADDINGS.
White, doz... : 2... 20 Be bale, 40 doz....87 25
Colored, doz...-..-: 25
SILESIAS.

Slater, Iron Cross... 8%4{Pawtucket.......... 10%
= ited Cross... 9 Pandie............-- 9
AE FRCAG ch cs sais OSGI BOGIOFG:... . 50. 5255 10%
“ Best AA..... 12%4jValley City......... 10%

CORSETS.

Coraline... 25.0... :. 9 50/Wonderful........ $4 75
Chines 5.2... 9 OO) Brighton... -....... 4%
SEWING SILK.

Corticelli, doz....... 85 {Corticelli knitting,

twist, doz. .42 per %oz ball...... 30
50 yd, doz. .42

 

HOOKS AND EYES—PER GR

 

 

oss.

No 1BVk & White..10 (No 4 Bl’k & White..15
ee = S12 b ee .-20
eae +. 12 wee : +220

PINS.

No 2-20, M C......-50 No 415, F 3%...... 40

« 3-18;8 C....---- 45 ’
COTTON TAPE.

No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20
es - iD oO re ie
6 . i | e ae

SAFETY PINS.
ING Sooo ee oe 2 INGos.. 2-5. co 36
NEEDLES—PER M.

A. James.........-.. 1 50|/Steamboat.... ...... 40

Crowely’s....... ---- i 35\Gold Eyed.......... 1 50

Marshall’s........... 1 00)

TABLE OIL CLOTH.

5—4....2 25 6—4...3

a 9 6—4...2 9%
ee 0) :

 

RUPE |

ROP I

 

The rope market is high and advancing, and the
price at present is as follows:

SISAL -
MANILLA ~

- 13c pound.
- 16c pound.

If you cannot stand these prices, we have in

"=" stock what is called

New Process Rope

Which we guarantee is equal to Sisal.

following sizes and quote:
1-4, 5-16,3-3 -
7-16 and5-8 -

WiLL, YOU TRY IT?

We have the

- 9 1-2c pound.
- 9c pound.

 

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

Wholesale

10 and 12 Monroe St.,

Hardware,

33, 35, 37, 39 and 41’Louis St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

HARDWARE.

 

Prices Current.

 

These prices are for cash buyers, who

 

 

 

  

pay promptly and buy in full packages.
AUGURS AND BITS. dis.
Ess ence cence ae 60
COGS oe a ee sen cee - 40
Jennings’, GENUINE. .....-.-. ee eee ee eee eee 25
Jennings’, imitation ...........----++. +--+ 50&10
AXES.
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........++++-++- 8 7 00
. DB branze.............-.... 11 00
= S 6. S See... 8 50
° eB Steet 13 00
BARROWS. dis
PGRIPORE 0. oo ose oe ace we eee eens twienee a> $ 14 00
Garden |. ........5.-......-- 35 oo eo 2 net 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
EC ee ee 50&10
Carriage new list.-....-...---:ee sees ee eee ees 70
Plow 40&10
Sleigh ShOC...... .-..--eee essere eect ee ee tees 7
BUCKETS.
Well, plain............---.22sceeee cess ee eees $3 50
Well, swivel..........2--------220e+ oeeee eee 4 00
BUTTS, CAST. dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....... st peter eeeeeees &
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin........--..+ esse ee eeee eee 60&10
Wrought Table............-.se eee eee eee eres 60&10
Wrought Inside Blind.........-.+-++++++++++ 60&10
Wrought Brass...........---eeeeereeee cere %5
Blind, Clark’s.......-------s-ceeseserecerees 70&10
Blind, Parker’s...........2sceceerreeeeececes 70&10
Blind, Shepard’s ........-..+-seeeseeeeeeeres 70
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85......--..- 40
CRADLES.
Grave. te dis. 50&02
CROW BARS.
ant Steel... .4. 2.6. perb 5
CAPS.
Bly 5130. .-...-. .-perm 65
Hicks GF... . 60
ee... Soe 35
Maeeee 60
CARTRIDGES.
Bim Mire _............._---:.----. 5. 50
@onted! Wire... 2. dis. 25
CHISELS. dis
Soeket Wimmer 26 70&10
Ne gy i) 70&10
Socket COrmer.........2.-2e ee eee ee eeee ee eens 70&10
Socket Siete 70&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..............s+06- 40
COMBS. dis.
Curry, LAWrenCe’s.......--...sseresceeeeree 40
Hatenidas -(... 065. s 25
CHALE.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 28
“ 14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ................ 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........... 25
Cold Holled, 14x45... -.... 5... .. 5s 5. 25
Bocas... 27
DRILLS. dis.
Morees Bi Stocks....-......-.........-.... 40
Taper and straight Shank................... 40
Morse’s Taper Shank...........-....+.++6 : 40
DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound ...............-20 eee 07
Large sizes, per pound................- sees. 6%
ELBOWS.

Com 4 pioee, Gin... -....- doz. net 75
Corrugated .......... 2. ee eee eee ee dis. 20&10&10
AGMEOING. oe oe dis. 40&10

EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26..............-- 30
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824; 3, 330 ......-.........2-- 25
FiLEs—New List. dis.
Possiow ss .........--..--. 60410
Now America. .......--.....-.............. 60&10
Melcogisgn se. 22... ee... 60&10
Molere 2... ee. 50
Heller’s Horse Rasps............-ccccecceees 50
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2 and 26; 27 2
List 1 3 14 15 18
Discount, 50&10
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............-. 50
HAMMERS.
Maydole & C0.’8......---+2. seeeeeeeeeee dis. 2%
ee ee dis. 2
Wortes & PimmipS.....0...0--.... 0.0505. dis. 40&10
Mason's Solid Cast Stecl................. 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30¢ 40&10
HINGES,
Gate, Clark's, 1,2,3.......--...........- dis.60&10
ee per doz. net, 2 50

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

  
   

 

TOHSOR eae we cl cc 3%

Serew Hook and Eye, %4.........:.....i. net 10

se “= 7 ee eee ee es oa tae net 8%

se < - ee net 7%

- i - Mecca. net 7%

Mira OHO Ec ee ax
HANGERS. dis.

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

Champion, anti-friction.................... 60&10

ldder, wood track ---...-..--. s,s 40

HOLLOW WARE

ieee cw site ceeseeace 60

SS eS ee 60

Se 60

Gray enameled...... Dds ie ala cisieae cass aie as 40&10

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

Stamped ‘Tin Ware. 00.0.0... 0.22, new list 70&10

Japanned Tin Ware.................---.---- 25

Granite iron Ware ............... new list 3334 £10

HORSE NAILS.

AgSable 00 dis. 25&10@25&10&05

Pine a dis. 05

WNortnwontern... 5.00. dis. 10&10
KNOBS—New List. dis,

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55

Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55

Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55

Door, porcelvin, trimmings................. 55

Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70
LOCKS—DOOR, dis.

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55

Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’8...........--..-++- 55

RO ee ee a ae 55

DEMIR oo te ce 55
LEVELS. dis.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 70

MATTOCKS.

DOO OO oo oie cscs aa caret ens $16.00, dis. 60

ME BVO cs eesti o. oe $15.00, dis. 60

TRG poo cit eg as Cee ake as $18.50, dis. 20&10.

MAULS. dis.
Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handied........ 50
MILLS. dis
@Goffec, Parkers Co7s i006). 0 “40
sc P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40
s¢ Landers, Ferry & Clowk’s.......... x 40
 MGCTOEING oe P]
MOLASSES GATES.
Sieber s Peer os qos10
Stebbin’s Genuine.............ccc cece cece, COG10
Enterprise, self-measuring.................. %

NAILS
Sace! Ville, HARE. ec 2%
Wire Hanis, PARE. 6. 62 le a eee

 

 

Advance over base: Steel. Wire.
‘ Base
10
20
30
35
40
50
65
a... ee 60 90
3 A SR ae SS ens ; 00 1 50
ee wea d os 2
PG ce 1 BD 2 00
Case 10 60 90
- : De ical cia ee oe el le 5 1 00
BF ht Shy sia gl li gS tee
Ph) ee en = i 0
c ; a i 00 1B
mae oo | oe
in : Ses a Se | 1 00 90
con ee
PLANES.
Ohio Tool Co.'s; taney ois. ew
REISE Beene @50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, Pate @30
Bench, fir 1ality........ NG ieee
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... &10
e ‘ PANS.
ro, ACM i
Common, polisiied . die 0
RIVETS. dis,

Tron and Tinned... 40

Copper Rivets and Burs.............0000005. 50

a. 2 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘

or Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20

‘B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 920
Broken packs %c per pound extra,

ROPES.

Sisal, 4 inch and larger ...... 2.52... 14
Mania 0000. ga ae
SQUARES.

Steel and Iron..... : Seco ee 1s
Megiand Bevelse 0 60
TE ee TT ene
SHEET IRON.

Com. ,
Nos. 10 to ee 88.10
OS 1 eae 420 3 10
mos, Iteel es . 420 3 20
INGS Stes ee 42 3 3
MOS, 2960 26000... 44 3 35
i 60 3 45

we 4
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, ove
wide not less than 2-10 ane oo
SAND PAPER.

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a

  

  

 

eet QCCC 19, 86 dis. 40&10
SASH CORD.
SHVeE DAG, WHC A list 50
“ec “i 55
“ce
eae . oS
_ White @ . 35
Discount, 10.
SASH WEIGHTS.
Solid Mves c eee per ton 825
a. SAWS, dis.
ca 25@25:
i Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... *
- Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 50
‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, perfoot.... 30
‘© Champion and Electric Tooth X
Cute. por 1008... oo
TRAPS.
Steel Game ea
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70
Mouse, Cheker 18¢ per doz.
mouse, dciusian... $1.50 per doz.
WIRE.
at ee ns
nmosiod Marke 70
Cappered Market...........__. anes"
Tinned Markee eae
Cappered Spring Steel... os il 50
Barped Wence, galvanized... 0...) 0.6... 4 00
. Persee nc. 3 40
WIRE G00DS. dis.
70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes............... “Fog 1oad0
WRENCHES. dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Coes Genuine |...) 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........ Wt)
Coe’s Patent, maticabie........ 0.5... Lao 75&10
MISCELLANEOUS.
Me ba ne
Pampe, Cite cee vi)
Seroews, New laat oil. st .. a ao 50
@acters, Bed and Pigie...........5...5.. 50&10&10
Papers, MIMOTICAM 8. eo 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods...... 65
METALS,
a. Pi¢ TIN.
Pe EAPO ee
Pie Bee Se
ZINC.
Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound.
GOR POUNG COREA ls 6%
TE OT ee ie ee 7
SOLDER.
De nee eas eat nine cee. ae
JOxGre WIDINE oe

] 13
The prices of the many other qualities ‘|
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.

 

em ANTIMONY.
NOONE ie ius ies bina lic dial ai ita a has a
Pralletee. se. — — is
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10n14 FO, Clereoal -¢ oo... cee cc cue ce 36 60
14x20 IC, ee eG 6 60
10x14 IX, ee mtewee cess bce ce. 8 35
14x20 IX, a A eS ne te Gao
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
90x14 IC, Charcoal... oo. $6 00
14x20 IC, Ce a sla bv eiea aad weldce cute at 6 00
10x14 IX, ec eedeye de tesa ile, 7 50
14x20 IX, eee dada) ee eee eas care 7 50
Each additional X on this grade 81.50.
/ ROOFING PLATES
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The Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State.

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

 

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

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1890.

 

 

THE BUTTERMAKERS’ FIGHT...

Recent conventions of farmers and
dairymen have declared their purpose
to urge upon Congress the increase of
the tax upon oleomargarine. This is
not, however, in line with the policy of
the Republican platform, which is to-
ward the abolition of the internal reve-
nue system in order to reduce the sur-

plus. I1t was thought that the tax al-
ready imposed weuld greatly cripple
that industry and remove its formid-

able competition with legitimate but-
ter, but it hardly proved a_ serious
check. The production and consump-
tion of oleo have kept a growing pace.
It has insisted upon holding a large
position in the markets, and its rivalry
with butter isas far from extinction as
ever, apparently. Regular butter has,
of course, also increased greatly in
quantity, and held its value well. But
it holds its own chiefly by virtue of the
tax upon the degenerate substitute. The
fats that make the latter are cheap, and
it costs but little to make oleo. When a
plant is once established it can turn out
the stuff at but trifling expense above
the raw material, while with regular
butter the labor is the great item of cost.
The apprehension is natural with the
farmers that the increase of oleomargar-
ine production will continue and make
ita formidable obstacle in the way of
their industry, if it is not already such.
The fact that the oleo product is in-
creasing shows that there is money in
its, manufacture,*and, it is believed, very
large profits. There is a good deal of
capital involved in the business, and a
strong influence will be brought to bear
upon Congress to defeat the proposed
legislation in the interest of the bovine
buttermakers. It is stated, however,
that there are but twenty-three oleo
factories in the United States, and it
would seem absurd to suppose that they
eould stand in the way of the millions
of buttermakers. But they operate
easily asa unit, and great corporations
are generally able to secure powerful
aid at Washington. And they do not
stand alone. Oleo has friends among
dealers and consumers. An illustration

of this has been shown in Massachu-
setts. The farmers in that State have
been for years struggling for the pas-

sage of a State law adverse to the cheap
article. They are mostly in the western
part of the State, and the manufacturing
centers are chieflyin the east. The
towns against the country has been
nearly the division. The nearest the
farmers have come to success was a tie
in the Senate.24 They met in convention
recently, and organized a league pledged
to disregard allfparty lines, and both
in State and Congressional elections sup-
port only those who will legislate
against Fthe manufacture and sale of
oleo. Their politics will now be war
upon the oleaginous compound. Leagues
on this basis will be extended all over
that and other butter-making States in
the East.2 The resolution adopted de-
clares that they propose to reward their
friends and put retribution on the track
of their enemies on this question, and
slippery politicians who dodge the vote
will be classified as such. This looks
very much as if they mean business.
But there is only one oleo factory in
Massachusetts, with a production of
12,000,000 pounds, with seven or eight in
Rhode Island and Connecticut that turn
out perhaps as much more. The great
center of production is Chicago. The
fats are more cabundant there, and the
aggregate of the product is enormous.
It is shipped from there all over the
world. It will not be altogether an easy
matter for the opponents of oleo to se-
cure stronger flegislation on the subject
from Congress. The matter was ignored
by the President.

THE NAVY WE NEED.

Mr. Hale’s bill for the increase of the
navy brings up the unsettled question as
to what kind of ships we mean to build.
The bill provides for the construction of
four iron-clad line-of-battle-ships of the
kind supposed to constitute the strength
of the navies of Europe, and, therefore,
very different in type from the armed
eruisers we have been constructing thus
far. To this Senator Chandler offers his
opposition, on the ground that the utility
of ships of that kind is still an unsettled
problem. There certainly has been no
great naval war since they began to be
constructed, and their continual misad-
ventures -even on parade bring their
fighting efficiency into grave doubt. Mr.

Chandler urges that the business of con-
structing line-of-battle-ships of heavy
armor is still in the experimental stage,

 

and that every ship of the kind has,

been superseded within ten years after
its being begun. He enumerates the un-
solved problems which their construction
presents, and suggests that we may gain
much by waiting until other nations have
solved some of these at their own cost.
At any rate he would have us undertake
these the last of all, and would devote
our ship-yards to the construction of
cruisers, monitors, gun-boats and other
vessels, of whose utility we are quite
certain. And he meets the suggestion
that we need these armed monsters for
the defense of our harbors by reminding
the Senate that they draw twenty-five
feet of water, and, therefore, could enter
very few of our harbors—certainly not
that of New York.

Our judgment goes with Mr. Chandler
rather than with the majority of the
Committee which reported Mr. Hale’s
bill favorably. His experience as Secre-
tary of the Navy counts for something,
and his arguments are reinforced by the
constant eomplaints from England as to
the unwieldiness and slowness of these
costly floating fortresses. We are safe in
following the line of naval construction
on which we have begun, and we have
not yet an adequate number of the
lighter vessels. Along with these we
should be constructing an effective sys-
tem of coast defenses, such as would
place our cities out of the reach of the
heavy guns carried by the navies of
Europe. These we need, at any rate.

 

 

The recent defalcation of the salesman
of the Clover Hill cheese factory, in Al-
legan county, points a moral too fre-
quently considered by our’ farmer
friends. Had the man Williams been a
cashier of any organization of business
men, he would have been compelled to
give satisfactory bonds to double the
amount of money he would ordinarily
be permitted to handle; but farmers, as
a rule, are not thorough enough in such
matters, and take chances which fre-
quently result in annoyance and _ loss.
If they patterned after business men
more in such matters, it would be to their
advantage all around.

No class of property owners is more
ready to invoke the protection of the
laws against violence to their posses-
sions than are the railroads. None are
more ready to take the law into their
own hands, when it is not a struggle with
striking train-hands, but a contest of
corporation with corporation. At Bay
City, a fresh case has occurred in which
the main force of locomotives was em-
ployed by an older line to drive off the
engines of a new and competing line.
Locomotives were hurried up from all
quarters, and people in thousands gath-
ered to witness the battle. But, fortu-
nately for itself, the younger road had
taken such measures as prevented its
engines being driven from its own
tracks. Do the managers of these roads
suppose their workmen can be used for
such lawlessness as this and yet retain
proper views of the majesty and the in-
violability of the law ?

The need of an International Congress
for this continent finds ample _ illustra-
tion, while it is still in session, in the
trouble between the San Blas Indians
and the United States of Colombia. If
we chose to ride the high horse in Lord
Salisbury’s style, we might make trouble
and humiliation to our sister republic by
taking these Indians under our protec-
tion, as they ask of us, and that for reasons
just as good as any alleged for the eccu-
pation of the Zambezi Valley by the En-
glish. The subjection of these Indians
to the authority of Colombia has always
been very nominal; long established and
customary commercial rights have been
violated by the custom-house authorities
in seizing on merely technical grounds
our ships which were carrying goods to
them. ‘Their location on the Isthmus of
Panama would make their annexation to
America as desirable as that of the Zam-
bezi Valley is to the British Empire.
Yet nobody in this country will propose
seriously to invade the rights of the
Colombian republic for these reasons,
and the Congress furnishes the best op-
portunity for invoking the friendly offices
of our other neighbors to secure the re-
moval of the grievances, which have led
these Indians to revolt and to hoist our
flag.

The rejection of the Socialist bill by
the German Reichstag is of importance
as indicating that there are limits which
Bismarck and his imperial master may
not pass in encroachment on the personal
liberty of the people. For years past the
Reichstag has passed at every session the
severest coercion laws for the suppres-
sion of the Social Democratic party, by
breaking up meetings, putting down
newspapers and choking off discussion in
every way, besides imprisoning its lead-
ers without trial, or sending them into
exile. It was to this last measure that
we owe a large number of the enemies of
our own social order, who have come
from Germany to help to overthrow gov-
ernment and property in America. The
proposal to convert this temporary legis-
lation into a permanent feature of Ger-
man law was what the majority stum-
bled at. The Catholics joined with the

 

Liberals in refusing to put this enormous
power into the hands of the government,
first rejecting the clause which author-
ized the banishment of Socialists and
then throwing out the entire bill. The
combination thus formed may be broken
by concessions to the Catholics, or rather
to the papacy and the priesthood, which
may issue orders to the Catholic repre-
sentatives, as in the last general election.
And there is no security that Herr Wind-
horst and his following will not eat their
own words, as they did in the matter of
the Army bill, and forego their duties to
their country out of regard to the wishes
of the head of their church. But the
possibility of such combinations in the
Reichstag is a permanent menace to the
system on which Germany has been gov-
erned ever since 1867.

 

The Merchant’s Self-Respect.
From the American Merchant.

There is much in the work and condi-
tion of the merchant to command his
self-respect. We use the term merchant
comprehensively, to include the manu-
facturer; for, while the merchant may
not be a manufacturer, the manufacturer
is a merchant.

The successful merchant has ability.
Chance and luck are excluded as they
are from mathematics. What business
succeeds without the ability of industry,
punctuality, correctness, calculation,
judgment, tact and management? In
many cases these are all required in a
high degree; and sometimes there is
also required extensive and _ precise
knowledge of geography, history, civil
government, political economy, the con-
dition of peoples, mechanics, chemistry
and many other things that are beyond
the imbecile. And this is not alone true of
the great manufactory, or the exporting
or importing house. The head of a
country store carrying many lines of
goods, from a cambric needle toastove or
lumber wagon, from a spool of cotton to
a Lyons velvet, has need of many of
these abilities and often shows them.

He brings within reach of his neigh-
bors the products of every land, and all
kinds of factories, to meet their needs,
minister to their comfort, gratify their
tastes and multiply their resources.

Thus he is an important agent in the
improvement of society. Those aspects
of civilized life appearing in buildings
and housekeeping, and all other such
circumstances of home life have their
connection with him. He is an essential
factor in the transition from the log
house or ‘‘dug-out’’ to the mansion;
from bare floors to handsome earpets;
from slab benches to upholstered furni-
ture: from wooden dishes to china and
silver; from primitive coarseness and
searcity to civilized plenty and elegance,
including books, music and pictures.

And while commerce is not set as a
didactic teacher of virtue and opponent
of vice, it is an important servant of our
moral welfare in the respects mentioned.
For, if luxury corrupts, scarcity starves,
and the moral character seems to require
material plenty and convenience for its
best development.

Thus the merchant stands most re-
spectably among men, and he should re-
spect himself, since, if his business
brings him wealth, much more it serves
his neighbors. Such a sense of his dig-
nified relations to the public will relieve
business of much of its drudgery and
irksomeness, and will save the business
man from narrowness and meanness. If
he appreciates his position, he will not
degrade it by conduct inconsistent with
these views. Especially will he be up-
right in purpose, principle and conduct,
and will cherish his self-respect as his
principal profit.

212 _
The Only One.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway is the only line running solid
Vestibuled, Electric Lighted and Steam
Heated trains between Chicago, Milwau-
kee, St. Paul and Minneapolis.

The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway is the only line running solid
Vestibuled, Electric Lighted and Steam
Heated trains between Chicago, Council
Bluffs and Omaha.

The berth reading lamp feature in the
Pullman Sleeping Cars run on these lines
is patented, and cannot be used by any
other Railway Company. It is the great
improvement of the age. Try it and be
convinced.

For further particulars apply to the
nearest coupon ticket agent, or address
A. V. H. Carpenter, General Passenger
Agent, Milwaukee, Wis., or Harry Mer-
eer, Mich. Pass. Agent, Detroit, Mich.

——__—_ > ___

The Book the Drummer Reads.
From the Indianapolis Journal.

‘Probably very few travelers, as they
affix their signatures to the register, no-
tice the fact that nine-tenths of the best
hotels in the country are supplied with
such books by the same firm,’’? remarked
a Grand Hotel clerk yesterday. ‘‘Such
is the case, however, and, what is more
to the point, the registers do not cost the
hotel a cent. They are supplied gratis
by a firm in Chicago, who makes its
money—and lots of it, too—from the ad-
vertising printed in the books. All that
is asked of the hotels is a contract that
they will use no other registers than
those supplied by the firm mentioned,
and it furnishes good books, with a fine
quality of paper.

$$$ __——

Sizes to Suit.

From the Chicago Tribune.

Salesman in shoe store (deferentially)
—I hardly think a No. 2, ma’am, will —

Customer (with some asperity)—That
is the size I always wear, sir. If you
have none, I will go elsewhere.

Salesman (equal to the occasion)—I
was speaking of the ordinary No. 2.
Here is a fine grade of shoe we call the
amplified No. 2.

(Sells her a pair of fives.)

9 <a

A Combination on Crackers.
Chicago parties are organizing a cracker
combine on a capitalization of $5,000,000.
They propose paying $3,500,000 for the
leading cracker manufactories of the
country and have $1,500,000 for a work-
ing capital.

 

CHUNKS.
Written for Taz TRADESMAN

Mrs. Healy—Good-mornin’, Mistress
Burke. How are ye, and how’s the old
man ?

Mrs. Burke—La!
The old man’s dead.

Mrs. Healy—Du tell!
happen ?

Mrs. Burke—It was only this week a
Monday. He’d be’n ailin’ fer some
time, and kinder drapped away gradual

like.
Mrs. Healy—Laws! but you strike me

allof a heap. What did the doctor
eall it ?

Mrs. Burke—I didn’t have no doctor.
He kep’ a failin’ along and failin’ along,
an’ his appertite kep’ a gittin’ poorer ’n’
poorer, till the fust thing I knowed he
couldn’t eat pie, an’ when a Burke gits
so’s’t he goes back on pie, Mis’s Healy,
ye might jess es well hang crape onto the

door-knob an’ order his cawfin.
et &

There are two things which a grocer
should never permit to get out of balance

—his seales and his ledger.
ee &

The editor of a local paper remarks
that the influenza patients in his locality
are beginning to leave out the quinine and
take their whiskey straight. But there
is nothing strange about that. The fel-
lows who swore off January 1 have had
just about time enough to thoroughly
repent of their rashness, and had it not
been for the quinine dodge, would have

been back to their old tipple days ago.
<— 2 oe

There, there, Dom, old boy. Don’t
ery, Dom. Console yourself, Dom, with
the thought that you are not the first
Pedro by a long way, Dom, that has

been the cause of a thundering row.
- +

That singular literary acrobat, Frank
R. Stockton, has just published a new
yarn which he calls ‘‘The Stories of the
Three Burglars.’? Next thing we shall
know, if Stockton does not tumble to
himself pretty soon, he will be writing a
sequel to it entitled ‘‘The Three Story
Burglar.’’

Hain’t you heerd ?

When did it

a oe

Mr. William Nye visited the falls at
Niagara last summer, and, as he stood in
rapt contemplation of this colossal work
of the Almighty, he forgot for a time that
he was Bill, the humorist. But as he
turned to leave and his identity came
upon him with a dazzling rush, he was
heard to murmur, as though speaking to
himself: ‘‘Oh, water fall was there, my
countrymen !”’

* & &

The Prince of Schwarzbourg-Rudol-
stadt has just died, yet he must have
been a tough fellow, for he carried that
name around with him for fifty-two
years.

=o oe

“The’ hain’t no good o’ argifyin’ with
a tax collector,’’ remarked the sage, as
he slipped a handful of nails into his
overcoat pocket. “The’ hain’t no good
into it, fer the more ye talk the wuss ye
be off. Now, I tried this year to argy
the ’sessor outen my dorg tax. He’d
be’n to my place a couple o’ times, ’n’
the las’ time I thort I had him jess about
convinced; but while I was talkin’ with
him in the front room, a constyble
slipped into the stable an’ hitched onto
my yearlin’ heifer to settle the bill.’’

Gro. L. THURSTON.
—_—_ > +4
Insurance Agents Organizing for Pro-
tection.
From the New York Commercial Bulletin.

The fire insurance agents of Pennsyl-
vania, in associating themselves together
for the purpose of preventing incursions
in their territory by their companies,
have made a very commendable move,
and by coupling the prosecution of un-
represented companies with the rebuk-
ing of the represented companies, they
secure the support of many who might
otherwise withhold their sympathy.

Nothing is more exasperating to a
faithful agent, who labors earnestly for
the company he represents, than to dis-
cover that, without consulting him, a
policy has been written upon property in
his territory by his company, particu-
larly when that policy covers a risk
which he has declined either on account
of physical or moral hazard, or because
the assured will not pay the tariff rate
which the agent is in honor bound to
secure. More than one self-respecting
agent has returned his supplies upon un-
earthing such a state of affairs, and
when tne move of the Pennsylvania
agents is noised abroad among the fire
insurance agents of other States, it is
very probable that there will be similar
associations formed elsewhere, particu-
larly if the Pennsylvania Association
succeeds in achieving the objects of its
formation. A number of the most suc-
cessful companies steadfastly refuse to
write policies over the heads of their
agents, no matter how influential the
New York broker may be who solicits
the acceptance of the risk. Such a pol-
icy not only serves to increase the
agent’s interest in the welfare of the
company, but is usually its own reward,
as out-of-town business written over the
counter has often hurried small compan-
ies into early graves, and has materi-
ally depleted the profits of larger com-
panies.

The agent who is on the spot is famil-
iar with the physical and moral hazard
and the proper rate. If the risk is dirty
and dangerous, if a serious exposure has
been erected since the last map was
made, or if a special hazard has moved
into an adjacent building, he knows it,
and can act accordingly. If the assured
has had three or four suspicious fires,
and evades the ‘‘Previous Fire Record’’
by a change of firm name; or if he is a

 

quarrelsome man, with unscrupulous en-
emies, and threats have been made to
burn his property, the local agent, hear-
ing the gossip of the town, can save his
company money. A few days ago we
noted an instance in which a frame sum-
mer hotel, tariff-rated at 4 per cent.
for one year, had been written over New
York counters at 1 per cent. for three
years, or one-twelfth of the proper rate.
The Pennsylvania agents have chosen a
good time to enforce the laws against
procuring insurarace in unauthorized
companies, as the decision in the Biddle
ease has frightened insurers in under-
ground companies, and if the Associa-
tion wages a successful war, the agents’
commissions will amount to larger totals
than heretofore.
(i
The Condition of Trade.

from the New York Shipping List.

The little spurt of activity that char-
acterized the movement of general trade
last week in consequence of cold weather
appears to have covered the requirements
of buyers, although a low temperature
still prevails, and accordingly the de-
mand for staple merchandise has slack-
ened, but the easier tendency of the
money market seems to have imparted a
more confident feeling to Wall street,
which has been reflected in the bullish
temper of the stock market. The bank
statement which made its appearance on
Saturday was more favorable than ex-
pected, the heavy increase in reserve
having been due to large disbursements
by the Treasury, as well as the return of
currency from the interior, but the latter
is the most significant feature, since the
easier tendency of money in the interior,
together with an improvement in mer-
cantile collections, promises still further
relief from that source. The high rates
that have prevailed for loanable funds,
both at home and abroad, since the be-
ginning of the year, have no doubt hada
restricting influence upon business oper-
ations, and the prospect of a favorable
change in this respect necessarily im-
parts amore hopeful feeling. Specula-
tion in cotton has continued active and
under bullish influences, which has been
stimulated by the small shipments from
plantations and favorable advices from
Liverpool. The shipments for export,
although in excess of last year, are be-
ginning to fall off, but the total export
since September 1, when the crop year
begins, has been 580,000 bales more than
for the previous year. The grain mar-
kets have ruled quiet and without new
feature, values fluctuating within nar-
row limits and the tendency being easier
for wheat, flour and corn. The export
movement is also smaller in comparison
with previous weeks, the excess when
compared with last year being due to
the speculative conditions that prevented
shipments at that time. There has been
no change in the condition of the iron
market, the demand for both crude and
manufactured iron being quite slack,
with the result that in some instances
sellers are manifesting a disposition to
accept lower prices, the only exception
being steel rails, which some mills are
holding at higher prices on account of
the increased cost of material. Pro-
duction has been enormously increased
during the past six months, and the de-
velopments of the next few weeks will
show whether or not there has been over-
production. Railroad earnings continue
to show large gains compared with last
year, and bank clearances indicate that
the volume of business passing through
the banks is larger than last year, which
is all the more significant in view of the
general quietude that prevails in spec-
ulative circles. The demand for anthra-
cite coal has quickened but little, and
with heavy stocks at tide water shipping
ports, lower prices have been made for
the purpose of effecting Sales.
<<

A Landlord With a Conscience.

A traveling man sends Boots and Shoes
the following incident, which occurred
on the route from Cincinnati to Colum-
bus, Ga. :

The train stopped at a dinner station
and the six hungry traveling men filed
into the dining-room. The meal was
voted unsatisfactory without a dissent-
ing voice. Meat cold and underdone;
tea and coffee insipid; the pie was ap-
parently made before the fall of Babylon;
the cake suggested tessellated pavement
and there were no napkins. When the
conductor’s ‘‘all aboard’’ sounded, five
of the drummers left ‘‘the price’’ with
the landlord, which was fifty cents each.
The sixth man, however, tendered a
a quarter with the remark:

‘“‘My friend, that was the worst dinner
I ever sat down to. I don’t propose to
pay you more than twenty-five cents.”’

‘“That’s all right,’’? replied the land-
lord, closing on the quarter.

The fifth man, who was directly in
front of the last man out, heard the di-
alogue and, extending his hand, said:

‘*Then there must be a quarter coming
to me.’’

‘‘Certainly,’’ and the landlord returned
twenty-five cents of his money.

‘““Hold up, gentlemen,’’ shouted the
two men to the four who had previously
settled and were making for the train,
‘‘the proprietor has concluded to charge
you only a quarter apiece for dinner.”’

And (remember this is a true narrative)
back came those four men and collected
twenty-five cents rebate.

*“Gentlemen,’”’? said the landlord, ‘‘I
ain’t no hog, and blame me ef I think
the dinner to-day was wuth mor’n a
quarter.”’

 

<2 <> _____—
Notice to Stockholders.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Rail-
road Co. will be held at the general
office, in the city of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
on Wednesday, March 5, 1890, at 1
o’clock p. m., for the election of thirteen
directors constituting a board to serve
for the ensuing year, and for the trans-
action of such other business as may be
presented at the meeting.

J. H. P. HueHaARt, Secretary.
—__—.-. =<
Rising in the World.

Wholesale Merchant—We will give
your boy a chance, sir, to learn the busi-
ness, but the first year he will not receive
any Salary.

Father of the boy (dubiously)—What
will he get the second year ?

Merchant—Well, if he is faithful and
apt, the second year we will double what
he gets the first.

Lemon & Peters,

WHOLESALE

GROCERS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

Lautz Bros... & (|Co,’s}Soaps,

Niagara Starch,
Amboy Cheese,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

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NEW MOLASSES

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.

Tellier Spice Company,

IMPORTERS OF TEAS, COFFEES AND SPICES.
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FP STEHREIEE & SONS,

Wholesale Dry Goods.

Our new line of fancy prints are
all in stock for coming season.
Allen’s, Hamilton, Washington,
Indigo, Merrimac, Simpson’s, Gar-
ner’s, plain and satine styles.

Also our new imported fine
Satines in new colors and patterns.

Dress Ginghams, Seersuckers and
Fancy Flannels, Zephyrs, Toile du
| Nord, Amoskeag, A. F. C., Cotton
Hosiery, Underwear, Overshirts,
Jackets, Overalls, Pants.

A large line of Notions, Neck-
wear, Windsor Ties, Etc.

Correspondence solicited.
* We Import All Our Fancy Buttons and Laces.

 

 

Ss

Monroe and 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain Sts, GRAND RAPIDS,

 

Headquarters for Oranges,

Lemons, Bananas, Nuts, Pea-
nuts, Figs, Dates, Citron, etc.
Ask for Price List.

The Putnam Candy Co.

 

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BLIVEN & ALLYN,

Sole Agents for the Celebrated

“BIG F” Brand of Oysters.

In Cans and Bulk, and Large Handlers of OCEAN FISH, SHELL CLAMS and OYSTERS. We make
_a specialty of fine goods in our line and are prepared to quote prices at any time. We solicit

consignments of all kinds of Wild Game, suc

M. BLIVEN, Manager.

as Partridges, Quail, Ducks, Bear, ete.

63 Pearl St.

 

 

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1890.

 

 

 

 

A CANDIDATE FOR BEDLAM.
[CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. |

stifle her sobs, that he might not hear
them. By and by he fell asleep, and the
physician went away. Then Deborah’s
aunt came in and begged her to return
to her room and rest, but she shook her
head, saying she would rather remain
where she was. ‘If I leave him,’’ she
continued, ‘‘it will dono good. I cannot
sleep after this dreadful scene—and—
and he has no friend but me.”’

All through the long night she sat by
the window, watching and thinking al-
ternately. She felt that a crisis in her
life was approaching, and she wondered
dimly what it could be. Still more she
wondered at Timothy’s strange mishap.
Had he been accidentally washed into
the sea, or had he really intended to com-
mit suicide? Could it be possible that,
after all, his mind was affected, or had
he determined to end his existence be-
cause ? When she reached this
point in her reflections Deborah found
herself unable to continue. <A vague,
nameless hope had sprung up in her
heart. By degrees the night wore si-
lently away, and she saw the gray mists
of early morning roll aside like a cur-
tain, and in their stead long streaks of
crimson light appear in the eastern sky.
With it all came delightful odors from
the sea, which lay calm and still, like a
sheet of deep blue crystal. She glanced
toward the bed where Timothy lay. He
was sleeping quietly, and a delicate flush
had succeeded the deadly pallor of his
skin. Unconsciously a deep-drawn sigh
of relief escaped her. Then, worn out
bodily and mentally, she let her head fall
back upon her chair and slept also.

Timothy awoke in a short time, and
his first impression naturally was an ut-
terly dewildered one. Where was he?
In Paradise? At the bottom of the
ocean? In space? He had an indis-
tinct recollection of what he had done
the evening before. He remembered
having walked calmly into the water.
He recalled the cold chill produced by
the waves, the partially-veiled moon, the
faint starlight, the mist which in the
distance seemed to rise like a gauze
screen from the sea, the vivid radiance
of the lights flashing in the semi-obscur-
ity beyond the hotel and the confused
strains of music.

After that everything was a blank.
He must have been drowned, and, if so,
what was he doing here in his own bed ?
Was he in death still doomed to inhabit
the very earth from which he sought to
escape during life? Or, if he was really
alive, who had dragged him from his
contemplated destruction? Who had
been bold enough to declare that he
should live when he desired to die? He
sat up in bed, and, to his still greater
amazement, saw a female figure sitting
at the far end of the room fast asleep.
He rubbed his half-dazed eyes confus-
edly. Was he dreaming? Was he
really dead, after all, and in another
world? He looked again at the motion-
less figure. Why, it was Deborah—De-
borah Smithson, the very person he had
longed to escape from. He was aston-
ished, however, to find that the idea of
her presence was not so distasteful as it
ought to be. A feeling of weakness sud-
denly overcame him, and he sank back
again upon his pillow. He could not
understand it in the least. Various con-
flicting ideas occurred to him indis-
tinctly, like shadows from another world.
He closed his eyes once more and waited
quietly for something—he knew not what
—to happen. Presently the door opened
and a gentleman who was a stranger to
him entered the room.

‘“Well,’?’ exclaimed the new-comer
cheerfully, as he grasped Timothy’s
hand, ‘‘how do you feel??? He nodded
his head wisely, and, without waiting
for areply, continued: ‘‘You’re getting
along splendidly, I should say. You
must thank Miss Smithson for it, though.
If she hadn’t found you lying up yon-
derin the sand you might have been
washed back into the water. How did
it all happen? Fm the doctor, you

 

 

know. Doctors always want to know
everything.”’
Timothy, however, did not consider it

necessary to gratify the doctor’s curiosi-

ty, so he did not reply directly.
‘*“Miss—Miss Smithson found me on the

sand, did she?’’ he said presently, in a

tone more of reflection than interroga-
tion.
“Yes. She happened to be walking

along the beach in that direction with
her aunt. She has been sitting there all
night, too, taking care of you,’’ said the
doctor, indicating Deborah by a gesture
of his hand.

“T suppose,’? said Timothy after a
pause, ‘‘that I ought to be very much
obliged to youall. I don’t think the
world is such avery pleasant place, but
as long as ’m here again I shall have to
make the best of it. Good-morning,

doctor; I need not detain you any
longer.’’
‘*Eh 2?’ said the doctor, utterly amazed.

He had never been treated so uncere-
moniously, he thought. He recovered
himself in a moment, however, bowed
and left the room, saying he would come
again should Mr. Whithouse send for him.

When the door closed upon him, Tim-
othy lay back and gave himself up to re-
flection. Gradually it dawned across
him, particularly when he looked at
Deborah, that he had made a fool of him-
self.

‘‘Tdiot that I am !’ he exclaimed aloud.
‘“‘For years I have been seeking the high-
est good, the most perfect enjoyment,
and actually thought I had found them,
while all the time I never even knew
what constituted them.’’ The idea struck
him as being so ridiculous that, for the
first time in several months, he burst into
a loud laugh.

At the sound, Deborah started up in
alarm, her first impression being that he
was delirious.

‘Well, child,’? said Timothy calmly,
“so you saved my life, did you? I sup-
pose I must thank you.”’

“If yeu get well again,’’ she replied,
approaching him slowly, ‘‘I shall be
more than repaid. I shall never forget
the horror of that discovery, or the anx-
iety which has followed.’’ As she spoke,
her eyes closed involuntarily.

**“Come ‘here, child,’? he said gently.

 

“‘Come close te me; I have something to
tell you.’’

She advanced wonderingly, but her
pale face flushed a little.

‘“‘Deborah,”’ he said, and it seemed to
them both that he was speaking in an
entirely new voice—‘‘Deborah, my little
friend, I have made a mistake, a sad
mistake. Ihave been seeking my hap-
piness in the wrong direction. 1 thought
it lay xin books and solitude, but it is
not so. It is embodied in something in-
finitely more beautiful. I love you,
Deborah. Can you find your highest
good in me, as I have found mine in you ?
Answer me, child.’? His voice had sunk
to an eager whisper.

Deborah felt herself tremble from head
to foot. The crisis she was expecting
had come. It surprised her greatly, and
yet it seemed perfectly natural. She
bent down and, with a sudden impulse,
laid her hand on Timothy’s forehead.

“You have found yours now,’’ she
said. ‘I found mine long ago. lt lay
concealed, I think, in the little vellum-
bound book that you dropped upon the
sand, and which I returned to you.”’

CLARA LANZA.
>.
The Dangers of Bottled Milk.

When we take into consideration milk
as being one of the chief necessities of
the sick-room and nursery, we cannot
deny that it, above all things, demands
our greatest attention, says Dr. E. Black-
well in Medical Record. Oftentimes it
has occurred to me, when seeing bottles
of milk brought into the sick-room, how
easily these may serve as a means of
carrying poison or germs from one place
to another. Realizing the danger and
importance of this subject, I have given
the matter some attention, and investi-
gated the methods of several prominent
milk-dealers of our city. The first, and
one important point to be considered in
bottled milk, is the great amount of
dishonesty practiced among milk-dealers.
It is very exceptional that the reality is
as we picture it. There are very few
firms who bottle their milk in the
country. On the contrary, it is brought
here about 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning
(in large cans), and put in bottles after
its arrival. Thus it may happen that
your next-door neighbor may get the
same milk for less money and of the
same quality for which you yourself pay
extra. This isa great fraud, practiced
in our own city, and few suspect it. As in
every other business, the almighty dol-
lar is the chief attraction. People have
fancies, and those fancies must be grati-
fied in order to retain their custom. The
very thought of its being bottled in the
country, retaining the fragrance and
purity of the farm, is in itself sufficient
to induce many people to buy it in this
form. Yet it is fair here to state that
some dealers are perfectly honest in this
respect, while others are deceptive.
Again, when we think of these bottles
being cleansed in a vat of water where
dozens of others have been washed, how
can we expect thorough cleanliness ?
Many may say the large cans are no more
thoroughly cleansed. But observation
and common sense convinces one that a
large can could be much more thoroughly
washed than a narrow-necked and small
bottle. Admitting for a moment that
the large cans were no_ better washed
than a bottle. we could not contract half
the poison, comparatively, from a forty-
quart can that we could from forty one-
quart bottles. Here comes in the most
important point in this paper, viz., the
contagion which might result from the
indiscriminate use of these bottles. The
very same bottles you use this morning
may have been standing in a sick-room
yesterday. Patients oftentimes drink
immediately from the bottle. It is rea-
sonable to suppose that, having stood in
the sick-room, they are as much impreg-
nated with poison as any article in the
room. Often the bottles are closed in
the sick-chamber, thus shutting in the
dreaded germs, and doubling thereby the
extent of danger feared. The ordinary
cans from which milk is dipped never
enter a house, and hence must be more
pure. They stand no chance of being
contaminated with disease. The only
argument or point that can be raised in
behalf of bottled milk is, that no dirt
can enter, as occasionally does, in milk
dipped from large cans. But who would
not prefer a trace of dust to a trace of
some dreaded disease. The risk is cer-
tainly great, and should receive our ear-
nest attention.

OO
MICHIGAN DAIRY NOTES.

It is reported that a Fairfield cheese
factory lost $800 by the failure of H. C.
Haskins & Co., the Toledo commission

merchants.

J.J. Tobias, who conducts a cheese
factory at Okemos, has purchased a plan-
ing mill at Williamston and will convert
it into a cheese factory.

The Wayland Globe of recent date con-
tains the following:  ‘‘C. C. Williams,
salesman and cheese maker at the Clover
Hill cheese factory, in Leighton town-
ship, Allegan county, has left for parts
unknown and taken with him nearly
$1,000 belonging to the patrons. His
partner, Ashley Herrinton, went to Al-
legan last week Monday and secured a
warrant for Williams’ arrest, since which
time the officers have been in pursuit of
him, but up to this writing he has not
been caught. We learn that Thursday
night last he purchased a ticket in Grand
Rapids for Chicago. The matter, it
seems, was kept quiet for some time in
hopes that Williams would return, as
agreed, and pay off the farmers for their
milk. It has caused quite an excitement
among the parties interested, who say
they will have him ‘behind the bars’ if it
costs the balance of their summer’s in-
come from the cows.’’

—_—__—_<2>_0<____
To Clean Chimneys.

Lamp chimneys when smoked may be
easily cleaned without water by holding
in the steam of atea-kettle. Wipe out
with a newspaper and finish witha cloth.
If only slightly dimmed, one application |
of steam is sufficient.

 

THE SIXTH ANNUAL.

 

The Coming Meeting of the Michigan
Dairymen’s Association.

The sixth annual convention of the
Michigan Dairymen’s Association will
be held at Allegan on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday, February 11, 12 and
13. The programme, so far as arranged,
will be as follows:

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 1:30.

1. Call to order by President Horton.
2. Prayer by Rev. H. W. Harvey.

3. Address of welcome by H. H. Pope.
4. Response in behalf of Association

by S. J. Wilson, Flint.

5. President’s annual address.

6. Reports of Secretary and Treasurer.
7. Report of Executive Board.

8. Receiving of new members.

EVENING, 7:30—-CHEESE SES-
SION.

1. ‘Cheese for Export’’—J. H. Mur-
daugh, Croswell.

2. ‘Our Markets’’—Hon. Milan Wig-
gins, Bloomingdale.

3. ‘“‘Needed Legislation’’—Hon. E. N
Bates, Moline.

4. ‘Looking Backward’’—Frank E.
Pickett, Wayland.

5. *‘Advantages of Selling the Retailer
Direct’??>—A. D. Power, Northville.

6. ‘‘Reminiscences of Pioneer Days’’—
Rufus Baker, Fairfield.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 9:00.

1. ‘Comparative Merits of Summer
and Winter Dairying’’—W. H. Parmalee,
Hilliards.

2. ‘Butter and Cheese Making as a
Profession’’—J. H. Monrad, Chicago

3. “Our Association — Should It Be
Placed on a More Solid Foundation?’’—
Addresses by Hon. Chas. W. Garfield,
Hon. S. L. Fuller and others.

4. ‘Best Feed for Keeping Up Flow of
Milk in Fall’’—S. M. Eggleston, Hop-
kins.

5. ‘Food Elements for Dairy Cows’’—
Hon. Milton George, editor Western
Rural.

6. ‘“*The Silo as an Adjunct of Profit-

TUESDAY

able Dairying’? — Prof. A. J. Cook,
Lansing.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 1:30.
1. Recitation, ‘‘So, Bos’? — Miss M.

Jewett, Allegan.

2. “Commercial Fertilizers, as Applied
to Forage Crops’’—Prof. R. C. Kedzie,
Lansing.

3. ‘Ten Cent Butter; Its Cause and
Cure’’—Mrs. Constance Jewett, Allegan.

4. ‘Care of Dairy Cows’’—E. L. Lock-
wood, Petersburg.

5. ‘‘Proposed Dairy Experiments at
the Agricultural College’’—Prof. Eugene
Davenport, Lansing.
WEDNESDAY EVENING,

SESSION.

This session will be devoted solely to
papers and discussions relating to the
factory creamery.

1. ‘‘How to Operate a Co-operative
Creamery’’—S. J. Wilson, Flint.

2. “Cold Storage in Connection with
the Creamery’’—Chas. P. Jackson, Chi-
cago.

3. *‘Relation of the Egg Business to
the Creamery’ 7S. O. Giddings, Romeo.

4. “Co-operation in Butter Making’’—
Adam Sherk, Caledonia.

5. ‘Ups and Downs of the Creamery”’
—Jd. O. Chapin, Lowell.

THURSDAY MORNING, 9:00.

1. Report of Committee on Exhibits.

2. Supplementary report of Secretary
and Treasurer.

3. Election of officers.

4. Report of Committee on Resolu-
tions.

5. Unfinished business.

6. Adjournment.

After each paper is read, time will be
given for discussions pertinent to the sub-
ject.

A Question Box will be introduced and
opened as often as the opportunity pre-
sents itself.

As the Railway Association of Michi-
gan declines to grant reduced rates to
conventions, all interested in dairying in
ny of its kierckes skculd make a spe-
cial effort to attend.

Inventors, manufacturers and? dealers
are invited to make an*exhibit of the
dairy goods in which they are interested.
Ample space will be provided for articles
of merit, especially those new to the
dairy public.

W. E. Ryan has been selected to act as
Local Secretary and will give painstak-
ing attention to any matters placed in his
charge.

7:30—CREAMERY

>>

At the Towel Counter.
From the Detroit Free Press.

The soul and body of the dry goods
clerk waxeth weary when he sees three
women headed for his counter. One is
bad enough; two are worse, but three
women in counsel over the merits of a
bath towel are enough to make a poor
worn-out clerk wish he might depart
from earth by the electricity method.

‘‘It seems like quite a good one for the
money, doesn’t it,’? says the intending
purchaser.

‘“‘Well, I don’t know,’’ says the other,
holding the towel up at full length and
eying it critically. ‘‘I got one quite as
good for thirty-seven and a half cents at
White’s.”’

“Vou did 2)’

‘Yes; but it was eight or nine weeks
ago, and I don’t s’pose they’ve any more
like it.’’

“‘T may be mistaken, but I’ve an idea
it would shrink,’’? says number three,
taking the towel from number two and
wrapping a corner of it over her finger.
“See, it’s a little thin.”’

“Well, I wouldn’t mind if it did shrink
a little, because—oh, look at this one!
Isn’t it lovely ?’’

‘Beautiful! How much is it ?’’

‘“‘A dollar and a half.’’

‘“‘Mercy ! I’d never pay that for a bath
towel.”’

‘Nor i”?

‘“‘Those colors would fade.’’

“Of course they would.”’

“Do you know, I like good, plain
erash as well as anything for towels ?’’

“J don’t know, but—see these towels
for fifteen cents. I paid twenty-five for
some last week not a bit better.”’

 

‘“‘Let’s see; are they full length? Yes.
They are cheap. I’ve a notion to—but I
guess I won’t. I have so many towels
now.’’

“They’re a bargain,
needed them.’’

‘How do you like towels used as
tidies ?’’

‘Horrid 1"

“I think so, too.’’

“So do I—oh, let me tell you, I saw a
woman on the street one day with an
apron made out of a red and white
fringed towel.”’

‘Mercy! Looked like fury, didn’t it?
How was it made ?’’

“Oh, one end was simply gathered to a
band, and—there, the towel was just like
this one; and she’d taken it so, and gath-
ered it in so, and—really, it didn’t look
so bad, after all.’’

‘Do you suppose the colors would run
in this border ?’’

“Well, I hardly know. I had one
very much like it once, and the colors in
it ran dreadfully the very first time I
washed it.’’

“Then Pll not take this, far I—why,
if it isn’t 4 o’clock, and

‘“Who’d ever have thought

“T must go.”’

“So must I.”’

‘“‘And I—no, I’l] not take the towel to-
day.”’

if one really

 

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

  
 
  
 

Crockery & Glassware

 

 

LAMP BURNERS,

 

 

NG AU ee es ere oe od cee 45
ee Ee a eae te ee 48
is ee os tates cease 70
PURDUE ce oo ees ek ee 6
LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box.
6 doz. in box.
NO. OSGNs 2022.02. 3: . oe
— Dee he epee eek ies eae ey 2 00
ee he eae cee ae 3 00
NSirst quality.
No. — crimp —-: 38 DBD
. --2 40
No. “ oe “oc 3 40
Cex Flint.
No. a Sun, crimp top oN ees geen Scaaeace cise 2 60
No. ee eo ee 2 80
No. 2 - Sh pee pn apt LES ISM ae yma 3 80
Pearl top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled aul cai sce tae 3 70
eS ce ceulluene 470
No. 2 Hinge, “ fs Oe ee eoiee su ese ee 470
La Bastic.
=~ Sun, plain bulb, per: doz. 1 >
ue cok 1
No, i crimp, per, fi Meese tect oeacaeol as 1 35
dec aes eae 1 60
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks, per gal. 06
Jugs, % gal., per doz... 7
oe j “e ac i 90
“ = a3 oc ; ot 80
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. — — =

 

 

 
 
 
  
 
 
  

: IN THE PINE, CEDAR,
ee HEMLOCK AND HARDWOCD
eee ~ Wisconsin and Mich-
i red by this new
th ce veuke to the East.
‘ SPECI ae ADVANTAGES
TLE S WHO Erect
SS and FA€.
tr oO RIES. Mill machiner:
transported FREE. Choiec:
Settsstene Masai cheap—mostly on time. Railway Com

 

 

 

   

Basswood, logan | 2.0.05... 5.6 ol. 13 00@15 00 | Pany pays eash for cordweod. For mapsand infor
Birch, log- Pe ee 15 “es = onetigs address L AND DE ‘PART MENT “Soo
Bireh, NGS Dang 2.606000. allway. Vinne:
Black’ Web, ine wm = oosie 00
Cherry, log- Tun... ey 25 00@40 00
Cherry, NOR t aud 2): .:.. 6)... 60 00@65 00
Onerry, CG @12 00 TIME TABLES.
Maple, ‘log- PR et 12 00@13 00
= — log- a eee onl 00@13 00
Maple Nos. tand?........- ie @20 00 ‘
Maple, clear, flooring... Ges 00 — eteie & Indiana.
Maple, white, selected.. i @25 00 — effect Nov. 17, 1889.
Re Oak, doe Tun. -...-....- . 20 00@21 00 AINS GOING NORTH.
Red Oak, Nos. PARE 26 00@28 00 ‘ Arrive. Leave.
Red Oak, 4 44 sawed, 6 inch and upw’d. = 00@40 00 | Traverse City & Mackinaw.......... 7:10 am
Red Oak, & sawed, regular 00@32 00 Traverse City Express............. 9:20am 11:30am
Red Oak, des: 1, st oe @25 Traverse City & Mackinaw. ~-s.8 10 pm 4:10pm
W. 1] op 1 Cees See De eas 5B From Cincinnati............ --. $:50 Dp m

alnut, log TUB. ..-..-..----0-+--2+ 0+ @55 00} Cadillac (Mixed)..............000000 6:30 pm
Walnut, a band? 2. = . — coaches for Saginaw on 7:10a mand 4:10 p

mse: CUE m train.
Grey Elm, log fan 12 00@13 05 GOING SOUTH.
White Aso, Top rem 14 00@16 00 | Cincinnati Express.... 7:15am
Whitewood loerun................._- 20 00@22 00 | Fort Wayne Express.. 12:50 pm
White Osk logan 0005020 Be. 17 00918 00 Cincinnati Express. ...---| Gity: Pes oo = 6:00 p m
White Oak, 4 sawed, Nos. 1 and 2....42 00@43 00 rom Cage. 2 os sss 9:55am

 

 

Creamery Ontiit For Sale or Trade.

I have on hand acomplete creamery
outfit, consisting of the following:

One 200-gallon square churn.

Two 200-gallon cream vats.

One Mason butter worker.

Six galvanized gathering cans.

One Reids’ shipping box, to hold 120
pounds of a in trays.

One I. L. butter print machine,
1-pound ae

Two skimming pails, covered.

One strainer pail.

One buttermilk strainer.

A quantity of glass testing tubes.

Lot of pointed skimmers.

About 100 514-gallon Fairlamb setting
cans.

Will sell the whole outfit at a bargain.
It is all practically as good as new, hay-
ing run but four months. The country
here is too new for the business. I will
sell this ata big discount for cash or
good security, or will take in tradea
good team of work horses. Would take
a good Perkins or Hall shingle mill ora
planer and matcher, but machinery must
be in good repair, practically as good as
new. If parties have a good shingle
mill without power, will pay the differ-
ence. Is I can not sell all together, will
sell any of the articles separate.

JOHN KOOPMAN,
Falmouth, Mich.

A.D. Spangler & Co

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

FRUITS mo PRODUGE

And General Commission Merchants.

EAST SAGINAW, MICH.

 

 

 

We buy and sell all kinds of fruit and
produce and solicit correspondence with
both buyers and sellers.

 

Train leaving for Cincinnati at6p. m. and arriving
from Cincinnati at 9:20 p. m., runs daily, Sundays in-
eluded. Other trains daily except Sunday.

Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7::0a.m.
and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for
Mackinaw City. South—7:l5a. 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.
7:00 am --10:lbam
: . 3:45pm

 

- 8:45pm
Leaving time at Bridge street depot 7 minutes face
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.

O. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

 

 
 

GOING WEST.

Arrives. Leaves.
tiMorning Xpress. ...... 2.25. ce 12:50 p m 1:00 pm
fi nmougy Mato. esc os 4:10pm 4:20pm
+Grand Rapids Express... -..10:40 pm
*Nighs (xpress... 0... . 6:40am 7:00am
ce 7:30am

GOING EAST.
TPCGrOls GKEORE ws lc. 6:50am
+Through Mail....... ~<-8O-10 2m 10:20 a m
+Evening Express.. con Sco pn 3:45 pm
*Night Express....... ..-.10:30 p m 10:55 p m
+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily

Detroit Express and Evening ede have parlor
ears attached and make direct connections in Detroit
for all points East.

Morning express and Grand Rapids express have par-
lor cars attached. Night express has Wagner sleeping
ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a. m.

Through railroad tickets and ocean steamship
tickets and _ sleeping car berths secured at
D., G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.

Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.

JNO. W. LOUD, 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

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.’’

 

 

DEPART. ARRIVE.
DGGrors Merress cc 6:45am 10:15pm
a ee ela en 6:50am 5:30pm
Day Megane 10:55am 10:00am
*Atlantie & Pacitic Express... ....... 10:45pm 6:00am
New York Mepress. 5:40pm 1:35pm

*Dail

All other daily except Sunday

Sleeping cars run on Aglentic and Pacific Express
trains to and from Detroit.

Parlor carsrun on Day Express and Grand Rapids
Express to and from Detroit.

FRED M. BRIGGS, Gen’] Agent, 85 Monroe =

G. S. HAWKINS, Ticket Agent, Union Depot

Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.

O. W. RUGGLES, G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago.

 

 

 

GEO. H. REEDER,

State Agent

Lycoming Rubber:

and Jobber of

Medinm Price Shoes.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

‘reqgqny Zuryo0g But
“180M 2 3014417 S80g OUT

 

EGG

CASES & FILLERS.

Having taken the agency for Western and Northern Michigan for the LIMA
EGG CASES and FILLERS, we are prepared to offer same to the trade in any

quantity.

Lots of 100. Less than 100.
ING. ¢-_30-doz. Cases, complete... 6. oo G 35¢.
No: t——Millers. per SOts 94%e 10¢.

Parties ordering Fillers have to buy one Case with every 10 sets of Fillers, no
broken cases sold, making 10 sets with Case $1.25 (10 Fillers and 8 Dividing Boards

constitute a standard set).
orders or give good reference.

Strangers to us will please remit money with their

LAMOREAUX & JOHNSTON, 71 Canal St., Grand Rapids.

 

Putnam Candy Co.,

HEADQUARTERS FOR

FLORIDA ORANGES, LEMONS, NUTS, ETC

 

PERE I NS & BESS

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.

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

POTGLME TINS, Nuts, Dates, Figs, lc

16 and 18 North Division Street, Grand Rapids.

EDWIN FPALLAS,

JOBBER OF

| Batter Kigos, Fairfield Cheese, Foreign Fruits, Mince Meat, Nuts, Ete,

Oyster and Mince Meat Business Running Full Blast.
Dairy Butter.

 

 

Special Bargain in Choice
Let your orders come.

Office and Salesroom, No. 9 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Grand Rapids Frvitand Produce bo,

JOBBER OF

POREIGN FRUITS.

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

BUILT FUR BUSINKSS

Do you want to increase your trade in a safe way ?

 

 

 

Do you want to do your customers justice ?
Do you want the confidence of all who trade with you?

Would you like to rid yourself of the bother of ‘‘posting’’ your books and
‘patching up’’ pass-book accounts ?

Did you ever have a pass-book account foot up and balance with the corre-
sponding ledger account, without having to ‘‘doctor’’ it?

Do not many of your customers complain that they have been charged for
items they never had, and is not your memory a little clouded as to whether they
have or not ?

Do you not want pay for all the small items that go out of your store, that
yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge ?

Then why not adopt asystem of crediting that will abolish all these and a
hundred other objectionable features of the old method, and one that establishes a
CASH BASIS of crediting ?

A new era dawns, and with it new commodities for its new demands; and all
enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt the

Tradesman Credit Govpon Book,

Which is now in use by over 5,000 Michigan merchants, in every case giving the

most unqualified satisfaction.

 

PRICE LIST.

$ 2 Coupons, per hundred ee $2.50 | SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS?
$5 ra eee ates ice 3.00 | Orders for 200 or over....... 5 per cent,
$10 . et ogee ei a 4.00 ig ee ee 10
$20 ae i ou i in a 20

Guods prepaid to destination where cash accompanies order.

WE SHALL BE PLEASED TO SEND ANY NUMBER OF ANY DENOMINATION OF

BOOKS, AT REGULAR PRICE, AS A TRIAL ORDER.

The Tradesman Company,
SOLE OWNERS AND MANUFACTURERS,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

 

FP. J. DETTENTHALER,

JOBBER OF

Uysters

—AND—

Salt Fish.

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Column.
CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF WILD GAME SOLICITED.

 

 

 

 

 

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GROCERIES:

 

 

THE SUGAR SITUATION.

 

Review of Last Year’s Market---Crop
Prospects.

From the excellent review of the sugar
market for 1889, compiled by the New
York Shipping List, THE TRADESMAN
reproduces the following extracts ;

The keynote to the exciting and some-
what extraordinary events that go to
make up the history of the sugar trade

during the year 1889, was the partial |

failure of the cane crops in several of the
largest producing countries, which at
one period threatened to result .in a con-
siderable shortage in the world’s availa-
ble supply,
yield of beet sugar in Europe was in ex-
cess of the year previous, and, up to the
present erop, was the largest on record.
Upon the strength of this prospective
shortage, an active speculative move-
ment was carried on in Europe, as well
as in this country, which resulted in a
steady advance in prices during the first
six months of the year in all the markets
of the world; but, before the expected
climax had been reached, a collapse took
place, followed by a period of liquida-
tion, and by the time that had been com-
pleted, the increased estimates of the
growing beet crop caused prices to drift
down to a lower level than existed when
the year opened, so that the closing
months of the year witnessed dull mar-
kets, although the previous depression
had been replaced by a more hopeful
feeling.

The most important falling off was in
the yield of the Island of Cuba and the
Empire of Brazil, the quantity exported
to this country from Cuba being about
60,000 tons less than the year 1888, and
the smallest in ten years; while the re-
ceipts from Brazil were a little more than
one-half those of the previous year, and
likewise the smallest in ten years. The
defizit was partially made up by the in-
creased importations from the Phillipine
Islands, but the total importations of
foreign sugar from all sources of supply
was about 75,000 tons less than in 1888
and the smallest since 1883. As soon as
this shortage was definitely foreshad-
owed, values began to stiffen all over the
world, and in Europe a syndicate of cap-
italists attempted to get control of the
supply-of beet, for the purpose of creat-
ing a corner and marketing their accum-
mulation, when this artificial famine
had been created, at highly inflated
prices. The carrying out of this scheme
necessarily involved the above combina-
tion in enormous speculative operations,

which became the controlling factor in’

establishing values in all of the markets
of the world, and from week to week,
under the stimulus of wild speculation,
prices steadily advanced until quotations
in the London market reached, early in
July, 28s. 43d. for beet and 25s. 3d. for
cane; but, when least expected, finan- |
cial complications caused the collapse of |
the Syndicate, and then followed a gen-
eral liquidation.

In this country, speculation was of a
somewhat different character

fined almost wholly to refined, of which |

not only the refiners accumulated a
heavy surplus, but dealers, encouraged
by the large profits they made as prices
moved up during the spring and early
summer, loaded up with all the stock
they could carry, under the belief that
much higher prices were inevitable. As
a consequence, when the crash came, the
ordinary channels of distribution were
absolutely so full that for a time there
was practically no outlet for the supply
in the hands of refiners. Business,
therefore, came to a stand, and so re-
mained until the intermediate accumula-
tion had been liquidated by the natural
course of consumption.

Another important feature in the
course of trade in this country has been
the influence of the Sugar Trust, which,
during the greater part of the year, has
been a prominent factor in regulating
the price of both raw and refined, and in
controlling consumption, and in these
respects it has been all powerful. <A
very large proportion of the raw mate-
rial consumed by its refineries has been
bought direct in producing countries,
and hence the business transacted in
spot parcels in this market has been
comparatively meager, while the price
of refined has been maintained at a rela-
tive difference above the value of raw,
that has insured a satisfactory profit.
That the operations of the Trust have
been profitable is shown by the hand-
some dividends—10 per cent.—it has dis-
tributed; but the independent refineries
have been equally fortunate, for they
have kept close under the shadow of the
Trust and reaped the benefits of the
monopoly without being subject to the
opprobrium with which it has been re-
garded. Perhaps the most significant
feature of the Sugar Trust has been the
speculation that has been carried on in
its certificates, which, although more di-
rectly connected with the stock market,
has been, nevertheless, indirectly a feat-
ure in the history of the sugar trade dur-
ing the year under review.

Speculation in these certificates, which
from the formation of the Trust until
last spring had been more or less dormant,
suddenly bounded into activity, and from
about 7214 the price was gradually ad-
vanced, as interest increased, until it
reached 12614 and became an absorbing
feature of the Stock Exchange; but at
this point the tide turned, and since then
their value has dropped to 50, notwith-
standing that a 10 per cent. dividend has
been maintained. It would be useless to
attempt to account for this heavy decline
in value, as rumor has been the only
source of information; those who con-
trol the Trust having refused to make
public any information regarding its op-
erations or its condition. It is enough
to say, however, that the certificates have
become a speculative football for the
manipulation of professional operators;
but it is generally believed that some of
the prominent holders of these certifi-
cates, who created the Trust, sold out a
very large proportion of their holdings
while prices were at their highest point,
and since then have paid more attention
to the stock market than to the refining
operations of the Trust. It is further-
more true that public sentiment has been
bitterly against the Trust, and its exist-
ence is now threatened by legal proceed-
ings that have been in progress through-

notwithstanding that the}

;nished the bulk of the supply, a small
| quantity was received
| America,
| Kast Indies.
| Francisco, which is known as the Amer-
lican, was the largest consumer of the

and con-|

out a greater portion of the year and are
still hanging over it.

Still another significant feature that is
likely to exert a more important influence
upon the course of trade during the cur-
rent year, so far as the Trust is con-
cerned, is the completion of Mr. Spreck-
els’ refinery in Philadelphia, which will
become the most formidable rival with
which the Trust has had to compete, and
which, in connection with the other in-
dependent refineries, necessarily afford
the Trust a much narrower field in which
to operate, and materially eurtail the
weight and extent of its influence. They
are not only competitors with the Trust
in making its product, but also as buyers
of raw sugar.

IMPORTATIONS OF FOREIGN.

The importations of foreign sugar
through the Atlantic and Gulf ports
| during 1889 show a decrease of 58,775
tons compared with the previous year,
and are the smallest since 1883. The
cause of this falling off has been already
| pointed out, but the importations upon
\the Pacific Coast were very much in ex-
| cess of the previous year, so that the
'total importations for the whole country
| aggregate 1,189,691 tons, which is a fall-
|ing off of only 28,921 tons as compared
| with 1888. The receipts at the several
i ports show some significant changes in
| comparison with the previous year. At
| Philadelphia, where all the refineries are
|independent of the Trust, there was a
| heavy increase in the importations, which
| were 27,293 tons in excess of 1888, while
at Boston there was an equally important
| decrease, the falling off being as much
|as 71,322 tons. These figures show con-
clusively that in comparison with the
previous year the Trustrefineries turned
out much less, while the output of inde-
pendent refineries was materially in-
creased. With respect to the relative
proportion of the supply received from
the several producing countries, there
was a falling off in comparison with the
| previous year in the receipts from Cuba,
Brazil, the British West Indies and
Europe, the latter being almost wholly
beet sugar, while there was a lar ge in-
crease in the shipments from Java and
the Philippine Islands and a moderate
increase from the islands of Hayti, Trin-
idad, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Porto
Rico and St. Croix.

A very large proportion of the ship-
ments that came to refiners were pur-
chased direct either loading or to load,
and hence the quantity imported by mer-
chants for sale on the spot, and the stocks
carried by importers in the several mar-
kets, show a large shrinkage. At the end
of the year the stock in first hands was
about one-half what it was at the begin-
| ning.

The receipts from the Pacific Coast
again show a large increase compared
with any previous year, and are, there-
fore, the largest in the history of the
refining industry west of the Rocky
Mountains. The Hawaiian Islands fur-

 

 

 

 

 

from Central
and the remainder from the
The Trust refinery in San

| importations from the Sandwich Islands,
| since that enterprise likewise controls a
|large proportion of the plantations in
|those islands. The independent, or
| Spreckels refinery, was a large consumer
| of the East India importations.

THE LOUISIANA CROP.

The next important source of supply
| is the product of the Southern States, of
| which Louisiana is by far the largest
| producer. As the grinding of the cane
i begins about the ist of November, the
| product is marketed from that time up to
| the succeeding February or March, and
accordingly it is quite impossible to esti-
| mate or apportion the quantity that has
| passed into actual consumption previous
'to and after the 1st of January in each
| year. For statistical purposes, therefore,
| itis more convenient and just as accu-
| rate to take the entire yield of the crop
| year as having been distributed within
; the calendar year that closes the season.
| The yield of the crop year 1888-1889 is
‘therefore counted as having been con-
i sumed during 1889. According to the re-
| liable compilation of A. Bouchereau, of |
| New Orleans, who has been long recog-
| nized as a standard authority, the crop
|of 1888-89 produced 267,881 hhds. or
{144,878 tons, against 285,158 hhds. or
157,971 tons the year previous, which is
a decrease of 13,093 tons, or a little more
than 8 per cent. Nevertheless, the crop
was unusually large in comparison with
previous years and points to a consider-
able expansion of the cane industry with-
in the past three years, due in part to a
greater acreage of cane and better culti-
vation and in part to the equipment of
sugar houses with new and modern ma-
chinery for crushing the cane and ex-
tracting the juice. The remaining
Southern States where cane is grown are
estimated to have yielded 9,031 tons,
which added to the above amount gives
153,909 tons as the total product of the
Southern States, against 167,814 tons the
year previous. | Excessive rains and dis-
astrous storms during the summer of
1888 greatly damaged the crop, destroy-
[ing a good deal of growing cane, and
| accounts in a great measure for the fall-
ing off in the yield of the crop, for other-
wise the weather was favorable through
the growing months as well as during
the grinding season. There were 133,384
acres of cane ground, which shows an
increase of nearly 3,000 acres compared
with the previous year. Planters using
modern machinery and appliances ob-
tained an average of 2,742 pounds of
sugar per acre, or 143 pounds of sugar
per ton of cane ground, which is a smaller
yield per acre, but an increased yield per
ton of cane in comparison with the pre-
ceding year. Those using other appli-
ances in operating the sugar house ob-
tained 2,113 pounds of sugar per acre, or
119 pounds of sugar per ton of cane
ground.

 

 

MOLASSES SUGAR.

The supply of low grade sugar ob-
tained from the reboiling of foreign mo-
lasses shows a considerable decrease
compared with previous years, the fall-
ing off being due to the smaller supply
of molasses, incident to the small sugar
crop in the island of Cuba. |

MAPLE SUGAR.

The estimates of the yield of sugar
from the maple groves is not as accurate
as it might be, but no reliable statistics

 

 

 

of the entire yield are procurable. So

far as can be gathered, however, from
the various sources of information that
are available,.the winter and spring of
1889 was favorable for sap, and the yield
of sugar was slightly in excess of the
previous year. The New England and
Western States are estimated to have
yielded about 22,000 tons.
DOMESTIC BEET AND SORGHUM.

California is still the banner State
with respect to the development of the
beet industry. The results of Mr.
Spreckels’ venture in 1888 were most ei-
couraging, and demonstrated beyond
question that not only could beets be
profitably grown, but that it was equally
practicable to manufacture good, mer-
chantable sugar therefrom. The results
of the present season are not yet accessi-
ble, as the operations of the factories
have not been completed, but the in-
ereased acreage of beet under cultiva-
tion promises a much larger yield—
roughly estimated at 2,400 tons sugar.
Fabrication commenced about the mid-
dle of last November and is likely to
continue until March. In addition to
the factory at Watsonville, the plant for
another has been shipped from Hamburg
to San Francisco, and the next season
will probably witness the running of
two factories. » The further development
of this industry would seem to be only a
question of time and capital.

A successful experiment in growing
beets and manufacturing sugar has also
been made during the past yearin Kan-
sas, the result of which was the produc-
tion of sixty tons of sugar, and this is
considered so encouraging that opera-
tions upon an extensive scale will be
undertaken for the next season. Prep-
arations are also being made for the
erection of a factory in Nebraska, the
plant having been purchased in Ger-
many.

The cultivation of sorghum has been
carried on upon an extensive scale in
Kansas for a number of years; in fact,
it has been one of the most important
agricultural products of that State. In
1888 there were, according to official sta-
tistics, 206,923 acres of sorghum under
cultivation, which yielded 5,198,100 gal-
lons of syrup, and the value of the crop,
including seed and forage, was $6,106,-
188. After long and patient investiga-
tion, the manufacture of sugar from
sorghum has been made practical; but
while the development of this new in-
dustry has had to contend with many
difficulties and some disastrous experi-
ences, it has made sufficient progress to
be entitled to recognition as fairly estab-
lished. According to the official report
of the Sugar Inspector of the State, there
was produced in 1888, 698,274 pounds of
sugar, while this year the result has
been 1,293,274 pounds firsts and 250,000
pounds seconds, or a total of 689 tons.
This result is considered most encourag-
ing, even in the face of unpropitious
weather in some parts of the State,
which retarded the growth of the cane; a
lack of experience in working some of
the factories; insufficient capital and the
application of unbusiness-like methods
in conducting the operations of others.
But the prospect of establishing a pros-
perous industry was never more hopeful
than it is now.

CONSUMPTION.

The total consumption of all kinds of
sugar for the year 1889 was 1,422,908
tons, a decrease of 47,089 tons, or 3.11
per cent. compared with the previous
year. This represents the total deliver-
ies of foreign to the refiners during the
year, which, after deducting the exports
of raw and refined, amounted to 1.196,567
tons, but does not take into account the
stocks they may have carried over, either
in the refineries or in bond; to which is
added the supply received from various
sources from which the domestic product
is obtained and which aggregated 226,341
tons. The most important feature is the
large increase in consumption shown for
the Pacific States. After deducting the
stock of raw sugar in San Francisco at
the end of the year, the refineries in
that city are found to have manufactured
and distributed about 30,000 tons more
than in 1888. This is due to larger ex-
tent of territory over which they have
marketed their product, the keen compe-
tition between the rival refineries having
caused them to find an outlet as far east
as the Ohio River, Western Pennsylvania
and down the Mississippi River. ‘The
prices of Eastern refineries were cut in
every possible direction where favorable
railroad freights could be obtained, the
sales being invariably made at a price
delivered to the buyer. In this way
competition has been unusually keen
throughout the year, Much more so than
the surface appearance of the market
from day to day would indicate, for,
while prices were held steady, the cut-
ting was done by means of special re-
bates and allowance on freight.

While the apparent consumption of
the country shows a falling off compared
with the previous year, this decrease is
more apparent than real, for probably
the quantity of sugar actually consumed
was really greater than shown by statis-
ties. Three causes have contributed to
this shrinkage: first, high prices have
been the most important factor; second,
the fruit crop last year was compar-
atively small and seriously curtailed the
operations of the canning industry, and,
third, the wide fluctuations in the price
of refined caused a close consumption of
the working stocks of dealers, or, in
other words, what is often termed the
invisible supply; and competent author-
ities estimate that at the end of the year
this quantity had been reduced to a min-
imum throughout the country.

The total consumption in the United
States for the past twelve years has been
as follows:

Tons.

ee 1,492, 908/1883..-. ..-. ..-- 1,164,391

ee es 1.460, 907 1RB2. ws... 1,070,920

a 1,307, d0G}1881.... --.. .-. 1,008,932
1886 1 a6o G70 e006 2... ee 997,16

PAGS Zoos 245 Sasriore... 831,896

ee I 2p5 seoeie..-) ..-. 2. - 773,478

The relative per capita consumption
(given in pounds) in this and a few
European countries is as follows:

Great Britain
Years. United States. and Ireland. Germany.
SPO coca 37. = : 14.7

39.9 i
SeGe oo oon 42.5 68.6 13.7
BOGS ooo. cee sees 45.3 71.6 14.1
Tes. 2.2. - 255. 47.4 73.2 17.9
pts: SE eee 49.7 74.1 17.0
T8045 Soc eas 48.9 ——. aoe
ISSG... cscs ee 51.8 i ae
ROE cine ene 52.2 ae ee
OM fo ccs ce 53.1 73.0 20.7
SO ccte eles shes 50.3 Beas na
PRICES.

One of the most prominent features of
the year 1889 is the high point to which
prices were carried during the specu-
lative excitement that culminated during
the first week in July; the first six months
being marked by a gradual and at times
rapid advance to that point, while during
the last six months there was an equally
steady decline, so that at the close of the
year the value of both raw and refined
was lower than at the beginning. The
highest prices for raw were on the basis
of 714 cents for 89 test Muscovado and
814 for 96 test centrifugal, but the aver-
age of these two grades for the entire
twelve months, while not as high as
might have been expected, was, never-
theless, the highest average since 1883.
The same is true with respect to refined,
the highest price for granulated being
9% cents, but the average for the year is
only 7.89 cents, which is the highest aver-
age for that grade since 1883. The fol-
lowing table of comparisons will prove

interesting:

S678 G50 set 6.75
79 See Meee 6.52
16B0 el O51 see es
G68 Om) Hes 6.02
re MIR 4 ses ea A Pe a 7.18
d608) 000 pie eee 7.89

CROP PROSPECTS.

The forecasting of the future has be-
come an important factor in the fluctua-
tions of market values, and hence the
progress of growing and maturing crops
is watched with more than usual inter-
est, and every effort is made to fore-
shadow the probable yield of all sources
of supply, for the world’s production of
merchandise is now distributed without
regard to distance or time, and a large
proportion of the sugar, as well as other
produce, is sold from the producing
country before it is shipped to its desti-
nation. Of the estimates thus obtain-
able, those relating to the beet crops of
Europe are perhaps the most reliable,
since they are based upon a systematic
examination in every stage of growth
and during the course of fabrication;
but, even here, actual results and esti-
mates are found to show wide differ-
ences. Then again, at this period of the
year, the manufacture of the crop has
been so far completed that the estimated
yield comes much closer to the result
than could be possible earlier in the
crop. Inthe Island of Cuba, which is
the most important source of supply for
this country, the grinding of the crop
begins late in December and usually
lasts through the remaining winter and
early spring months, but even now the
ultimate yield of the crop is subject to
contingencies of weather that lends a
good deal of uncertainty to estimates.
In several of the other West India
Islands the cutting of cane has just com-
menced, while others will not commence
operations for another month or six
weeks. Brazil has completed the manu-
facture of her crop, as have some of the
cane-producing countries of the East—
Java and Mauritius, where the new crop
begins in July or August, but in the
Phillipine Islands the new crop is just
commencing. The present outlook in all
directions foreshadows an enormous beet
crop and a supply of cane sugar in ex-
cess of last year, but not enough to over-
burden the markets of the world; the
world’s surplus at the beginning of next
October being roughly estimated at about
half a million tons.

qq .2+> >

Make Your Store Attractive.
From the Interstate Grocer.

Too much value cannot be placed upon
the little inexpensive conveniences, such
as glass cases for crackers and fruit,
neat barrel covers, racks, show cases and
the hundred and one things that go
toward making a neat and attractive
store. The business man will find that
the saving effected by their use in one
year’s time will more than pay the cost.
>_<

Pretty High.

“See that house over there ?”’ said one
traveling man to another.

SV es,??

‘-Bilsou, the novelist, built that.’’

“It’s a fine building.”’

‘“‘He paid for it with the proceeds of
one story.’’

“Oh! It’s pretty high for a one-story
house.”’ ‘

 

 

 

E. J. Mason & Co.,,

Proprietors of

Old Homestead Factory

GRANT, MICH.
MANUFACTURERS OF

Preserves, Evaporated Apples
Jellies and Apple Butter,

Our goods are guaranteed to be made
from wholesome fruit and are free
from any adulteration or sophis-
tication. See quotations in
grocery price current.

The Grand Rapids trade can be sup-

 

9\ plied by GOSS & DORAN, 138 South

| Division street. Telephone, 1150.

 

 

For Sale by Leading Wholesale Grocers.

 

PRODUCE MARK

Apples—Dealers hold winter
$2.50 per bbl.,

Beans—Dealers pay $1.25 for — and
$1.30 for picked, holding at $1.60 per bu.

Beets—40c per bu.

Butter—There is no improvement in the mar-
ket and no Big pe of any improvement. While
fancy o es of creamery are scarce and in
active demand, low grades are as common as
mud and about as sluggish and useless, so far as
business is concerned.

——— Flour— per bbl. for New York
stock.

Cabbages—35@86 per 100.

Cheese—Fair stock of full cream commands
11@12c.

Cider—9@10ce per gal.

Cooperage—Pork barrels,$1.25; produce barrels
25¢c.

ET.
fruit at $2.23@

Cranberries—Bell and Cherry isin fair demand
at $4 per box or $10 per bbl.

Dried Apples — Evaporated are held at 8@
8%e and sundried at 5@5«c.

Eggs—The market is dull and sluggish. Deal-
ers pay 13¢ per doz. for most offerings and hold
at 15c.

Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, $4.35 per bu.;
medium, $3.75. Timothy, $1.50 per bu

Honey—Quiet and slowsale. Clean comb com-
mands 15c per lb.

Maple Sugar—Genuine, 12%¢ per Ib.

Onions—Good shipping stock is scarce and
high, $1 per bu. having been offered by dealers
during the past week, without enough coming
to the surface to fill all orders. Spanish stock
commands $1.25 per 50-lb. case.

Pop Corn—4c per Ib.

Pork—Buyers pay 4c, shipping out at 4%c.

Potatoes—There is a fair shipping demand
from the South and East, but not strong enough
to build any high hopes on. Dealers continue
to pay 36@s8c per bu.

Poultry—Dressed is falling off in demand.

Squash—Hubbard, 2c per Ib.

Sweet Potatoes—Illinois stock commands %4
per bbl.

Tomatoes—Early Southern stock commands $1
per peck (7 gts.) box.

T urnips—30c per bu.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.

quotes as follows:

  
  
  

   
  

PORK IN BARRELS.
Mess new. ..-. 2.2... Duets Osetra cae 10 50
Mame Gs oe ce ee ees 10 50
Extra clear pig, short cut............-..++.- 12 00
Extra clear, heavy...... Dede oe cea eeeee 12 00
Gliéar fat pace 2.2. 11 50
Boston clear, short cut... 12 00
Clear back, short €ut..-...--..- ose -- 12:00
Standard clear, short cut, best.............. 12 00

SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.

Hams, average 20 Ibs..........-..-see0--e- eee 8%

16 bs

. ce 1D 624 PR ee 9%

ni ee Sete oe 6

a ORG DONCICRS 806s s
Breatfest Bacon, boneless. ................-.. 8%
rica beef ham prices...................-.... 8
Long Clears, hestvy.....-..--..-...-....-.. 6
Briskets, meqium, 6.2.0.2) 6

Meng Seis. 6
LARD—Kettle Rendered.
WROTEON oe oo oe ee ene coe Z
Ne cee eee en 7%
ee Fos ces eee ee 7%
LARD—Refined.
NC a se oe tenet a ceases toe 5%
S60 and 50 1b. Pups... oe 5%
3 lb. Pails, 20 in @ Case..............-.-.e-0es 6%
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a Case.............. deel bese Gislel oie 65g
10 1b. Paris, 6 im a Case. -.:. 0-2... 5... 6%
20 ib. Pails; 4 in @ Case..............--....--.- 64
i ee ee den 5%
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..... «. € 0
Boneless, rump butts............ ae 8 50
sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sagsaee. ... 0)... cn 6
Ham Sausare. .......-5 5-2-0502. 2.6... e. oe 9
Tongue Sausage........... Raced co ccacausuisa 9
Hravvetor, SRHSGEE. ...........- 22.2. 53.8 8
Blood Sausare. 6 Be
Bologna, straigyht.......- ee wee no 5%
Bologus, thick... 2... 1.3.2.5 8 Levcpees 5%
cae CHOCR Ee cece atc 5%

FRESH MEATS.
Swift and Company quote as follows:

 
  

 

Beef Garenes.. 2. 44@ 6
Hind quarters.................-... 54@ 6%
"fore ees eas 3%G@ 4
. MofhB i i Bee SF
ee a ee ae 7 @t%,
- TORSO ee os ce asc a sin @10
ERO eae ee eee o 4@%%
Pore tome ee. @ 6%
) Shemigers.. 6.0 osc sl @ 4%
Bologna... 652.5. see. ee 3 ee @5
Sausage, blood or head................. @5
se ee a @5
ee @8

Mutton... 2.3. . €: @ oS

OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.

WHitCGsH 2 @ 8%
ns SinGheO@ 200222000055. @ 8

oni ee @8

Eeicgt |... ss @20

ee eee a @7

iseGes. 2. @ 6

OYsTERS—Cans.,

Marrhsaven CouUnis.:...........-...--... @35

Selects | ose ee 22 @27

Me Be ee. @20

AmcBOrS _..._--.-....-_.--...---. @18

iavcqee a @16

Wavoriees..-....--4 2.2.2.5). tbl @14

oYsTERS—Bulk.

GianGarde ooo 2co @$1 15

Saleen. ee @ 150

case... ee. @1 50

SGPPOEOR ce oe ence cans one @1 50

BOSHODA 0055s c cece as tices een nenciesies @1 50

Hormserndisnh... 5.0 <0. .-2 es @ %

Shell oysters, per 100...........--..+-24. 1 00@1 50
© 6clams, Bee ee ee @ %5

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK,

  
 
  
 

  

  
 

Standard. 25 ib. DOxe€s....--. 9
Twist, 25 le he Ue ee EN e 9
ed EE 10%
MIXED.
Royal, 25 Ib. pails....... ee cece ae 9
te ge ae 8%
Extra, 25 lb. pails.............ceseseccees sone 10
< 206 Ih: (OPIS. 22:5... eo 9%
Wrench Cream: 2> 1b. paila.................. 11%
Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
bomen Props ee 12
Ee 13
Peppermint Drops...........-.--+eeeeeeees ae
Chocolate Drops....... 14
H. M. Chocolate Drops...... 18
Gam Proes ee : 10
Eaeerice DEOpe.. 2-2. ess. 18
A 6 lieoriee Props.....-....--.... s+... 14
Boezenees, plaim....-.-.---- ks 14
ee eee ose 15
Hnpertaig. (60.2 se ol 14
Migiiges: ..- 0.62. on 15
G@regm Ber 2... 3 13
Miia BE oe 13
Ornelas 16@18
Tiaced Made Cregms.-..0)...5...0 0 18
Pini Creams 3 eee 16
Meeemice Crewms .- 62. 20
String Boek .......-0------- -+ ese ee uci oe 15
Marne Ammones.. 9 2. eo 22
Wintergreen Berries.........................- 14
FaNncy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in pails.....................- 12
ee = we bis. ee ji
Ci printed, in re Rouge ee aula samieces 12%
. . SP) ON es ces es oe 11%
Chocolate Drops, in pails.............---s.e0s- 12
Gum Drops, in pails. ......-..--...-..-.......- 6%
= a on BOIS. 8. es. 5%
Moss Drops, in pails. .......-....--.+-.-+------ 10
° - Se ac 9%
Sour Drops, in pails..............- sees eee eee 12
Imperials, in pails. ..........---. sees eee econo 11
fr pS ee 10%
FRUITS.
Oranges, Florida, choice............---
ay “c Ex. oc @A4 00
- . famey, .-..-. |... @4 50
. - golden russets @4 00
Lemons, Messina, choice, 360.... @é4 50
“ec se “c 300. x @4
“ - fancy, 360.. @4 7%
S00... oe @5
= Malagas, choice, ripe.........
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 14 15
- = cnaice = i... 12 @12%
SS GHOICE, FIR. - 36.5 26s ocean ook one @
Dates, frails, 50 Ib...........-2...-2-000- @
S i¢ fraiis, 50: 1b..........--.------- @
= Fard, 10-Ib. box..............---- @10
re a7 i @8
‘ Persian. 50-1b, BOX. ... 5.2. -.5.... 6 @6%
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.........----se2e-es @16
= Eyaee...-5.2.-6 25k @15
. Carrere... 0 05.5.2... 15 @16
rae sa coke else coins @1i%
Walnuts, Grenoble. ............---+-++ @15%
s Conrenwie. 2). c sy @13
Pecans, Texas, H. P......... sees seen ne 10 @13
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H. P., Bells............--.--seees @ 8%
- . | Hoanted «osc. cos ce @i0%
Fancy, H. P., Suns........--2+-- eee eeee 8%
ae SY ROONOOE 2. cin oot i eset. @10%
Choies, HOP. Gi. ies ee ease. <5 @7
ate HO RORSOG. oo. 2 ose5ccee @ 9%

 

Wholesale Price Current.

The quotations given below are such as are ordinariby offered cash buyers who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

 

APPLE BUTTER.
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 5
AXLE GREASE.
ener eS. 3. coca, saan $2 60
POE ee os ees ac 1 2
Dineen eos a es 1 60
BAKING POWDER.

  

Absolute, 4 Ib. cans, 100s..11 7
- xD. ©: Sas. oo
che fib: DOs. 38 7
Acme, % Ib. cans,3doz.... 75
‘ ee eS oe
. fie * Te ae
“ Ws sa ey oe 20
Our Leader, 4lb. cans..... 45
e Sie 90
Re Oe, fe aes 1 60
Jelfer’s, 4% 1b.cans,doz.. 45
oe % lb. se a 85
re fib. 3 oo
BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. in case..... 80
Bristol, . ee ee 7
American. 2 doz.in case... 70
BLUING. Dozen
Mexican, 40z.......-..:.. 30
ie © Or es, 60
re RG Of. 5205.5... 90
BROOMS.
No Sort oo: 1%
Mee 2 00
avo, 2 Carpes......-- =... 2 2
I oe 200
Patriot Gem... 2.2.0. ...3.4-. 2 %5
Common WHISK. --........- 90
CG ne a ewe 1 00
Me 3 25
Warenouce........ | -:_-4. 2%
BUTTERINE
Dairy, solid packed.... ... 12%
ee OE as ola 13
Creamery, solid packed.... 13%
ie, Tors _. ie
CANDLES
Hotel, 40 tb. boxes......--.- 10%
Star, 40 -_ .. I%
Vee ee eT 12
Wicking .2.2......-......- 25
CANNED Goops—Fish.
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck..... 1 20

Clam Chowder, 3 Ib. .......- 2

Cove Oysters, 1 1b. stand....1 4
_ . 2ib. — o-
Hobpsters, 1 tb, pienie....._-. 1%
a 2 eG ec. 2 65

_ Jib: Star. ...:....-. 2 10
. @ ID. Star... 3. .o 15
Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 85
C fib. stand... 2... 1 20
’ a 2 00

oo 31b.in Mustard...2 85

- 3 ib: soused::....: 2 85
Salmon, 1 lb. Columbia.. ..2 00
o 4 lb. Alaska... .. 1 90
Sardines, domestic \4s...... 5
. - ae ck @ 9

o Mustard %s...... @9d

. imported \4s...10%@16

nas Spiced, 348......: 10

‘Trout, 5 1D. DTOGK.... 5...
CANNED G90Ds—FTruits.

a: gallons, stand. ..... 22
Blackberries, stand......... 90
Cherries,red standard 1 10@1 20
es Dispos ee 1 40
WOMARONG 200.000. 22... 1 i
Egg Plums, stand..... 1 15@1 35
Goosebperrics -......-........ 1 00
Grapes 2.0... 2.2. S.
Green Gazes.......... 1 15@1 35
Peaches, all yellow, stand..1 70
C Seconds ...... 1 10@1 45
ee PIG oe ee 1 15
Peges. oe 1
Pineappies -..........- 1 10@1 50
inees os 1 00
Raspberries, extra.......... 1
. TOG os 1 40
Strawberries .. ..1 15@1 3
Whortleberrics.............. 5
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay......
Beans, Lima, stand......... 85
se Green Limas.... @1 2%
foe Re @ %
<< Stringiess, Hrie....... 90

oe

Lewis’ Boston Baked. .1
Corn, Archer’s Trophy...... 1
. is Morn’g Glory.i

: - Early Golden.1i 00
Peas: Preneh 0.660... 1 68
‘© extra marrofat. .. @1 25
 gseakea 2. .-...3.-.. 7. 80
Jee, Si | 1 40
ee eC gittea |. 1 65@1 85
‘c French, extra fine... -1 50
Mushrooms, extra fine...... 215
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden. .85@1 00

 

5@,
Succotesh, standard....90@1
Squash a 1
Tomatoes, Red Coat.. 95@1

       

Good Enough95@1 00

a BenHar ... 95@1 00

. stand br.... 95@1 00
CHEESE.

Michigan Full Cream 114@12
Sap Sago.........--..- 16 @i6%
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet.. .........- 23
Prema. 2. 35
OOGGR see 38
Breaktast Cocoa.........- 48
Rice... 37
CHEWING GUM.

Bupber, 100 lumps... -.....-.- 2

. oe ee

SPECS ee. 30

CHICORY.

Pegle ec 6
i oe 7%
cCOFFEE—Green.

Rio, fair. -.. 1... ey, ae
OOM 6. ol: 184%@20
wre... @2
“© fancy, washed...19 @22
<<  poldenm ....--..: 20 @23
Santeg. 6202000. 17 @22
Mexican & Guatemala19 @23
Peaperry 6.0.6.2. oo 20 @23
gaya, bigerter......_-- 20 @2
. Mandheling....26 @2%
Mocha, genuine....... 25 @27

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add %c. per 1b. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.

COFFEES—Package.

  

apn se ee. 24
<f in egbitiers -....-2-.-..- 2434

MeLaughlin’s XXXX....24%

Durham... 20.2... 2. 2. 24

 
 

 

 

Thompson’s Honey Bee....26
. Tiger... 2.8. 24
Good Morning ............- 24%
COFFEE EXTRACT.

Wauey City... 3... 85
Wet 1 10
CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft....... per doz. 1 25

iy ‘ote oi 1 30
- Gfe - 1%
0 to: ...... . 2 00
re Sots... ek 2 25
Jute GO fe..-...:- . 1 00
- We eb oe . ne 115
CONDENSED MILK.
Wage) ose 7 50
Anglo-Swiss........-. 6 00@ 7 60
CRACKERS.
Kenosha Butter. .....-...... 1%
Seymour =  .- 4.6.4... 5
Wtee oe ce 5%
folly 3%
oie ie 2 ee 6
Bost. eos. ea 6%
Pie Sega: . 8: 7%
OMB vers
Oyster 2s 5%
City Oyster, XXX...........- 5%
Pienie is 25. ee 5%
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly pure.........-....- 38
Grocers .... 5... 24
DRIED FRUIT
Apples, sun-dried.
. evaporate
Apricots, bes
Blackberries ‘
Nectarines ‘“
Peaches re
Plums re

 

Raspberries ‘
DRIED FRUITS—Citron.
ip Geen... - 2... 5...
Wi Pewee... sc.
DRIED FRUITS—Currants.
Zante, in barrels......
“ “in less quantity @6%

 

DRIED FRUITS—Raisins.

Wareneias. i... ..--; 84@ 8%
Ongares. 5... 55...
Sites: o>. Se. 10%@10%

London Layers, Cali-

PORN ss ac 2 50@2 75 |

London Layers, for’n.

@ |
Muscatels, California.1 75@2 25 -

DRIED FRUITS—Prunes.

Wane oso se 4%@ 5
MOR o-oo ca 5%@ 6
Calitormnia 3. cos, 9 0

DRIED FRUITS—Peel.

  
 
  

PiCMOW oc. oo 3. se esy 5c 18
Cramee uo . 18
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina, 100 Yh. kegs... .......
Hominy, per Bol. 1s... 3 50
Macaroni, dom 121b box.... 60
“ imported..... 9%
Pearl Barley ...:....- 24@ 2%
POan, sreem (24.55. 2s): @1 10
AG So a @ 3
Sago, German.....:... @ 6%
Tapioca, kor prt...  6@ 7
Wheat, cracked....... @5
Vermicelli, import.... @10
“ domestic... @60
FISH—SALT.
Cod, whole... .. 5 @6
Fr ROHRGICRA 2 ic... 2. 74@ 8
Babs oo. 9%@I10
Herring, round, % bbl.. 2%
. TOC eo 2 %5
- Holland, bbls.. 12 00
. © kegs,new @ 7
e Sesiod oo] @ 22
Mack. sh’s, No.2,% bbl 12 00
a oi ee 12 ip Bic. S|
a oe ' aa “ce 10 “e sa 20
Trout, % a 4 4 50
oO te, AGS ie 60
White, No. 1, % bpis........ 5 %5
. Gi 12 ib. kite... . 1 00
. 10 Ib. kits..... 80 |
Family, % bbls.... .2 50
ee 7 ee 50
GUN POWDER.
Bere ee 5 25
igtt Opa 2 88
HERBS.
ee 9
Hee oe 14
JELLIES.
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6
Oicaes fo0da..-.. 4
LAMP WICKS.
Ne es. 30
Ned 0 40
Ne 2: ss 50
LICORICE.
PUPS os. 30
Calaprig. ots ae
Sletig 18
MATCHES,
No. 9 sulphur... .-2 00
Anchor parlor... 17
Ne 2 emer oh 10
Hixport parlor... 00.0... 4 00
MOLASSES.
Biack Strap... ...-.-. 20
Cuba Bakitig......... _ . 2485)
Porto Bieo..........-.... sade}
New Orleans, good........ 24@28 |

 

 

   
  
 

 

  
   

: fancy... 42@45 | counts:
One-half barrels, 3c extra | 200 or Over......... 5 per cent.
OATMEAL, Lee -
Muscatine, Barrcla |... 1.5 |e ees : ss
Half barrels... - 3 00 | VINEGAR.
“ @anca | 95 then 95 40 er 7
ROLLED OATS. Ce 9
Muscatine, Barrels.... @5%5j| $1 for barrel
Half bbls... @3 00) MISCELLANEOUS.
cs Cases... .. 2 15@2 25 | Cocoa Shells, bulk......... 5
OIL. | —
Michigan "Test... 6 0004. 94 | PAPER & WOODENWARE
Water Write). .5 2... 10% | PAPER.
PICKLES, | Curtiss & Co. quote as fol-
Medium... 0007700. 5 50@$ 00 | lows:
. pel Sie | BOR oi 160
Small DOE 67 | Edghe Weight... 22... 200
16 Dol... ....8 85 | Sugar be ied ae oe eo Alaa ae 180
PIPES. Peaware 88... 2%
@lavNe. 216500 0s. 1 oi Bameee 2%
< © 2. full count.......- ‘| Dry Goods... a. 6
Cob, No. 3.00.1) 5 | date Maniia..
PRESERVES. ted Express
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 8 | i
RICE. | : i
@aroHua bead. |... :. 6 | = Cohen. 22
ee 5% | Cotton, No. 2................ 20
| Noe Sita ee es NG 18
: Ne So 5 | Sea Island, assorted....... ul
Japan ............ ......5%4@6% | No.5 Hemp ............. ... 16
SALT | No. Se ea 17
Common Fine per bbl....... 80 | Weel 8
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 27 | WOODENWARE,
5 packet 190) Tube, Not 7 00
60 ee 2900; — Nee 6 00
— «|... S151. 7 ING F . 5 00
Ashton bu. baga ............ 75 | Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 60
Higgins ‘‘ qe 1 No.1, threehoop.... 1 %
Warsaw ‘“ so 35 | Clothespins, 5gr.boxes.... 60
“ vo 6 | Bowls, 1. imen........ 2... 1 00
SALERATUS. ee 12
Church's, Atm & Hammer...54%| “ 15 [ .-.-+ «-cseues 2 00
Dwight saCom........ Se 2 75
aor 5 | ‘ assorted, 17s and 17s 2 50
DeLand’s Cap Sheaf.. See “* 15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
= 11... 12... Big | Baskets, markes............ 40
Gurteagen 4% | ‘* bushel............ 1 50
SEEDS. \ _ ‘* with covers 1 90
Mixed bird 4%!  ‘“ willow cl’ths, No.1 5 7%
Caraway gq | a ic “| Ne? 6 2
Cabary io a. 3% | : o “ Nos? 2
De a “  Splmg : Neto oe
RT Saint i ° © Novss
ae 4¥, | : " “ . Nod &
TE 7% | GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
SNUFF. | a WHEAT.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37 | White : 78
Maceaboy, in jars....._....- 35 | Red.............---.-- 78
French Rappee, in Jars..... 43 | All wheat bought on 60-Ib. test.
SOAP. | : FLOUR,

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands. | Straight, in sacks......... 40
Superior 000 3 30!  OSEPeIS. 60.07. 4 20
Queen Annee il 385| Patent ‘ sacks......... 5 00
German Family... .......... 1 | i  BOmrere oi.) 5 20
Motiled German............ 3 00! MEAL,

Old Germagn 270 | Bolted... .........--...4.. 1 00
U.S. Sie Bareain..... .....200 Granwuiated............ 1 10
Bross, Wiener. .......... ... 3% | MILLSTUFFS.

Goeos (Castles 6000 ss. 3 00 | Bran.......-..... sees eee 11 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy........ 36 | Ships. cet tee ces cte eee weeee 11 530

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. | Sereenings......-.......-. 11 00
Happy Family, %........... 2 95) Middlings............-.... 13 00
Old Country, 80.... $ a9 Mixed Feed........ seca 13 50
Una, |. @ 65 | CORtRe WIESE. 2 0.6... 8 13 50
Bouncer 160.....0.5. 3 15} CORN.

SPICES—W hole. fomel lots... 33
ii Ce ead 30
Cassia, China in mats....... S| : OATS.

“ Batavia in bund....11 | Smeal! lots... 3. 28
bs Saigon in rolls...... 49 | Car ee wececcees eceuas 26
Cloves, Amboyna...........26 | RYE.
s¢ Zameeer. 20 1... 20 |
Mace Batavia -.... .:..... oj
Nitmess, faney............- Ce
ee Poe m |
° WG. So ce
Pepper, Singapore, black....18 |
. White... .26 |
° co eS ee See 20 |
spices—Ground—In Bulk. | HIDES, PELTS and FURS. ,
Avinmiee 002) ue i5 |. Perkins & Hess pay as fol
Cassia, Batavia............. 20 | lows: '
i “ and Saigon.25 | HIDES.
‘Saipan oe ae 1 GOON 4@%4%
Cloves, Amboyna........... 32 | Part Cured............ o @4
ec) | ADAP oc 5 | eee ete es a @ 4%
Ginger, African............. 12% | Heavy steers, extra...
ei) POoenei es as 150 | Dry....-- eee cree ee eee @ 6
eR ol oo 18 | ra Kips ......--.++-- 5 @6
Maco Batavia. 00016... 90 | Calfskins, green...... 3 @5
Mustard, English........... | . cured...... 44@ 5
“ “ and Trie..25 | Deacon aking. ......... 10 @20
«| Aieute eco 27 | 3 off for No. 2.
Nutmegs, No. 2 ........--..- 80 | PELTS,
Pepper, Singapore, black....21. | Shearlings............. 10 @25
Z a “ white..... = | Estimated wool, per bh 20 @28
SVENNO.. 0.4.05. oe woke:

‘ pe. | Mink, dark............ 7
—. 3 . ewe 25@ 50
Powdered .o.5.0 0024... @ 7% | oe aes tee aae. 40@ 80
Standard Granulated. @ 6% | ¥ Se a ae %@ 80

oo ee ced ate ee =
Confectioners’ A...... @6.44| FOX, ted..-.----------- 1 25@1 50
White Extra C........ On). Berore 4 =
fetes Oe @ 5% | BTCY..--.--2+ +--+. 40@ 70
Be a Gighe Big | DOABCE 5+ --2--=-<oFe> Tap 00
Wellow 022) @5 | Cat, Wild....-.-....... 50@_ 5

SAL SODA. Be ela ee Se 4 00@5 00
Weg 1% | LYDK..--.--seee eee eee es 3 00@4 00
Granulated, boxes.......... g” | Martin, dark... .....- 25@3 00
SAPOLIO. | pale & yellow 60@ 7
Kitchen, 3 doz. in box..... 2 50 | Otter, dark............ 6 00@8 00
Hand, ig - 2 50) WOME, ae, fete 2
SAUERKRAUT. ig Bele eee sa 1 °
Silver — “4 : | Oppossum...... .-2+-+- 15@ 20
: —; | Deerskins, per Ib...... 15@ 25
SYRUPS. |. Above prices for No. 1 skins
Corn, barrels.......------- @27 | only
, . a a a cc.) oo | . seals
are Sugar, bb. .........- 28@36
‘“c 8 half barrel... .30@38 Washed.. So dedbce aie wees 25@30

SWEET GOODS. : UIweahed . 2.000 26. ae 12@22
Ginger Snaps........-. 8 MISCELLANEOUS.

Sugar Creams... ‘ 8% | WRHOW oo... ccc sls Cosas 3 @ 3%
Frosted Creams....... 8% | Grease butter......... 2 @3
Graham Crackers..... 8 SWHCHOG Gc. sccce ney 1%@ 2 9
Oatmeal Crackers..... 8 Ginseng.......... ....2:00@2 50

@hoice. ..-.. 30@35 |

| SHOE POLISH.
| Jettine, 1

dos. in box... -
soDA.
BORO ous. sey eas 5%
| Regs, Mngugn so. .2 5s. doen as 4%
TEAS.
: yaPpan—Regular.
OE oii eck 14 @16
| GOOG bie casi 18 @2
| Choice. ..........5+--++ 2% @w
t CUMOOBE co cack. a 82 @38
cn » SUN CURED.
WORE oo ee ae. 14 @15
Gooe 2ocio06s ao 16 @20
CImMOe. 7 e. ee 24
CRG. Sica 30 oss
BASKET FIRED,
MOR 205.0 0052 ole 2. @20
ChOtCGs ooo. ees @s5
Choleesh. on... @35
Extrachoice,wireleaf @40
| GUNPOWDER.
Common to fair....... 2 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........ T% @s
| IMPERIAL.
| Common to ‘fair....... 20 @35
Superior tofine........ 40 @50
YOUNG HYSON.

Common to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine....... 30 @40
OOLONG.

Common to fair... ...25 @30
Superior to fine....... 30 @50
Fine to choicest....... 55 @65
ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

We co ee 25
| CROC ns oss ss 30
BORG oe 55 or
Pea Digs. oo 8 @10
_ ToBACccos—Piug.
| _S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands,
| Nimrod, 4x12 and 2x19.:...:.. 37
| Reception, 22-5x12, 16 oz...... 36
Vineo, 1x6; 444 to @...... uo 30

Big 5 Center, 3x12, 12 0z......

| Wheel, 5to ib.... at
Pret, Sao. 9 Os. 3. 25
| Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands.

| Something Good... ....3..... 38
t Downe POGre. 665000103: 38
Does A EE Ns 38
| Wedding Cake, bik..........: 38
| PORGCCO Ce 38

TOBACCOsS—Fine Cut.

 
  

D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

Haweana ok. 62

| pwees Cuba... .-.._. 37

| Our Leseer........ -- 35

i ToBAccos—Smoking.

[Our Leader... 0. 16

| eCtOf 21) Lo. ose

| Plow Boy, 2 oz.... -32

, . 402... -31

| ie ES 20.0003 [oe

| | TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.

1% 2, per hundred... 2: .... 2 50
£5; ee 3 00
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B2 r aoe 00

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Dru gs s¢ Medicin es. Coffee-Growing in Brazil. still great room for improvement, and Provide for the Fresh Cows. still better. Consult the farm record, or
Rio correspondence New York Times. Yankee ingenuity would find a field for 1
sr — : ike i From the American Agriculturalist. memorandum book, to see when the nat-
The story of coffee is interesting. A | devising methods for drying the fresh-| The wise dairyman will k __|ural period of gestation will i d
ff a State Board of Pharmacy. native of Abyssinia, it was brought to picked berries uniformly, regulating the} yjision in a. for ee ee keep careful watch of th a Sh
Two ear Ores Ree ee Yensen, in Arabia Felix, in the fifteenth | degree of moisture in dry houses and| arise in the care and —— may calve before or aft = ao os
zareo Yeare—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. century. It was two centuries before | grading the coffee. stock. He can ed x a ~ symptoms and aoacare rhage ms
e acob Jesscr, Mu i. enki j i :
rire Y. a wena e ae coffee-drinking began in Europe, and The coffee comes to market—to Rio de} to no better wcaia 2 than i gentler va in this regard New milch cows ei a I N: Ss
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. still another hundred years elapsed be- Janeiro or to Santos, as it happens to be 8 ae f oe
= — ven aaiisann fore the Dutch East India Company be- Rio or Sao Paulo grown—in small lots a few stalls for cows during parturition. sonny eS ee
K Meetings during 1890—Grand Rapids, March 4and5;| gan to bring the valuable berry from | It is consigned to coffee receivers who shear heorenay eS aie eee D R
Serre i3andi4;| Java where the coffee tree was first|rebag it, charging 700 reis, or about 75 stanchioned up to the moment of caly-) Was tlt tr ang abund a ’
» Nov. : ; i i. ’ ing, and often so confined through its warm quarters and abundant food. In
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. SS last year of the sev- aes ena aust ~ coffee aeorsl throes, is as inhuman as it is et atin the early spring, when the greater num-
President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. . e various lots : Bu enema ‘ ger
President FrovienteF. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. In the beginning of the eighteenth | and mixes and grades into large lots. = roma’ - —- instinctively — re ns — ee — -
fee'd Vice President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs. | cent soll ff 1 H agi : -| seek seclusion during these trying peri- are indispensable, not only for the com-
Reed Wice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. entury one solitary coliee Pp ant took esubmits samples of his lots to ex-| o9qs, and that lusi : fort of the cows, but toi hei
Secretery—H. J- Brown, £00 on root in the soil of the island of Mar- porters, who buy for shipments and ia mo 8 Oe a =—— passage throu h this ér = al. En :
¢$ 7reastive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E. T. tinique, whence sprang the great indus- again mix and grade according to their) [p) the dai Se =. these matt eh b See a
Webb. Jackson; D.E.Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Mc-| try of South and Central America and of | standard The standard ba tai nless the dairy is a very large one, Mt; jorge taseiugar* ee
Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit. : : , : og g contains} yi]] not require more than two or three | 'S to assist nature. Cows that run down — ee
Noxt Mecting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday the West Indies. It was a Jesuit priest) sixty kilograms, or 132 pounds. eas t ealvi i i a
of September, 1890. who conferred this great benefaction on | ‘The planter has to bear heavy eharges ae for the pulpene indicated. Tere : as ed aa Se
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. the southern half of the American con- 1144 cents per pound export duty more ri ee encnes we ico ae Se
President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.| tinent. The vessel in which the priest | than one-quarter of a cent per pound for st es atest ee put Bet Ss eas oo oo orgie
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. embarked with a half-dozen coffee plants irebagging, out of which must come spel mise olg ei? ar —— Ch mi D i , :
— ae —— = was storm-tossed and driven out of her | transportation charges to the port, cost oe Se pigs bars opening + ee e€ icals and rug $1 sts Sundries,
etro armaceutica p . : : . - °
President, J. W. Allen; aaa: w. en: course, and the supply of water ran of picking, care of plantation and inter- stall need be onl oe a bas egos de wisi! — = sceoell
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Amociation short, but the heroic man shared the est on investment, so that even in good! ;ovements of a asl a e free | prise him)—Excuse me, madam, but may i
J inte small quantity, distributed once a day to| crop years, with good prices, the margin} stalls snug and he th “ = I inquire why you have selected only de- —s
e each soul, with his precious charge, and | of profit is not great. and well fe d ith st p them dry, |signs in imitation of bugs, spiders, liz-
ccax caved oacgi the ae Waar Wiilb Popeeige aon pee well littered with straw. The cow|ards and serpents in purehasing your a4 i i “
He was Sympathetic. shoots. trade from the product of Brazil. The Speaateredipssis es = eet Se d bl ‘ IGINBS Paint t
= | aa os oy Coffee planting in Brazil, on an exten- best Mocha and the best old Government . a =: and kept there! Mrs. Thinkhardt—Certainly sir. My 5 g, | g, aris Bs,
ae ° abby little man, = = nt, | sive scale, is a comparatively modern in- Java are, as a rule, from Brazil. a = Sepang eae = husband drinks, and I’m going to make Sole Agents for the Oel i
jovial face — a red muffler, stopped in| qustry. ‘The first cargo of coffee shipped Originally they were, perchance, from solation for a longer period would be him think he’s got ’em. gz or e Celebrated Pioneer Prepared Painta.
front of a arlem _— store the! to the United States (in 1809) was only| the same plantation, and, quite likely
sae — — — by oS . came | 39,000 pounds. In 1888, about 212,000 | from the same tree. The small flat Wholesale Price Current.
ene and the little man ventured to re- | tons of coffee were shipped to the United | grains, frequently pressed fiatter by Advanced—Gum Opium, Gum Opium (po), Quinine, G
‘ Ain’t ashamed of his feelin’s, any- States, while the total crop was nearly | passing between rollers, are colored and| Ipecac Root (po), Linseed Oil, Babbitt’s Posagh. ee Reed oil Be on, eee See ‘We are Sele Propetens of
way, is he 97 ; S, ANY-| 500,000 tons, worth about $120,000,000. polished by machinery and become the Seal Root, Golden Seal Root (po), Salacine. : sis pA
y, is he: This year’s crop is ashort one, but it | Mocha of New York dealers The larg- | W
+ Zi a 2”? retorted the stranger) will be at least 300,000 tons. est and most perfect berries are oak hikes’ ener 8@ 10 hha. cw oe 16@ oe. —_—. EATHERLY'S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY
ie oe boss of the store, I reck The coffee plants are first reared in into old Government Java. Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 Cyanide ..........26.:.) 5O@, 55 Argenti Nitras, ouee @ 6 :
1Y> — re, I reckon. | nurseries, whence they are transplanted| But, in reality, no better coffee is | Boracic ....----+---+: 30 | Lodide..........-.----- 2 80@2 90| Arsenicum............ 5@ 7 ee
I was just a wonderin’ if he’d think me} to the regula ‘chard li a : | Carbolicum ......---+- 40@ 45 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 33@ 35| Balm Gilead Bud.
: ane i A : egular orchard. A little ball of; grown anywhere in the world tha ei 5 5! Bi ae =
sassy if I sympathized with him a little. a aae : Se ae : = | Coriemm. .--~---2++--* ses tas | Potases, Piet Com. > | calcio chin 0@2 20
SS ee ee mold — ee the — in transplant- | ——- Brazil. Very little of it is im-| Hydrochlor ......----- 3@ 5 reel ee opt..... 8@ 10| Calcium Chior, 1s, (48
oe eae an, you pee, 25 ime. Tee coe & razil is to clear} ported into the United States. In fact Nitrocum ....-----++- 40@ 13 | Potnes Nites. ------ -- 7@ 9} 11; .4s, 12).......... 9 We have in stock i
= as ~— a ae ae at times. | away the virgin forest and dig holes and | but little of it leaves Brazil. Itis worth ae me iu —~< = atone ee. 5 3 Se is cane
po ieee iauacesiccal fill with rich mold and insert the young | here from $30 to $33 a bag of 132 pounds. a A aes Gassicl Beaste ae o
‘Why there in the winder,” ret i plants. They are set in rows about eight | It is variously known as planters’ old Sulphuricum.... ----- 14@ 5) oni ape : - el 46 W biskies, Braxdies,
ee” _ the winder,” returned | feet apart, and begin to bear the second | golden Rio, or old yellow Santos coffee eee ie ee —— ss a a
the little man, pointing to the legend: =ial : : - | Tartaricum......------ 40@ 43|Althae...........--.--- 25@ 30| Caryophyllus, (po. 28) 23@ %
I g s or third year. If not cx y | ries as aa
year. not attacked by the| A few berries are left on the tops of the Anchusa ......-++++++- 15@ 20| Carmine, No. 40.... @3 75 Gins, W7ines EUs
ee Eas eeceere en ener on etre coffee tree worm the trees, if carefully | most vigorous trees to thoroughly ripen. — 5c eRe @ 2%) Cera Alba,S.&F..... 50@ 55 g , me
a STRYKERE’S BLUE. cared for, will bear for thirty years.| These are picked, and selected berries | 49° 18 rs oe, = : Goma Gath 100 2 — ee —_—
oe = be —— = are — eg ree —— It is difficult to get a] Carbonas Se ge tes Glychrrhiza, (py. 15). 16@ 18| Cassia Fructus........ e =
bey eal) ace oo gs red to exceed twelve feet in heig t. | prime ‘article. as it must be at least two Chloridum ....-----++- 12@ 14| Hydrastis Canaden, Comma 10
ied —» Se = = spreading bushes, several stems | years old before it is thought to be fit for ANILINE. elicnac Ais, po... im we) cueeen 2 5
xu oo Fi : >| from one root usually, with their rich ‘use, and you must have a planter for a 2 25 | Inul i ae : squibbs .. eo W y j Mi j W
2 >-retreg ‘ ades ée ss eg ’ | Hipek.......--. + ----- 2 0O@2 25 | THUIA, DO---- +22 <2: 15@, 20 8 rf es
re oe kane dark green foliage, are beautiful at all | friend or a coffee dealer in the whole-| Brown.....----+-++-**: sie 00 a za 35 | Chloral ayaa. 8 0g 15 eare Sole Agents oe) ichigan ior .D. & Go.,,
; ee ably| seasons, and a coffee plantation, with | sale trade to secure even one Dag. Cor om SE res Jal ee Se Ss cesitins © Ew —— ¢
if 4 ¢ ? i aks 7 z 2 | ae 7 . “a 95 e 8) ds 2 > 5 Ie idi 5 i. ;
he’s been dabblin’ in stocks, or maybe trees in bloom, and when the trees are! fee made from the old golden Rio by one ST — Seaca ign @ 3 ee ee Henderson County Hand Made Sour Mash
— of the little Stryker’s; | Joaded with berries, is a lovely sight. | who knows how is an elixir few persons BACCAE. Podophyllum, po.-..-. 15@_ 18| Corks, list, din per ta , é os
a. 7 homage pea) ——. aS Constant care is necessary to keep a | outside of Brazil have enjoyed. Phe | Cubeae (po. 1 60..----- 1 = _ eo ata ane = liao @ 60 Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite
nga em oe acne and braced | coffee plantation in proper condition. | grains must be fresh ground, not roasted at ee 25@ 30}. fo T@1 35 ee bbl ey = = :
himself up to walk to Fifty-ninth street.! The space between the trees must be/ black, and ground ak oe — nr = moe ee a = = Rve Whisk
ee ) 1 t ee sores ee nasi os c Bodo udee a
wea a ae kept clear of weeds and the soil about, cup of black coffee made by an old Mina wae WG 7 oe 400 6 = y -
: : : ae the roots lightly and carefully loosened. , negress will leave a recollection which | Peru..--------s 0-777" @I1 30 | Senega ...........- +++. 60@ 65{ Crocus ..........0.0... 2 3
¢ Gum opium has again advanced. Mor-|In the Province of Rio de Janeiro the | years cannot efface. Terabin, Canada ....- po 0 | Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40| Cudbear...2 2.2... 0o.. = =
phia is tending higher. Quinine is very | coffee plantations are on the sides of; The Parahiba Valley of the Province a = Scillae, (po 35) 2 108 12 — et = 2 Ww :
firm, with a large demand. P. & W. have angen ces - the greatest care has to of Rio de Janeiro was the coffee region of . — 18 Symuplocarpus, Foti- Ether Sulph..-..-....- 880 70 e sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
i a ale Se “"~|be exercised in keeping the surfe se | Brazil. The ri re 7 ‘ao}_| Abies, Canadian..-------+-- US, PO... s.e0. @ 35| Emery, all numbers.. Ww i i j j
ed Aue Gk WEES ee ee setulae . bore erent = a erqiuawaica’ Cassiae ae z Valeriana, Eng. (po.30) @ 2 mery “origi @ ee S . ae Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar
i : a ae ; 2 J an | s i Fe ee eta fe i 5@ 20| Ergota, (po.) 45.......
scarce. Antifebrin is poe scarce, | be used with safety is the hoe, and the | sides of this basin seemed to have a Buonymus atropurp wetneeee 30 | Zingiber ances 10d 5 Flake ‘White oars - 2 ‘All c ee ; :
also. Phenacetin is in small supply. | soil can only be scraped. Digging would | particular affinity for the coffee tree. It Myrica Cerifera, po..------- 20 | Zingiber j......---- oe a 231 as orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we res
The new French substitute for antipyrine, loosen it too much and the torrential rains ; gave vigorous growth and a rich flavor. oo ae 12 SEMEN. San 3 poper 0. 74@ 9% | COlVO them. Send in a trial order.
exalgine, is selling fast. It is aad ie be would soon carry it all away into the, The climate was just right; the sun- SHBSUfERS Cll clue ae 12] Anisum, (po. 20).. -. _@ f i Pe a oe a
aa cna a © 8°) valleys. The trees require sunshine and | Shine, heat -and rainfalls were well or-| Uimus Po (Ground 12)....-- 10| Apium (graveleons).. 10@ 12} Glassware flint, 75 & 10 per
e same t ing, chemically. The dose is} rain, equable temperature, and constant, idered. The Parahiba River rises about EXTRACTUM. Garul, (po. i8) ae es fa. i i
% one-half that of antipyrine and it is sold | judicious culture. Asarule they will , eighty miles nearly due west of this city Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 2G 2 Cardamon.........----1 00@1 25] aa Be =
at the same price. The advance in mer- not thrive in valleys. There are two | and runs west and southwest for about : 15 tb. bi Se — = ee eee 10@ 12 Giyewie R2@ 2%
cury and mercurials is well sustained. kinds of soil most congenial to the coffee | eighty miles, and, curving round a bluff ee see Be 14 yaaa a 28. 00 — a Ss 2 é
2 : tree—the chocolate-colored and the dark- ; mountain spur, takes an east by north- “ 4s. 14@ 15 Chenopodium es 10@ 12) Hydraag Chior Mite... ae = :
um camphor has again advanced and} red, strongly iron-impregnated. least course between the Serra do Mar ‘ fe SS 1 %@1 85) Cor... @ 35 AT mea
tends higher. Malaga olive oilishigher.| There are three flowering seasons, ‘and the Serra do’ Montigueira, until at reer Pook. oe 8 o gee oe GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Ipecac root, powdered, has advanced. | August, October and Beeember. The | 582 Filis t breaks through the former peeeecegeed 0 G3 50 ee ee eM : Unguentum 150 55
Linseed oil is higher. Babbett’s polish hag of coffee depends on the results of | = ae: =i gas Its length is} Citrate Soluble....---. . = tea wae ichtbyobolia, A ee 1 oe 50 W N . URE
nee i ‘ e floweri hes i .| abou miles. t has six ‘inci idum Sol.... See ae 7 : » AM..... 25@1 50 A Z
is higher. Nutmegs have advanced. Oil ee ee ae ae of spel rad res 8 Ee Galexide ae Ao = 4% ae aa Hest 75@1 00 C
s ‘ 3- | ©. .. 8 s s g-| 8 a ; ‘ settee scceeeeeee ss C “ ; See. TE@
pennyroyal has declined. Golden seal) soms. It must be neither too wet nor | Bitude. The rounded hills, ridges and ———— “| 7 | Sinapis, Albu......-.. =. Todoform.... ee ' “Os 70 ane PERS: i
root has declined. Salacin is lower. too dry. When the first flowering season | mountain sides are the sites of the coffee ¥LORA. nope = toda ee at —o a fi . s
pr eee occurs, the coffee planter is on the anx-| Plantations. The soil is either a dark| , jie a eee fe 800 85 3 Z
@ The Mathematics of Debt. ious seat, and so is the coffee trader. | red, from an admixture of terra oxide, or cee 30G 35 Ss ~~. Le = 5
From the New York Sun. Their anxiety usually continues until | dark or light chocolate color. Matricaria ....-- --++- *30@ 3 ed — io@l 50 ice ona kak itis :
Teacher (to class in arithmetic)—A the third flowering season is over. If | The coffee crop of the Province of Rio FOLIA. Juniperis Co. O. T....1 75@1 75| Magnesia, Suiph (bi — =
man borrowed $100 to pay one-seventh of | the first flowering results in a good fruit- | de Janeiro was about 4,000,000 bags in} Barosma ....-.--;. --- 10@ 2 Cee : ee : be = a eee 2@ 3
his debts. What are his debts ? ing, the planter is comparatively happy. ; 1886-7, the great bulk being grown in Cassia Acutifol, | 25@ 28 Spt. “aio 8 WOOs 50 eae ‘ aN 3 5@ 50 A sure cure for the
The Quick Pupil—Six hundred dollars; though he is always more or less anxious | the Parahiba region. But the produc- nivery ic" Ae) 35q@. 50 | Vint Operte 0. 123@200/ “ S.N.Y. Q. ie —* R j M ;
eee seven and he’s paid one. till his crop is saved. He prays for | 0D has steadily declined for two years | Salvia officinalis, 45 |\, 19 ae a 2 85@3 10 eo alady =
he right Pupil—Seven hundred dol- plenty of hot sunshine and a ee 'and the decline will probably ti ANd WB.....ceeeeeee> § Moschus Panton. . oi. ... @ 40 See . °
u 3 1 J suns proper ! I y continue. |. tra SPONGES. Myristica, N 7 5 Tae
lars, for he still owes the hundred he amount of moisture, both being essential | There are various causes assigned for ieee cea <a . Florida sheeps’ wool vk Goa. - {0 patie oped Clead Wid ‘Sot ake oe pene mau ie ancien
borrowed. to the perfect development and ripening this falling off, but there are two prin-| , oscia ist Sea @i w (CAarTiage.........--+; 2 25@2 50| OS. Sepia.............. ® 32 ‘Send for Tilustrated — sige .
The Youthful Seer—Eight hundred| of the berries. Of course, as the coffee. cipal reasons therefor. The abolition of | “°"'™ ga Pe 2 @ ems a oe ee CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street Order a sample d fy j
dollars and ten cents. planting districts are great, and the area. slavery was a fatal blow to coffee plant- i « (ll @ 80| velvet extra’ sheeps” * | Picis Lig, N.C, 4 gal cages Se oe a ae a
Teacher—How do you obtain that re-| in cultivation is constantly extending, | ing in the Province of Rio de Janeiro. Se 701 $01 ont eae A ae es Ss
s sult? the same conditions do not prevail| The free negroes will not work steadily. | aloe, eae (po. 60) --- 50@ 60 — nine 85 a —— ae @1 00 VW ANTED part of the U. S. on receipt of $1 or six
The Y. S.—He blowed in the hundred| among all the coffee-growing regions. Those who do not go to the towns and| ‘“ Cape, (po. 2)... @ 2 Grass sheeps’ wool car- Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80) .. : 50 e for $5.
agin the bank tryin’ to git hunk with the | Almost every Slantation has its peculiar | cities have bak few wants, and when] .. Socotrt, (po. 8). od a ee g5| Piper Nigra, (po.22).. @ 18] POTATOES APPLES, DRIED
game, and then the dealer lent him ten; conditions, and what happens in one | they are temporarily supplied they can- 88). ee a Folio Se be cals Semee - e G ; : . 1 ” ici
a out’n the drawer to git a plate of | place may not in another. ‘not be hired to work. It must be ad- Ammoniae -...-.,----- %@ 30 — ica aa 1 40 Plumbi-Acet 0.0... 14 1b FRUIT, BEANS La Grippe Medicine Co.
am and’’ for dinner. : i ae ‘mitted that the terms offere eo oe Pulvis Ipecac et opi ii. : i
a oe So — as planters are not very pthanicu ge pc Ha i Ra = SYRUPS. Pyrethram, ae —_—- and all kinds of Produce. 252 Grandville Ave.,
: i al, ‘Ludi rokers, s§ s i cag cn ips oe -  B2@ 55 i ‘ v.
Change in an Old Firm. exporters and aipiatees ‘a Brazil ra ters, food and two milreis a month. The| Buphorbium po .*35@ 10 oe aN 50 Pyrethrim, By... ae. 30g a leip. or accent a4 ate eee aa ee ee
Farrand, Williams & Co., who have United States and in Europe, abags — = for white taberers.. Fhe ae 808 33 ee i a a = SS = = us hear from ioe Sot cask aarouens
conducted a wholesale drug business at greatly concerned until the results of the mo = cannot work in| Guaiacum, (po. 55) a Ole ae .e a 30 a7 —_——
Detroit for many years, have dissolved — i reco They begin to! nin and ae a. oe a sel Gi 80 aa ela arene = rant lage wees ee E AR i. R O Ss 5 LIQUOR k POISON REGORD
. i make eir esti s as =} ae 8 : 2 Llc geet eames | OY SP Siam USCHeIS. «Ao +=: =: s L is pv.. 5 .
by the retirement of Jacob S. Farrand,| so99n as ee ae ne | Then it is undoubtedly true that the Mae pe "3 a a id . Ca... 50 Sng eee es 1 soos 00 COMMISSION MERCHANTS COMBINED.
¢ Jacob S. Farrand, Sr., Dick Williams and| They are often mistak en—indeed, a of the Parahiba is becoming ex Shellac... = = foe 50 Santonine ..-.-.-..... G4 5 South Water St., CHICAGO oe d t ws
Harvey Clark. The business will be con- ally are—but, from the general on Deep plowing, subsoiling and bleached..... zm@ 35 © COLLET 50 | Sapo, W....-...eeeee 12@ 14 157 $o ater St., . Beston the arket
uel by thes ie i sus of reports received, the price of th | the use of fertilizers in the ordinary way Tragacanth ....------- @ (Ol wolntan BO, Meee eee sees eee 8@ 10| Reference: First NATIONAL BANE, Chicago. PKet.
-d by the remaining partners, Alanson | 014 crop of coffe h: ad tie isnot possible. Stir the soil and the weRBa—In ounce packages. | Prunus Virg....------------- 50! seidlitz Mixture... @ i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids. E A STOWE i BRO 100 Louis St.,
Sheley, W. C. Williams and Alans rop ee on hand is largely de-| pains w : ; Aiea 25 : como remem @ % sim 4 GRAND RAPIDS
y> and Alanson | termined. There arestill many elements rains would soon denude the steep sides. | Kupatorium ....-.----------- 20 eee <2 See eo
Sheley Brooks, under the style of Wil-| to be considered, and many ace of | ene only method of cleaning between | Lobelia.......--------1--777: 25 | Aconitum Napellis R....... 60] snnft ee @ 30 .
liams, Sheley & Brooks. condition may occur upon which le zr teper = oo ae 3 Hoes eee ese, iene 60 «Woes coteh oa ==: OU »“< TE zl
It is reported that the retiring partners myer Lagat revised. But one thing | of 2a Fertilizing — i ate ET te eee eres an AE cap myrTh.........--- = Soa: ieee Ge it oS ng Fe “- aera ay i seer pins
: s certain— j . Tn eanta OLE 8 ee pe =. = ik 2 150
contemplate the establishment of another | the coffee a. . a = the trees has been successfully tried and Tanacetum, V.--.-------+-*- 22 | Asafcetida...-......-.--- 50 Soda a one — — B. Src "Nota medicine, but asteatic}
wholesale drug house, but the report has| which the demand is steadily lineconsiag it 2 posible at ase ee aig eae ae ae oo eae’ BiCarb......... "b G OL smack mo ge soi
not yet been confirmed. and slightly in excess of the increased | manure the exhausted lands could be re- : auger Ti COr.-- ++ 6. 50 ae “7 neg : e : Oruffoounicu & Co. on every label,
Sime. Sees kok We ed} stored. But the Brazilian planter is Caan. goo See — = Sanguinaria........... 50 Se Een Oa Oe 2 aie OOLRICH & CO. on every
rm . m an enor-| cee . sa 2 : arbonate, Pat......-- 8 Rurosina 66... spa rCo........ 55 Zz
s Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society mous development of the coffee produc- | rer Sine He does as his| Carbonate, K. & M-... 20@ 2 | Cantharides........... 7 “ Morcie = == AND
There are special reasons wh the tion of Brazil within the last few years father did—as the old orchards begin to | Catbonate, Jennings... 35@ 36) Capsicum .........-. a Vink ‘Rect. ‘bbl — Plumb in
y €| by the extension of plantations in ee | fail, he clears a new lot of ground, if he OLEUM. mut cas 5 ea a an 2 15 - Ss AYNE. COUNTY SAVINGS BANK,
monthly meeting of the Grand Rapids| Province of Sao Paulo, but the world’s | has it, and plants anew. Absinthium. ......--- 5 00@5 a = Less 5¢ gal., cash ten days. Steam and Hot Water Heating, DETROIT, MICH,
Pharmaceutical Society, to be held at consumption has more than kept sace| The Province of Sao Paulo is fast be- Amygdalae, Dulc... .. 45@ | Catechu... 0.2)... 50 Se Brooks’ Hand Force Pump, ee ; ieee TO INVEST IN BONDS
Tan T 2SMAN with the increased | coming the great coffee-producing region Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 | Cinehona ......-- a: he Ge 24@ 3% stantaneous Water Heater, Hot ssuod by cities, counties, towne and se aie
RADESMAN office on Thursday : eased product, not only of of Brazil. Already its coff : Anisi ......-- 2-22 0eee 0 1 90@2 00 eee fo 24@ 3 ; : : tricts of Michigan. Officers of these municipali-
evening, should be well attended. Brazil, but of Venezuela, Central Ameri-| . ready its cofice crop rivals) Auman Oe 2 50 | Columba .....-- be) eeechermn Venice. a Ar ees, os Bes pe ae beak, leak Ga
ona Sasi: | that of Rio de Janeiro in its palmy days oe. ceeeee cnet ees 2 a = Conium ........ 50 eee wees Po 30 and Tiling, Gas Fixtures, Ete. eka apply to = bank. = bonds
i : | * Ae . iputi..........-----, 90@1 00 | Cubeba....... eee ; : or proceedings supplie i
a ee The coffee berry contains two grains. | and coffee planting is extending on a| Garyophyili ..:.....--- 1 35@1 40 Siattedia oo Mania. 9 00@16 00 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in charge. All jel zeae ern ae naaitien Will
A. D. Power, of Northville, the owner| The ripe berry resembles a large red | eran seale. The soil and climate are as| Cedar .......-----++++> 35@ 65|Ergot......... = Zine? Suiph 0)... %™@ 8 Plumber a lie have prompt attention.
of the largest cheese factory in the State| haw. A pulp covers the coffee grains = and favorable as those of the Para- en ee 1 3501 oa = : Bbl. Gai 2 To sls oe gases NA
: r = , | ; ee ee ele re ee, ro ae eae ee eT oe ( - a.
Se ree he ontire country__was in| and this substance has a pleasant, rains, |hiba region, and, being an_ elevated Citronella -.<.-...-.-. So Sliced. 60| Whale, winter........ bl. Get) 194 Bast Fulton St., Head of Monroe
: F taste, | plateau country, the heat is not so exces-| Conium Mac.....-.--- 3@ 65) " ae. 50 | Lard, extra........... 55 60 " ’
» —_— — Saturday, having been called} As there are three flowerings so ees sive. White men can and do work on| €° Ri re oo ns 1 30 Zingiber .... ee 50 ee Ee oe es SUSPENDED!
to Kent City by the death of his brother’s | are three gatherings, or pickings, a year coffee plantations in Sao Paulo. The Bxechthitos lee . 201 00 oo 75 Lindseed, boiled of oi al Scribner Street
wife. The coffee year ends June 30. A eee colonists have proved more advan- | Erigeron 0 eae ap mae - Neat’s Foot, winter : ‘tukenhieue we. 1100 a ~e ss
ee day’s picking is an arroba—thirty-two tagoous to the planters than negro slaves. a ae meet NORM (= +1 85 spirits Turpentine. i 55| GRAND RAPID! : " MICH. | @ ara
VISITING BUYERS. pounds—to the hand. Men, women —a is said, however, that these colonists Gossipii, Sem. gal. : 500 3 Lobelia Des wood h e . PAINTS, DDI. Ib, dene 10H. 4 é 2
J 7 Pierson, Irvin Carrington & North, Trent| Children can pick coffee, and thus ie ee a ae instances dissatisfied | Hedeoma ........ ‘1 ei@l Ts | Myrrh. ss es - oe —— enn 1% 2@3 s SEE
no Farrowe,So Biendon ES Botsford, D : 7 ; | we e treatmen 7 7 Tr i Juniperi...... : 2 oe oliies ae re, yellow Mars....
© A Rowland, Hesperia WN Hutchinson, Grant ployment can _be given the entire | and it is.t Pe a — received, aaa : 3002 00 Opil eo = i ul Ber...... is 208 GINSENG ROOT a Z . 3
4 Van Noord, Jamestown Bissell & Flansburg, family on a coffee plantation. The ber-' _it is.true that many of them are) Limonis jis ¢ ae 85| Putty, commercial ....2% 2%@3 : . Sob
ee Seow sg bean Corners ries are placed in large baskets and then leaving and returning to Italy. But I Mentha Piper.. ‘2 10@2 25 “ et ee 2 ~ in ‘strictl pure.....25 2%@3 Soret eee — @ Fo
Joan eT ietiscavilie” " Dt Watters, Freeport in carts, usually drawn by oxen ay | Fnow instances where they are contented | Mentha Verid. Seiki ee PECK BROS WORAND RAP! 5 | 2 7 on &
GS Putnam, Fruitport GH Walbrink, Allendale | trans ported to th 7 oxen, anc’ and prosperous. Indeed, it would seem Morrhuae, gal .; 90@1 00 | Quassia ......-..-.---------. 80 | “Veerilion. inst pay on re ee gee
2 WmVerMeulen,BeaverDam John W Mead, Berlin 3, 0 e paved yard, or in- that th j i ' ‘ = Myrcia, ounce. : @ 50} Rhatany 50 ion ee —— = ms 3 =o
NHighee, Morley JN Walt, Hudsonville closure, where they are spread out to| ite ones coffee districts of Sao Paulo are) Olive: | aa ( (eee CO alae w@is 3 TN : BES
AE ecg rar ek Forest Grove) cure by the sun. _ the poor man’s paradise. Good houses — Liquida, (gal..35) 10@ 12/ Cassia Acutifol.-....... ..- so} ee ao sce ara on ff 0 =
LSteketee, Holland Forest Grove The oid-ftashi ae /are provided, supplies are furnished at} R cease 1 24@1 36 ee COe. seca 501 whitine. white Span... ‘A fe) a2 a
R B Gooding& Son,Gooding A C Barkley, Crosby old-fashioned way was to remove | fair rates and the whol : E osmarini... 75@1 00 | Serpentaria .........-...--.- he eee ee : : im Es
J Gunstra, Lamont W R Lawton, Berlin the outer pulp when dr by a oe — can have | Bosse, Suse @6 00 | Stromonium 60 waite E i rican SS Se Spe FS we PR an Res cs i
Pallett & Teshhouse, - Cole 6 eedpe 585 chinery and tn break te ee : ured steady employment on the piece or share Suecini.... Mak | Poluteal 2 p White, Paris American 1 00 i re : e F 5 bn
. ae & = , i o ; i J . Ow 6 66 2.00.6 0.6.66 6!) eo Oe 60. itin: + a Q
EE Hewitt, eee rooking: a ee ade akin whic fas kee » | principle. pene - "3 eo S Milovian: ee a 50 cliff sath i ee ng. 48 LEG oTY , Es bm ne
Gilbert Bros, Trent Isaac Quick, Allendale . © nentre e two | =e zs Saaufras( : ie Veratrum Veride............ 50] Pioneer Pre ared Painti ii > gi Be
> Rockford D Cleland, Goopersville grains together by a pounding process. | No, I Guess Not. Sinapis, ess. ‘ounce... “ae 4 MISCELLANEOUS, Swiss Villa Prepared —* 5 ee a r 3 = . ; a
eet oceary,. Sidte (loed Meats & Hemet, a, The coffee was then thrown into the air; Irate wife (to collector)—Don’t be i Tigi... .-..+ 0+. “ss. Gl 50 ‘0 ee —_?>* Tie sound a ere =
E M Snyder, Sebewa D R Stocum, Rockford by negresses, after the manner of the solent, sir. Ill tel OMB hye 52s c hos 4m 50 | =tber, Spits Nit, 3 F.. 28 VARNISHES. PE as en al
‘A L Power, Kent City M M Robson, Berlin old-time win : : . tell my husband andj * opt .........-. 60 4F.. 30@ 32] No.1 Turp Coach.... 1 10@1 P Nal aye. aw Alyce Fawr: J EG i é & iz INT a=F
SQscott. Howard City John Smith, Ade e winnowing of cereals. The he’ll kick you all over town. Theobromas....... oe 6 oe ae aan te Core 2 Saeenaneie coca 1 | lah SR eee Nis ieee n
McCulloch, Berlin © Avery & Pollard, large coffee plantations have improved, Coll gs cE cs pee “ground, (po. Coach Body........... 2 75@3 00 | FAG Rae se Cael a a “wenn | Warranted not to Chicken, Sonr of Mold in
=e Pp ector (confidently)—I Cot : Meta eteeds
oh rt ee. we ' : ently) just guess POTASSIUM. ee a _. 8@ 64|No1T P NEO Z.\ 1S as ae ei Camis) | any climate. Quality Guarant d A
e Sun tcoes, Ganteaa eee Gro machinery and methods of drying, decor- | not M eae Bi Carb... No. ‘ur en os 1 00@1 10 me F oF eel is ate. iy itee gainst Injury
§ McNitt, Byron Center § John Kamps ue ticating and cleaning coffee at these is foot d : ik i 86 mum, and he never) pichromate .........-. Be if scone eee a “— 60| Euira Turk Damar....1 56@1 60) Bagi SRT Re PPE S ta See at tatic MEA {TELL BLACKING
: : : is | footed one in his life, if h “* | Bichromate ......:..-. i Osc. a 5| Japan Dryer, No. 1 Pet ees DINtik Dies | ins. ee quotation. RTELL BLACKIN
, if he could help it. | Bromide............... an bee ee OTe 0@ 7 assess Os Baa Sd CO., Sole Manufacturers, Chicago, Tl ul

 

 

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman

MEMORY FOR FIGURES.

 

 

 

How a Valuable Faculty May Be Culti-
vated.
M. L. Holbrook in The Office.

The memory for figures is, with some
persons, natural and easy; with others
it is very difficult. The former do not
need to strengthen their memories in
this respect so much as to discipline
them, that their energies be spent only
on what is important and not wasted on
what is trivial. They generally excel in
mathematics and as engineers, survey-
ors or book-keepers and accountants, or,
if they have not been educated, their
natural memories serve them exceedingly
well and they are able to carry accounts
in their heads, even if numerous and
complicated. The latter class need spe-
cial training for the development of the
memory of figures and [ know of nothing
so useful for them as the study of mathe-
matics. This may seem to many as im-
practicable, but Ido not think so. {[t is
not necessary to go into the study of the
higher mathematics; the study of mental
arithmetic and of the first principles of
algebra and geometry is quite sufficient.
The rudimentary books designed for be-
ginners, where everything is so simpli-
fied as to be perfectly easy and plain, are
the best. A leisure hour given to them
every day, or even every other day, will
not only strengthen the memory of fig-
ures, but forms a most excellent means
of disciplining the mind. In addition to
this, the faculties should be exercised
daily in recalling such matters as involve
figures. The amounts of money spent
daily for trifies or for important pur-
chases may be written down at night from
recollection. The prices for all articles
in daily use in market may be held in
memory as a matter of mental gymnas-
tics. If a note is given or taken, the
amount of it, the time it was given and
the date of its maturity, together with
the rate of interest, can be held in mind
with little difficulty. The number of the
street on which a friend lives; the num-
ber of the post office box at which he re-
ceives his letters; the number of apple,
peach and pear trees in your orchard, if
you are so fortunate as to have one, and
the number of bushels of fruit they pro-
duce yearly, together with the money for
which they were sold, may be used as
memory lessons. The indebtedness of
each State and of the various govern-
ments are alsosuitable subjects on which
to exercise the memory for figures, and
so are the times of the revolution on
their axes and in their orbits of each
planet, and the distance of each from the
sun and from the earth. “It would be a
mistake, however, to load the mind with
too much at first; alittle each day is
quite enough. [If attention is paid to the
subject and the pupil does not falter
after a short trial, it is interesting to
notice how retentive the memory for fig-
ures will at last become. Here, as else-
where, determination and a vivid first
impression are necessary. It is careless-
ness and want of attention that causes so
many to have so weak and debilitated
memories, not only for figures, but for
names, dates and facts.

>>>
Say So’s by a New York Mercnant.
George Houghton in Christion Union.

For a business man to dispense with a
stenographer and typewriter, with a view
to cutting down expenses, is like remov-
ing the wheel from his wheelbarrow. Il
don’t pity him if he does have the back-
ache.

You think it’s altogether out of the
advertising line, do you? That’s a suffi-
cient recommendation for me. That
means it’s just in my advertising line.

You say the figures in that advertise-
ment are merely close estimates. Either
state plainly that they are estimates, or
out with ’em! If you get to giving
guesses as facts, you’1l soon get to doubt-
ing your facts.

That prospective salesman took the
wrong tack toimpressme. The way to
surprise me is not to try to. I’m used to
being surprised by the surpassing abili-
ties of applicants.

That was a good advertisement last
spring, but it’s got too much was about

H# now. Bring on your fresh milk.
That’; sour now and good only for
cheese. Let’s resign the boynnyclabber

to our imitators and go back to the cow
for fresh supplies.

Don’t be afraid of criticism or thunder.
I have heard thunder and not seen a drop
of rain for a fortnight afterwards. The
only way thunder can hurt you is by
frightening you into fits. You'll be
healthier by dispensing with fits.

It’s the gnats and not the night-hawks
that geta grip onus. Iwas less both-
ered by the last tight money market than
by this mare getting her tail continually
over the reins.

It takes a million or so leaves to make
that oak tree, and they all fall off once a
year. If we want to make an oak
of our business we’ve got to be just as
prodigal in right ways, and advertising
is one of those ways.

However mercilessly 1 weed out my
libraries, you’ll notice there’s always a
‘‘Boswell’s Johnson’’ left in each of
them. That’s an every-man’s book.
That’s one of the books I tie to.

The fault in that advertisement is
very clear. It’s an old-fashioned case of
overdose of letterpress. Strike out
three-quarters, and put the rest in type
four times as big. I’m not trying to
work up trade for an optician’s line of
goods.

I want to make that announcement
stick. If you can’t do it otherwise, print
it with pitch, and warn every reader to
keep his hands off. That’ll catch’em!

Just mind you that liberality and gen-
erosity are dictionary terms that depend
very much on circumstances for their
comparative meaning. The man you
call liberal may be spending his wife’s
money, or scrimping the children’s
wardrobe, or cheating his creditors. The
other man may be mean to himself in
order to be just to his family and to his
engagements.

That salesman is all bark, I fear.
be willing to get bit—to test his teeth.
——>—_9
Evolution of the Merchant.*

The merchant’s history may be told in
three chapters, each one characterized by
adistinct and salient feature. First, a

*Address by Chas. Gildehaus before the wholesale
grocers of St. Louis.

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time in which his existence is oppressed
and destroyed; second, a time when he
is permitted and endured; third, a time
when he is recognized and esteemed.
We may catch a glimpse of the first
period by casting our eyes backward, far
backward, to prehistoric times, to the
day of the myth and legend, a time when
kings and immortal heroes regarded
piracy as an honorable occupation. The
currency had not been weli regulated in
those days, there was a constant bi-
metallic warfare between the gold of the
merchant and the iron of the warrior.
In the South: Ulysses ranged the Med-
iterranean with his iron money, while in
the North, Fritjof and the hardy Norse
scoured the seas, giving ample proof
that their strong arms and trenchant
swords held greater purchasing power
than the accumulated gold of the trader.
The merchant, however, profited by this
harsh experience, and by craft and cun-
ning became in time so able an adver-
sary that his self-exalted enemy could do
little more than treat him with contempt.
Hence the merchants and the thieves
were classed together, and given a com-
mon god. it may seem to us that these
noble men might with better reason have
set themselves in the same category.

The period of contempt constitutes the
second stage of the merchant’s develop-
ment. Most prevalent in the middle
ages, it has extended well down to our
day, and to some extent prevails abroad
even now. The merchant has now come
to be regarded in the light of anecessary
evil, and as he, like a coward, allowed
himself to be taxed and robbed to sup-
port the nobility in idleness and luxury,
he was most graciously permitted to ex-
ist. He was damned, however, with the
stigma of inferiority, and for many years
had no voice in the councils of nations.

The world looked down on his voca-
tion as one base and ignoble. ‘The mer-
chant, notably the grocer, catered simply
to those desires of man which he holds
in common with the animal, while the
scholars, soldiers, statesmen and divines
cultivated the spiritual part of man. If
a man was a merchant, his opinions were
confined to merchandise; to-day the mil-
itary and professional classes of many
European nations regard themselvos as
baked of better clay than the merchant.

It remained for America to turn the
merchant intoa man. The glorious opu-
lence of our country has paid the debt
long due to his class, and paid it most
magnanimously. He can now provide
for his physical wants, and do so well,
and still find time and opportunity to
enter the realms forbidden heretofore.
He need not neglect his business to learn
that there is something more in the
world than his store; the universe is not
bounded by his barrels and _ boxes,
whether he have a hundred or a million.
Recognizing this, and having better facil-
ities to satisfy his physical necessities
than any other class of men, why should
not the grocer partake of the beauty and
the wisdom of the world, which mighty
men and many ages have written as the
history of civilization ?

qq 0 _—_
Beet Sugar in California.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

The second beet sugar factory closed
operations for the season at Alvarado a
few days ago. It has been a success-
ful season. When the beets are all con-
verted into sugar, the mill must stop
until another crop is harvested. No
sugar mill, whether grinding cane or
beets, continues in operation the entire
year. There is a regular grinding sea-
son. The beet sugar factory at Alvarado
is really the first in order of establish-
ment. What is of still more importance,
it was the first in the United States to
demonstrate in a practical way that beet
sugar could be manufactured ata profit
in this country. For several consecutive
seasons, only once interrupted by fire,
this establishment has gone along, buy-
ing all the beets offered and converting
theminto sugar. Since the enterprise
was well established there has never been
a year of loss in the business of making
sugar.

> ____—_—-
He Appreciates Tact.
From the Detroit Tribune.

“The last time I stopped in this city I
made a good sale toa merchant whom I
had never been able to catch before,” re-
marked one traveling man to another in
the billiard-room of the Hotel Cadillac
yesterday afternoon.

‘How was that??? asked the second
traveling man, as he made a four-cushion
shot.

‘‘] learned that his hobby was billiards,
and that he fancied himself a good
player. I met him socially one evening
and persuaded him to play me a game.
Well, he beat me easily, you may imag-
ine. I proposed another game, the man
who lost to set up the wine. This game,
too, Llost. We played all the evening.
He pranced around the table showing me
fancy shots and giving me points,
slapped me on the back and thought I
was a fine fellow. Then I took him up
to the room and sold him $1,000 worth of
goods.”’

“Pretty good,’’ said the second drum-
mer, counting twenty-five points.

‘The next evening he came down to the
hotel, eager to pursue his favorite game.
I had sold him the goods, and I felt in a
condition to resent the lessons he had
given me. I proposed that we play for
wine for all the boys—there were about
ten of them—and he agreed. He had
first shot and missed. Then I bunched
the balls in a corner and ran out the
game ina manner that made his head
spin. Then I discounted and double-dis-
counted and he stood no chance. His
bill for wine was about thirty dollars,
and ever since then he has been a good
customer of mine. He is a man who ap-
preciates tact, you see.”’

—————»__* =a
Value of Salt for Milking-Cows.
From the American Agriculturist.

An experiment made the past summer
with our cows proved that when a hand-
ful of salt, or about two ounces of it,
was given every day, the yield of butter
was increased one-fifth, and when salt
was withheld, the yield fell off in the
same proportion. The reason, beyond
question, is that as salt is required for
full digestion of the food, more of the
food was changed into milk. Keep rock
salt within reach of the cows.

> +>

To say of a man the he is tried and
trusted, implies praise; but trusted, and
then tried is a different thing.

 

ALL SORTS OF CHEESES.

 

Imitations in This Country--Popular
Brands Among Epicures.
From the New York Tribune.

It is a part of the religion of every epi-
cure that a dinner without cheese is like
a beautiful maiden. with only one eye.
There is humbug in cheese everywhere,
and not only are American brands of for-
eign cheese offered for sale as the real
article in New York, but the European
cheese mongers are tricky.

An Englishman of national reputation
has said: ‘‘I do verily think that in 1828
a Stilton cheese was a better fellow than
he is in 1889,’ and the man ought to
know, for he has eaten them for almost
three-quarters of a century.

Stilton is a quaint old village in the
northwestern part of Huntingdonshire,
in the west central part of England. It
has never been famous for anything but
cheese, and by rights its fame asa cheese
center is not legitimate.

During the reign of George III. and
during the coaching days of this century,
forty-two fast mail coaches passed each
day over the Great North Road, which
runs through Stilton. A fat, fair dame,
by name Miss Worthington, was the hos-
tess of the inn at Stilton until 1830, and
it was her custom to have on hand a
quantity of the cheese to sell to passen-
gers. Cambridge ‘‘undergrads,”’ as well
as country gentlemen passing through to
the North, would invariably take home a
cheese, and so the variety became known
as Stilton. Then, as now, it all came
from Leicestershire, although Miss
Worthington always asserted the con-
trary.

The Stilton that comes to this country
is fairly good. It has been said that in
the old days men got less milk in their
cream and less water in their milk than
at present, but it is only fair to admit
that the crusty, brown old port that was
taken with it madeit seem better to those
who ate it long ago. Stilton is the most
expensive of the cheeses brought to this
country, and the sale for it is found alto-
gether in the Eastern States.

The other English cheeses imported
are Cheddar, Royal Arms, Cheshire and
Double Gloster, but the demand for these
is small. Three-quarters of all the cheese
sold in America is of Swiss manufacture,
and the Gruyere or Emmenthal and
Sbrinz lead in popularity, with Sapsago
aclose third. Swiss cheese can be shipped
the year round, but it is affected by ex-
posure to extreme heat or cold. It is
kept best by storing in cold, damp cel-
lars.

From Holland, Edam, Gouda or Pate-
grasse, Gouda-Kosher or Gowsche-Kass,
Leyden or Cominje-Kaas are imported.
The Dutch cheeses are kept easily, and
are consequently popular.

From Germany comes Romatour, some
of the Limburger, Thuringer Kummel,
Olmutzer Hand-kase and Harzer Hand-
kase. The Schweizer-kase and Limbur-
ger used here are almost altogether made
in this country.

From France we get Roquefort, the
most popular; Menanta, Bricquebec,
Camembert, Pont L’eveque, Bondous de
Neufchatel, Coulounniers, and last, but
by no means least, Fromage de Brie.
Brie is extensively imitated in America,
most of the factories being in Ohio, New
York and Michigan, and one firm has
three factories in New York turning out
Brie. The cheese shou!d be soft; in fact,
nearly soft enougk to be eaten witha
spoon, but the dealers say that they find
it impossible to sell it in that condition,
except to foreigners and Charles Del-
monico. The American imitation is, in
most instances, of about the consistency
of sawdust and utterly flavorless. It
does not smell, however, and that is
probably what recommends it.

From Norway and Sweden, Gammelost,
Gjedost and Myseost are imported, but
they don’t sell, except among Scandi-
navians.

In the Italian cheeses, Parmesan, Ro-
mano, Caccio, Cavalio, Canestrati, For-
maggio di Sicilia, Gorgonzola and Stra-
chino di Milano are to be had. Parmesan
and Gorgonzola are most eaten. The
Swiss cheese, Fromage d’Isigny, Fro-
mage de Brie, Camembert, Hamburger,
Kummel and Muenster are all exten-
sively imitated.

Concise Business Rules.

The intelligent and upright business
man regulates his conduct by fixed prin-
ciples and established methods. He is
not the creature of impulse or caprice.

1. He is strict in keeping his engage-
ments.

2. He does nothing carelessly or hur-
riedly.

3. He does not entrust to others what
he can easily do himself.

4. He does not leave undone what
should and can be done.

5. While frank with all, he keeps his
plans and views largely to himself.

6. Is prompt and decisive in his deal-
ings and does not overtrade.

7%. Prefers short credits to long ones,
and cash to credit always.

8. Is clear and explicit in his bargains.

9. He does not leave to memory what
should be in writing.

10. Keeps copies of all important let-
ters sent and files carefully all papers of
value.

11. He does not allow his desk to be
littered, but keeps it tidy and well
arranged.

12. Aims to keep everything in its
proper place.

13. Keeps the details of business well
in hand and under his own eye.

14. Believes that those whose credit is
suspected are not to be trusted.

15. Often examines his books and
knows how he stands.

Buttering Machine.

The latest and most unique invention
isa machine for buttering bread. It is
used in connection with a great patent
bread-cutter, and is intended for use in
prisons, workhouses and other reform-
atory institutions. There is a cylin-
drical-shaped brush which is fed with
butter, and lays a thin layer on the
bread as it comes from the cutter. The
machine can be worked by hand, steam
or electricity, and has a capacity of cut-
ting and buttering 750 loaves of bread
an hour. The saving of butter and of
bread and the decrease in the quantity
of crumbs is said to be very great.

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The P. & B. cough drops give great
satisfaction.

Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Co

ORGANIZED 1881.

GASH CAPITAL $400,080,
GASH ASSETS OVER $700,000,
LOSSES PAID $500,000,

D, Whitney, Jr., President.

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

Eugene Harbeck, Sec’y.

Fair Contracts, Equitable Rates,
Prompt Settlements,

Insure in “The Michigan.’’
CURTISS & CoO.,,

WHOLESALE

Paper Warehouse.

We carry the VEBY BEST double or single bit, hand-shaved ax handle

ever made.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Houseman Block,

 

S. K. BOLLES. E. B. DIKEMAN

S. K. Bolles & Co.,

77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

W holesale Cigar Dealers.

"* Vou VEt

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ionia Pants& Overall Co.

E. D. Voorhees, Manager.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, Kts,

Warranted Not to Rip.
Fit Guaranteed.
Workmanship Perfect.

Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him
to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. Samples and prices
sent on application.

 

We manufacture all our
Candy. Use only the best ma-

IONIA, MICH.
terial. it as

} H N U Y represented, pure and first-class

ASK FOR PRICE LIST.

The Putnam Candy. Co.
HESTHR & FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY,

Warranted

 

  
   
 
   

“a. Ey ATLAS Woxs 4

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A.
MANUFACTURERS OF

STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.

Carty Engines and Boilers in Stock gana
for immediate delivery. =

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Workin
Saws, Belting and Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sampie
Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.
44, 46 and 48 So. Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

W™M.SEARS & CO,,
Cracker Manufacturers,

837, 89 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.

WHO URGES YOU

oO BEEP

SAPOLIO?

THe FU SLC!

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.

 
 

 

 

Write for Prices.

 

 

 

The Belknay Wagon and Sleigh C0., »

Grand Rapids, Mich.

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS IN

SLKIGHS,

SEND FOR CATALOGUE.

» &. BROOKS & CO.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF

Pure Candies.

The Only Hovse in the State which Puts Goods Up NEY WEIGHT.
NO CHARGE FOR PACKAGES.
CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, -

Road
Logging
Delivery
Pleasure

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

A. HIMES,

Shipper and Retail Dealer in E () | :

Lehigh Valley Coal Co.'s

Office, 54 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
SHIPMENT.

DETROIT SOAP CO,,

Manufacturers of the following well-known brands:

 

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QUEEN ANNE, MOTTLED GERMAN, ROYAL BAR, CZAR
TRUE BLUE, SUPERIOR, : MASCOTTE, CAMEO,
PHCENIX, AND OTHERS,
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For quotations in single box lots, see Price Current.
quantities, address,

WwW, G, H. a WKINS, ioe aeons Western Michigan,

GRAND RAPIDS,

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Rindge, Bertsch & Co.,,

MICHIGAN AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.

 

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.

THE WALSH--DE ROO MILLING CO,

HOLLAND, MICH.

 

  

Daily Capaci
400 Bhle.

BRANDS:
SUNLIGHT,
DAISY,

ECONOMY. °

SPECIALTIES:
raham,
Wheatena,
Buckwheat Flour,
Rye Flour,
ey Meal,
e Meal,
Wheat Grits,
Buckwheat Grits,
Pearl Barley,
Oat Meal,
Rolled Oats.