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C, WILLIAMS. A. SHELEY. | A. 8. BROOKS. WILLIAMS, SHELEY & BROOKS Successors to FARRAND, WILLIAMS & CO., Wholesale Druggists, AT THE OLD STAND. Corner Bates and Larned Streets, Detroit. How to Keep a Store. By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages written from the experience and observation of an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver- tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, ete. Of great interest to every one in trade. $1.50. THE TKADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. AWNINGS TENTS. Flags, Horse and Wagon Covers, Seat Shades, Large | Umbrellas, Oiled Clothing, Wide Cotton Ducks, ete. | d for MUlustrated Catalogue. CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street. Tele vhone 106. Playing bards WE ARE HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. EEDS! Michigan Tradesman. |leads in one of these. | pressed, we cut them into proper lengths land bake them in an oven kept at a very |} high temperature. If in want of Clover or Timothy, Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed, send or write to the Grand Rapids deed Store 71 Canal St,, GRAND RAPIDS. W.T. LAMOREAUX. _ GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1890. A New Scale. I will use my old seale just as long as t’will go. A new one would cost me ten dollars or so. I may lose at each weighing a cent, so to speak. *Bout a dollar a day or six dollars a week. Twenty-six in a month, or three hundred a year. Fifteen hundred in five, bless me, isn’t it queer How the totals increase—how much may be lost Just, by trying to save what a new scale would cost, —_— a _ About Lead Pencils. ‘‘What does it cost to make a lead pen- cil?”’ said the manufacturer, in reply to a New York Swn reporter’s inquiry. ‘First, let me tell you how we make a pencil. *‘See this fine black powder? That’s graphite. It costs 25 cents a pound. This white substance is German clay. It comes across the ocean as ballast in sail- ing vessels, and all it costs us is freight. We mix this clay and this powder to- gether and grind them in a mill, adding moisture during the process, until the two are thoroughly mixed and are re- duced to a paste about the thickness of putty. “This paste we press into these dies, each one of which is the size of a pencil lead except in length. ‘There are four After they are Then we have the lead made. Its hardness is regulated by the greater or less amount of clay we mix with the graphite—the more clay we put in the harder the lead. ‘The cedar we use comes principally 'from Florida, and is obtained entirely from the fallen trees that lie there. The wood is delivered to us in blocks, sawed to pencil lengths, some of them thick, to receive the lead, and some thin, for the piece that is to be glued over the lead. The blocks are sawed for four pencils each. They are grooved by asaw, the groove being the place where the lead is tolie. The leads are kept in hot glue, and are placed in the grooves as the blocks are ready. When that is done, the thin piece is glued fast to a thick one. When dry, the blocks are run through a machine that cuts the pencils apart. Another machine shapes them, making them octagonal, or round, or flat, or three-cornered, as the case may be. The pencils are burnished by machinery, and are then ready to be tied in bunches, boxed and put out. “The different grades in value of a lead pencil are made by finer manipula- tion of the graphite and the use of better material. The average pencil in every day use costs about one-quarter of a cent tomake. Weare content with 100 per cent. profit on it when we sell it to the dealer. What his profit is you may figure out for yourself if you have one of the pencils about you that you paid 5 cents for. Of this grade of pencil, an operator will turn out 2,500 in a day. “The most valuable lead pencil that I | know of is owned by a lawyer in this city. It is a cheap-looking affair, but I don’t believe it could be bought for $100. The wood in this pencil came froma cedar tree that was probably centuries old before any cedar tree now standing began to grow. It was taken from the bottom of a marl bed in Orange County, at adepth of nearly 100 feet below the surface. Near it was found the remains of amastodon. The knob on the end of the pencil was made from a piece of the mastodon’s tooth. The pencil has never | been sharpened, and probably never will ” be. ed The Condition of Trade. From the New York Shipping List. Although the distributive movement of trade continues fairly active for this season, as indicated by the interior de- mand for funds, clearing house statistics which continue to be in excess of the corresponding period last year, and | Bol. the actual demand for merchandise in all the principal distributive centers, unfavorable crop reports and the close working of the money market causes more or less hesitation in commercial circles and there is a disposition to await further developments before undertaking fresh operations of any magnitude. The crop situation must necessarily occupy a prominent position as one of the control- ling features of the situation during the remainder of the current month, but the Government report issued last Satur- day shows that a serious shortage is foreshadowed in wheat, corn and oats, which means of course a great loss to farmers and hence a check later on to the growth of prosperity. Fortunately, how- ever, there is not wanting a bright side to the picture, for the cotton crop thus far maintains an excellent position and promises a heavy yield; the Louisiana sugar crop is likely to be one of the largest in several years and the Southern rice crop is in excellent condition. Then again, manufacturing industries are all in guod shape, being actively employed with orders that will carry them well into the autumn months. This applies particularly to the iron industry and the boot and shoe trade, buat a good many cotton mills have taken advantage of the high price of raw material and the slow marketing of the new crop to close down for the purpose of repairs and cleaning. The movement of foreign trade con- tinues unsatisfactory, because of the increasing volume of imports and the natural falling off in exports, but gold exports are not likely to be resumed in the present condition of the money mar- ket, which is beginning to feel the in- terior demand for funds, and last week’s heavy depletion of bank reserves points to a closer working of the money market during the remainder of the month. The speculation in produce has again been active, but while the fluctuations of prices have been irregular and at times erratic, the tendency has been up- ward. The stock market has been un- settled and narrow, influenced by tight money and to some extent by the strike upon the Vanderbilt roads, but bear pres- sure has met with resistance, which in- dicates a firm undertone, and while the market is sensitive a firmer feeling pre- vails on account of the prospect that the strike will eollapse and also in view of the more settled feeling in London that has resulted from the improved condition of affairs in the Argentine Republic. Values for produce generally are tending upward, cotton fabrics being firmly held on account of the high prices of raw material, provisions and hog products are influenced by the advance in corn; crude and refined petroleum are both higher, potatoes and nearly all kinds of vegetables are feeling the effect of poor crops, raw and refined sugar is advancing both here and abroad on ac- count of the strong position of supplies, and the same influence is operating to enhance the value of coffee. The metal markets are generally inactive but steady, and anthracite coal continues siow of sale, with an accumulation of supplies at tide water that effectually prevents any advance in prices. i 2 tli “‘Mishearing.’”’ Spoken sounds often have the knack of combining so as to produce what is generally known as ‘‘mis-hearing.’’ The following is an illustration. tead this question to afriend: ‘There were twenty sick sailors on board a ship; one died; how many were left ?’’ Your friend will answer: ““Twenty-five.’’ Now write the same question and ask your friend to read it, and he will at once answer : ‘*Nineteen.’’ 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TWOMBLEY’S FOLLY. The Widow Appleby, called Aunt Samanthy by her neighbors, was tidying up aroom which had been furnished for a sleeping-room, and had in it also a desk, a book-case and a little row of drawers, in which fragments precious to a geologist, had been stored. The desk and book-case Aunt Samanthy regarded with reverence. The case she did not understand. she emptied them ail into her apron, and | dumped them with other odds and ends | out of the window upon a flower bed | that had not been dug up that ing. her, and the death of her only boarder, a returned California miner, who had made | had put the! and lost several fortunes, finishing touch to her woes. it was that she was rights; again. *‘] felt it more than anything else, after losing poor Peter,’’ she sighed, as a tear rolled down her cheek. ‘‘He was always so kind to me.’’ As she spoke, there came a heavy step on her porch, and, window, she saw Twombley, standing there. Jedediah was a rich man, lately made richer by an inheritance from his grandfather, had lived to be one hundred and five years old, and died leaving all to his wealthy grandson and nothing to his ex- tremely poor granddaughter. It was natural that the thought should sting the widow as she looked at him. *‘Morning !’ said Jedediah. ‘*Morning, Cousin Samanthy. I stepped up to get the shade. I feel the sun considerably, and my horse has lost a shoe, and I’ve sent Simon to get it fixed; thought I’d light here and see how you got on.”’ **I don’t get on at all, Jedediah,’’ said Samanthy. ‘‘Not as I should if Grandpa Twombley had left me suthin, as I always reckoned he would; and now my poor old boarder is gone, I’ve got to that pass I’ve had to sell the cow.”’ “Too bad!’ said Jedediah. ‘‘Well, come and get a pan of milk any time.’’ “Two miles there and back; ye!’ said the widow. I was you, Jedediah, what ’ddo? Id say, ‘Cousin Samanthy, I’m rich and you are poor. I'll give you a little slice of the big un grandpa left me.’ That’s your Christian duty, seein’ grandpa was a hundred and five, and weak-minded when he died. He’d hev done it himself ten years ago, and you know it.”’ ““Pshaw !” laughed Jedediah. ‘But you’re a woman, that’s your excuse for talkin’ idiotic. Vm not a mean man. I'll give you five dolJars down Samanthy, and property is property, and wills is wills, and not to be broken.”’ ‘Well, I don’t set up for proud, and I’m so poor that this is a good deal to me,’? said Samanthy, taking the money. “I reckon grandpa’s spirit is around somewhere, prompting you to do what is right, seeing you influenced him to do wrong.’’ ‘‘Now, Samanthy, grandfather wasn’t influenced by me! That I can tell you!’ said Cousin Jedediah. ‘‘He always felt you made a mistake stepping off with Peter. Peter was one of them folks that never prospers. ‘What’s the use,’ grand- father used to say to me, ‘of helping Samanthy, when Peter—’’ ‘*Poor Peter is gone,’’ said the widow, taking her handkerchief from her apron pocket. ‘‘Don’t talk against him. He was jest as kind as kind could be to me.’’ “No doubt,”’ said Jedediah, hurriedly —‘no doubt. I didn’t mean any offense. I always thought Peter quite—quite— |} But what was you a-doin’ when I came in—house-c leanin’ ?’’ *‘T was cleanin’ out the spare room,”’’ said the widow. ‘‘It’s been shut up quite a spell—since the Californy gentleman | died. I thought I'd let it, if Lcould. I might take a few boarders this summer, if they’d come.’’ “Pll pay for an advertisenent,’’ said Jedediah, who was worth a million and a half; ‘‘and Pll let you have lots of cu- eumbers off our place. You could grow |} things here now, if you was to seed this | bed up instead of pitchin’ rubbish on it; Bits of stone, bits of ore; |" year. | Aunt Samanthy had no heart for garden- | Things had gone very wrong with | His room | now putting to) knowing that she would never} see the old white head and kindly smile | looking out of the| her cousin, Jedediah | who | thank | “Do you know if | you could grow radishes right under your window. Summer boarders generally thinks radishes hulsome.”’ “‘T jest emptied the bureau drawers out onto that bed. There wasalot of rubbish in ’em; and I meant to dig it over, only I ain’t very strong.’’ “V’ll let Simon dig it,’ said Jedediah; ‘“‘and you seed it and it will be a comfort to you.”’ By this time, Simon, | slowly driving up hill, who had been stopped at the gate, and Jedediah called to him sharply: “Simon, you jest take the spade, and Appleby’s garden. [T’'ll drive home myself. Good-bye, Samanthy. I think the idee about the summer board- | ers is a good one;’’? and jumping into his wagon, drove up the road, glad to be rid of his poor cousin. | Simon looked after his master with a very peculiar expression. ** ‘Some folks is born for luck and some for children,’’’ he said, sententiously. | “I’ve got four.”’ ‘‘And I’ve got three,’’ said the widow. ‘“‘Now, Simon, don’t you do that unless you feel like it. I know you have plenty | to do.”’ ““T’'d jest as lief,’? said Simon. ‘*What | you been throwin’ out here, Mrs. Apple- |dig over Mrs. | by ??? ‘‘Rubbish out of my Californy boarder’s bureau-drawers,’’ said Mrs. Appleby. ‘“‘What he kept it there for I dunno.”’ Simon laughed, and, stooping, picked | up one or two bits of something, and put | them in his pocket. The bed was nicely spaded when Mrs. Appleby looked out again, and Simon was gone. As Mr. Jedediah Twombley sat on his porch that night, counting up the profits of his hay-crop, a voice behind him cried: ‘Mr. Twombley, I’ve got suthin’ I want to show you!’’ He turned. It was Simon who had ; spoken, and he held in his hand a frag- ment of something that looked dark and heavy. ‘See here,’’? he said, in a whisper; “I’ve been to the gold-mines in my time, and if this ain’t gold, ll giveup and say I’m lacking.”’ “Why, tobe sure! To be sure!’ said |old Jedediah, clutching the little chunk of ore in his hand. ‘‘To be sure. Where did you find it ?’’ ‘“‘Why, inthe Widder Appleby’s gar- den. Dug it up out’n the fiower-bed you told me tospade up for her,’’ said Simon. ‘‘Then there’s gold on the place,”’ said Jedediah. ‘I’ve always thought there was gold here. I’ve always said so.’’ ‘“*Yes, [P've heerd you,’’ said Simon, with a twinkle in his eye. ‘‘Now, what a thing that’ll be for the widder. A gold- mine on her place.’’ ‘“‘Hush,’’ whispered Jedediah, with his eyes gleaming greenly in the twilight. ‘Hush, Simon; promise me you won’t tell her or anybody. IT 1l make it all right with you. You’re kinder uncom- fortable where you be, with your small family. Ill allow you to hey the frame- house on the hill, at the same rent. Don’t mention anything aboutit. Vl make it right with Mrs. Appleby. Though, after all, this mayn’t be gold.”’ “P’r’aps not; but old miners, like me, rather calculates to know,’’ said Simon. ‘“-Ef you don’t mind, I’ll move up to the frame-house to-morrow. Wait a bit. Let’s goover tothe widder’s. I'll pretend its to sow the raddish-seed, if you’ll give me some; and we’ll see if there’s any more there.’’ “Good! said “A bright idea !’’ Accordingly, to the widow’s surprise, Simon took the seed over; and the sow- ing done, brought back to his master, waiting in the wagon under the trees, three or four more specimens of the same | ore, which Jedediah took, at once, to a celebrated mineralogist of the nearest |town, who declared that where these came from there was assuredly a gold- ;mine. And trembling with delight, | Jedediah went back to walk around the | widow’s house in the moonlight, where she, seeing him through the curtains, | took him for a tramp, and was fright- ened almost out of her senses. Several things happened to startle her | that day. The first was the appearance of Simon at her door in the early dawn, Jedediah Twombley. Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS. a 0 Sun. bee Sey sci e cues cere ete diese esas &S as Tubular... 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No Chemicals are used in any of Walter Baker & Co.’s Chocolate and Cocoa Prep- arations. These preparations have stood the test of public ap- proval for more than one hundred years, and are the acknowledged standard of purity and excellence. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 3 as she was boiling her solitary cup of coffee over some splinters of wood. ‘‘Widder,’’ Simon whispered, solemnly. “Tend to what I say, and don’t forget it. Mister Twombley is goin’ to make you an offer for your place. Don’t let him have it cheap. Rise on him as bold as brass. Don’t chin on anything. Don’t tell him nothin’. Jest say: ‘I won’t sell for that,’ until you get what’ll keep you comfortable. Mind, do asl say; don’t ask questions; don’t chin; you’ll give yourself away.”’ ‘I don’t half understand you,’’ said the widow; ‘‘you hev such curious ex- pressions kinder, but if Cousin Jedediah offers much for two acres of stones and a house like this, he’s goin’ crazy.’’ **Mebbe he’s seen aghost,’’ said Simon; ‘but you mind me.’’ He was off. Not too soon, for the wheels of Jedediah Twombley’s wagon rattled down the road the next moment, and Jedediah stood at the door in the place of his servant. ‘What you said, kind o’ teched me yesterday, Samanthy,’’ hesaid, ‘‘and I’ve been thinking. What yow want is rest. Sell -your place and go board in the vil- lage. I'll buy it. It ain’t worth much, but what?ll you take ?”’ The widow looked at him. It was not benevolence that shone in his eyes, but greed. ‘*Well ?”’ she said cautiously; some of the same blood ran in her veins, and she could bargain alsuvu. ‘*Well, what’ll you give ?”’ “Five hundred dollars!’ said the rich man, “Hh? Samanthy shook her head. “Hight !? ‘*Lor’, no,’’ said Samanthy. **A thousand !”’ Samanthy turned pale, head. ‘Two thousand !’’ said Jedediah. “T reckon you’re calculating I’m half- witted,’’ said Samanthy. “She knows about the gold,’’ said Jedediah to himself; ‘‘or—yes, some one else knows and has made an offer.’’ The miser and the gambler sometimes mingle in one man. They had in Jede- diah Twombley. ‘‘Fifteen thousand dollars!’ he cried, hurriedly. ‘‘You can live comfortably on that, eh ?’’ “Grandfather’s ghost has appeared,”’ thought Samanthy. ‘“‘Well,’’ she said, ‘“‘if you’ll drive over to the lawyer’s, and pay me now, Ill do it.”’ Ten minutes after this, the two were sitting side by side in the wagon. Two hours more, Samanthy was, in her own opinion, arich woman, with no fear of suffering before her, and no more need to toil for her bread. She was to leave the cottage that day, and bewildered by her sudden prosperity, she was packing her few poor possessions, when again, as in the dawn, Simon stood at her door. *‘Sold it 2’? he asked. ‘Yes,’ said the widow, breathlessly; “for fifteen thousand dollars. I reckon grandpa appeared to him.’’ Simon put his hand in his pocket and drew out a bunch of something. ‘“‘What’s that ?”’ he asked. The widow looked at what he held toward her. “It?s a bit of the rubbish I threw out of that case there,’’ she said. “It?s gold ore,’? said Simon. ‘‘Your Californy boarder had a lot of specimens of it in that case; he often showed ’em to me. I wasaminer once. 1 took an in- terestin’em. You throwed ’em into the radish bed; lLdug’em up out of it. IL jest showed ’em to Mister Twombley. His idee has always been that there’s gold in these mountings. He thinks there’s gold on your place. ‘‘And he wanted to give me five hun- dred dollars !’’ said the widow. ‘It?s all right for you, and 1 didn’t tell no lies,’’ said Simon. ‘‘l did dig up them specimens in the radish bed.”’ The widow lives at ease in the village} now, and keeps her own counsel; and} there is a big hole, with a windlass near it, where her home once stood. People | eallit ‘‘Twombley’s Folly,’’? but Jedediah | Twombley intended it for a gold-mine, | and spent a little fortune also in working | it several years. Asa T. FERRY. but shook her Rubber Cloth in Germany. Kuhlow’s, of Berlin, says that the prep- aration of and curing rubber for heavy clothing is similar to that employed for boots and shoes. The cloth is coated with rubber by the steam calendering machine as for boots and shoes. The same care is necessary to insure perfect | dryness and evennesss tothe cloth. The fabric then passes to the cutting rooms. In the manufacture of gossamer clothing an altogether different process is em- ployed. Instead of being ground up and compounded in the mixing room, the rubber is dissolved with naphtha ina churn made expressly for this purpose. These churns are iron cylinders in which a plunger works in much the same man- ner as the old dasher butter churn. The} mixture is reduced to about the consis- | tency of printers’ ink. It is then allowed | to run or drop on the cloth, which is rap- | idly passed under a knife machine or | spreader, the rollers of which distribute the compound over the cloth as it passes | through. Thus a web of cloth, the ends being joined together and forming an endless band, is run under the knife from six to | sixteen times, according to the kind of | goods to be made. Each time the fabric | takes a very thin coating of the com-| pound, the naphtha being rapidly dissi- | pated. The cloth is put on rolls and | then taken to the curing tables in the open fields, acres in extent. With a favorable sun the rubber cloth will be cured in about three hours, and from that up to days, according to the state of the weather. This process of vulcanizing is known as sun-curing and isnot employed for heavy elothing, which is cured in_ heaters. Some gossamers are also vulcanized that way. In vuleanizing boots and shoes and heavy clothing what is Known as dry heat is used, but in all mechanical | goods steam heat or live steam is employed | In making mackintoshes, where the water-proof coating is between the out- side of the garment and the lining, the goods are coated on aspreader in the same manner as for the other clothing, but a better quality of rubber is used than on ordinary garments. The goods are then cured by being run over asteam heated drying surface. The lining is coated with rubber cement, and the pre- pared surfaces of the cloth and lining are joined together by passing them un- der rollers. By this means they are practically one piece, and great skill and experience are required that the goods shall retain their soft, flexible nature and not be rendered stiff and tinny by the layers of rubber. In making up the garments about 3,500 women and girls are employed by the ditferent factories. The cutting is done by men, and they are also employed in finishing the mackintoshes and a few in other capacities, but the garments are made up by women and girls. The cut- ting is done in much the same manner as in the manufacture of regular clothing. Several thicknesses of the cloth are laid on a table and cut to pattern at the same time. After cutting, a strip is cemented round the arm sizes and pockets and over the button flap; pieces are also put on where the button holes are to come, and all are carefully pressed on by hand rollers. In heavy clothing the seams are cemented and not sewn. Mackintoshes and gossamers are stitched on machines, button holes madeand buttons sewed on. After being stitched the gossamers are folded up in little bags and are packed in eases for shipment. Mackintoshes, after being stitched, have a strip of cloth cemented over the seams to prevent water coming through the holes made in stitching. The pocket flaps, ete., are then cemented on, and the garment is then vuleanized in the heater. completes it. This final vulcanizing ren- ders them much superior to English goods for standing the extremes of tem- perature. In finishing heavy rubber | surface luster clothing the garments are sponged with varnish and vulcanized by | being hung in the heaters or dry rooms | With dull finished | 'garments the final process consists in | after | for about five hours. sponging with soap and water, which the garments are aired and vul-| | eanized. which sometimes occupy | A. J. BROWN. Wholesale dealer in Foreign, Tropical and Domestic Fruits and Seeds, Direct Receivers of California Orange ——_AND—— HEADQUARTERS - FOR BANANAS. —_ Messina lemons, | When in want of large lots of California Oranges, we are prepared to make you low prices from fresh cars. 16 and 18 North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. send for Price List, Issued Weekly BMOGLE OIL CoO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers iu Oils and Makers of Fine Lubricants. 19 and 21 Waterloo St. | WORKS—On C & W. M. and G. R. & I. R. R.,one Telephone No. 319. | mile north of Junction. Telephone No. 611-3R The largest and most complete oil’line in Michigan. Jobbers of all kinds of Cylinder Oils, Engine Oils, W. Va. Oils, Lard Oils, Neatsfoot Oils, Harness Oil, Signal Oil, Axle Grease, Boiler Purger, Kerosene Oils, Naptha, Turpentine, Lin- seed Oils, Castor Oil, Cooking Oils, Axle Oils, Machinery Grease, Cotton Waste, Ete. See Quotations. OFFICE- We Manufacture Everything in the line of Candy Correspondence solic- ited and prices quot- ed with pleasure. Write us. WM.SEARS & CO. Gracker Manvtacturers, 37, 89 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. We Are Neadquarters, as Usual, for Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Fruits ., and Produce Generally. GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT AND PRODUCE GO, C. B. METZGER, Proprietor. 3 NO. IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDs. MOSHLEY 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., - - c. HM. RAP &€ CO, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Foreign and Domestic Fruits. 9 No. IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH GRAND RAPI 8 This | Mr. C. N. Rapp was for. two years partner and general manager of Geo. E. Howes & ~ and for the past year has been the senior partner and general manager lof the Grand Rapids Fruit and Produce Co. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. St. Louis—C. G. Littlefield,. grocer, is dead. Cadillae—-J. F. meat market. Big Rapids—Tom Ward has opened a meat market. Minden City—W. A. Saule has sold his general stock to M. A. Cass. Manistee—Miss Emma Sembach opened a confectionery store. Cadillac—Miss L. J. Lacount will open a millinery store about Sept. 6. East Thetford—A. B. Black has sold his general stock to M. L. Miller. Morrice—J. G. Kern has purchased the jewelry stock of H. H. Tillapaugh. Hersey—Andrew McFarlane has closed up his meat market for the present. Battle Creek—Basso Bros., dealers in fruit, etc., have gone out of business. Hillsdale—Smith & Barsby succeed Smith & Doty in the grocery business. Mulliken—W. H. Davis has purchased the furniture stock of H. Putterelline. Big Rapids—Walter Hudson has en- gaged in the merchant tailoring business. Stanwood—Dodge. Metcalf & Co. are closing out their general stock at auction. Saranac—Fred E. Cahoon has removed his stock of boots and shoes to Ishpeming. Ann Arbor—Mellor & Martin, tobacco dealers, are succeeded by G. F. Gruber. Leonard—De Cue Hagerman succeeds Howland & Dewey in the meat business. Stetson—H. H. Webb & Co. succeed H. E. Hung *rford in the drug business. Greenville—Deloies Roosa has opened a restaurant in the ‘‘Star Bakery’’ build- ing. Applegate—Geo. R. MeNish, general dealer, has removed his stock to Carson- ville. Battle Creek—Mrs. Mary E. Howe suc- ceeds Clara Gregory in the millinery bus- iness. Mancelona—Mary S. Haynes, dealer in second-hand goods, is succeeded by L. W. Stewart. Detroit—Miller & Co., grocers, have dissolved, C. A. Miller continuing the business. Hastings—J. C. Cole succeeds Dickin- Jones has opened a has son & Cole in the grocery and saloon business. Martin — Streble & Andrews have rented their meat market to Syd. Konkle for one year. Martin—Stoble & Andrews have sold their meat market to Fessender & Kenkle, of Shelbyville. Manton—W. H. Campbell, formerly in business at this place, will soon open a furniture store. St. Johns—Caldwell Bros., dealers in agricultural implements, are succeeded by G. W. Oakes. Manistee—A. F. Cottingham & Co., of New York, have opened a clothing store at 443 River street. Hastings—Holden & Hire have engaged in the boot and shoe business. They hail from Bellevue. Muskegon—R. S. Miner has sold his} stock of groceries to F. Lowey, who will continue the business. Shiawassee—John Phillips, of Chicago, | has purchased the paper mill and is put- ting it in shape to run. Walkerville—Butters & Peters general | as the store No. 2 will be closed as soon present stock is exhausted. Owosso—J. Silverstein, of Chicago, will | open a line of clothing, furnishing goods | and boots and shoes about Sept 1. | purchased the foundry and | operations. Grand Ledge—Daron & Smith, boot and shoe dealers at Charlotte, have opened a branch store at this place. Springport—John Hammond has pur- ;chased the stock of groceries, crockery, etc., of Letecia (Mrs. J. L.) Murray. Detroit—Joseph C. Robinson has em- barked in the grocery business at the corner of Champlain and Leib streets. Leslie—S. O. Russell, a pioneer mer- chant of this place, suffered a stroke of paralysis recently, and is still very low. Manistee—Tom A. Hazlitt has sold his cigar stand to Donaldson Bros., who will open a restaurant in connection with the business. Whitehall—C. W. Redfern has merged his hardware business into a stock com- pany under the style of the Redfern Company. Muskegon—R. W. Goucher is putting in a stock of jewelry in the building for- merly occupied by Laughray & Co.’s music store. Muskegon—Julle Bierema has sold his | hardware store on Pine street to Lewis Spyk, and will probably engage in the meat business. Stanton—Lew Sterling has purchased the interest of F. A. Hunterin the firm of Lew Sterling & Co., dealers in agri- cultural implements. Belleville—Samuel W. Kingsley’s gen- eral store was entered by burglars, the 1ith, for the third time in three years, and a quantity of goods taken. Charlotte—Albert Spaulding has pur- chased an interest in the boot and shoe business of J. Q. Thomas & Co., the new firm to be known as Spaulding & Thomas. Eaton Rapids—H. Kositchek & Bros have purchased the clothing stock of H. Lederer & Son, at Lansing, and will run it in connection with their business here. Seney—Louis Danto has purchased the interest of Wm. Saulson in the dry goods and clothing firm of Wm. Saulson & Co., and will continue the business at the old stand. Muskegon—Andrew Wierengo has pur- chased of Brown & Friend, of Buffalo, N. Y., the Hotel Cadillac property, for $17,500. It is generally considered that Wierengo secured a bargain. Ionia—James W. Morton has left the employ of the Ionia Pants and Overall Co., with which he has been engaged for several years past, and contemplates em- barking in the mercantile business. Detroit—George S. McDonald, Charles F. Rich and Lucius B. West, of this city, A. W. Wright, of Alma, and J. Henry Lancashire, of Saginaw, have incorpor- ated the firm of McDonald, Rich & Co., which will do a wholesale and retail business in grates, mantels, etc., suc- suceeding the former firm of McDonald Bros. & Co. The capital stock is $15,000. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Mason—J. C. Cannon, Secretary of the Rogers Manufacturing Co., is dead. Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Spring Co. | is about to move to Harvey, a new annex to Chicago. Pentwater—Phillips & Jensen have resumed South Sylvan—Parmenter & Dayton have sold their shingle mill and timber on the Doe and Tom creek to parties in | Clare. Grand Haven—The Grand Haven Lum- ber Co. is shipping 16,000,000 feet of lumber to A. M. Dodge & Co., of Tona- wanda. Saginaw—Whitney & Batchelor will lumber near Arnold’s lake, Clare county, the coming fall and winter, beginning operations Sept. 1. Martin—J. M. Kelsey & Co., of Will- iamstown, N. Y., have bought the fruit evaporator formerly owned by Kent & Austin, and will run it this fall. Standish — Austin & Co.’s sawmill, completed last spring, has manufactured 2,500,000 feet of lumber in sixty days. The firm is building a lath mill. Owosso—The Owosso canning factory is starting up for the season, with good prospects. The old proprietor, W. E. Wiggins, will superintend the work. Alpena—Up to last week there had been shipped from this port 99,158,000 feet of lumber, 4,845,000 lath, 807,000 shingles, 325,000 railway ties and 197,800 cedar posts. Sebewaing—The Sebewaing Coal Co. has been incorporated by S. O. Fisher and Benj. Busbridge, of Bay City; W. T. Chappell, of Sebewaing, J. W. Groves ‘and J. F. Seeler, of Caro. | Owosso—The Owosso Tool Co. is en- larging its premises, building a brick addition to the present factory, the pres- ent building being too small to meet the increasing demand for their goods. Allegan—Arnold & Mizener have sold the balance of their stock of hoops to an Indiana firm. The sale included twenty ear loads—about 400,000 hoops. The shop will be ready to begin business again Sept. 1. Standish—Carton Bros. have purchased C. H. Rose’s shingle mill and will shortly remove it to a point on the east branch of the Tittabawassee, about two miles from Summit. The mill has a capacity of 40,000 daily. Saginaw—J. W. Howry & Sons, who have been logging in the Georgian Bay district, where they own a large body of timber, have put in several million feet of logs which will be rafted to the Sagi- naw river to be manufactured. Detroit—The Detroit Heating & Light- ing Co., manufacturers of hot water heater and radiators, have established a New England branch at 42 Pear! street, Boston, managed by J. A. Sargent, well known to the trade for many years. Bay City— McKeon & Glover have started acamp in Arenac county, where they will put in 20,000,000 feet. The logs will be railed to Pinconning and rolled into Saginaw bay, where they will be made into rafts and towed to the river. Hastings—The Hastings Furniture Co. has begun excavating for a new building which will be 64x156, two stories high. The upper story will be used by the eab- inet makers and for finishing the furni- ture and the lower story for storage and shipping. Rosecommon—E. P. Stone, who has been running a logging road in Roscom- mon county, putting logs into the Mus- kegon river for various parties the past five years, has nearly finished, and the road equipment will probably be sold. He has put in 200,000,000 feet. Ishpeming—John C. Brown has started five camps near this place and will start more shortly. He will put in about 30,- 000,000 feet on the Dead river for the Hawley mill at the mouth of that stream, and will put in a number of million feet besides for himself and other parties. Saginaw—The Emery Lumber Co. has let the contract to Thomas Pickard, of Mt. Pleasant, to cut 150,000,000 feet of logs on the Wahnapite, in the Georgian Bay district. Mr. Pickard is already on the ground starting camps, and will put” in 30,000,000 feet annually. A portion of these logs will be rafted to the Sagi- naw river. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—THE BEST DRUG AND GROCERY BUS- iness in live railroad and manufacturing town in Michigan of 1,200 inhabitants, with splendid farming country to back it up, with no large town within 20 miles; the business comprises drugs and medicines, groceries, school books, crockery, wall paper, notions, etec.; also express oflice and mail to carry to depot in connection; mail and express pay clerk hire; stock complete; business pays $1,000 per year net; stock will invoice about $4,000; business mostly cash; in brick block; rental low; best location in town; also own one-third interest in the block, which rents for $1,500 per year; will sell one or both; reasons fer selling, sickness and death, with other business to attend to. Address No. 91, care Michigan Tradesman. 91 OR SALE—THE MAGNIFICENT ELEVATOR AND warehouse at Carson City, Mich., recently built by the Carson City Elevator Co. at a cost of $10,000; having become the property of the Carson City Sav- ings Bank now in liquidation, will to close out, be sold for $5,000; will give time for part. Address J. E. Just, Ionia, Mich. 86 OR SALE—A RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR A SMALL investment to secure a light manufacturing busi- ness paying large profits; correspondence solicited only from parties meaning business. Drawer No. 831, La Crosse, Wis. 90 OR SALE CHEAP—ONE LARGE DRY AIR RE- frigerator, McGea patent; one coffee mill; show cases; scales; tea caddies; oil tank, etc., everything in fixtures to run a grocery store. W. C. Davis, Kalama- zoo, Mich. 89 OR SALE OR RENT—A GOOD TWO-STORY BUILD- ing, 24x80 feet, with basement 24x60 feet; the second story is rented for lodge hall. For particulars write to J. R. Harrison, Sparta, Mich. 88 OR SALE — GROCERY STOCK AND FIXTURES, either by inventory or by buik; good trade for cash customer. No. 85, care Michigan Tradesman. 85 OR SALE—25 PER CENT. BELOW COST, ONLY hardware stock in Baldwin, lively town on line of two railways; ill health compels sale; store building cheap. Joseph H. Cobb, Baldwin, Mich. 84 OR SALE—MACHINE SHOP PART OF OUR BUSI- ness; arare chance. The Castree-Mallery com- pany, Flint, Mich. 82 ;,OR SALE—STOCK OF FURNITURE AND UNDER- taking goods in one of the best towns ih Michi- gan; stock will invoice about $3,000; rms cash; reason for selling, are engaged in the Manufacturing Address No. 81, care Michigan Tradesman business. OR SALE—FIRST-CLASS DRUG STOCK; INVEN- tory $2,000; also real estate; a good chance for young physician. Address P. M. Cleveland & Son, Nunica. Mich. 75 JOB OF CONTRACT SAWING FOR SOME RE- sponsible party; Michigan preferred. Address Holley & Bullen, North . Aurelius, Mich. = OR SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES AND FIXTURES, splendid location; good reasons for selling. For particulars, address No. 58, care Tradesman. 58 V ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A general or grocery stock; must be cheap. Ad- dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26 SITUATIONS WANTED. Qeuarson WANTED—BY REGISTERED PHARMA- OO cist of eight year’s experience; first-class refer- ences. Address 92, care Michigan Tradesman. ITUATION WANTED—BY TRAVELING SALESMAN W of four years’ experience in furnishing goods line. Address 87 care Michigan Tradesman. 87 V ANTED—SITUATION BY A REGISTERED PHARM- acist, 8 years’ experience; good references given. Address No. 83, care Michigan Tradesman. 83 MISCELLANEOUS. BOLISH THE PASS BOOK AND SUBSTITUTE THE Tradesman Coupon, which is now in use by over 5,000 Michigan merchants—all of whom are warm in praise of its effectiveness. Send for sample order, which will be sent prepaid on receipt of $1. The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. AMPLES OF TWO KINDS OF COUPONS FOR RE- tailers will be sent free to any dealer who will write Zor them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book Co., Albany, N. Y. 564 Bicycles, Tricycles Velocipedes, AND General Sporting Goods Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s Sporting and Athletic Goods and American Powder Co.’s Powder. We have on hand a complete line of Columbia, Victor and other cheaper bicycles, also a splen- did assortment of Misses’ Tricycles, Children’s Velocipedes and small Safety Bicycles. E. G. Studley, 4 Monroe St., Calland see them or send for large, illustrated cata GRAND RAPIDS | iogue. —# GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. I. M. Clark & Son have foreclosed their mortgage on the grocery stock of Snyder & Porter at 3 Stocking street. A. M. Amberg, proprietor of the En- terprise cigar store, at 136 Monroe street, has sold out to B. J. Reynolds, late of Owosso. Cook & Bergthold have abandoned the manufacture of show cases, having dis- posed of their stock on hand to Heyman & Company. E. E. Walker has engaged in the vine- gar, pickle and bottled goods business at 22 and 24 Ottawa street under the style of the Grand Rapids Pickle Co. Gripsack Brigade. Will Jones has returned from his out- ing at Chicago and resumed his work on the road. A. S. Doak recently wagered $10 that Cross Village will have a railroad inside of three years. Will Campbell was in town Saturday on his way home from Petoskey, where he had been spending some time with D. N. White. Joseph H. Gibbons, the Charlotte cracker salesman, must have some sinis- ter object in view in disguising himself so completely via the barber shop. W. B&B. Downs and wife and &. F. Downs were called to Union City Satur- day night by a telegram announcing that the elder Downs is near to death’s door. It is reported that Dave Smith has dis- continued his visits to Montague, in con- sequence of the constant importunities of the German who imagines himself the victim of Dave’s duplicity in a flower deal several years ago. L. J. Koster is authority for the state- ment that the Park Place Hotel, at Ben- zonia, has doubled its rates, while the service remains the same as before. In other words, the traveling men are asked to pay $2 for $1 per day accommodations. Shelby Herald: ‘‘Some of the boys told Unele Dave, Monday, that By-Gee- Crip Jennings had one of his checks, and the old gentleman inserted the brad in his cane about an inch in the rear side of Jennings’ left leg with neatness and dis- patch.’’ Geo. F. Owen undertook to open his sample trunks at Sweet’s Hotel, last Wednesday and Thursday, but the un- dertaking was too much for his strength and he is flat on his back again. As soon as he is able to travel, he will go to Mt. Clemens foralong rest. In the mean- time his customers will be called on by Mr. Baxter. The Board of Trustees of the Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association met August 11 and ordered advance death as- sessment No. 4, for 1890. Proofs of the death of L. J. Taylor, of Ann Arbor, were presented and a check for $2,500 ordered drawn. The death occurred at Pontiae on July 29, having been caused by paralysis. Dave Smith stole a dog, while at Wood- ville last week, and expressed the an- imal to Steve Sears, with a card reading, ‘With the compliments of the boys.’’ Steve didn’t care to be mixed up in any larceny case, so he turned the canine over to Arthur Gregory, who is as proud of his new possession as a boy with his first pair of boots. The base ball nines championed by Hi. Robertson and B.S. Davenport covered themselves with glory and sand burrs at the Fountain street park Saturday after- noon, the score at the end of six innings standing seventeen to twelve in favor of Happy Hi’s nine. Another game was arranged for Saturday of this week, but on account of several of the players being absent at that time, the event has been postponed another week—until August 30—when the contest will positively take place at Alger park. ‘“THeE TRADESMAN’S reference to the decline in the service at Moore’s Hotel, at Shelby, will have a beneficial effect,’’ said a leading grocery salesman. ‘*The landlord spoke to me about the matter and I frankly told him that he ought not to put the traveling man who pays 50 cents for a meal on the same basis as the local customer who pays a quarter. If traveling men are charged double price, they ought to be given something extra for the money. The old fellow is pop- ular with the boys and I think he will trim his sails so as to keep their custom.”’ The traveling men are having no end of fun with Walter B. Dudley over the way in which he sold cigars for Thos. Heffernan, the Baldwin druggist, last Thursday morning. Mr. Heffernan left Dudley in the store while he went to breakfast and on his return was sur- prised to find that the cigar trade had been something remarkable in the mean- time. The occasion of the increase was soon discovered—Dudley had been sell- ing 10-cent cigars for 5 cents and the customers of the store had improved the opportunity. The way Dudley’s jaw dropped when informed of the mistake was enough to make a cat laugh. A. L. Braisted was sitting in the store of the Osterhout & Fox Lumber Co., at Deer Lake, last Wednesday, when a boy approached him with the request, ‘‘A lady at the depot wants you to come and see her baby.’’ The elephantine drum- mer was considerably perplexed, and would have undoubtedly answered the summons had not W. A. D. Rose explained that the messenger had evidently mis- taken Braisted for Dr. Heckman, of Reed City, whose gross weight probably ex- ceeds that of the representative of the Voigt flour monopoly. Mr. Braisted would do well to lay in an extra supply of cigars the next time he goes to Deer Lake—or send W. A. D. a box by first express for coming to the rescue at an embarrasing time. “That one-legged man is a fraud,’’ re- marked a well-known traveling man, as the familiar figure of the man with one leg off at the hip passed through a G. R. &1. train between Cadillac and Reed City. THe TRADESMAN representative expressed surprise how such an unfor- tunate person could be afraud, when the man of samples continued: ‘‘Of course, there is no denying the fact that he is unfortunate in the loss of a leg, but the manner in which he spends his handsome income deprives him of the sympathy of the people of Cadillac, where he and his ‘acquaintance’ reside. I am the last man in the world to decry a man who is striv- ing to make the most of his opportun- ities, but that fellow uses the numerous nickles which are contributed by sym- pathetic passengers in riotous living and ought not to be given the privilege of the trains by the railway company.’’ oo Manistee—Henry Clay Ward contrib- utes $10,000 special capital to the firm of W. F. Baker, dealer in lumber and shin- gles. P. of I. Gossip. J. W. Hurd, the Clio dealer, writes as follows: ‘‘Please drop my name from your list of P. of I. dealers, as my con- tract is no longer in force. Keep it out of the repentance column, also, as I have nothing to repent of in relation to deal- ing with that faction under contract.’’ A Lake Odessa correspondent writes: “T see by your paper that you still class Haller & Co., E. F. Colwell & Son and Fred Miller as selling to the P. of I. I wish to say that such is not the case. These contracts ran out about July 1 and were not renewed, so that the Patrons have no store here at present.’’ Davison Index: ‘‘One evening last week the Duffield P. of I. enjoyed them- selves in hanging in effigy one of their members belonging to the Gaines Center lodge. Next morning the effigy was found suspended over the door of their lodge and the building draped in mourn- ing, and then they became wroth.”’ O’Donnell correspondence Hastings Banner: ‘The P. of IL. stores, Edwards and Covert, have refused to renew their contracts. The people are satisfied that Hastings is and has been selling just as cheap as they can, and no merchant can sell goods on a 10 per cent. basis to the Patrons and have two-thirds of them trade at Hastings. In one of their pri- 5 vate meetings a short time ago, a gentle- man made a resolution that ‘steps be taken to have a P. of I. postoffice.’ ’’ a The Grocer in a Fix. ‘“‘Mr. Hopper, I find my last lot of sugar full of flies.’’ “Well, madam, at this time of year, you know, we—’’ ‘That doesn’t account for it, Mr. Hop- per. These are sand flies.’’ a Standish—James Norris’ sawmill has manufactured 3,000,000 feet, and the shingle mill has averaged 28,000 daily, but is nowidle. It will tions next month. i ei VISITING BUYERS. Mrs E Scott, Dunningville H Van Noord, E S Botsford, Dorr 8 T MeLellan, Denison Hessler Bros., Rockford the resume opera- Jamestown GH Remington, Bangor WmVerMeulen,BeaverDam W D Struik, Byron Center EE Hewitt, Rockford Geo Hirschburg, Bailey Geo A Sage, Rockford W R Lawton, Berlin G D Van Vranken, Cadillac Smith & Bristol, Ada Eli Runnels, Corning D M Skidmore, Alto JB Watson, Coopersville John Smith, Ada LJ Law. Cadillac D F Watson, Ada S MeNitt, Byron Center R G Beckwith, Bradley M Hirsenberg, Bailey J F Clark, Big Rapids Severance & Rich, Middleville C8 Comstock, Pierson Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland Ellen Kinney, Ensley A C Barkley, Crosby JL Thomas, Cannonsburg A P Sriver,So GrandRapids Dayton & Parmenter, AW Huntley, Suranac Crooked Lake Carrington & North, Trent Matthews & Chapel,WTroy John Gunstra, Lamont M Rookledge, Fremont S T Colson, Alaska Smallegan & Pickaard, R Richards,-Allegan Forest Grove P W Travis, Otsego G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove A Purchase, So Blendon T Van Eenenaam, Zeeland Jno Farrowe,SoBlendon J Riddering, Drenthe Frank Cornell, Sebewa John Damstra, Gitchell Alex Denton, Howard City N F Miller, Lisbon LM Wolf, Hudsonville H F Clark, Lowell E J Harrington, Holland M Heyboer & Bro., Oakland John De Vries, Jamestown J O Nessen, Nessen City H Meijering, Jamestown We are now ready to make cuntracts for the season of 1890. Correspondence solicited. GRAND RAPIDS. 81 SOUTH DIVISION ST., REMOVAL Already and to demand within a year’s time, our business has .grown to such proportions as larger quarters, which we have secured at 46 Ottawa St., where we shall be pleased to see our friends in the future. Net weights and fine goods tell the tale. Be sure to give them a trial. “, ©. BHAOCOKS &. CO. 1865. WHOLESALE = NAME eee Figs, Putnam Gandy bo HEAPQUARTERS FOR FRUIT errs LEMONS, BANANAS, Dates, Nuts, etc. CURTIS® & CoO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. FLOUR SACKS, GROCERY BAGS, TWINE AND WOODEN WARE. Houseman Block, - Grand Rapids, Mich. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Dry Goods. | Prices Current. Nankeen Cotton. From the Textile Manufacturing World. Cotton planters in the South have} shown considerable interest of late ina Chinese cotton, known as Nankeen, and | which is as yet but little known in this | country. It has been raised to a very limited extent here, but the acreage of it promises to increase, now that the farm- ers have realized that it possesses a pe- culiar value, and that there are custom- ers ready to purchase what may be grown of it. The cotton is described as fine in texture and fair in staple, has very long fibres: such as has been raised here has been used for druggists’ cord, carpet yarn, hosiery and underwear yarn. Itis of a beautiful — color, is a good imita- tion of camel’s hair, and has been used in many cases as a substitute for wool. It is sold at an advance of from 25 to 33 per cent. above ordinary cotton. Ata) recent alliance meeting a letter from an eastern manufacturer was read, desiring to contract for 10,000 pounds to be de- livered next season, and a standing offer | is made of $150 for the first bale. et A He Was on His First Trip. “This is the very worst house I ever | put up at!’ exclaimed a well-dressed | commercial traveler in the lobby of a Western hotel. ‘“‘What’s the matter ?’’ questioned an old-time commercial traveler standing near. ‘Beds bad ?”’ ‘““No; beds are all right.’ ‘‘Poor table ?”’ “Tam well enough satisfied with that, too.”’ ‘Service not up to the mark, eh ?’’ “Nothing to complain of on seore.”’ **Overbearing clerks, no doubt.’’ “On the contrary, all pleasant and obliging.”’ that ‘‘Rates too high for your nut ?”’ “No; on the contrary, charges very reasonable.”’ | ‘“‘For heaven’s sake, of what, then, do| you complain ?” “Everything in general. see that this is my first trip ?’’ The old commercial traveler saw the point, set up the cigars, and thought a deep think. | UNBLEACHED COTTONS. | Atlantic Aon eae 7 - lifton CCC.. 6% -.... «Arrow Brand 5% . LL 6. ; “ Word Wide. 7 : ee oy SX! _ i. |... 5 CS “Full Yard Wide. .... 6% Amory. i a Honest Width....... 6% Archery Bunting... wi Recta A... 54 Beaver Dam A A... 5% Madras cheese cloth 6% Blackstone O, 32....5 |Noibe R............. By —- oe ........ 7 urileve: Best..... 6% oan a 744 Oxford R . 644 Chapman cheese cl. 3% — ieee ee eee 7% ee 7 oeee...... . 6% Dwight Star......... 74) Top - the Heap.. - BLEACHED COTTONS. Amsburg.. 2 en ee... 7 Blackstone AA..... S “ole Momel......... 7% poe Aee............ @4iGreen Ticket....... 844 ere... |. 7 Mireet Pale.......... 64 eee... --.... -.... eee... 7% ee Be 6% Sauk ae. 4%@ 5 Dwight Ancher..... 9 |King Phillip ena 73 _ 6h lUlUC.”.ti<“‘ 7% Co eee 6 asia Geeks: "108% eee 7 iLonoedale...... 8% Pree 7% |Middlesex.... .. @5 Fruit of the Loom.. Ou ine Seme............ 7% SD eee oun 7c Veew..... ..,.. © se ae See ....... 2.5 5 Fruit of the Loom %. 8 (Pride of the West ..12 Patswaourst.......... @¢ponalind............ 7% Pull Vatue...._..... Gx onlignt............. 4% Geo. Washington... Si4/Vinyard............. 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. Sc 7%| Dwight Anchor..... 8% aver... 7%) | UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Tremont N.......... 5% Middlesex No. 5 -_ Hamilton N i A > ee ce as - =... Middlesex AT.. r go oe “ i ha “ee “oe 8 .19 7 No. 25 BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL. Bemittion h......... 7% Middlesex 5... 11 Middlesex PT...... 8 as 12 ee ee cy 9 e A... 13% . cA 9 - | 17% ' x &...... 10% . Bis eeee 16 DRESS GOODS. S (hemete...... ..... sec CORSET JEANS. Pees, es 6 |Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% awe. .... .... 6%|Rockport........... Y% PRINTS. Allen, stapie........ 5%%|Merrim’ck shirtings. 4% ' fancy.. ~- ok . a &% _ —....-... 5 |Pacific fancy ; American fancy.... 6 - forme on 0M | | American indigo.... 63{|Portsmouth robes. . Don’t you} i > English cousins. American shirtings. Arnold 6 2] long cloth B. 10% Simpson soerning.. O34 Solid black. be “ac 84) Washington indigo. 6 “century cloth 7 7,1 Turkey robes.. 7% . old seal. .... 10%| ‘‘ India robes.... 7% - urkey red. .10% e plain a "ky = % 3 Bertin sottes........ 04) ™ - 2 oie... 6%| “ Ottoman — 5 ™ pereen .... 6. mercer. Cocheco fancy. 6 |Martha Washington madders... 6 Turkey red &..... 7 Eddystone fancy... 6 {Martha Washington Hamilton fancy. ... 6%) Turkey red........ _ staple .... 544|Riverpoint rebes.... 5 Manc hester ancy.. 6 |Windsorfancy...... new era, 6% “ gold ticket Merrimack D fancy. 6%) indigo blue....... 10% TICKINGS, Ames ACA... i a... om Heamitiies 1 ......... 7%|Pemberton AAA. = D......... 8 a ’ Awning. - Swift River.. ' 7 | Poor... Pearl River.........12% ‘Pie Pies... 113¢/Wasren ele ee cy _ COTTON DRILL, a ... Seem... 8 6% oo og Clifton, ... i ga 10 SATINES. Simpson bs tee 20 (Imperial Sees 10% ae = jBlack...... ..... 9@ 9% | te BO eketntesses 10% CAPO oo... oo 10% | | DEMINS. | Amoskeag.. «GIO. oo cin. ods os 11% 90 oz. > +4 A Novel Sign. The following sign hangs in front of a store in a town not much over fifty miles from Grand Rapids : HA For Sail by Jim Sweet. —————.]+.+-- > __—_— Stetson—A. J. Felter has purchased the interest of his partner in the hard- ware business of Felter & Johnson and will continue the business under his own name. ® Prices Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURS AND BITS. dis. ee os 60 Ce ee 40 eemtiuee. Gomuire. ... cs... 25 genuine. Wateeero. ss... 50&10 AXES. First Quality, 8. . eee... $8 50 r me @ Peeeee........-...... 12 ¢ . a ee ay SS eee 14 00 BARROWS. dis. ae... 8 14 00 oon ESE rs net 30 00 BOLTs. dis. ee ee ee ey 50&10 ete ——— . ........... 70 —. .. a... ....... 40&10 ase 70 BUCKETS. ol yee... $3 50 ee 4 00 BUTTS, CAST. dis Cust Eoone Pi fieueree....... .... ...:...- 7& Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.......... 60&10 ee ee ee ee 60410 oe 60&10 | Merouent tute Mine... 60&10 OE 75 Pee: Clee ss. 70&10 ed, Permer ns... 70&10 Blind, Peewee 8... 0 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 40 | CRADLES. ee fee dis. 50402 | CROW BARS. Cust Bieg;-. perb 5 CAPS. Ely’s 1-10 .... See eae > 65 oe ie C.F . 60 Bee cee a, — o 35 Soma eo ie ee osc cy . 60 | CARTRIDGES, mee Pee. i cl... 50 ar eee. dis. 5 CHISELS. dis. | ee ae 70&10 | Geenet Riese. ............................. 70&10 o_o 70&10 ee 70&10 Bowuew Teneed Pimver................... 40 COMBS. dis. a Deweee se. ......-......_............ 40 ote 25 CHALE. White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER. nage. 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 31 ube, PEG 14a 29 | Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.... ........- . 28 | Cold Rolled, tore... G... 28 ete ce s 30 DRILLs. dis. moe eee 50 ‘Taper and straight Shank...:............... 50 Mone 6 Vere: Sees... 8... . 50 DRIPPING PANS. isall eines, eee pound ...................... 07 Terao wen, ber pomnd................ ..... % ELBOWS. Come. 4 weote Gin................... doz.net %5 Ceeeeeee 8s ... dis. 20&10&10 eS dis. 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITs. dis. re —_, Oe: reo Oe...............- 30 Ives’, 1, $18; 2, 824’; cee oes 25 FitEs—New List. dis. ree ee 60&10 as... 60&10 ieee 8 ee G0d10 eae... 50 een a ree Ce... 50 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; % and 2%; 2% 2 List 12 13 14 bn ss Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ......... 50 HAMMERS. Mieawtole @ Cae... dis. 2B ee. ee a Wee & Pies... .......-.... dis. 40&10 Mason's Solid Cast Steel................. 30¢e list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. ...30c 40&10 HINGES. bey Geer iss... dis.60&10 a... ....... r doz. net, 2 50 d 3% 10 8% Tr 1% 70 HANGERS. dis. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50&10 Cuemuton, antl-friction.................... 6010 Kidder, Wd Ee HOLLOW WARE. eee Kettles....... sy de doe ses Gable ce doce ue damees sous Pos Goeeeed |... HOUSE hamper @ooDs. Stemped Tin Ware... ............. new list 70&10 Japanned Tin Ware Lina es Sheela cs cla: 25 Grantie ron Ware ............... new list 333¢&10 WIRE GOODS. dis. ee i a 70&10&10 EE ee 70&10&10 ee ee... -70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Eyes.............. . 70&10&10 TRADI iia am i. 2 LEVELS. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 70 KNoBs—New List. dis, Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ........ : 55 Door, porcelain, 7a trimmings... ...... 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.. Deel ene 55 Door, porcelein, Ginmiigs................. 55 Drawer and Shutter, —_——— boaeete ; 7 LOCKS—DOO dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s aoe oe 55 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.'s. oy 55 EE EE 55 re kc. c8 ck .-..,! .. 55 MATTOCKS. BGee Bee........................... Be ain. Hunt _ Mee dens cou $15.00, dis. 60 Oe a $18.50, dis. — Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled ee. 50 MILLS. dis. eg a “a : ce 40 P.8. & W. Mfg. Co.’8 Malleables.... 40 “Landers, Ferry ace Ee... 40 “ Meters 8 Ot. .tCiCij‘«c#t(‘(‘ 25 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Stomp s Pettom.... ...........:... «+ ++ ~ GOGO ecueenre Gemmee. 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 25 a i Steel meme bee... 2.1... «2... 210 ere eee eee 2 60 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. CC ee Base Base a en a Base 10 Ss en 05 20 ON eee ee oa 10 20 Te ee 15 30 ee. 15 35 ee a ee eee eae 15 35 ee cl 20 40 Ce a a 25 50 eee 40 65 OE Ee 60 90 |3 Ce 1 00 1 50 ee 1 50 2 00 Fine ee. 18 2 00 Cc ase ee 60 90 Cc ~ Ho ele eRe TTR 7 1 0 ’ ¢.. eee ee 13 | Finish 10. Se ae 85 1 00 1 235 . 150 Clinch 10.. vi) . 90 . ou 1 00 Barrell 6. Oe eee ee teen ceo, I 2 PLANES. dis. cre Toot Con, tamer .........-............ @4) Ce @b) Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy................. @*) | Beoen. rec Gualy.......................... @e0 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .... «10 PANS. iy, Acme... dis.60—10 Common pommeed.... dia, RIVETS. dis. I 40 Copper Rivets and Gure.................... 50 PATENT FLANISHED IRON ‘*4*? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 “B Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27. 9 20 Broken packs \c per pound extra. ROPES. | Sisal, 4 inch and larger ..............-..... 12% Manill ee eal 16 | SQUARES. dis. Steel and Iron..... 75 79 and Noveis........_.... 60 ae. es. 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. Nos. 10 to 14 2 83 10 Nos. 15 to 17 .. .. oa 3 20 Nos. 18 to 21.. .. 4 3 20 Nos. 22 to 2% . 420 3 30 TGA MtGOee 88... .. £4 3 40 ee 4 60 3 50 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. Peececes: 16. So. dis. 40&10 SASH CORD. Silver Lake, Ware 4... list 50 Dre A cle, 55 - woe ee “ 50 ia eee @........... ' 55 o Whee Go... " 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. Some ages... per ton 825 SAWS. dis ‘ ol Silver Steel Dia. X ‘Cuts, per ‘foot, 70 . Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50 © ps ean Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 _ ion and Electric _—_ x Cuts, per foot.. - . 30 “TRAPS. dis. oe Oe... 6010 Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s........... 35 Oneida Co: a aly —* & Norton’s.... 70 Meuse, chose... 18¢ per doz Mouse, delusion...... «se ece+ «SLO DOr GOs. “WIRE. | ~— ee Annealed Market. oie eee ee “70 10 Copperea Marect........................_... 60 ied Markee “— Coppered Spring Steel. LL Bar ed. Fence, galvanized. 3 60 painted ..... 3 00 HORSE NAIL 8. Ruse... dis. 25410@25&10&05 tnam. hae eee ee oe dis. 05 Noriwesiern dis. 10410 WRENCHES. dis, Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. 30 Coe’s Genuine ..... 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, Loca % Coe’s Patent, malleable ee MISCELLANEOUS. dis. ned Capes. Ct. ce. CL. 50 Pompe Cleteem. 7 mencws NEW Fame 50 Casters, Bed and Plate.. -- O&10&10 Dampers, American te 40 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods 65 METALS, PIG TIN. Fem Eaeee.................. eee oe ..... .... ..........., 28¢ ZINC. Duty: Sheet, 2%c per pound. mr poune Cllee. 7 Pee poe ™% SOLDER. 4@% . «16 Extra Wi ing ed ed soa oe wea os 13% The se canny of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. Cookson.. _—. i .. per pound 16 Hellegs......................... 13 TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal. . . <1 +8 0 oo 14x20 IC ee. 6 60 10x14 IX, c 8 35 14x20 IX c 8 35 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal eee _. ........ eee 6 00 10x14 EX, . 7 30 14x20 IX, es 7 w Each additional X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, | Worteue............. .... Oa 14x20 IX, “ ' oe. 7 50 20x28 IC, _ me _ 12 50 14x20 IC, “ Alewey Graace.......... = 14x20 IX, . . . Lou. 6 75 20x28 IC, ei c oa . no 20x28 2, oe ec o i 14 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE, tae 18... i $13 14x31 in ee s i esce cae -14 50 t No. oiler ie pose TICK ) 10 and 12 Monroe St., Fri 2 Quart Japanned List--$38. 4 Quart Japanned List--$5. = 8 Quart J apanned List--$6. Write for Discount. Foster, Stevens & Co., 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. {he Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, Tradesman Company, Proprietor. 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, AUGUST 20, 1890. THE FARMER IN POLITICS. The organization of any class or pro- fession into a political party is not a desirable arrangement. It is apt to obscure to that class its interde- pendence of interest with all other classes, to result in enacting its least reasonable prejudices into laws, and to of legislation through the antagonism of the natural parties. natural parties in every community, one of which-seeks to accelerate the devel- opment of the body politic on the lines retards it. No profession coincides with this natural cleavage; all contain men who belong to both. To substitute po- litical organization on the lines of a bus- iness or a profession for political organ- ization on the lines suggested by the and retard without at all strengthening ments of political permanence. In this country the preponderance of work confusion the ele- | their own class in our legislatures, there | are composed of actual specimens of the | over to a class—to the class which put a check to the normal development) the most leisure, the most practice in | speech-making, and the most technical For there are two | ibe some hope that the breach they are |making within the farmers above all other industrial classes very naturally suggests some | such movement as the Farmers’ Alliance or the Farmers’ ent are working for the control of pol- itics in different parts of the country. The farmer knows he can outvote every- body else. He is more apt to cherish suspicion that he is not getting fair play in the control of the public interests than is any worker who comes into closer and more constant contact with his fel- It to the credit of our League, which at pres- low-men. is human nature that the more closely men | | are associated, the more they are inclined | to believe in one another. Just because the farmer does his work in comparative solitude, he is tempted to be suspicious, and is more ready to listen to demagogues who assure him that he is being de- | telligent citizen. |mere warring factions, gathered around |the personal fortune of clever political spoiled or neglected by those who man- |} age the government. For the last ten years the American farmer has not wanted advisers of this mischievous kind. He has been told that he is in debt and losing ground; that he alone is not prosperous; that he should | broadest and truest sense of the term. | And to whatever issue they carry their struggle in Congress and elsewhere, this \is notatime of which | ests, mere class interests take things into his own hands and re- | model the system of taxation and the general administration of affairs. vious party lines. And, | on the other hand, he has been outraged | by the rise of a new school of economic | vagarists, who propose to substitute for | all other taxes arent tax on land—the one thing on which he depends for his subsistence and his social position. is much inclined to think that land, especially farm lands, already pay far too much of the taxes, and he is enam- ored of the idea that all kinds of prop erty should be taxed equally for the sup- port of the government. | refusing to sell certain contract dealers, ;announces that the He | the city business man, has been too busy |to take hold of polities. of its historical growth, while the other | | try of Christendom. general life of the State, must always | progress, | economists does not move him. He wants | to repeat an experiment which has | broken down a score of times in nearly | every state. We think the political associations of farmers will not lastlong. Their mem- bers will not go very far in the control of state or local governments without making the discovery that the whole range of what government can accom- plish is a very limited one, and that no millennium can be brought in by legis- lation. Some abuses and evils they probably will be able to getridof. If they have really made up their minds to secure the adequate representation of is one evil they may do away with. The American theory, that these legislatures people for whom they legislate, is far from the fact. Here, as elsewhere, the business of governing has been made has familiarity with governmental matters. This has been because the farmer, like The lawyers fill the legislatures, state and national, through the default of the rest of the community, and, as a consequence, our legislation is more narrowly a reflection of the ideas and traditions of the legal profession than that of any other coun- We see no reason to expect that these political organizations of farmers will affect national politics seriously, except, perhaps, in the South. There seems to the Democratic party there may result in obliterating the color line from politics. But in the North the existing situation is not favorable to the formation of parties which shall super- sede the old. The issues which divide Democrat and Republican are more dis- tinct and vital than at any time since the era of reconstruction. It is two decades since our politics were in so satisfactory acondition in this respect. Whatever the merits of the questions that have been occupying Congress, and that formed the basis of the last national campaign, they certainly are such as in- volve great principles, and appeal to the judgment and the interest of every in- The parties are not adventurers. They are parties in the it will be said that, for want of genuine political inter- succeeded in coming to the front and obliterating pre- | steel is. would condescend to ask a favor of a no- body who is not a stranger to prison | walls and would have had an opportunity to play checkers with his nose a second time, if the boycott he endeavored to in- stitute had been made eifective. One of the most important powers with which the Inter-state Commerce Com- mission was invested is also one it has been naturally the slowest to exercise. [t is that of determining what is a fair compensation for any service, and com- pelling the railroads to reduce their charges to that figure. It first exercise was at the suggestion of the National Senate, which last February instructed the Commission to ascertain the reasons for the inability of the farther Western States to compete with others in the grain market. The Commission reported in July that it had made the investiga- tion and found the rates charged the grain producers were not reasonable. Especially it found a much higher charge for corn than for wheat west of the Mis- souri, a difference amounting in some eases to 25 per cent. It now orders a re- duction of rates, which will bring the eost of taking corn from those points to Chicago from 13.5 to 9.3 cents a bushel. The experiment the Delaware & Hud- son Railroad is making in the substitu- tion of steel for wooden ties is one which will interest the whole country. The first American railroads were laid with- out ties of any kind, the rail being placed on the top of a wall of masonry built into the ground. It was quitea venture to replace this with cross-ties of wood laid on the ground. In some Brit- ish roads heavy beams of timber laid lengthwise were tried, but abandoned as too expensive. The consumption of wood for ties has reached the point at which the demand exceeds the supply, and probably would exceed it under the most careful forestry. Some substitute must be found, and the reduction of the cost of low grade steel seems to indicate that as the best. The new ties are clamped te the rails in such a fashion as to obviate the risk of ‘‘spreading;’’ but, of course, they will contract and expand with changes of temperature, and must run the risk of snapping in severe freez- ing, just as the rails do. But the Amer- ican improvements in making Bessemer steel diminish this risk very much by producing a grade much less likely to be affected by such changes than English And allowance for contraction and expansion is a matter for the wheel- mgkers. As it is, the flange of every wheel is much wider than the rail. The one question to be determined is that of cost. Wecando almost anything, if it will pay. Agitating a Cheese Factory. Hudsonville, Aug. 19.—The farmers in | this vicinity are agitating the formation The editor of the Lyons Herald, who took it upon himself to institute a boy- | eott against certain jobbing houses for | boycott has been)! abandoned. He bombastically asserts in | | the columns of his paper that the jobbers | humbly begged him to remove the boy- | | cott, in which case they would jump out) of their boots to sell Patron storekeepers. | There may be afew greenies who will | That the im-| ossibility and the unwisdom of taxing | believe such twaddle, but any man of | of an association to engage in the manu- facture of cheese and will probably come to a final decision at the meeting of Pomona Grange on Aug. 22 and 23. In | the event of a factory being inaugurated, | Richard Redhead will probably be in- stalled as cheese maker. ——— +4 For the finest coffees in the world, high grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner, 17 Hermitage block, Grand Rapids, Mich. Agent for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York ity. 352tf >_> - -. C. W. Fox, book-keeper for Daniel sense will decline to accept the statement Lynch, is spending a week with his fam- everything has been demonstrated by the | that any wholesale house of importance | ily at Macatawa Park. | dering his son, L. K., Jr. |econvicted and a judgment for damages 'and costs entered against him, but wben ithe ‘‘thuckleberry openings.’’ LEATHER VERY HIGH. The Standing Armies of Europe Must Have Shoes to Stand In. From the New York Sun. Since the beginning of this year there has been an unprecendented rise in the price of leather—a rise which has its re- mote cause in the large bodies of men under arms across the Atlantic. Ten years ago the price of leather, which before that time had been comparatively low, suddenly advanced to a very high figure. Since that time the price has been falling, with an occasional advance. Last fall leather had dropped to the low- est price it has ever touched in this eountry. A great many fortunes were lost, and leather was regarded as a very unsafe commodity. Early in the present year a number of causes which had been in operation for some time began to affect the leather market visibly. The chief of these causes is the change in the foreign mar- ket. Three years ago the United States annually imported from Europe from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 calf skins and many hundreds of thousands of hides. For the last two years this country not only has not imported hides but has exported them in great quantities. Armies in time of war are the greatest consumers of leather, and they consume almost as much in time of peace. These millions of men inthe standing armies across the water, who are consumers but not pro- ducers, have begun to use up all the home supplies of leather and also much that has to be imported from abroad. As a result, all our surplus leather and hides have gone abroad instead of remaining at home to keep down prices. A number of rich leather dealers have seized this opportunity to restore confidence to the leather market and to raise the price. Their efforts, begun last January, were soon felt, and leather tock a sudden and startling boom. In January, rough leather could be bought for 1644 cents a pound. To-day it is worth 75 cents a pound. The hides from which it is made have advanced in the same time from 44% cents a pound to9 cents a pound. Sole leather was then 16 cents. To-day it is 18 cents. Union crop leather was worth 27 cents and has now advanced to 31 cents. This surprising increase in cost extends to all light leathers of which shoes, harness bindings and furniture fittings are made. Patent leather has advanced in the same way. Movements in the leather trade are slow to extend through the branches. The fact that there are large supplies of leather on hand and also the well-stocked condition of the shoe market will tend to put off the advance in the price of shoes, but not very long. The cheaper grades of shoes will be the more naturally affected. Cheap shoes are manufactured on extremely close margins. Sometimes the manufacturer makes a profit of but two or three cents on each pair. If it costs him four of five cents more to make the shoes the advance in price by the time they are sold by the retailer will certainly be noticeable. Said a wholesale leather dealer yester- day: ‘The present advance is, I think, putting the price beyond the actual value of leather. The law of supply and demand will soon come in to restore equilibrium. But leather will not go back to its low price of last year, and the price of shoes will certainly advance, although perhaps not so much as the price of raw hides in the market would indicate.”’ lt penne Slandered a Merchant’s Son. N. Justice is a merchant and postmas- ter at North Morenci. Last fall he was sued by L. K. Gay, of Morenci, for slan- He was tried, the officer went to take an execution he found that Justice had placed mortgages |on his property and had stepped across the line into Ohio, where he found a safe retreat in the impenetrable fastnesses of A_ short time ago he quietly returned to his native heath and was escorted over to the Adrian jail, which will be his post-office address until he weakens and pays up. THE MICHIGA N TRADESMA N. = WHAT A FAMILY COSTS. Statement of a Man Who Counted Expenses Twenty-Six Years. What does it cost to bring upa family? A gentleman whose experience will be recognized as having points in common with other householders, has preserved an account of the expense to which he has been in rearing a family of four children. To-day he entered the follow- ing statement in his diary. It may be a valuable statistical fact for the census takers: ‘*To-day I close my diary. Twenty-six years ago to-day I undertook to keep an accurate statement of all my earnings and expenses, so that I might know actu- ally how much it costs to live in the mar- ried state. Then all was anticipations. ITand my young wife counted our re- sources and our expectations. I received $15 a week, with a promise of more. I owned a house comfortable enough for frugal young people to begin life in. We were spared house rent, therefore, and our expenses have never included this item. Retrospectively, I see that we have brought up four children in com- paratively easy circumstances. My health has been good and my earnings have been constantly received. I now receive $30 a week, and we still own the home- stead without any great addition to its wealth, except in an increased amount of furniture. Ihave little more money than I had when first married. Perhaps, all told, I have $3,500 now of assets; then I had perhaps $2,500. We have never wanted for bread. Sometimes we have felt in need of more money. Three of the children are now making their own way. Next year the fourth gradu- ates at the high school, having received the same schooling that the others have had, and will begin to look out for him- self. “*T shall not necessarily be at any more expense on account of my children, and the diary properly ends now. Would I be willing to go through the same experi- ence again of raising a family? I asked my companion, who had borne the greater part, this question, and I know that she spoke with a heart full of love, but was compelled to say: ‘Not for all that money could buy would I go through again what has been necessary to rear a family.’ “Expressed in dollars, the totals are these: In twenty-six years we have re- ceived from my wages and incidental moneys that came through my wife and the children, $40,900—or say $40,000— besides the amount of increase in the permanent assets. Given a plant of about $3,000 and two employes, a man and wife, it has taken, therefore, about $10,000 to each man produced. This, of course, includes all employes’ expenses. The plant is slightly enhanced in value, but the employes have seen their best days. The quality of the goods is yet to be demonstrated. Prospects happily point to cessation of labor and increase of receipts, but there is no certainty about this. The employes are proud of their work, but don’t want another job. “Some of the items of expense have been these: Doctors’ bills (twenty-seven years), $2,100 (and all paid, probably the only instance on record); groceries, aver- age per week first five years, $7; next three, $9; remainder of the twenty-six years, $13 a week. For ten years it has taken on an average one pair of shoes per week for the family, including my- self and wife. The most annoying thing I have ever known is the rapidity with which children wear out shoes. Only one thing approaches it—the high price of children’s shoes. I never could under- stand how, with all the civilization of the age, and the demand for cheaper results, children’s shoes have not been reduced in price. The human shoe is a failure. Noman notrich can afford to buy shoes for a family, and if I had it to do 1 would go to Timbuctoo, where neither horses, mules, camels nor men are shod.’’ : ——<- << One Type of the Dead-Beat. From the American Grocer. What a smooth, oily tongue he pos- sesses! He is never ill at ease, never loses his poise or self-command, is fer- ibe back tile in excuses, given to flattery, as though an adept in the art, is cunning, plausible, quick asa flash, sly as a fox, and will, in nine cases out of ten, get the best of you in spite of yourself. I re- eall old Mr. Goodpromise, by occupation a broker, who seemingly flourished dur- ing the era of inflation, just after the civil war. He pretended to owna val- uable bit of real estate on the main avenue and to beareal estate broker. His family was large and he bought with great freedom, and before we knew it owed us $200. His temper was difficult to ruffle. If we approached him for money, he was so suave and polite, as he told us he was just closing a large real estate deal and would, as soon as it was fixed, settle in full, that we believed him and allowed the account to be enlarged. Possibly the next time we called we were told the deal was still on, but ‘there is $25 which credit on account,’’ the pay- ment creating the impression that Good- promise was truthful and honest. He gained by this device the right to trade another week or two, and when we again | ealled, he said: ‘‘All right, come into my | office to-morrow at 11 o’clock, we will | square the bill.”? Atil a.m. the next} day we were on hand and, after a long | wait, informed that the gentleman was | suddenly called out of town and would | in a few days. Certainly, we| would not fail to honor the orders of | Mrs. Goodpromise, and so the bill grew. | At last patience was exhausted, and | we decided to try a new dodge and make | this plausible old sinner mad, believing | that in his vexation he would pay. We, | therefore, deliberately provoked a quar- | rel, impugned his motives and touched his | seeming sense of honor. He became wrathy, and in his rage demonstrated his ability to pay by closing the account. The next day he was in good humor and sent in a liberal order, which was re- spectfully declined. Our neighbors were less fortunate. His property was in his wife’s name, his business dwindled, he became involved in disreputable trans- actions and died in extreme poverty. This is a type of dead-beat found in all large cities and suburban towns. They are generated from aclass of men who believe the ‘‘world owes me a living,’’ and who trust to their ‘‘wits’’ to get money. They follow the profession of a curbstone broker, frequent bucket shops, serve as a go-between in questionable transactions, get up mining companies, or speculate in some patent. They are ingenious and clever, often dishonest or untrustworthy from foree of circum- stances. Ofttimes they are men reduced to want by some sudden misfortune, gen- erally the failure of some speculative deal. Give them a wide berth, and if onee on your books, and you can force a settlement, keep such accounts closed. | 1,000 M uskegon Cra cker Co de on BISCUITS AND SWE ET GOODS. LARGEST VARIETY IN THE STATE SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. 457, 459, 461, 4643 W. WESTERN AVENUE, MUSKEGON, MICH. No Gonneetion with Any Sracker Trust J. HEERINGA, GENERAL MERCHANT, find dealer in Butter, E39s. Seeds & Grain, EAST SAUCATUCK, MICHICAN, We quote the following prices on No 4 tags, delivered to any express office or jobbing house in this city: $1.50 2,000 2.50 8,000 4.50 We carry all-other sizes of tags and can fill orders on short notice, THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. BROWN & SHHULGER, Dealers in ENGINES, BOILERS and MILL MACHINERY, Farm Machinery, Agricultural Implements, Wagons and Carriages. ~~. > Goods of Standard Purity and Strength. | wake | up, and let your light shine through the | Hawkins, Aug. 16.—Merchants, columns of THE TRADESMAN. As THE TRADESMAN is published for the mer- | chants’ use, why not use it? If youhave any experiences in trade which will be of interest to others to know, do not be afraid to give all information to brother merchants through the columns of the paper. If you buy a genuine article which is new to the trade, let it be known, that our patrons may receive the benefit while it is new; for many articles in their infancy of manufacture are gen- uine in purity, but after receiving a high reputation they lose it, on account of mixing too much bogus with the good. So far as my experience goes, I am satis- fied that the best is none too good and that the merchant who deals in goods of standard purity and strength, only, makes the most money in the long run, besides being at peace with all the rest of man- kind. DELMORE HAWKINS. i > F tien eae & Ketcham are erect- ing a hardwood mill here, utilizing the machinery of the mill formerly at | Averill, which is one of the best hard- | wood mills in the State. There is a good deal of hardwood timber about Flushing. They have also established a lumber yard here. GRAND RAPIDS, Corner West Bridge and North Front Sts., - MICH. HESTER & FOX, Manufacturers’ Agents for SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY, BiopU q ATLAS ENGINE Catalogue = WORKS Rd ms INDIANA ~ 16S. nO.. U 'RERS ¢ STEAM ENGINES 8 BO} LEAS Cer-y Engines and Boilers in Stock ‘f ni tor immediate delivery Maun mag: / me mah a ~ @ i . => . &. Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Meshinecy, 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, MIOH, Planers, nee | Write for Prices. PEREINS & HESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE- 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. Staite Board of Pharmacy. jne Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Two Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit. five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. reasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Next meeting at Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. first Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing. Sec’d Vice-President— Henry Kephart, a Springs Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit. *«xecutive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E. T. Webb, Jackson; D.E. Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Me- Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit. Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday of September, 1890. Grand Kapids Pharmaceutical Society. resident, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott. Grand S Drug Clerks’ Association. re sident Kipp; Secretary, W.C. S: Detroit Pharmaceutical eas resident, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association President, P. Van Deinse; Secretary, John A. Tinholt. Right to Use a Trade Name. An important decision regarding the right to the use of a firm name in kusi- was rendered by the New York Court of Appeals in the recently-decided ease of Caswell vs. Hazard. It appears that when the firm of Caswell, Hazard & Co. was organized, all the rights, interest and reputation which the representa- tives of those names had acquired in the business of manufacturing drugs and medicines were merged. In 1872 the principal partner, Philip Caswell, Jr., retired from the firm, transferring, with the consent of another partner of-the same name, John R. Caswell, all his interest and good will to the third part- ner, Kowland N. Hazard, covenanting that he would not go into the drug busi- ness. either in New York or Newport, for twenty years. A new firm, consist- ing of Rowland N. Hazard, John R. Cas- well and John C. Hazard, was thereupon formed to carry on the business under the old firm name. In 1876 this firm was dissolved by mutual consent, John R. Caswell transferring to the other part- ners his interest in the property of the firm except its trademarks and a part of its retail stock in trade. Among the goods transferred were all signs, labels, bottles and bottle-molds used in the business and having the old firm name printed upon or blown into them. About ten years after his withdrawal from the firm John R. Caswell brought suit against his former copartners, claiming the ex- clusive right to use the name ‘Caswell’? in connection with the business of man- ufacturing and selling drugs, and asking that the defendants be enjoined from using the name in any way in the prose- cution of such business. The Court of Appeals denied the application for an injunction. It said, in giving judgment: “The right to a trade-mark is derived from its appropriation and continued user, and becomes the property of those who first employ it and give it a name and reputation. * * * It becomes part of the assets of the firm by which it was used and established and ean be owned, transferred and sold like other species of property. Upon the dissolu- tion of a firm which has acquired its pro- prietorship, it must be sold and its pro- ceeds distributed like other firm assets: and if not so disposed of, it remains the property of the individual members of the dissolved firm, and may lawfully thereafter be used by any or either of such members desiring to continue the prosecution of the business in which it has been theretofore used. * * * Assuming, therefore, the correctness of plaintiff's claim, that upon the dissolu- tion of the firm of Caswell, Hazard & Co., in 1876, there was no transfer by either party to the other of the right to use its trade-marks and firm name, yet the right thereafter to use its trade- marks then became vested in the indi- vidual members of such firm, and could be lawfully employed by either without hess trespassing upon the rights of the other.’ | Clove Culture in Zanzibar. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says | that ‘Zanzibar and the neighboring | island of Pemba furnish the world with | the bulk of the supply, about 13,000,000 | pounds a year. just received at the State Department, says the clove tree was first introduced into Zanzibar by Sultan Seyed Said bin Sultan about the year 1830, since which time its cultivation has gradually ex- tended, until it is now the chief industry of the islands. “The industry received a check in 1872, the date of the great hurricane. At least nine-tenths of the trees were destroyed at that time, so the larger part of those now standing areof new growth. A peculiarity of the clove tree is that every part is aromatic, but the greatest strength is found in the bud, which is the ‘clove’ of commerce. The finest quality of cloves are dark brown in color, with full, perfect heads, free from mois- ture. ‘‘In the cultivation of the clove the first thing to be done is the starting of the shoot. The seeds are placed in long trenches, and are well watered until after sprouting. In the course of forty days the shoots appear above ground. They are carefully watered and looked after for the space of two years, when they should be about three feet in height. They are then transplanted, being set about thirty feet apart, and are kept watered till they become well rooted. From this time on, the young trees re- quire only ordinary care, though the best results are obtained when the ground about the trees is well watched over and kept free from weeds. “The growth of the trees is very slow, and five or six years are required for it to come into bearing, at which time it is about the size of an ordinary pear tree, and is usually very shapely. It is a pretty sight to see a young plantation just coming into bearing. The leaves, of various shades of green tinged with red, serve to set off the clusters of dull red clove buds. As soon as the buds are fully formed and assume this reddish color the harvesting commences, and is prosecuted for fully six months at in- tervals, since the buds do not form simultaneously, but at odd times through- out the period. The limbs of the trees being very brittle, a peculiar four-sided ladder is brought into requisition, and the harvesting proceeds apace. ‘““As fast as collected the buds are spread out in the sun until they assume a brownish color, when they are put in the storehouse and are ready for market. A ten-year-old plantation should produce an average of twenty pounds of cloves to atree. Trees of twenty years frequently produce upward of one hundred pounds each, worth 10 cents a pound. The sul- tan derives no inconsiderable portion of his revenue from this source, the duty levied placing to the sultan’s credit for the present year nearly, if not quite, $400,000. “Besides the clove buds the stems are also gathered, and form an article of commerce commanding about one-fifth the price of cloves and having about the same percentage of strength. To this circumstance is due the fact that the ground clove can frequently chased in the home market at a lower price than whole cloves. For the past fifteen years the cultivation of cloves has been the chief occupation of the Arab planters, and has always netted good re- turns. It seems probable that it will continue to be a profitable crop, since the consumption of the article appears to keep pace with the inevitable increase of production.”’ ee A Success of the Linseed Oil Combine. The first annual meeting of the Na- tional Linseed Oil Company, a corpora- tion which includes almost every linseed oil concern in the country, was held in Chicago last Thursday. About forty-five of the fifty-two mills in the organization were represented at the meeting, voting $13,700,000 of the $18,000.000 capital stock. Alexander Euston, of St. Louis, presented a statement showing that the net earnings had been almost 7 per cent. on the capital stock. In his official state- ment to the members, Mr. Euston said that | within a short time it would be necessary | to ivic:aase the capital stock to $20,000,- 000 in order to take in the plants not in- cluded in the present membership. | Operating expenses, he said, had been Consul Pratt, in a report | reduced $12,006 without cutting wages. be pur-| Clark Woodman, of Omaha; August O. Hall, of Chicago, and M. Simpson were elected directors for three years, and P. C. Hanford chosen for one year to fill the vacancy caused by the death of C. D. Close. Alexander Euston was re-elected President of the company and T. G. McCullogh Secretary. $$$ $$ The Marquette Meeting. The State Board of Pharmacy held an examination at Marquette on the 15th and 14th, and licensed the following named gentlemen: Wm. D. Barnard, Manistee; Oliver C. Boynton, St. Ignace; Arthur Ellsworth, Menominee; Jas. F. Hocking, Crystal Falls; Charles Sorsen, Red Jacket; Wm. C. Royce, Sault Ste. Marie; John Rupp, West Superior; Geo. Newton, Vicksburg; Valdemar Johnson, Ironwood; Ben. H. Hocking, Iron Moun- tain: Calvin Hollinger, Sault Ste. Marie. -— a a Muskegon Drug Clerk’s Association. Muskegon, Aug. 15.—At the last regu- lar meeting of the Muskegon Drug Clerk’s Association, the following officers were elected: President—P. Van Deinse. Vice-President—C. S. Koon. Secretary and Treasurer—Jno. A. Tin- holt. Our membership has been considerably inereased of late and much interest is taken in the work by each one, individu- ally. Jno. A. TINHOLT, Sec’y. ———> + The Drug Market. Opium is steady. Morphia and quinine are unchanged. Alcohol is firm at the advance. Cuttle bone is higher. Quick- silver is lower. Balsam peru has ad- vaneed. Jalap root is higher. Golden seal root has advanced. Oil sassafras has advanced. Glycerine has declined. Turpentine is lower. —<—<—$—$—__— > —O- <—_____—— Repentance Column. The following are some of the merchants who have been under contract with the P. of L., but have found the level profit plan a delusion and a snare: Aurelius—John D. Swart. Belding--L. 8. Roell. Bellaire—Schoolcraft & Nash. Big Rapids—Verity & Co. Blanchard—L. D. Wait. Bridgeton—Geo. H. Rainouard. Carlton Center—J. N. Covert. Casnovia—John E. Parcell. Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner. Chapin—J. I. Vanderhoof. Charlotte—C. P. Lock. Chester—B. C. Smith. Clam River—Andrew Anderson. Clio—Nixon & Hubbell. Cloverdale—Geo. Mosher. Coopersville—W. D. Reynolds & Co. Dimondale—Elias Underhill. Dushville—G. O. Adams. Eaton Rapids—E, F. Kna app, G. W. Webster. Fork Center—D. Palmer Fremont—J. B. Ketchum, W. & Pearson. Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son, F. O. Lord. Grand Rapids—F. W. Wurzburg, Van Driele & Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell. Harvard—Ward Bros. Hastings—J G. Runyan. Hersey—John Finkbeiner. Hesperia—B. Cohen. Howard City—Henry Henkel. Tonia—E. S. Welch, Wm. Wing. Irving—J. T. Pierson. Kent City—R. McKinnon. Lake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co., E. F. Colwell & Son, Fred Miller, McCartney Bros., Fred. Miller. Lowell—Charles McCarty. Manton—aA. Curtis. Maple Rapids—L. 8. Aldrich. Marshall—John Fletcher, John Butler, Charles Fletcher. Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison. Millington—Forester & Clough. F. O. Hetfield — City—W. A. Soules, &$ Mt. “Morris—H. E. Lamb, J. Vermett & Son. Nashville—Powers & Stringham. Newaygo—W. Harmon. New Era—Peter Rankin. North Dorr—John Homrich. O’Donnell—J. E. Edwards. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Otisco—G. V. Snyder & Co. Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co. Ravenna—R. D. W oo Reed City—J. M. Cadzo Richmond—Knight & Dale. Rockford—H. Colby & Co. St. ae: A. Brice. Sand Lake—C. O. Cain. Sebewa—P. F. Knapp. Sparta—Woodin & Van bapvet ah Dole & Haynes. Springport—Cortright & Griffi Stanton—Fairbanks & Co., Sterling & Co. Sumner—J. B. Tucker. Wayland—Pickett Bros. Williamston—Michael Bowerman. Harmon, Boone FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. Bowne, President: Gro. C. PreRCE, Vice President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it. Address PECK BROS., “2otstate Bawsgis GRAND RAPIDS. THE MOST oe ee FOOD; For Infants and Invalids. Used everywhere, with unqualified§ success. .Vot a medicine, but asteam- cooked food, suited to the =e stomach. Take no other. druggists. In cans, 35c. and upward] OOLRICH & | Go. on every label.j Embossed Cards, PictUre Advertising Cards, Aduertising Folders, Having a lot of the above goods, consisting of several thousand of different designs, we offer the cards much less than our usual prices. The Tradesman Company, GRAND RAPIDS, SUSPENDED! UB} IoY}O Suissoig eoug mig BZuyyes Aq wi no By His “Better Half,” esodU] 0} 1O[vapP OY} SUIMOTIB 107 d EL’ 1 IN Ee. Warranted not to Thicken, Sour or Mold i: any Climate. Quality Guaranteed Against Injur: by Freezing. All others worthless after free ~ See quotation. MARTELL BLACKIN?# .. Sole Manufacturers, Chicago, Tl. Do You Observe the Law ? If not, send $1 to THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, For their combined LIQUOR & POISON RECORD. “THE WEAR IS THE TRUE TEST OF VALUE.”’ We still have in stock the well-known brand Pioneer Prepared Paint. MIXED READY FOR USE. Having sold same to our trade for over ten years, we Can say it has fulfilled the manufac- turer’s guarantee. Write for sample card and prices before making your spring purchases. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SOLE AGENTS POLISHINA ™5 ZURNITURE la la THE MICHIGAN TRADESM A N.- 11 Advanced—Balsam Peru, Golden Seal Root, Jalap Root, Cuttle Bone. ACIDUM. Aectiioe ... 5. 5... 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 ee — 30 Carbelicum ....... .. 22 2 Cepacoe: ._............ 50@ 55 Hydrochlor ... _ of Nitrocum 10@ 12 Oxelhcum ....... 1@ 13 Phosphorium dil 20 Salicylicum ..... -1 40@1 80 Sulphuricum.... . 1%@ 5 ‘Teannicum......... ..1 40@1 60 ‘Tartarioum............ &@ AMMONIA. Aqua, » Gee Pee = i 7 ce ee 11@ 13 Chisum ............ 12@ 14 ANILINE, ieee... 2 0O@2 25 Me i cl. 80@1 00 Wea... st... 45@ 50 Vollow ............... 2a BACCAE, Cubeae (po, 1 50......- 1 = 3 Juniperus ...........-- {0 Xanthoxylum ........- 20 30 BALSAMUM. Copaiba ..........----- 60@ 65 Pe @!1 35 necghin, Canada ..... 35@ 40 es 40@ 45 CORTEX. Atlee, Canadion............. 35 ee eee 11 Cinchona Flava .. 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po 20 Prunus Virgini...........--. 2 Quillaia, grd.............-.. 12 Saaeerree 22.6. ..........-.. 12 Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra... MU@ 2% 35 Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11@ 12 Cr aR 2 Morphia, Ss. ay oo -2 85@3 10 Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 2/| Lindseed, boiled .... 64 67 Wholesale Price Current. aN. ¥. @& Sinapis.. —. @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter C Ce 2 “— 10 | - opt. @ 8 Scammed 3... 69 | Moschus Canton.... .. 40 | Snuff, Maccaboy, “De | Spirits Turpentine Gi, 53 Declined—Glycerina, Quicksilver, Turpentine. | Myristica, No.1....... 0 7 | Voes . - @ PAINTS bbl. Ib a omica, (po 20).. @ en eng De. Voes @ 3 Rea cil i mi "94 3 momen... .......... 33@ 38/| Soda Boras, (po.13). . 12@ 13 , |. 1% 2@é ee beside viene 14 00@14 _ TINCTURES, Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. | Soda ct Potase Part. 30@ 33 | Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4 Erigeron ............-.1 at 80 39 | Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 | mete a 6 ; wie Cam. 14@ 2 i bi a i 3 “293 Gaultheria cima a aon oe 80 | doz mC. 4 gal @2 00 | Soda” " io a 34 4 “strictly pure... 24 24@3 ot 7 “and myrrh............ 60| Picis Liq., + Gaarts -. od - 00 —— Sulphas.-. a. 2 2 Vereen f Prime Amer phi ' Lea "5 0 Ee 50 | pints -- @ Spits. EtherCo ...... 50@ 56 : 3@16 pn = ae ae ai sone = muha i ig | EA Bydrare, (po: 3 @ 50} 7 Myrcia Dom..... @2 00 | or ae English 8O@S2 Tagendalk 0... 90@2 00 Atrope Belladonna. oC 60 | Piper Nigra, (po. “la @ 18 | Myrcia Imp. @2 50 | ping * ae OQ Kdmemi occcssoB Sgt 99 | Bemgotns--vennn 2.0002 | Bipeg Alba, (wo e®)---- Qe ) Vint Heck eh gy [ ve waite Sam foe | 2 406 Ee ee an il. 2|.223... B2 35 : Bi aoe foe one o eeneninerie 50 | Plumbi Acet ........ 14@ 15| Less 5c gal., cash ten days. | 7 net ng; white Span... @i sore i a 90@1 00 | Barosma ....... 02. ...ccc, 50 | Pulvis Tpecac et opii. ‘1 10@1 20 Strye hnia Crystal..... @!1 10| . 2 ng ey woos Gx Myrcia, OUNCE... 2... @ 50| Cantharides................. 7 a, boxes H >= Sulphur, Subl.. -++ 24@ 3% | wi itin a gg — . Olive 1 00@2 75 | Capsicum ................... 50| aie Co., doz... = 4 i Boll 4@ 3 | an” Paris Eng. . kd aida ath os a Se ca na ( . d a an i py... 30€ 5 amarinds...... a SG 10 “ Picts oo — 1 me a an Ge, ce Quinia SPW wees gg i | Theobromnes 26 a) | Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4 east ad aa 7 Cee uinia d 39@ eobromae ..... 5O@ 55 | Swiss Ville bie enna Rommatin be. et 00 CS 50 | S. German. 27@ 35) Vanilla... .... "9 o@ie 00} Paints....... .......1 00@1 20 a e--------- an gee. 50 | a Tinetorum... eeu 12@ | Zinci Suiph.. Ce a VARNISHES. Sabina ... 90@1 00 nig O68 ee Lactis pv. @ 33 | | No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20 a 3 50@7 00 | Columba ............ ....... 50 | Salacin. --1 80@2 00 OILs. eta hi 77" 60@1 70 Sassafras. .... ... 4@ so} Conium........... ......... 5¢ | Sanguis Draconis... 0@ 50; Bbl. Gal | Coach sons _.......-2 Tees OO Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 65 Cees OG | Santonine ............ @4 50| Whale, winter........ 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn......1 0O@1 10 hhc TI 1 Se 50 Sapo, LL. 12@ 14] Lard, extra..... .. & 6 | Eutra Turk Damar 1 55@1 60) eee 40@ 50 Ergot eo ee oT oe So 10; Lard, No 1.......... 45 x)! Japan Dryer, No. 1 opt .......--.. ~ @ 60} Gentian ................ 6. 50 Co @ 15| Linseed, pureraw.... 61 6a | Tore. a) ‘Theobromas........... 15@ 2 Oc ee | OO ee Guaies eee eeu ae eo). = en BI Carb. ooo, 18@ 18 eral 50 | ae nL ar viet ree an) Hyoscyamus ................ 50 Carb ee 1: 15 logime.. ... ewe oo | Seieain 6 50. 18) cris 16@ 18 . Colorless............. 5 Cyanide Bee IT ecco 5 pert Citoridum............ 35 Tahde. |. : pen ee . y Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 3@ 33 a ea 50 Potassa, Bitart, @om... @ 15 Nux Vomica 0 as 50 Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10 Opii ae. 85 Potans Nitvas.......... 7 Ol tt Camphorated oo 50 | Prussiate a ee 2@ BW] « Deodor ce es 00 Sulpuaso po...... ...-. 15@ 18 ii 5 oo Quassia ........ : Beemer... 1... as TE ei... ll, 8 ee 25@ 30] Rhei.. ee Importers and Jobbers of AnGHUEA .............. 15@ 20 Cassia Acutifol a 50 | Apa Pe, @ Co 50 | Cera 20) Si Sevpentaria ................. 50 | Gentiana, (po. 15)..... oe 2 Seroe.... ............ @ Givycrareina, @v.i5).. 10@ 16) Toluten.... ......... ..... 60 a Canaden, Valerian ............ 1... OO ee (po. a @ 40| Veratrum Veride............ 50 ae oe Mo. 13@ 14] Hellebore, Ala, po.. 15@ 2 . ie... 2... 14@ sh Inula, = ee, --. 13, 20 MISCELLANEOUS. ss eo ae Tt pecee, pe...........-. 2 25@2 35 + a ‘ ae Iris plox (po. 20@33).. 1x@ 20| ter Spts Ni 3 P.. 2@ 2 oe. &¢s a @ $0) alumen............... 24@ 3% Ch : 1 . . ‘ ae = ran Lala alle i ‘“ ( i :. Circe qua Guinia..”. 33] Podophsici, jo: 19 1 ground, (po. emicals and Druggists’ Sundria: Citrate Soluble........ Q@ Oia 7@1 00 is po - 3@ Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 = os LCRA A @1 75} 4 atin O...... - 55@ 60 Solut Chloride........ @ 15 ey 7@1 35 Antimoni, on Poor as = . Sulphate, com’l....... 1%@ 2 auton Ce 48@ 53] anti ng ee 1 3501 > Dealers in ees oc. @ 7) Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ | Antifebrin 2! o 2 FLORA. — fee ane te - 2 Argenti Nitras, ounce 2 % Ss 8 : “ ‘ ee ee at oe i : reones ............ 5 7 aaa = = Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40| Balm Gilead Bud... 38@ “ Patent Anthemis ............- 20@ M @ 2| Bismuth S. N. "2 10@2 2 , \ ; : Matricaria ...... ....- 25@ 30] Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12 Calcium Chior, + “Gis FOLIA. Symplocarpus, | Feet pene barca Deans @ »| Sole Agents for the Oelebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints Barosm: 12@ 20 Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ st si - gg i Cassia “acutifol, “Tin- qa 15@ 2] _POr-erreee reer @1 75 ivelly Cibcee saaaawe 25@ 28 erman. Capsici Fructus, af 92 i’ AY’ 35q@ 50 | Zingibera............. 10@ 15 | Caps uctus, af... @ 22 Salvia officinalis, 4B eevee j.......... 2@ 2 L ie a g = i ae 10@ 12 SEMEN. Caryophyllus, (po. 20) 15@ 18 We are Sole Proprietors of ; on Ural. Bc ecteccey te 8@ 10] Anisum, (po. 20) . . - 12 15 Carmine, Naa @3 %5 @UMMI. Apium (graveleons 5@ 18] Cera Alba, S. & 7... 50@ 55 Para, 16..-......-... — Gi Cora Vinge. ..........- 38@ 40 Ww ’ T'Ts Acacia, = picked... 7 = Carui, (po. 18). a an ie Coeens @ 40 EATHERLY 8 MICHIGAN CATARRH REM bi Y a ee @ 80 Cardamon.. -...++-1 00@1 25 | Cassia Fructus........ @ &“ ifted sorts... @ 65 Corlandrum........... Mim 12) Contrania. 0... 1... @ 10 i ps a co 75@1 00 a Saciva....... 7 a oe aaa @ ie % eee... .. 21... FS oroform . ... eS & Aloe, = 2 = = a cheno odium . a semen tate a’ quibbs .. @1 00 . : 7 erix ora. ..... 4 2 2 ora. yd Crag... .. 50@1 75 s * c — (po; ones a Foeniculum fe @ 15 Chondrus’ ee eae 2G 25 We have in stock and offer a full line of Catechu, 18, (748; , Foenugreek, po..... - 6@ 8|Cinchonidine, P. & W 15@ 20 1 @ A te ba ee 25@ 30 Oe @ 4% German 4@ 10 ‘Assafcetida, (po.30)... _@ 15| Lint Corks, list, dis. per Bensotoum............ wW@ 55 Camphor®........-+-+- 50@ 52 Euphorbium po ...... 35@ 10 Galbanum. .......-.-- @3 00 Gamboge, po.......--- 80@ 95 Guaiacum, (po. 60) . @ 55 Kino, (po. 25)......--- @ ® eS @ 80 Myrrh, (po = ....... @ 40 Opii (pe. 5 40) ee 4 10@4 25 Beaaee .. .....,.---.-. 25@ 35 : bleached aeeeas 2i@ 35 Tragacanth .......-.... 30@ 75 HERBA—In ounce packages. ee 3 Bupatoriam ................- 20 ——- So ee 25 We rum ...... ..-.-------.+ 28 Mentha Biperita eccecuad ue 23 WR isu... la 25 eee 30 Tanscotum, ¥......--..----- 22 Mires, V2. .....-.. 22.5. -- 25 MAGNESIA. Caieinod, Pas.......... 55@ «60 Carbonate, Pat.. W@ 2 Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 2% Carbonate, J enning5.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Absinthium. .........5 00@5 50 Amygdalae, Dulc... .. 45@ 75 Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 a 1 90@2 00 Auranti Cortex....... @2 50 Bere. .k. c 6.05 - a, 3 25@4 00 oo 90@1 00 Carvouiyill .......:..- 1 25@1 30 eer 35@ 65 Ghenopodit eee @1 75 cinnamonii ......... ~ ok — 50 citronella ............-. 45 conium Mac........ 65 qopaiba ......... ciel 1 30 ee — Canarian... ag 4% Cesc os cece cceccese ‘ Sinepis, A —_.. . 3 ee 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 A 1 75@2 00 Juniperis Co. oO. 7... Saacharum N. E.... “ iid é nt 8 c Vaal Geil. ....... i 50 nt Oporto ..........- 25@2 00 Vini eS 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool OGrrreee......-...... 2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ wool oe ee 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ cariese............. 85 Grass sheeps’ wool Car- Oe ey 65 Hard for slate use.... % Yellow Reef, for slate eT 1 40 SYRUPS. eens... oc. ee... ses. 50 er 2 50 ee « = ee ee 50 —. _— ede wew ee ous 50 ee Bee Cec 50 Similax Officinalis Ss oe ou ae 60 a, 50 I ie ae wa we 50 PU sc case bei cnsee cc 50 oo. 50 TU i eos ees cece cee 50 Pre Vee i. ces, . 50 a @ 60 Cyeeeetams ............ @ 30 Creta, (bbl. 75)........ @ 2 wee... ce & Wome... 8@ 10 . oe eS @ 8 COCO oo... 35@ 38 Cudbear.. Lowe eee @ #4 Cupri Sulph.. eee. 8 9 oor .............. 10@ 12 ther Seles. .......... 68@ 70 Emery, all numbers.. @ ............ Z aeeoee wh, 60... 50@ 55 | 2@ 15 a eee oats ones deewe 23 GCamoer. .............. 8 @9 Gelatin, eee... ... 90 French... ... 60 Glassware flint, 70 per cent. by box 60 less Glue, prewe.......... 9@ 15 Wohite........... 13@ 25 ............ 184%@ 2 Grane Peradial........ @ 2 Panetes....... 2 40 Hy draag =, — @1 00 88 “ Ox cca @1 10 a Ammoniati. @1 20 . Unguentum. 47@ : Grarevrum ........ @ — Aa... 1 25@1 50 fosiee, Roe ......-. 3 7E@3 85 Godot a4 7 _——— ee a 85@1 Lycopodium .......... 55@ 60 — ..... 80@ 85 Liquor Arsen et “Hy- pone toG ... @ 2 Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 “a Sulph (bbl Seer e cease aes 2@ 3 Manus, &F......... 45@ 50 Whiskies, Brandies, Cins, Wines, Rume. Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite Rye Whisky. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Gu antee Satisfaction. : All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the{same day we re: ceive them. Send in a trial order. Harelting & Perkins Drvg Go, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRVUCERIES. Opposed to the Millers’ Combine. “Why don’t you take the millers of this city to task for the manner in which they hold down the price of wheat here?’’ enquired a leading business man the | other day. The reporter replied that the millers probably knew their own business better | than outsiders and governed themselves accordingly. ‘They know their business altogether too well and draw the lines altogether | too tightly,’’ responded the business man, ‘‘and I, for one, believe that they should be made to mend their ways. For instance, cash wheat closed in De- troit to-day at 99 cents. The city millers are paying 90 cents, a difference of 9) cents a bushel, while the freight from Grand Rapids to Detroit is only 5 cents a bushel. When the wheat is converted into flour and shipped East, the freight amounts to only 3 cents per bushel. *“‘Another thing which is manifestiy | unjust, as I look at it, is the placing of all the towns roundabout on the same} basis as Grand Rapids. This helps the towns, to be sure, but the Grand Rapids price is held down purposely, in order to equalize the freight and commission paid | on outside purechases.”’ “Then you do not approve of the com- bination the city millers maintain in| buying wheat ?’’ ‘I believe in a thorough understanding between competitors, to the end that ruinous competition may be avoided, but 1 certainly cannot commend a combina- tion which deprives the farmer of from 3 | to 5 cents a bushel on his staple product. Such a monopoly is not only antagonistic to the trade of the city, but works injury to the producer as well, and should be | abolished without further delay.’’ THE OTHER SIBE. Not satisfied with presenting only one side of the question, to the exclusion of the other side, THE TRADESMAN Solicited an interview with C.G. A. Voigt, who claimed that the difference between the Grand Rapids and Detroit markets sel- dom exceeded 7 cents per bushel, but amounted to 10 cents at present, due to speculative excitement at the latter mar- ket. If No. 2 red wheat continues to stand at $1 at Detroit for any length of time, the city millers will advance their paying price to 93 cents; but as they do not go down immediately when outside speculative markets drop, they even things up by following the advances slowly and conservatively. ———.q-~ + Wool Unchanged--Hides Lower--Tal- low Firm. The sales of wool the past week were much smaller than the week previous. Much of the week was given up to hol- idays forG. A. R. entertainment. Prices are unchanged, as the demand is limited. Cloth sales show no improvement and importations are large. For dealers to realize cost on their wools, they must hold long enough for these goods to get out of the way, in order that heme man- ufacturers may have an advance on their productions. Hides have received a check in advanc- ing prices and gone backaturn. Tan- ners have stopped working in at 10 to 25 per cent. of capacity as they could see nothing but aloss ahead. Hides are ac- cumulating and are offered at a ic lower than the week previous. The supply is mall and the demand is much less. While the market is firm, the outlook is | perishable articles be light. Renew sup- uncertain. plies frequently, particularly coffee, but- Tallow is firm, with a slight advance, eee nee eee gs = $ : : . . Ss Ss, VISIONS. vi which is doubtful of being maintained. utensils for handling butter scalded There is no export demand, except from | daily. Examine the condition of the Germany and France, which take all| brine on pork and fish. Inspect the suitable for their wants that is offered. cheese. Watch carefully the sauces, TAN Ee ada auc olive oil, bottled pickles, bottled goods ‘ ihe Grocery Market. generally and see that they are not ex- The Sugar market is active and ad-| posed to the direct rays of the sweltering | Vancing. A sharp demand all over the|sun. Keep out the flies. Open the store | country and a disposition on the part of , and close early, and thus avoid | eek ‘i : i / arawing in an army of insects at night. ealers to buy —e, has caused Buy frequently, pay promptly, credit | an advance of ce. lightly, collect systematically, keep cool | Currants are in steady demand. The! and then when the fall trade opens, the ‘new crop, which is due here about retailer will be in fine trim. | Oct. 15, is said to be smaller size than |usual, on account of the very dry PRODUCE MARKET. | weather. Apples—Dried, 7%@8%e for sun-dried and | Rice continues very strong, with a very 11@1i2e for evaporated. The market is strong. ee . Apples—Early harvest and Red Astricans are | limited supply of all grades. coming in freely, commanding $2.50@$2.75 per —_—_»_2«—— , Beans—Dry stock continues to get firmer, being now held at €2.25@#2.50 for city hand-picked. Beets—New, 50@60c per bu. | spent Sunday in this city. Butter—Dairy begins to look up, in conse- i quence of the extended dry weather, which is G. Hirschberg, the Bailey general enfavoreble to a large milk you. Fair grades | _* x / comman c and fancy 16c per Ib. | dealer, was un town Saturday. Blackberries—Wild, 6e per qt. Cultivated are O. F. Conklin came down from Tray- | #bout out of market. : Cabbages—Home grown stock, 82.50 per two He will return to | bbl crate. Carrots—1l5¢ per doz. net: barrels,81.25; produce barrels Cucumbers—i0c per doz. Eggs—The market is steady. Purely Personal. J. Frank Clark, the Big Rapids grocer, | erse Point Monday. | the resort on Thursday. | Fred H. Ball has received a two-year- | old stallion he purchased in Nova Scotia 1 and hold at 1éc. ja couple of years ago. Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, $4.75 per bu.; Roy Eaton, of Lowell, has taken the | medium, $4.60. Timothy, 31.€5 per bu. j Nee aS Grapes—Concords, #4 per stand; Niagaras, $6 | position of prescription clerk for A. San- | per stand. | : Green Corn—9@10e per doz. | ford at 148 West Fulton street. Maple Sugar —8@i0e per Ib., according to Kryn Dykema has returned from a trip —. Maple Syrup—75@85c per gal. Musk Melons—Home grown, 81 per crate. Onions—Green, 15¢c per doz. Home grown, $3 per bbl. Dealers pay 14¢ | to Gladstone, Eau Clair and Minneapolis, looking over the crop prospects. Chas. Frost, book-keeper for Lemon &}| Pop Corn—4c per Ib. i Potatoes—Home grown stock is coming in more | Peters, who has been spending ten days freely. Dealers pay 60@70c and hold at 80c. . a a Pears—California, $3@33.25 per case. | at Ottawa Beach with his family, returns Peaches—California $2@$2.26 per crate. | home Wednesday. Plums—California, $2 per crate. | Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, 8 per bbl. | Heman G. Barlow, who was confined Tomatoes—Home grown are coming in freely, FISH and OYSTERS, F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. ‘ OO ee ce @%™% . OU ec i, @s8 Ne, ccs sees cee ce @%% POM iA ee Ce @15 Se ee ene @4 Weeeeoree. i... @9 i ea @10 Me @25 Te ede eee ce i ce @10 COrornen GAIN... @ OYSTERS—Cans. Pemeeron Comue...................... @35 FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Pe, Oe 4%@ 6 ar ee 6 @ 6% ee 3 @3% . wee eee... 84D 9 "ag We i @8 - I ise eee @ 5% hess, icra eh ene @ 9% a no a eee 4. s,s... ones pees cote ewes @5 ee ee @3 Po @6 Sausage, blood or head................. @5 r Der. kk... We @5 . Pee @ 7% meee a eye hee @ Pee @ CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Standard, per lIb...... --- 8%4@ 9 " ae... - 8% @9 ' ON ec 8%@ 9 ee i ee 10 See eee 12 ee 11 MIXED CANDY. eee wearin... 8% eet EEE 8% ee ae 9 ee ae aes eK... -10 MO eee ‘ -16 WO coe sees we ne ee ee — Pore Cyne ............. 2... .. woke Werey Cree 13 Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes, aoe 12 oer eee ee 13 Peppermint Drops..... Chocolate Drops....... H. M. ChocolateoDrops........ ee i 10 CO ll 18 A. ee eee el i Lozenges, es ce cee eee ua 14 pees... 15 : Se eae a SV Oi epersets. ; to his house last week by a threatened oa ae ern er he. a eee ee 15 | attack of peritonitis, has recovered suffi- |, Watermelons—Indiana stock is coming in very em Seinen To Torre one soreweea tie were nanten . a : plentifully, being held at 16@18c apiece, Mo BSECS Bar............ 2.2. seeeee sees seer ene. 13 | ciently to be about again. Whortleberries—$2. 7583 per bu. a niu cherie tld eat = | Lester J. Rindge, wife and daughter, PROVISIONS. Plain Creams...... Le, ae | who went to Boston a couple of weeks| The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. oe mn get ee = ago, have take a sea voyage to Baltimore | 7"°'** * —— Burnt Almonds Baers bael eedeeenhete atch 2 : ‘ a Ne aT EG po gins now at Norfolk, Va. They ex-| Mess, ie co ies 11 95 | Wintergreen pi ont ee 14 ee ey 11 00 Fancy—In bulk. pect to return about Sept. 1. ate clear Pig, Ore OM Lozenges, > a. see ence eter reer cree ce 12 : ocr eee i NEC, IN PAUB.......... 02... see. 13 Hints to Grocers. Clear, fat vol agg ea 12 09 | Chocolate Drops, in pells deh ed eee se eee cage 12 | From the American Grocer. Boston cl eae Gum Drops, in pail a | It is the exception to find the grocery | poston “leat, ahort cut...0000 00. ITIIIIIIT, 18 50 PS, 211 PALS. ..-...-. i. eee eee eee eee 6 oo P oe grocery Clear back, eee. 12 50 a = betes eeceeeae ce eeae eee ces 10 |store well ventilated. “he majority of | Standard clear, short cut, best............ | 1D Ot ere es ee ee... cs es, 12 grocery stores are closed at night with- tai ua and Smoked. . Imperials, in pails. cn Shon bee Nach ewes ce 12 i SS a ee eet... Rodi, choice, 200.............. A eadewiaies @ 7 50 |through the place, and thus a musty | Tongue Sausage........./...71,777 ee 9 Ce sacle ee eee sabato @ i. : i i, meer OM LEMONS. smell pervades the room when opened in | pigod aa. : Messina, choice, 360.................... @ 7 50 the morning. Fresh air is indispensable to | Bologna, SE a 800... 00... e eee ee @ 8 00 the proper care of the stock, particularly ee me, ee ne ~— = nee teeta wi ai -- _@8 00 tea, salt, butter, cheese and other goods ee 5 CL ee eset cn uaa 8 50@ 9 00 . _ C ‘ LaRD—Kettie Rendered. OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. which readily absorb foreign flavors. | Tierces................... 0 ......... 7 | Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 14 @15 The high temperature and muggy atmos- | Tubs...00022.000 00 7%) i eT ee @ phere cause dried fruits to sweat pro- wie rs... ee es ee hs open ee 7% CR CO Te el @ oe » pre LARD—Family. SeeeS, TEM SO oa visions to mould, crackers to lose their | Tierces............................ 6 . eo @ brittleness and does more or less damage yg tay nee guna see a al tag 5 DOK.--eeeeeeeeeeeee GIO to the quality or appearance of all other eee! Se ae nea tere tee nee nes ceenneenes 7 hah Ban eat @8 : 5 lb. Pails, 12 i Pe al “Persian, 50-Ib. box............ goods. Ifthe shelves, bins and boxes | 10 1b. Pails, 6inacase 20". aoc ox NUTS, ae are not tidy, the floor frequently scrub- | 20 1b. Pails, sitcom badiiceec hoe ee ee EG 6% Almonds, Tarragona. ................... @17 bed, corners and windows kept bright | ™ !»- Cans.. Ge ies cam 6% “ ao. _ and clean. there will be a combination of | Extra Mess, warranted 00 Ibe... TR aoe ace | bad smells which will not only depreci- | Extra Mess, Chicago packing........ 1... """’ 7 99 Walnuts, Grenoble. ............000000) ey ate the quality of goods, but disgust cus- | Boneless, rump butts.......0722! EG 9 50! pecans “ “poxes _ 10 Star, Parafine eS es) 11 eee. 25 CANNED Goops—Fish. Clams, 1 Ib, Little Neck..... 1 10 Ciam Chowder, 3 Ib........-. 2 10 Cove Oysters, 1 lb. —-: +’ = Lobsters, 1 Ib. picnic. . laa 2 Ib. 2 . 1 ib. Star.. + 2 20 . =i, ee......... .3 65 Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce.2 00 ‘1 1b. st tand os 1 2 . ee © .......- 2 00 . 3 Ib. in aaa. -2 85 _ Sib. soused....... 2 85 Salmon, 11b. Columbia 1 50@1 90 11b. Alaska..1 25@1 60 Sardines, domestic 48 ee a % sees 9 . — ee ie Loa = @10 . mported \s...10%@16 « — gpleed, ne... i Trout, 3 Tp. broek.......- 2 CANNED Goops—Fruits. Apples, gallons, stand. .....3 Blackberries, stand 110 Cherries, red standard 1 10@1 20 pitte ted 1 40 Demeoes ...........-...-...- 15 Egg Plums, stand.....1 15@1 35 Gooseberries ial aeesenecees: 1 00 I Green Gages.......... 1 15@1 35 Peaches, yellow, stand @2 2% ” seconds ...... @2 00 . ee... 1 60 Pee ge cee 8. 13 Pineapples, common. -1 10@1 50 Johnson’s.2 50@2 75 eee eset ene n ee 1 10 aspberries, extra.......... 1% i EE 40 Strawberries .........- 1 15@1 35 Whortleberries.............. % CANNED VEGETABLES. ia Oyster Bay...... = mie, and......... 80 «Green Limas.. @1 35 * See... @ 80 “ Stringless, Erie....... 80 * Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40 Corn, Archer’ 8 Trophy ceacels 1 00 Morn’g Glory.1 00 ' - Early Golden. 1 00 Poss, Frenen.......-....-... 1 68 ‘© extra marrofat. . @1 2 a ee 80 « June, stand. 1 40 . “ giee..... 1 85 ‘“ French, extra fine... .1 50 Mushrooms, extra fine...... 2 15 Pumpkin, 3 lb. — = 50 Succotash, standard.. _? =_— 10 Tomatoes, Red Coat.. 1 10 Good Enough a . . Ben Har ... ” stand br.. si 00 CATSUP. Snider’ 8, a i eee -1 35 ea ola dees 2 30 _ : -.3 30 CHEESE. Fancy Full .- -9 @92% Good .. 8 @8% Part a os 6%4@ 7% OD RRO. 6. nie coe. Edam ee @1 00 Swiss, imported ...... 24@ 25 domestic .... 15@ 16 CHEWING GUM. Rubber, 100 lumps ae 30 ag tle REPRE 40 Spruce, 200 pieces........... 40 CHICORY. eae 6 : -% CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S, German Sweet.. .......... 23 — Roe ac le. 35 ee 38 Breakfast Coogee... 12... 40 Broma.. ae . 37 cocoa ‘SHELLS. Pa @4% Pound packages........ @7 COFFEE EXTRACT. Wee Cg... 80 es pede ce COFFEE—Green. Rio, fair. a @21 a “21 @22 . poe [i @23 ‘* fancy, washed... @24 7 Gore... 61... 23 @4 a 22 @23 Mexican & Guatemala23 @24 dava, Interior......... 24 @26 “ Mandheling....27 @30 Pommeree 22 @u4 Mocha, genuine..... 26 @28 To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \%c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. COFFEES—Package. a 2436 . - Capaness. 6. 5. 2514 McLaughlin’s XXXX....25% ee 2514 = we Capita ....... ...... 26 Durham a ne CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft....... per doz. 1 35 - SOT....... r 1 50 . OOs....... ' 1% . ‘| . oa _ 80 ft e 22 Jute or....... rai 90 _ eo ...... . 10 CONDENSED MILE. eee, 7 50 Angio-Swiss.......... 6 00@ 7 60 COUPONS. “Superior.”’ © 1, per hundeod.........- 2 50 2 * _ ee. 3 00 7s * oe 4 00 1, * ee, 5 00 =, * ie ely 6 00 ‘““Tradesman.”’ © i, per Gepdred........... 2 00 2s * - ; 2 oO .o ~ = - 300 S10, “ « . 4.00 20, “cc “ 5 00 Subject to the following dis- counts: em or, over. 1000 _ CRACKERS, Kenosha Butter...........-. 7% Sao ©” ~—CO........ 5% eee... 5% ~ tees... ........- 5% ee 6% a, 7% Cit ee so. 7% eee 6 S Oe 5% Coy Oveier, Sas... 5% Bien... 6 CREAM TARTAR, ariesly perre......-........ 38 Grocers’ . 5 DRIED . RurTs—Domestic. Apples, sun-dried. .... @8 “ cia waamene @l14 - feos, * i. @ Blackberries “ _. @ TRCCERESEIC nee ae aoe Peaches oe, Plums a oe Raspberries ‘ DRIED FRUITS—Prunes, oo @ ae @ NN, oe cans oe @ DRIED FRUITS—Peel. eee s , C OO DRIED FRUITS—Citron. _oe..........-.-., @18 ae DRIED FRUITS—Currants. Zante, in barrels...... b% : in less quantity 6%@ 6% EEDS. soDa. Deere bind... .......- 4%@ . Co 54 Carawer............. — a eee... 8 ak on idea ie ees ae 34 TroBaccos—Fine Cut. ee D. Seotten & Co.’s Brands. ES Na 6 | Hiawatha ............. 62 Trout, is bois. ca @5 25 ee a aT ™% oe weet eeeeees = ee eee eee a... lUlUC NEE ERR e teen ee ~- White, No 1,% bbls.. 50 | Common ine nar bin. ..-- 90@95 TOBAccos—Plug. ul in at oo vote 1 = Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 27 | Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands. es ee poceen.... 1 @) Something Good.............. 38 i Family, % bbls.... .3 00 ee 2 061 Dounle Pedro........... ..... 35 Ri ul REE ea Sw rosee Pig 36 HERBS. Ashton bu. bags See ceca 1 Wedding Cake, bik........... 35 Meee a... 9 Higgins L Be nett tees ates Wr toneceo ............._...... 37 ee 14 Warsaw Monet ate eres = roBacco—Shorts. Tea deeds ealy E. J. Mason & —s goods.. 6 | Diamond Crystal, Baeee| | sag Our Eender 15 Chitaea godda. 6.10.00 0)... 5 i 28-Ib sacks 2% Topaccos—Smoking. LAMP WICKS. a i -Ib Oy Otie Beaders 6... ll... 16 No. oo ae i , 60 pocket.2 = SE 17 ee. < oo 2 * > S45 ae a. Siac LICORICE. 20 ssid — ° 16 oz. -.32 De ee ees os urch’s, Arm & Hammer...5% Calabria Medea Geeeueco. | Pere eCem.......,........- 5M Ly eGR aoe. iB | a A LYE. | DeLand’ 8 — Beeet. ....... 5% Condensed, 2 dos........... 125] — 2. a matouns. | our Meagee , 5 | PAPER & WOODENWARE os ee............... 2 00 | e Anchor parlor...............1 70} Corn, a seas @30 pag mo shome..................1 Curtiss & Co. quote as fol one-half barrels....@32 Export “eon eee 4 00 | Pure Sugar, bbl........... 26@35 | lows: Binck Straw 20 | half barrel. ...28@37 SHAW eee ween eee eee es = Cuba Baking........ ee ee GooDs. ‘ Light Weight.... ..... a 30 | Ginger Snaps.......... 8 ee 80 New Orleans, good........ 94 | Sugar Creams......... 8% | Hardware.................... 2% aa. ae 30 | Frosted Creams... : 8 2 ee eee 2% <_< foo. | Graham Crackers..... 8 Gegee 8. 6 One-half nee va extra Oatmeal Crackers.. 8 abe Manilla. Sg 8 ” OATHRAL. SHOE POLISH. Red Express sh aes : uscat me, Barrels ......... 6 00} Jettine. 1 doz. in b et RNR eee ee eee. a se ™ TWINES. . Cases...... 2 15@2 25 25 i ‘o ¢ ROLLED OATS TEAS. ee Muscatine, .-- @6 00 JAPAN—Regular. ’ 18 a 8. @3 2 “ ages.....2 15G2 % — 8 Gz 18 oo Choice . 24 @2 7 Michigan Test.. Cov cees GAG ee c : Weter White................ _.103% Choicest. . a é PICKLES. Fair SUN CURED. 4 @b oa Medi m. Hl ee NE i ae wast a sinls 0) wie Sci a * bbl ... Geog .................. 16 @20 7 00 Se Choice........-.--+-++- 24 @28 No. 3 6 00 ee OChoiceat.-...-........- 30 @33 Pails, No. 1, 1, two- hoop... 1 50 PIPES BASKET FIRED. No. three-hoop.... 1 7 si No. 216..........-. | Wate @20 caaineeaae, 5gr.boxes.... 55 D. full count. (eee @25 Bowls, 11 inch.............- 1 00 Cob, No. SA ea. lll oe 1 2 PRESERVES. Extachoicswielet Qo | < 1 % - 2 00 E. J. 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Ld est ecuwe seas . ottled German............ 2 O08 | Tea Wat. ............ 10 | Red..........-.-..---- Olg Gormen..............,.. 27 oe a 7 Ait wheat — on 60 Ib. test. U.S. Bie Bargain..... .....2 0 ng 110 Prost, Plogier........... ..3% Common to far... ...2 eo" Coarse.. et oe Cocoa Castile ..............2 60 | Superior to fine....... 30 GH as... ............. : : Cocoa Castile, Fancy.. ocecd 36 | Hine to choicest....... 55 6s Granulated................ 0 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. yore 5 cA Wary, W.-......... 2 95 rhe Contry, G.............. 3 30 Una, 100.. Se Bouncer, TE 3 15 SAL SODA. ee 1% Granulated, bowes.........- 2 SAPOLIO. — 3 doz. in box..... 250 Han 3 Co 2 SOUPS. oe aa ‘ material in car-load lots, and pay spot cash. — ‘oe a sb ” i ri a se k i ‘don’t have to move.”’ ines ICES— oo 0 17 So. Ionia St., with an immense stock, and °'¢ ave : Cc ane China in mats...... 8 | something wonderful. . Batavia in bund....15 ie Saigon in rolls.... Cc loves, —— ee eaeee..... ..<. FLOUR. Straight, in eens... ..... 00 Bere... 5 20 Patent ‘“ saeks......... 6 CO - Bere... 6 20 RYE. a 538255 MILLSTUFFS. i 6 00 Pe i 50 Someone a 15 00 Pings... ......... 2... 17 50 meene Peed............... 22 00 eee ee... 21 530 CORN. ee Car 7" OATS. Small lots eee ceecadeeasceus: 42 —_— i. 39 BARLEY. lL. 1 15 Me 24...................... 110 HAY. wet. 9 50 ———————ee 9 00 HIDES, PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol lows: HIDES. MN ee eee eee 5 @ 6% Part Cured.... %4Q7 Pa” lca @8 Pery.............. ee @8 Miles, grocm ..... ..... @6 a 7 @7% Calfskins, ereen...... &S @7 eured...... 6 @ 8% Deacon skins.......... 10 @2%5 No. 2 hides off. PELTS, ee ee 10 @25 Estimated wool, per bh 20 @28 wooL, Weened.. ...............0eeee Unwashied...... .......... 10@20 MISCELLANEOUS. eee 3 @4 Grease butter -1 @2 Switches .... 1%@ 2 Ginseng..... 2 00@3 00 LUBRICATING OILS, The Hogle Oil Co. quote as follows: Extra W S Lard Oil. @58 Has @50 . No. Me a @40 Pure Neatsfoot.... “Se @60 Harner O71........... 40 @50 W Ve Bummer... .... 74@12 ‘“* Medium er : @m . 15 _ Test.. " @13 Ree i @i4 Old "Reliable Cylinder @65 600 Mecca @50 Anti-monopoly ‘‘ 35 @40 Corliss Engine Oil.. @40 Golden Machine Oil. "18 @25 Mower and Reaper Oi125 @30 Castor Machine Oil...25 @30 Boiled Linseed Oil. ..63 @66 Michican WW. ...... @10 ‘Turpentine...........46 @b5l Dee .-. --e. -... @I12 Gasca 4@ - tor, Oil, Pure..... $1 *ASi 30 Mineral....30 @35 < Distilled . $1 10@1 25 trouble in finding us. goods, i eighteen large force of help, buy our We manufacture all of our occupy space of floors, employ a We are at the old stand, 13, 15 and Our output is Call when in town and see for yourself, you will have no We are near the big Union Depot. - | PIJTNAM CANDY CoO., Grand Rapids. DRIED FRUITS—Raisins. Mees Patavm....... ....... 80 Waleecue...._.-. -.... @9 — fancy............. 80 I os ee ee @11% a 7... bo Puree... +... @10 . Ne London Layers, Cali- Pepper, Singapore, black. . 46 SN ret 2 75@3 00 white... .26 London Layers, for’n. @ “ —....... . 20 Muscatels, California.2 00@2 35 sie gaan: -In Bulk. GUN POWDER. a _— + oes eect 5 Roe SS Cassia, atavia.. : Half kegs.. oe ..38 00 and ‘Saigon. 25 ua HN A T FARINACEOUS GOODS. . Sei... 42 Farina, 100 Ib, kegs......... Cloves, Arona. ..., 55... 26 Poming, per Dbl... .:...... 00 Pereer........... 2 Macaroni, aa 12 lb box.. 60 one4 Avice. ............ 12% imported..... @10% Cee ......... 15 Poser Bartey.......... @3 - Jamaica . Peas, stock. ........... i 10} Maco Batayis............... 90 - oen.............- @ 3 Mustard, English aa aulecnes 22 Sago, German......... @ 6 and Trie. .25 Tapioca, fi’k or p’rl.. 6@ 7 . Wrieete. £6... 5-5... 27 Wheat, cracked....... mS | Waters, No. f............-. 80 Vermicelli, import. . @10% Pepper, omnes — domestic... one i... lll SC Ciee..... 30 2 FISH—SALT. _ cen. Lie ea bes 25 Cod, weore,........... 5 @6 SUGARS. aa bese s eres “= 8 — Tees... = ua alibut ME ee dice ena cous 6 : Herring, round, ‘Y%bbl.. 2 90} Powdered ............. @7 [Ts better and costs fess than most L ollan = oe Z W (>) Standard ee: Or a | es ffees oO ms 8. sot. ee... @6. i i kegs, ... @ 60 rig aay gg A. @ 6% pac age co eeeeee ) e oe eo : 5% 100-POUND CASES, 24 3-4; 100-CABINETS, 25 1-4. aaa i 3°" FOR SALE BY ALL GRAND RAPIDS JOBBEBS 14 ALICE’S ADVENTURE. | ‘Some people’s lives are all so full of | color,’ said Alice Adams, sadly. ‘But | mine is all gray.”’ She was leaning on the old stone stile in the woods, where the pink leaflets of the wild roses drifted down around her | at every breeze, and the tall ferns drifted softly to and fro, like a miniature army, with banners of emerald grasses. The sultry summer day had burned itself to a | close; the fiery ashes of the sunset were | piled up in the glowing west under columns of rose and gold and deepening | violet. Alice Adams, the tired little district school-teacher, on her weary way home from the one-story, red building. where | she had ruled her small kingdom all day long, had paused in the cool shadow of | the woods to stop and think. She was an orphan, but, ever since she | could remember, Uncle Jabez Adams had | given her a home anda father’s affection- | ate—though unsympathetic—care. Aunt Abby had seolded her and fondled | her, by turns, and she had alternately romped in the fields and dreamed over “Thaddeus of Warsaw,” and ‘*‘Charlotte | Temple,”’ until Uncle Jabez pronounced | her ‘told enough to earn her own living,”’ and she was promoted to the full-fledged dignity of a *‘school-ma’am.’’ | But it was a drudging and monotonous | life, after all, and there was many a time | when little Alice sighed for a wider ex- | perience—a more comprehensive view of existence. “IT feel like a bird shut into a cage.”’ | thought Alice. ‘‘I do so want to stretch | my wings.”’ | | | ' | | As she stood there, her bright cheeks flushed with exercise. and the evening wind blowing her tlaxen hair into a not unpieturesque confusion, a heavy foot- step crushed the dead boughs under foot, and a human shadow crossed the wild ferns at her feet. **‘] beg your pardon,”’ saida tall, young man, dressed in a rough suit of gray tweed, as he lifted a coarsely-braided hat from his luxuriant brown locks, ‘‘but is this the way to Wild Glen ?”’ Under his arm he earried a portfolio, in one hand was balanced a light fishing- | rod and satchel, and, as she looked at| him, Miss Adams decided upon his iden- tity at once. “You have taken the wrong road,”’ said she. ‘*The foot-path to Wild Glen branches off to the right as you pass by the windmil! with both its arms broken. You have taken the path which led to| the left—and here you are ?”’ ‘Is it far from the Glen ?’’ he asked, irresolutely. | Glen, where the ghost used to walk, and Have Some Style About You! | little nod of the head. | you were a stuffy, middle-aged old fogy. | character,”’ | Mrs. Hardy said you were quite a dissi- | y 1 pated man.”’ | and sat up writing in a little portfolio— | bear your advice in mind.”’ ‘“You are at least six from it,”’ authority. ‘‘And how far is the nearest house of entertainment ?’’ he questioned, in evi- dent perplexity. “Oh, we don’t have any around here,”’ said Alice, ‘‘unless you call old Uncle Aaron Hodges’ beer-shop one—and that has been closed for a month. But if you want a night’s shelter, 1 dare say, my | uncle would let you sleep in the barn-| chamber. It’s quite comfortable there, | if you don’t mind the chanting of the} whip-poor-wills at night and the horses’ stamping in their stalls underneath ?”’ ‘*] shall be delighted to obtain any sort of a haven of refuge,’’ said the stranger, | with great fervency, ‘‘for I think, by the | looks of the clouds, that we are going to} have astorm, and I must confess that I do not relish the idea of camping out in these woods without so much as an um- brella to shelter me !’’ ‘J suppose not,’’ said Miss Adams, ealmly leading the way. ‘‘Gentlemen of your profession seldom are inured to the hardships of an open-air life.’’ He looked quickly at her. “Of my profession?’’ he repeated, with something of a puzzled air. ‘Ah!’ said Alice, demurely; ‘‘you} think I don’t penetrate your disguise. But I do.”’ *“‘J am sure,’’ said the young man, look- ing somewhat discomfited, ‘‘I had no idea—”’ ‘‘] know all about you,’’ pronounced Alice, with an air of calm superiority. “But you’re a deal younger than 1 ex-| pected to see !” - miles distant Alice answered, with quiet |“Supper’s most ready. Just sit down |and make yourself to home, sir. |and help your aunt dish up the cold pork | with gold spectacles and a shining bald | was hoping to meet you at The Towers _THE MICHIGAN TRADESMA®: “Well, who am I?” manded the stranger. “You are the book-writer,”’ said Alice. laughingly de- | , . : < |**The author who is going to write a novel about the old ruined house in Wild | the pretty girl drowned herself in the | days of the Revolution. Oh, we've} heard all about you,’’ with an exultant ‘““You came down | to old Owen Hardy’s to make inquiries, | last week, and an artist from Belhamp- |} ton is coming to sketch the ruins, and make the illustrations for the book. Lulu Hardy saw you, but she declared Now I shouldsay you were under thirty.”’ And she stopped short, and surveyed him with a critical air, which appeared to amuse him not a little. “‘] am six-and-twenty,’’ said he. “Lulu Hardy never was a judge of said Alice, loftily. “But *‘Did she?’’ ‘“*“Yes,’? nodded Alice. “You called for a bottle of brandy, and drank a glass of it raw—yes, absolutely raw! And then you smoked three cigars afterward, probably the very one you have under your arm—half the night. Now, I must say, you don’t look like that sort of thing!’ “Don't ir’ “TI never saw a drunkard,’’ said Alice, still eying her companion in the same intent, abstracted sort of way. ‘‘ButTve always supposed they had red noses and dim, bleared eyes. Your nose isn’t red— a little sun-burned, perhaps, across the bridge, but not to signify—and your eyes are as bright and clear as mine. But, if I were you—”’ ‘“‘Well?’’ (Still with the same amused look.) ‘‘T would leave off brandy and cigars. They must affect your nose in time, to say nothing of your nerves. And it’s quite ridiculous for a young man like you to fall into such horrid habits as that?’ “Thank you,”’ said the stranger. ‘Tl So they walked on together, Alice cate- chising her companion on the ways and customs of literary men, and sighing that she, too, could not write a novel! ‘‘Because my life here is so unevent- ful,’’? said she frankly. ‘‘I’m nothing on earth but a country schoolma’am. I have no outlook, no opportunities, like other girls. lf Mr. Meredith, who owns The Towers—you can just see the turrets of the fine old stone mansion peeping out of those trees, across the river—were to come back from India, or China, or Japan, or wherever else he is burying himself alive, he might. perhaps, fall in love with me. Or I might possibly strike out aecareer for myself, if only I hada chance to get beyond the stone fences and sheep pastures of The Glen. But,”’ with a deep sigh, ‘‘it’s no use wishing. Here we are. Uncle Jabez!’ to a leather- complexioned old individual who sat shelling Lima beans on a wooden bench outside the farm house door, ‘‘this is Mr. Layard, the author.’’ ‘“‘Sarvant, sir, sarvant!’’ said the old man, looking with reverent eye upon this embodiment of his idea of the literary world. ‘‘He has lost his way,’’ went on Alice. “J suppose he can sleep in the barn chamber?’’ “And welcome,’’ said Uncle Jabez. Go in and beans, Allie, that’s a good girl! Squire Seeley, he’s in there waitin’ for a bit of supper before he goes on to Mere- dith Towers.”’ At this moment, Squire Seeley himself came out, a bent and wrinkled old man, head. The instant he saw Alice Adams’ young companion, his face lighted up with recognition, and he bowed low. ‘‘Mr. Meredith !”’ he exclaimed. ‘‘This is indeed an unexpected pleasure, sir. I to-morrow, but—’’ ‘‘Mr. Meredith !’’ The dealer who has no printed letter heads on which to ask for circu- lars, catalogues and prices, and conduct his general correspondence with, suffers more every month for want of them than a five years’ supply would cost. He economizes byusing postal cards, or cheap, and, to his shame, often dirty scraps of paper, and whether he states so or not he expects the lowest prices, the best trade. He may be ever so good for his purchases, may even offer to pay cash, but there is something so careless, shiftless and slovenly about his letter that it excites suspicion, because not in keeping with well recognized, good business principles. When such an enquiry comes to a manufacturer or a jobber, it goes through a most searching examination as to charac- ter, means and credibility, half condemned to begin with. It would be examined anyhow, even if handsomely printed, but the difference to begin with, would be about equal to that of introducing a tramp and a gentleman on a witness stand in court. Besides, the printed heading would answer the question as to whether the enquirer was a dealer and at the same time indicate his special line of trade. Bad penmanship, bad spelling and bad grammar are pardonable, because many unedu- cated men have been and are now very successful in business. But even those are less objectionable when appearing with evidences of care, neatness and prosperity. Please write us for estimates. The Tradesman Company, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH LEMON & PETERS, IMPORTING AND Wholesale Grocers. SOLE AGENTS FOR McGinty’s Fine Cut Tobacco, Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Soaps, Niagara Starch, Acme Cheese--Herkimer Co., N. Y-. Castor Oil Axle Grease. GRAND RAPIDS. THE WALSH--DR ROO MILLING 60. HOLLAND, MICH. Daily Capacity. 400 Bbls. BRANDS: SUNLIGHT, DAISY, PURITY, MORNING STAR, IDLEWILD, DAILY BREAD, ECONOMY. SPECIALTIES: Graham, Wheatena, Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Bolted Meal, Rye Meal, Wheat Grits, Buckwheat Grits, Pear! Barley, Vat Meal. Rolled Oats. a j i THE MICHIGAN TRADES AN. Alice’s dimpled face had turned scarlet with surprise and mortification. “Then you—you are not the book- writer, after all? You have let me be- lieve—’’ “IT beg your pardon,’’ said Mr. Mere- dith, with a quiet smile; ‘‘but is it fair to hold me responsible for the inferences you yourself chose to deduce? I never told you I was a book-writer.”’ Alice covered her burning face with both hands. ‘*‘And I dared to lecture you on tem- perance!’ she cried. ‘‘I told you— Oh! what—what must you think of me ?’’ She was turning to hurry away, when Mr. Meredith gently detained her. “IT think,’”’ said he, ‘‘that you are frank and noble-natured beyond the generality of women; and I beg to assure you that you havespoken no word which you need wish to recall.’ But it was long before Alice could re- cover her mental balance. “What must he think of me?’’ she kept repeating to herself. “Oh! why couldn’t I have held my prating tongue ? Well, I’ve had an adventure, at last!’’ In a week or two, however, Mr. Mere- dith, of The Towers, came back to Jabez Adams’ cottage—to sketch some choice bits of scenery in the neighborhood, he said; and Alice had to go with him to show him the way, and, almost before she knew it, all the old awkwardness had disappeared, and she was chatting away as lively as ever; and it happened that he kept coming until one day he asked her to be is wife. ‘*You cannot mean it!’ said Alice. “But I do,’’ said he. “I am only asilly little school teacher.’’ ‘You are my ideal of the truest, purest womanhood, dear Alice.’’ And so our little heroine teaches school no longer, and Meredith Towers has a mistress at last. Cora A. TUFTS. — > - 2 <——- -—— Civility in Trade. A gentleman bought some machine tools of a certain firm, and, not receiving them when promised, wrote, requesting to know why they were not delivered. To this he received no reply. Waiting for three days longer than it would take for an answer, he telegraphed briefly : “Send tools at once, or let us know why; in great need of them.’’ This brought a reply from the superintendent, who fancied that this called for what he thought was a dignified rebuke. So he answered: ‘‘Tools will be sent when we are ready, not before.’’?’ The customer took the next train to the works—only one hour’s ride—and brought the tele- gram with him. He ignored the superin- tendent, and went to the president with his grievance, who, being a sensible man, soon arranged matters to the buyer’s satisfaction. Then the president inter- viewed the superintendent, and gave him some good advice on the subject of politeness in trade, which it is to be hoped he profited by. Human nature is weak, and the best of us are liable to err, but it is a bad thing to err on the side of incivility. No mat- ter how large or small an order may be— five cents or fifty thousand dollars—the buyer is entitled to courteous treatment and prompt attention. The mouse gnawed the lion free of the net, and the five cent order man may know a fifty thousand dollar order man, whom he will take where he will be well treated. Civility pays every time. It is a cardi- nal point in business, and boors should remember that rudeness always recoils upon those who exhibit it. tl A Stumper. ‘*Why do they call these blackberries?”’ asked the small boy of the grocer. ‘Because they are biack,’’ was prompt reply. “Then why do they call those other black ones raspberries ?”’ ‘‘Because—because—you move on! What are you hanging around here for, anyhow ?”’ the 2 A Reason. “Why did you marry a man who is eighty years of age ?”’ ‘‘Because I couldn’t find one equally rich who was ninety.”’ | The P. of I. Dealers. The following are the P. of I. dealers who had not cancelled their contracts at last accounts: | Ada—L. Burns. Adrian—Powers & Burnham, Anton Wehle | L. T. Lochner, Burleigh Bros. } Allegan—Chas, Spear. Allendale—Henry Dolman. Almira—J. J. Gray. | Almont—Colerick & Martin. | Altona—Eli Lyons. Armada—C, J. Cudworth. Assyria—J. W. Abbey. Banfield—Andrew Brezee. Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co. Belding—Lightstone Bros., Weter & Wise. Bellevue—John Evans. | Big Rapids—A. V. Young, E. P. Shankweiler & Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp, A. Markson. Blissfield—Jas. ’Gauntlett, Jr. Bowen’s Mills—Chas. W, ‘Armstrong. Brice—J. B. Gardner. Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son. Culdwell—cC. L. Moses. Capac—H. C. Sigel. Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Sessions. | Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish, B. ripp. Charlotte — John J. Richardson, Daron & Smith, F. H. Goodby. Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell & Co. Coldwater—J. D. Benjamin. Conklin—Wilson McWilliams. Cook’s Corners—W. H. Hanks. Coral—J. S. Newell & Co. Dansville—Levi Geer. Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt. Dorr—Frank Sommer. Dowling—Rice & Webster. Eaton Rapids—H. Kositchek & Bro. Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, John C. Devitt. Fenwick—Thompson Bros., 8. H. Rinker. Flint—John B. Wilson, Geo. Stuart & son, Bar- ney Granite and Marble Works. Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark. Forester—E. Smith. Freeport—C, V. Riegler. Gladwin—John Graham, J. D. Croskery Gowan—Rasmus Neilson. Grand Haven—N. J. Braudry & Co. Grand Junction—Adam Crouse. Grand Ledge—Geo. Coryell. Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wilzinski, Brown & Sehler, Houseman, Donnally & Jones, | Ed Struensee, Wasson & Lamb, Chas. Pettersch, } Morse & Co., Famous Shoe Store, Harv ey & Hey- | stek, Mrs. BJ. Reynolds, E. Burkhardt. | Greenville—Jacobson & Netzorg. eo ens & Leonard, W. E. C Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold Bros., C. E Pelton. Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan. Hudson—Henry C. Hall. Imlay City—Cohn Bros., Wyckoff & Co., C.J. Buck, E. E. Palmer. Ionia—H. Silver Jackson—Hall & Rowan. Jenisonville—L. & L. Jenison (mill only). Jones—R. C. Sloan. Kalamo—L. R. Cessna. Kent City—M. L. Whitney. Kewadin—A. Anderson pg, —J. E. Winchcomb. Lacey m. Thompson. Laingsburg—D. Lebar. Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis. Lakeview—H. C. Thompson, Bro. Langston—F D. Briggs. Lansing—R. A. Bailey, Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic- man. Lapeer—C, Tuttle & Son, W. H Lowell—Patrick Kelly. McBain—Sam. B. Ardis. McBride’s—J. McCrae. Mancelona—J. L. Farnham. Manton—Mrs. E. Liddle. Maple City-——-A. & O. Brow. Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. R. Lepper & Son. Mason—Marcus Gregory. Mecosta—J. Netzorg. Mecosta—Robert D. Parks. Milan—C, C. (Mrs. H. 8.) Knight, Chas. Gaunt- lett, James Gauntlett, Jr. Millbrook—Bendelson. Millington—Chas. H. Valentine. Minden City—I. Springer & Co. Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman. Morley—Henry Strope. Mt. Morris—F. H. Cowles. Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara. Nashville—H. M. Lee. Nottawa—Dudley Cutler. Ogden—A. J. Pence. Olivet—F. H. Gage. Onondaga—John Siliik. Orange—Tew & Son. Orono—C, A. Warren. Oviatt—H. C. Pettingill. Pearle—Geo. H. Smith. Remus—C. V. Hane. Richmond—A. W. Reed. Riverdale—J. B. Adams. Rockford—B. A. Fish. Sand Lake—Frank E. Blanchard. Sebewa—John eens. Shelbyville—Samuel Wolcott. Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow. Sheridan—M. Gray. Shultz—Fred Otis. Spencer Creek—M. M. Elder. Spring Lake—Geo., Schwab, A. Bitz. Springport—Powers & Johnson, Ww ellington & Hammond, Elmer Peters. Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter. Traverse City—John Wilhelm, 8. D. D. Paine. Vassar—McHose & Gage. Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. Breckenridge. White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley. Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Haverkate. Williamsburg—Mrs. Dr. White. Woodbury—Henry Van Houten, Chas, Lapo. Williamston—-Thos. Horton. Woodland—Carpenter & Son. Sanford, Jas. Ww ‘eidman, Mrs. Andrew All & Jennings. Shattuck, Braman & C. Darrow, A.) dohusom, HH. C. | Sundays included. | Grand Rapids, ee | D.,@. H. & M.R’ E. | at above point with trains of D., G. H Yankee Springs—T, Thurstop. 15 TIME TABLES. Grand Rapids & Indiana. In effect June 22, 1890. TRAINS GOING NORTH. A Train leaving at 10:30pm, runs daily, cluded. Other trains daily except Sunday. GOING SOUTH. Sunday in- 1 | | | | j | | | Cimciemess Mapee................. 6:00am 630am | Fort Wayne & Chicago....... -.-10:15 a m 10:25am ; Cincinnati Express......... --. 5:40pm 6:00 p m | | Sturgis & Chicago............. 10:50 pm = 11:30pm) | From Big Rapids & Saginaw...... 11:50 a am Train leaving for Cincinnati at 6p. m. runs daily, | Other trains daily except Sunday. | Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: orth—7 :25 a. m. and 10:30 p. m. trains have Wagner sleeping and parlor ears to Petoskey and Mackinaw City. 11:30am train | | parlor chair cars to Mackinaw City. South—6:30a m | train has parlor chair car and 6 p. m. train fk tind | ear for Cincinnati; 11:30 p m train, Wagner sleeping | car for Chicago via. Kalamazoo. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & mamma <" | MICHIGAN Cenrrar “* The Niagara Falls Route.’’ DEPART. ARRIVE rrive. Leave. | | Decrctk Mapiremel 7:20am 10:00pm | Big Rapids & Saginaw............... 6:55 a m | Mixe -++- 6:30am 5:00pm | Traverse Uity & Mackinaw........ 6:50am 7:25am| Day Express... -........--..-+-++++- --11:55am 10:00 a m | Traverse City & Mackinaw ....... 9:15am 11:30a Atlantic & Pacific Express......... 11:15pm 6:00am Traverse City & Saginaw............ 2:15pm 4:10pm | New York Express............ -..-.. 5:40pm 1:25pm | Meckieae Cry... . 8:50pm 10:30pm Dail All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific pet | trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars run on Day Express and Grand Rapid Express to and from Detroit. FRED M. Brieas, Gen’l Agent, 85 Monroe St. G. 8S. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Rueeies. G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago. CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS —— PAMPHLETS | For the best work, at reasonable prices, address ve. | Leave i i as see ee ee cunaicdances 10:10 a m | 11:20 am.. . 3:45pm | rc ee eee ceepeceesacee ae :45 pm Teaiinds time 7 minutes later. Through tickets and full aan ean be had by | — upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at depot, or W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe St., . L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING WEsT. | Arrives. Leaves. | tilowning xpress. ........-cscce+e 12:50 p m 1:00 pm fe oi eke elec en 4:10pm 6:15 p m tGrand Rapids Express........... 10:25 pm 10:30 pm Woe 6:40am 8:45am acess 7:30 a m tDetroit Express. 6:50am tThrough Mail. 10:20 a m tEvening Expres 3:45 pm *Night Express. . 10:55 pm +Daily, Sundays excepted. "Daily. Detroit Express leaving 6:50 a m has Wagner parlor and buffet car attached, and Evening Express leaving 3:45 p m has parlor car ‘attached. These trains make direct connection in Detroit for all points East. Express leaving at 10:55 p m has Wagner sleeping ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a m. Steamboat Express makes direct connection a Grand Haven with steamboat for Milwaukee. tickets and sleeping car berths secured at offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot. as. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent. Jno. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit. Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern. For Toledo and all points South and East, take the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail- way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections . & 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’l Pass. Agent HICAGO & WEST MICHIGAN. DEPART, Mail and Express for Big Rapids, Lud- ington, Manistee & Traverse City.. *7:30 a m Express for Chicago and Muskegon... +9:00 a m Past Mail for Chieago....... ... ..... +1:00 p m Express for Muskegon and Hart ..... 15:45 p m Night Express for Chicago ........ *11:35 p m Night Express for Indianapolis 11:35 p m Mail for Big Rapids, Manistee and ‘Traverse City ....... 5:05 p m Ex. for Grand Haven & Muskegon... +8:40 pm ARRIVE. Night Express from Chicago ......... *§:30 a m Night Express from Indianapolis ... ~6:30 a m Ex. from Muskegon, Hart & Pentwater HO:45 am Express from Big Rapids, Baldwin and Traverse City.......... ---ti2ta0 p mi Mail from Chicago and Muskegon t3:55 p m Express from Grand Haven..... ..... t5:50 p m Fast Express from Chicago Ll 110:15 p m Ex. from Muskegon and Pentwater..+ 5:50 p m Ex. from Baldwin and Traverse City. +4:50 p m Express from Traverse City ... *11:30 p m *Daily. +Daily except Sunday. “ §Daily except Saturday. tDaily except Monday. Through Chair car for Chicago on 9:00 a m train; no extra charge for seats. Trains leaving Grand Rapids at 1:00 p m and 11:35 p m run through to Chicago solid. Through sleeping ears between Grand Rapids and Chicago on night express trains. Through combination sleeping and chair car between Grand Rapids and Indianapolis on night express trains. Through sleces between Chicago and Trav- erse City; leaves Chicago 4:40 pm, except Sun- day ; Grand Rapids, 11:30 pm; arrives in Trav erse City at6am. Leaves Traverse City at 6:15 pm, except Saturday; arrives in Grand Rapids at 11:30 pm; Chicago 7:05 am. Rail and water route between Grand Rapids and Chicago via St. Joseph and Graham & Mor- ton’s new palace steamers, City of Chicago and Puritan. Leave Grand Rapids 1:00 p m., arrive in Chi- cago 8:30 pm. Leave Chicago 9:00 p m, arrive Grand Rapids 6:30am. (The 5:05 p m train has through parlor car from Detroit to Manistee. 7 LANSING & NORTHERN. DEPART. Express for Saginaw and Bay City.... 16:55 a m Mail for Lansing, Detroit and East... +7:25 a m Express for Lansing, Detroit and East +1:00 pm Mail for Alma, St. Louis and Saginaw +4:10 p m Fast &x. for Detroit, New York, Boston*6:25 p m ARRIVE. Mail from Saginaw and Bay City. -- 11) 380 a m Mail from Lansing, Detroit and East.+12:0: m Fast Express from Lansing and East. *5:€: m Express from Lansing and Detroit... +9: m Ex. from Saginaw, St. Louis and Almati0:i m *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. The shortest line to Detroit and the East. Elegant parlor cars between Detroit and Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS AND REED’S LAKE TIME TABLE. Daily trains leave Union depot at *, 40, 11 a m, 1, 3, 3, 4,55, 6,7. 8,9,10 pm. Sundays only—1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5,,5:30 p m. Daily trains leave Reed’s Lake (Alger Park) at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a m, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7: $0, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 p m. Sunday trains—2, 3, 4, 5, 5:30, For tickets and information WM. A. GAVETT, Acting Gen. Pass. Agt. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘EDMUNDB. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker Jeweler, Kh CANAL SY. Grand Rapids - Mish. ee {SEFORE BUYING GRATES set Circular and Testimonials. ree. Economical, Sanitary, cent an “ptietie ALDINE ce ata? GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WAN TED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above goods to ship, or anything in the Produce line, let us hear from you. Liberal cash advances made when desired. EARL BROS., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 157 South Water St., CHICAGO. Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids. ~ DRINK _ LION COFFEE A True Combination of MOCHA, VA LandR ee Card a With every pound package. For Sale everywhere. Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, 0. SEC taags aes aiclro) PAN Sasha aval nc ah Urea Pures VV'GOD METAL een 3 me aie aa Re ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Philosophy and Fun. It is hard to make money, but you can lose it without any labor. There are some nice people that you dislike without an effort. As arule, people punish their friends more than they do their enemies. A man who can’t borrow money is will- ing to pay almost any rate of interest. How little and dried up the cheese ap- pears to the rat after he is caught in the trap. It is a very common thing to see a man who says wise things and does foolish ones. No one has a poorer opinion of you than the one who has worked you for his own benefit. Aman’s greatness great; a woman’s greatness family insignificant. If a man was built in such a way that he could pat himself on the back, some men would do nothing else. makes his makes The quarrel with the man who is too polite to give blows and call names is the quarrel that hurts longest and most. When a new girl comes to town all the her her, and then go away and make fun of her. The meanest things of a man’s life are other girls call on and admire done without deliberation, and the mean- est things of a woman’s life are done with it. There was never a farmer so honest that when he drove into town he did not drive as though he had hard work hold- ing in his plug work horses. find e shows that he likes A woman begins to beauty ina man as h her: but soon as aman never discovers thata woman has freckles until he has married | her. Somehow, a man feels much worse the day after he has lost an hour’s sleep on account of the baby than he does the day after he has lost five hours’ sleep at the club. How easily some one else turns the the your good deeds, but how hard it is for you to turn it when the talk is about the good acts of your neighbor. There old maid in Kalamazoo whose only pleasure is a stolen one that she would be ashamed to own. She locks subject when conversation is about is an herself up in her room every night and | plays with her dolls. She has a large family of them, gives tea parties to them, and has a pathetic pleasure with them that nothing else on earth could give her. | -. 5. MM. >.< The Largest Undivided Tract of Pine. | Johnathan Boyce, the millionaire lum- | berman of this city, is said toown the largest undivided tract of pine in Lower | It is located in town 21 north, | and | Michigan. range 3 west, Roscommon county, comprises 10,000 acres, estimated to cut 300,000,000 feet of logs. It has been held about ten years by Mr. Boyce, and is said to have more than doubled in value, | being worth about $2.000,000. It has never been disturbed, but will now placed on the market. The Michigan Central has contracted to build a line ten be miles long to the tract from the Macki- | naw division, so as to market the output in the Saginaw valley, abouteighty miles , of a} distant, and forming an extension logging line which touches the main road at West Branch. Thesurveyors are now at work, and the track is expected to be laid ready for use by October. Mr. Boyce has contracted to cut 50,000,000 feet an- family | her | nually and ship over the Michigan Cen- tral to Saginaw valley mills, at a $2.50 rate. About 400 men will be employed in getting out the logs. Mr. Boyce, after due consideration, determined not to saw the logs at Muskegon, for shipment to Chicago, coneluding that the Saginaw valley was the better market. He has bound himself to place the timber of the entire tract on the market in seven years. A saw and shingle mill will be built on the tract, with the especial view of util- | izing stock that is not desirable to send | | to the valley. The logging road will run | through another of Mr. Boyce’s tracts in township 22 north, range 2 west, con- taining considerable pine and cedar, | hitherto rather inaccessible, and a mill will be built on that land also. 2 Day at the Detroit Ex- position. Detroit, Aug. 16.—Travelers’ Day at the Detroit exposition is being talked of among commercial travelers and is, no doubt, being looked forward to as the day of the exposition on which to attend. From the inquiries and reports which come to our attention, it is safe to infer that there will be more and larger del- egations in attendance this year than was the case last year. The exposition management has made many noted im- provements for the comfort and con- venience of its patrons and has also added new and prominent attractions to the already large aggregation for enter- tainments. Last year the Detroit travy- elers and merchants assumed the direc- tions for Travelers’ Day and provided especially for their entertainment. This year Travelers’ Day will be entirely un- der the auspices of the exposition asso- ciation and it is safe to presume that if any association or body of commercial travelers attend on that day, they will receive a marked reception by the man- agement of the exposition association, | which is composed of active and aggress- ive business men, who know the value of | good words spoken by the traveling rep- |resentatives of the commercial world. | Should the commercial travelers of the several cities of the State and adjoining cities in other States visit the exposition in abody on Travelers’ Day and form in procession, there would be more than | any ordinary steamboat could accommo- date with transportation to the exposi- | tion grounds and the coffers of the ticket Travelers’ |seller would groan with its load of | ‘four bits.’ | Come on, boys, and let us show that our name is legion. M. J. MATTHEWS. i Good Words Unsolicited. M. A. 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Do not fail to try the men’s Lycoming, Pa., Stocking Rubber. it is the Kime of al! Stocking Rubbers made. Both only manufactured by the Lycom- ing Rubber Co. For sale by G. H. REEDER, Grand Rapids. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO., TO THE TRADE: Ask our salesman to show you our factory line of Wom- en’s Shoes, at the reduced price,in Milwaukee Oil Grain and Satin Calf—the best shoe on earth for wear—to sell for $2. We also make the same lines in Misses’ and Children’s, at prices in pro- portion. And see our new lines of Boys’ and Youths’ shoes; they are corkers for the money. We also solicit your fall order for Boston and Bay State rubber goods, and guar- antee prices and terms as low as any house selling the same brand. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. y ot P (Formerly Shriver, Weatherly & Co.) CONTRACTORS FOR Galuanized Iron Cornice, Plumbing & Heating Work. Dealers in ‘Pumps, Pipes, Etc., Mantels and Grates. | Weatherly & Pulte, GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH, El. Puritano Cigar. "URITANO The Finest 10 Gent Cigar ON EARTH MANUFACTURED BY DILWORTH BROTHERS, PITTSBURGH, TRADE SUPPLIED BY i I. M. CLARK & SON, i . Grand Rapids. — BRADDOCK, BATEMAN & CO., i Bay City. Detroit. T. E. BREVOORT,