a Michigan Tradesman. VOL. 8. GRAND RAPIDS Fire Insurance Company. Prompt, Conservative, Safe. W. F. McBarn, Sec’y. 8. F. Asprnwatt, Pres’t. PROPLE’S SAVINGS BANK. Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts., Capital, $100,000. Liability, $100,000. Depositors’ Security,” $200,000. OFFICERS. Thomas Hefferan, President. Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President. Charies M. Heald, 2d Vice-President. Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier. DIRECTORS, D. D. Cody H. C. Russell 8. A. Morman John Murray Jas. G. MacBride J. H. Gibbs Wm. McMullen Cc. B. Judd D. E. Waters H, F. Hastings Jno. Patton, Jr. C. M. Heald Wm. Alden Smith Don J. Leathers Thomas Hefferan. Four per cent. interest paidfon time certificates and savings deposits. Collections" promptly made at lowest rates. Exchange sold on New York, Chicago, Detroit and all foreign countries. Money transferred by mail or telegraph. Muni- cipal and county bonds bought and sold. Ac- counts of mercantile firmsfas“well as banks’and bankers solicited. We invite correspondence or] personal inter- view with a view to business relations. RAYON, LYON & 60,, JOBBERS OF Statonery and Books A Complete Line of HAMMOCKS, PISHING TACKLE, MARBLES, == BASE BALL G00DS ——= Our new sporting goods catalogue will be ready about February 10th. EATON,LYON &CO., 20 and 22 Monree St. BEACH’S New York (offee Rooms. 61 Pearl Street. Five Cents Each for all dishes served from bill of fare. Steaks, Chops, Oysters and All Kinds of Order Cooking a Specialty. FRANK M. BEACH, Prop. ALLEN DURFEE. A. D. LEAVENWORTH. Allen Durfee & Co., FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. IT WILL PAY YOU To Buy ALLEN BWrisLey’s GOOD CHEER SOAP Leading Wholesale Grocers keep it, GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1891. BANNER SOAP. Best in the world! Manufactured by JOS. BIECHELE SOAP CO, Oanton, Ohio. Represented in Mich. by E. A. Withee, Vernon. Sold by Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., Grand Rapids: B. Dessenberg Co., Kalamazoo; Jackson Grocery Co., Jackson; Phelps, Brace Co., Sinclair, Evans & Elliott and Moran-Fitzsimons Co., De- troit; Saunders & Co., Port Huron; Merrill, Fi- field & Co., Bay City; Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi naw; St. Johns Mercantile Co., St. Johns. Drag Store for Sale at a Bargain On long time if desired, or will exchange for part productive real estate. Stock clean and well assorted. Location the best in the city. I wish to retire permanently from the drug bus- iness. c. L. BRUNDAGE, Opp. New Post Office. 117 W. Western Ave. Muskegon, Mich. Fine Millinery ! Wholesale and Retail, SPRING STOCK IN ALL THE LATEST STYLES NOW COMPLETE. MAIL ORDERS ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY. Adams & Co., 90 Monroe St., Opp. Morton House. ESTABLISHED 1841. EA: ARIES CE > SERENE THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada HARVEY & HEYSTER, Wholesale Dealers in Wall Paper —— AND — Picture Frame Mouldings. Also a complete line of PAINTS, OILS and BRUSHES. Correspondence Solicited. Warehouse, 81 & 83 Campau St. 74 & 76 Ottawa St, GRAND RAPIDS, SEEDS! Write for jobbing prices on Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and Alfalfa Clover, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Red Top, Blue Grass, Field Peas, Beans and Produce. C, AINSWORTH 76 So. Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS en PAMPHLETS For the best work, at reasonable prices, address THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. EARLY DAYS IN THE FAR WEST. Written for The Tradesman. Jean De Vere and his bright petite wife were residing in a growing village in the Great West. They were both of French parentage, although born in America, and were well educated and spoke both French and English equally well. Jean was a mechanic, a house carpenter by trade, although now a prosperous mer- chant. The young couple had married and at once left New York City on both a wedding and a prospecting tour, two years previous to the opening of this story. The old-time stage coach, drawn over the then marshy prairies by four to six horses, conveyed the groom and his bride from the terminus of a railroad to the little village of S., forty miles farther toward the setting sun. The last day of the journey wasin the month of June, and the virgin prairies of the West were one boundless field of wild flowers, and every passing breeze was laden with their perfume. A refreshing shower during the night had washed and purified the air, while the pearly drops still upon leaf and flower sparkled like diamonds in the bright morning sun. Groves of timber, with a log farm house adjacent here and there, relieved the monotony of the boundless expanse; and the low, gentle cooing of the wild prairie chickens could be heard upon the still morning air from all points of the compass. Occasionally a bevy of these or of quail would excite exclamations of surprise, as they either followed or crossed the line of our trav- elers’ pathway. The scene was all so new and strange to our two happy and hopeful passengers as to call forth from them many expressions of delight. Their six fellow travelers in the conveyance were the more rough, but plain and po- lite citizens of the West, absorbed in the serious business of life, with little time or disposition for the romantic or pic- turesque around them. From their con- versation, DeVere learned that a large hotel was to be erected immediately in the village of S., also several stores and dwellings, and that mechanics were in demand at full prices. To him this was welcome information, for although not what the world called poor, Jean did not like to remain idle. The country they were now in was one lately purchased by the United States from its wild and nomadic inhabitants, and until within the past five years not an acre of it had been cultivated with the plow. The topography of the country was varied by long stretches of level and undulating tracts, through which meandered small streams fed by springs of purest water. Upon these streams—generally in the most picturesque locations—the embryo villages of fifty to 100 inhabitants were yet far apart. Some of these villages had great expectations, and many of them have since been more than realized. The writer passed over the same route two months later in the same primitive conveyance, when each sunrise and sun- set witnessed the departure of day and night coaches from the Western terminus of the railroad; two and three coaches NO. 395 closely following each other, with every seat crowded, and we sang in chorus the lines of Whittier, as we passed along: “Behind the Indian’s bark canoe, The steamer smokes and raves, And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tramp of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves which soon Shall roll a human sea.”’ It was late in the evening when Jean De Vere and his bride passed into the drawing room of the only small two-story hotel in the village of S. One glimpse of its interior, however, was sufficient to assure them of its thorough cleanliness and comfort. While stopping for dinner and a relay of fresh horses that day, Jean had improved a part of his time in inte: viewing a passenger who was a resi- dent of S. and who, finding he was a carpenter, was pleased to give him em- ployment the moment he desired to begin work at $3 per day and continue as late in the year as the weather would permit, which occasionally meant all winter in this mild climate. When the host and hostess made their appearance to wel- come their guests, there were glad excla- mations of surprise, with warm hand shakings, as Mr. De Vere recognized the landlord and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Osprey, as acquaintances from Ohio who had visited friends in New York five years before. ‘‘At that time,’ said Mr. Osprey, ‘‘we had no thought of removing from Ohio, but with the vacation of this region of rich country by the Indians, an emigration colony of many families was formed in our immediate vicinity that included people of all vocations. The Western fever became contagious, and among the rest wife and I were carried off by it, a fact which we have never once regretted. You will notice on the morrow,” continued Mr. Osprey, ‘‘that the location of our village is on undulat- ing and somewhat stony land and not very desirable for cultivation, but a Mr. Warren, a farmer who came with us, at once saw its advantages as a site for a beautiful city and while all others passed it by, and chose the lovely farming lands about us, he selected and entered this quarter section, although laughed at by his neighbors, who were curious to know what he intended doing with it. In se- lecting this, he little dreamed of the value in its gravel beds and stone quar- ries at the time, it being underlaid along the stream with almost the only lime stone within fifty miles. Mr. Warren urged me at the time to enter 160 acres of rather undesirable land for a home- stead which lies adjoining his on the low land at the base of these hills. With much reluctance, I took his advice, which is likely to prove to my advantage after all, as itis exactly where a railroad can best establish its depot and roundhouse. I intend to donate the road to which this village is the objective point five acres of that land, provided they will occupy it for that purpose. Mr. Warren platted the .illage as soon as possible and, as he proudly remarked, laid the right founda- tion upon which to build a city, if re- quired; one which would refiect his good judgment and honor long after his last THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. sleep within sight of its spires and smoke stacks. A generous departure from a too common custom of a niggardly sav- ing of land was made by Mr. Warren in laying out his future city. First, he has two central streets intended for business only, surveyed at right angles with each other across his land. These two streets are 100 feet wide and all others are 90 feet, with alleys in the rear of every lot 20 feet wide. Every lot is 50x150 feet. He further donated public school grounds in six (supposable) wards of the city—to be—and two acres of land for a central school or college building. Lands for two public parks were also platted and reserved. Mr. Warren kindly donated me the two corner lots in the very center of the village, provided I would com- mence work at once and complete this hotel within sixty days, as there was but one public house at that time within forty miles. ‘*You have arrived at a most opportune time, Mr. De Vere,’’ continued Mr. Os- prey, ‘‘when our village and country sur- rounding it are both enjoying a flood of prosperity, and there is an abundance of labor required from men of your trade, and a more certain opportunity for safe and profitable investment than ever be- fore since our colony came. We need rather more capital invested in merchan- dise, as there are only two general stores at present. Twenty miles north of u- is another store, and had we larger stocks here, other desirable trade would natur- ally flow in from this direction, particu- larly the present autumn, as the railroad will then be completed to this point, which will be the terminus for some time to come.” Jean De Vere and his wife had been guided to this then far Western village, by a printed circular describing the new country which was sent them by a rela- tive of Mrs. De Vere from Massachusetts. It simply recited the facts pertaining to the colony, the natural advantages of the country, both as to agricultural and com- mercial prospects, in a very modest way, all of which a few days after arriving they were satisfied had even been under- estimated. The fact that Mr. and Mrs. Osprey were prominent residents was, in itself, a strong inducement to remain; already it did not seem like locating among strangers. Three-fourths of the inhabitants were people from Ohio and the Eastern States, with similar habits, tastes and customs, making the condition of society a most desirable one. It was, therefore, decided that for the present they would make the Osprey House their home and that the ensuing Monday Mr. De Vere would commence work at his trade. The 20th of September the new **Hotel Worthington’’ was so far ad- vanced toward completion that it was thrown open to the public. At this date the little village, with only afew scat- tered buildings in June, had now in- ereased to over 1,000 inhabitants, with seven different stores (not all yet occu- pied) two good hotels, two churches and a two story frame school house. The railroad had accepted the five acres of land from Mr. Osprey, subject to his stipulated conditions, and had completed a handsome gothic depot and offices, with a freight depot, 20x150 feet. A round house large enough to hold six locomo- tives was also commenced and would be completed before December 1. The rail- road was completed to the village and the first passenger train arrived amid great rejoicing, October 8, giving the} citizens a daily mail thereafter. Mr. Osprey now platted the remainder of the forty acres of land upon which the rail- road buildings stood, as an addition to the village and, in doing so, carried out the original plans and wishes of Mr. Warren by joining the streets and alleys to his, and making them exactly the same width. These plats, once on record, assured the beauty and symmetry of the streets ever afterward. Few there are who in founding anew village have a thought for its future. More generally it is laid out as if to be occupied by one generation only, whereas it may be, for aught they know, the homes of future generations for many centuries. Most towns having any good natural advan- tages should be laid out with the latter object in view. ‘‘Study the future well, and make provision for it,” when plat- ting a village, was the maxim of a man who has laid out his last city on earth, although thousands live to bless his name for his forethought and kindness to those who were to come after him. Mr. De Vere had improved his time to the best advantage since his arrival in the Far West by working at his trade and he had not only added to his wealth but to his weight, also, and was never in better health than at present. [concLUDED NEXT WEEK. | A Silver Lining After All. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Are you a dealer in dry goods? If so, I am your brother in trade—a fellow traveler on the already thronged high- way to wealth or poverty. Soon after I first embarked in trade, I often hoped this highway might not prove a lengthy one, as life did not seem desirable. How- ever, had death suddenly stood by the way side—like the old man in the fable with his bundle of sticks—I should prob- ably have said, ‘‘I am not yet quite ready to go.’’ Still, I felt so at times—and so have you. There are some of the most provoking incidents connected with the dry goods trade the human mind can con- ceive of, yet with experience and wisdom they fade into insignificance. Even as far back as memory will now accompany me, the business had its pleasant as well as unpleasant phases. I used to think profits were sometimes so small, while now, as I look back, I find I was mis- taken. It was only the sales that were small. I sella hundred yards of dress goods now where I did ten at that time. Suppose I make only one-third of the profit 1 then did, am | not doing a better business? Why do I sell more now? First, because almost everybody has more to purchase goods with. Second, people then wore heavier and courser fabrics for every day use, and made them last longer, if they cost no more. When I first engaged in business, ladies hardly thought of changing their dresses from two to four times daily, and cus- tom permitted them to drop in to a neigh- bor’s dwelling unannounced, in the same dress they had donned in the morning. Now they must have a morning, after- noon, and evening dress, dress, if no mor. Do you ever happen to have a quantity of unseasonable goods on hand? Did you purchase a fine stock of woolen goods late in the fall, congratulate your- self upon that ‘‘good purchase,’’ only to find in the spring that the oldest inhabi- tant could hardly remember such a warm winter as the past, and you could hardly remember such a dull winter for trade in P. SFEKEFEER & SONS, Wholesale - Ury - Goods, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Spring line of Prints in Merrimack, Washington, Simpson, Hamilton, Garner, Passaic, Allens, Cochecs just received, at rock bottom prices. Men’s and Ladies’ Straw Hats, Bags, Burlap, Wadding, Twines, Ducks and Drills. SYANDARD Olk CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Dealers in [lUminating and Lubricating -OLTLS- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULK STATIONS AT Grand Rapids, Big Rapids, Cadillac, Grand Haven, Ludington, Howard City, Mus- kegon, Reed City, Manistee, Petoskey, Allegan. Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels. LEMON & WHEELER COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Grocers GRAND RAPIDS. BALL BARNHART ww, PUTMAN CO. ae ) a a Se mare ee a OMIM LEE — *_ me i a i woolens? Then, as if troubles never came singly, the summer was as much too cold, and the lovely and fashionable styles of muslins were rendered unsala- ble, and remained to be carried over to another year, by which time new pat- terns had appeared and these must be thrown into auction sales. These are often the kinds of goods meant when we placard our window thus, ‘‘Closing out at any price to make room for new goods.” This is good policy for both ourselves and the public, as we shall be making use of the money, be it much or little, and the people can really afford to hold the goods at the very low price they pay for them. Do you not sometimes find among your purchases a line of goods you have hurriedly selected, that when opened at home have disappointed you sadly? I have been thus disappoint- ed. They seemed to present to usa dif- ferent appearance, and the more we spread the goods out, turned them over, earried them to a strong light and ex- amined them, the more we were convinced that they would never sell for what they cost us; that we shall never receive what we paid forthem. Paid, didI say? The worst may be, that we yet have it to pay, as the goods were bought on sixty days’ time. And we fret and worry over that $200 worth of apparently dead _ stock. and wonder what induced that salesman to extole the quality and style as he did, when all this time we are making a ‘‘mountain of a mole-hill.’”? Weare dis- gusted with the purchases, however, and place them on the shelves, a little out of sight, fearing their appearance may in- jure the sale of our really desirable goods. Some day a lady finds nothing she wants, and finally says, ‘‘Please al- low me to glance about your store and see what you have.” Her eye catches a glimpse of those objectionable goods and it brightens at once. ‘‘Here is just what I want! Mrs. Smith brought a dress from Chicago precisely like this. It is just too lovely for any thing and is among the latest goods out. Why do you not bring these rich goods out in sight?” Thus she continues to enlighten you as to who desire these goods and what are the prices they pay, until, as the door closes upon the lady and her packages, you are ready to thank her and to mark those goods and give them a front window display; and they don’t last a fortnight. When time will per- mit, I will mention many other similar incidents which will give a broader view of the business, aid digestion, lengthen life, and, as I remarked, ‘‘Cause them all to fade into insignificance.” THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. He Got a Receipt. ‘Some time ago I was trading in a vil- lage store,’’ says a correspondent, ‘“‘when one of the clerks came to the junior part- ner, who chanced to be waiting on me, and said: ‘Won’t you please step to the, desk a moment? Pat Flynn wants to set- | tle his bill, and insists on having a re-| ceipt.’ ‘The merchant was evidently annoyed. ‘Why, what does he want of a receipt ?’ he said, ‘we never giveone. Simply cross | his account off the book; that is receipt enough.’ ‘* So I told him,’ answered the clerk, ‘but he is not satisfied. You had better see him.’ ‘So the proprietor stepped to the desk, and after greeting Pat with a ‘good morn- ing,’ said, ‘you wished to settle your bill, did you?’towhich Pat replied in the affirmative. ‘‘Well,’ said the merchant, ‘there is ne need of my giving youa receipt. See! I will scratch your account off the book;’ and suiting the action to the word he drew his pencil diagonally across the account. ‘That is as good as areceipt.’ ‘**And do ye mane that that settles it?’ said Pat. ‘* ‘That settles it,’ said the merchant. *- ‘And ye’re sure ye’ll never be afther askin’ me fur it again?’ **¢We’ll never ask you forit again,’ said the merchant, decidedly. ‘* ‘Raith, thin,’ said Pat, ‘and I’li be af- ther kapin’ me money in me pocket, for | havn’t paid it yet.’ “The merchant’s face flushed angrily so he retorted, ‘Oh,’ well, Ican rub that out.’ ‘**Faith, now, and I thought that same,’ said Pat. “It is needless to add that Pat obtained nis receipt.” ——__-_—>> Allon Account of Potatoes. The Register of Deeds of Osceola coun- ty, is authority for the statement that farm mortgages aggregating over $50,000 have been paid in that county from the pro- ceeds of last year’s potato crop. KDMUND B. DIKEMAN THE GREAT Watch Maker = Jeweler, Ki CANAL ST, Grand Rapids. - Mich. We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1891. 81 SOUTH DIVISION.ST., GRAND RAPIDS. Correspondence solicited. THE PUTNAM GANDY GO. Wholesale Manuiacturers. Fruit and Nut Jobbers. ASK FOR PRICE LIST. GRAND RAPIDS. Buy our Custom Made River Boots and Shoes. We make the Correct Styles in River Goods. The bottom stock is more solid and the fitting on the upper is stronger than any other lines made. Our New Spring lines have proved great sellers. Spring & Company, Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons, We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. oe Spr saanseeioatietnaen rin THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Belding—Will! Bricker has purchased W. D. Sinclair’s general stock. Belding—W. W. Weed succeeds A. M. Kenyon in the bakery business. Alpena—F. C. Holmes succeeds Holmes Bros. in the crockery business. Birch Run—S. S. Tower has removed his hardware stock to Coleman. Bancroft—Fuller Bros. have sold their grocery stock to B. D. Rathbone. Lansing — Herrick Bros. succeed E. Parmalee in the grocery business. Gaylord—Mitchell Bros. are succeeded by John Taylor in the meat business. Birch Run—A. W. McKee has removed his drug and grocery stock to Mt. Morris. West Bay City—-P. C. Smith is suc- eeeded by J. H. Emery in general trade. North Bradley — Babcock Bros. are succeeded by Wm. Babcock in general trade. Lansing—C. Krause & Son are succeed ed by Albert P. Walker in the grocery business. Middleton—Chas. E. Freeman is suc- ceeded by Geo. W. Brown in the meat business. Kalamazoo—Buechner & Co. are suc- ceeded by Buechner & Bidleman in the hardware business. Detroit—The Detroit Electrical works has increased its capital stock from $500,000 to $2,000,000. Sault Ste. Marie—H. B. Nease, Son & Co., who operate a planing mill here, are erecting a shingle mill. Ravenna—L. Gannon has sold his hard- ware stock to Ed. Bartholomew, who will continue the business. Lisbon — Horace G. Johnstown and Wm. Thurston have purchased the store and drug stock of S. J. Koon. Detroit—Edward Burk & Co. are suc- ceeded by M. Laughlin Bros. & Co. in the manufacture of cigars. Coopersville—B. H. Rolph has sold his furniture and undertaking stock to Garlick & Sessions, late of Hubbadrston. Shelbyville—Samuel Wolcott has sold . his general stock and store building to Ransom McIntyre, a farmer living near this place. Alanson—Cross Bros. & House — not Cross Bros. & Hunt, as stated last week have purchased the general stock of H. S. Beaman. Saginaw—Fred Reidel, who has been with the Hoyt Dry Goods Co. for two years, has resigned to engage in busi- ness on his own account at Frankenmuth. Bellaire—Owen Schoolcraft succeeds B. A. Nixon and E. A. Nixon in the fur- niture and undertaking business. He will continue under the style of the Bel- laire Furniture Co. Muskegon—S. S. Morris will again en- gage in business as a packer and jobber of provisions in the same place he form- erly occupied on the corner of First street and Clay avenue. Lansing—The wholesale bakery estab- lishment of W. R. & J. S. Esselstyn has been purchased by Krause & Haviland, of Saginaw, who will continue the busi- ness at the old stand. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Frost—C. F. Martin will remove his sawmill to Sault Ste. Marie. Saugatuck—A movement is on foot to convert the basket factory into a roller process flour mill. Tawas—The sawmills of C. H. Prescott | & Son and the Winona Salt & Lumber Co. are undergoing extensive repairs. Both mills will be fully stocked for the season. Baraga—John Funke, who this year replaces his circular mill with a band, has sold his circular to the Baraga & Watersmeet Railroad Company, which will set it up at Alston to cut timber for construction work. Beaverton—Ross Bros. have purchased shingle machinery and are building a shingle mill to operate in connection with a sawmill here. They are also buying shingle logs and bolts. Saginaw—H. A. Emery has purchased a timber limit on the Serpent river, Ontario, estimated to cut 25,000,000 feet or more, the consideration being $40,000 eash. The logs will be cut and rafted to Tawas to be manufactured. Douglas — The plant of the Fruit- growers’ Manufacturing Co., which was recently sold by the receiver to D. D. Tourtellotte for $11,800, will be operated by a new company, which will be known as the Douglas Manufacturing Co. Saginaw—The Saginaw Lumber & Salt Co. and the Emery Lumber Co. have 30,- 000,000 feet of Canadian logs to bring over. The snow in the Georgian bay district has been from two to two and a half feet deep during the winter, and drives have not yet started. Marquette—The Cleveland Sawmill Co. has arranged to supply the power house of the electric railway with fuel. The slabs and other refuse is loaded on scows and towed to the power house, giving the railway company cheap fuel and helping the sawmill company to dispose of its waste. Saginaw—Sibley & Bearinger have 25,- 000,000 feet of Canadian logs to raft to this side, and they put in 40,000,000 feet in Michigan the past winter, of which 22,000,000 in the Marquette district have been sold. They have also sold nearly all of their 10,000,000 feet of lumber on hand at Tawas. Hastings — Edward Roos and John Pendergast, owners of the American Wool Boot Co.’s plant and business, have sold their interest therein to Chester Messer, R. B. Messer, Dan. W. Reynolds, Clement Smith, P. T. Colgrove and M. L. Cook, who have organized a stock company under the style of the American Wool Boot and Shoe Co. Bay City—The oak timber used in Captain Davidson’s shipyard comes most- ly from Saginaw and Gladwin counties. Two camps have been operated during the winter, one near St. Charles, Saginaw county, and the other near Gladwin. About 160,000 cubic feet was the output, and Captain Davidson has 100,000 cubic feet of old timber on hand. Oscoda—Pack, Woods & Co. have pur- chased a tract of timber on the Au Sable river of the Potts concern, designated as the ‘‘ Federal bank tract,” the considera- tion being $270,000 cash. It is said that the tract will cut 70,000,000 feet. If so, it is the cheapest tract of timber that has been sold in this section in many months. Good white pine stumpage here would readily command $8, and at that rate the tract just sold is dirt cheap. The purchasers will build a railroad to this timber from the Au Sable river, and it will be lumbered and manufactured at their Oscoda mill. Wools Weaker---Hides Dull---Tallow Firm---Furs Quiet. Wools are some weaker, if anything, than they have been. While the stocks offered are small and in poor selection, dealers hoped for a higher price, whiche does not seem to materialize. All kinds of prices are reported, which is accounted for by having all kinds, good and poor, sold. In fact, it is a market for odds and ends, the cleaning up of the year. Hides are dull and slow sale, with few offering. Hides are scarce, so is the de- mand. Leather is in large offerings and no advance can be obtained. Foreign trade has stopped, and tanners are hold- ing up on working in, toa large extent. Calf are lower and less demand. Tallow holds firm under a light supply and soapers hold out from buying as long as possible and use all kinds of greases to reduce cost of soaps to near the selling price. Furs are quiet, with no change from late decline. difference among buyers, with no snap to the trade. ee The Grand Haven Glass Works. The machinery belonging to the Michi- gan Glass Co., at Grand Haven, was bid in at sheriff’s sale last week for $4,600, the purchaser being Wm. F. Kelly, who is organizing a stock company to con- tinue the business. The new corpora- tion will be known as the Grand Haven Glass Co. and will have a capital stock of $50,000, of which $20,000 will be paid in. Mr. Kelly will probably act as Secretary of the company and assume the general management of the business. a Lower Prices for Button Fasteners. The Heaton-Peninsular Button Fasten- er Co. has reduced the price of its fasteners from $1 to 65 cents per great gross. The manufacturers of the Duplex and Dick fasteners have met the cut and gone one better, putting the price at 5uv cents per great gross. The fight between the manufacturers gives every promise of being a spirited one and the outcome is too indefinite to be foreseen. MUSKEGON. W. B. Kieft and C. C. Vos have formed a copartnership under the firm name of Kieft & Vos, and will go into the busi- ness of manufacturing brooms. They have purchased the business and plant of James Taugher, who operated at the corner of Oak street and Getty avenue. We learn wisdom from folly, but itis less expensive if we learn it from the folly of the other fellow. PENBERTHY INJECTORS, The Most Perfect Autematic Injector Made, HESTER & FOX, Sole Agents, There is a general in-|7 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, 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 adve ment taken for lessthan 25cents. Advance payment, BUSINESS CHANCES. RUGSTOCK—NEAT AND ATTRACTIVE, AND NEW hardwood fixtures. Excellent location on best retail street in Grand Rapids. Expenses very light and trade steadily increasing. Low mong eee just completed, $2,600. On account of failing health, will sell at invoice or for $2,400 cash, if sold by March 15. Otherwise will hold it as an investment. A genu- ine bargain. Personal investigation solicited. Ad- dress “F.,” care Hazeltine Perkins Drug Co. City. 197 OR SALE — A FIRST-CLASS, WEuL- ASSORTED stock of hardware and building material, situat- ed at Port Huron. Did a business of $68,000 last year. No old stock orrubbish. Will invoice about $20,000. Proprietor sick in bed and unable to attend to the business. Address Geo. M. Dayton, Lansing, Mich. 228 OR SALE—FINE STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES special line. No old goods. Everything desira ble. Good trade, mostly cash. Excellent farming country. Address “Shoes,” care Michigan Tradesman 214 OR SALE—A GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF HARDWARE and agricultural implements, situated in a good town of 1,500 inhabitants on the Michigan Central Railway. Good farming country surrounding. Has enjoyed and does now theleadingtrade. Good satisfac- tory reasons for selling. Thisis a bargain for anyone with energy and push. Address No. 218 care Michigan Tradesman. 218 OR SALE—a THRIVING BUSINESS OF GENERAL merchandise, located on line of K. & S. R. R. Established twenty years. Reasons, proprietor has other business, doing a trade of $1,500 to $2,000 per annum, with small stock and expense. Address X. Y. -, care Michigan Tradesman. 224 OR SALE—DRUG STOCK ON ONE OF THE PRIN- cipal streets of the booming city of Muskegon. Stock will invoice from $3,000 to $4,000. Will sell build ing also. Good reasons for selling. For full particu- lars, address A. H. Eckerman, Muskegon, Mich. 231 F% SALE—COMPLETE DRUG STOCK IN A GROW- ing village on good line fof railroad. surrounded by as fine farming country/as there is anywhere in Michigan. Must quit the business on account of fail- ing health. Address No. 213 care Michigan Trades- man. 2 OR SALE—WELL-SELECTED DRUG STOCK, IN- ventorying about $1,200, situated in geod coun- try town of 500 people. Reason for selling, proprietor has other business. Address No. 173, care Michigan Tradesman. Gs CHANCE TO BUY A WELL ESTABLISHED furniture business in one of the best cities in Michigan ;$20,000 stock; good town; good trade; no competition; present owner has other business. For nee address H. C. Ransom, Jackson, ch. 216 OR SALE—A COMPLETE DRUG STOCK AND FIX- tures; stock well assorted can be bought at a —— A for particulars 8. P. Hicks, Lowell, c! 124 7 HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A general or cery stock; must becheap. Ad- dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26 SITUATIONS-WANTED. ANTED—POSITION BY REGISTERED PHARMA- cist, four years practical experience. Address Box 170, Bangor, Mich. 229 ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED PHARM- acist. Ten years’ experience. References fur- nished. No. 226, care Michigan Tradesman. 6 ANTED—POSITION IN STORE BY A SINGLE MAN ho has had fourteen years experience in a general store; can give A No.1lreferences. Address Dick Starling, Eastmanyille, Mich. 225 MISCELLANEOUS. = EXPERIENCED HARDWARE CLERK. A married man, who wants steady employment will have the preference. Send references from last employer to box 1,204, Cadillac, Mich. 230 FoR SALE OR RENT—CORNER LOT AND 5-ROOM house on North Lafayette st., cellar, brick found- ation and soft water in kitchen. $1,200. Terms to suit. Cheap enough for an investment. Address No 187, care Michigan Tradesman. 187, Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS. oe 45 Real * 50 es ec anc ec ee eiiec ies % EE oe ee rea a 5 6 doz, in box. ma Gos .........--. % nat * 88 Nad “ 70 — acl ie ace cknec hae bie a ie 6 a; CPE BO oe ese ei te 2 2 Rai. . _ 2 40 22 * nae D ceuae cw ewok celiac cue 3 40 XXX Flint. ey ON OPE OUD ak ee oes ces ok 2 60 tS ae sie OT cpus ocsdcenaiedaduagiae cout 2 80 Nos * - WT euedeveoncs soreubunncmucd 3 80 Pearl top. No. 1 Sun, wrapped and iabeled.............. 3 70 7. er " gt cE ARE 470 No. pa ” - Wr ga o'e paulo a oe lus 470 La Bastic. mo. 1 San, plain bulb, per dos. ............3. 1 25 2 ” - ot oe ap oe eewea ben 1 50 ea 5 Ore, er GOR. 52... ees ca 1 35 No? “ Fl egede eh pense elebwneina 1 60 ~ FRUIT JARS. Mason’s or Lightning. ON A sib es Ce icui ees 4 peseuwunssca a -87 00 I vines ceria ee civep ces checweece. 7 50 eT ke asec uk oc ec eat 9 50 Na. s oekecceheus a eenad crea cceee eects 50 OG UN ili hae ets ae ees ae veda ee 3 50 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crocks, per gal......... 06% Jugs, i gal., per doz... a “ 2 « ee eas 1 80 Milk Pans, % eal, per doz. ae oe Tae . THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. A. Myers has opened a grocery store at Grand Junction. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the stock. Jay L. Newberry, who operates a saw- mill and shingle mill at Conway, has put in a grocery stock. It was furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler Company. Walbridge & Co., dealers in dry goods and groceries at 360 East street, has leased the adjoining store and will short- ly add a line of boots and shoes. John Jaspers has engaged in general trade on Grandville avenue. P. Steketee & Sons furnished the dry goods and the Ball-Barnhart Putman Co. the groceries. J. M. Carr, formerly engaged in the shingle business here, but for the past three years located at Shingleton, has concluded to move his mill to Sault Ste. Marie. Boven & Knol have engaged in general trade at Graafschap. Voigt, Herpol- sheimer & Co. furnished the dry goods and Musselman & Widdicomb the gro- ceries. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. took possession of the D. E. Watters drug stock, at Remus, on a bill of sale, subse- quently selling it to T. W. Preston, the Millbrook druggist. E. J. Herrick’s grocery store is being lengthened out, so that his main floor will be 40x70 feet in dimensions. I want 500 to 1,000 cords of Poplar Excel- sior Bolts, 18, 36 and 54 inches long. I also want Basswood Bolts, same lengths as above. For particulars address J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich. hieyinan & Company, Manufacturers of SLOW Cases Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. GRAND RAPIDS. To Clothing and General Store Mer- chants: It cannot be disputed that Michael Kolb & Sop, Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers __ or. Rochester, N. Y., Have had for nearly 30 years past and have to-day one of the largest trades in Michigan; and why? Because the mer- chants who handle our line know that when a customer visits their store they ean rely upon good goods and materials, WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall, Mich, and a perfect fit. Our goods are made so well and our prices so equitable that we fear no competition, not even from manufacturers making inferior garments to catch the merchants with low prices. We commence April Ist, CLOSING OUT Our entire line of Spring and Summer Goods at great bargains and prefer to offer the same to the general trade rather than to one or two large houses. It will pay you to write our Michigan agent, William Connor, who resides at Marshall, Mich., to call upon you and look at these GREAT BARGAINS IN Men's, Youths’, Boys’ and Ghildren's Glothing William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, on Thursday and Fri- day, the 16th and 17th days of April next. Pennsylvania Lumberman’s. The best fitting Stocking Rub- bers in the market. A full line of Lycoming Rubbers on hand. ‘Try them. GEO. H. REEDER & CO., State Agents: for LYCOMING RUBBER CO. 188 and 160 East Fulton Street. sili din -owih cieedanip tear: tances it isin Rae aR aeons 5 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A CLOSE CALL. The firm of which I was the junior partner bought large quantities of wool. I usually made the purchases, and at times was obliged to travel far into the Sierra Nevadas, taking with me several thousand dollars upon each trip. To earry this sum I used a pair of saddle holsters, with a receptacle for the money and a place for a pair of pistols. The latter were necessary, for much of my way lay amid the wild and rugged mountains far from the main highways. When I halted at the wayside hotels, I was obliged to carry the money to the table with me and keep it in my room at night, for few of the stopping places had any secure safes or vaults. Paper money was not generally accepted by the owners of wool, so that the greater part of the money wasin gold. Two attempts had been made to rob me, and I had become wary and suspicious; yet the profits we made were so good that 1 was unwilling to give up the trips. One day, we received a telegram that read: ‘‘Secure all the wool you can; it is sure to advance in price.” “That means a hard trip for me,” I said, glancing at the yellow slip, ‘‘but, the sooner 1 am off, the more wool I can get.” The telegram reached us at 5 in the} afternoon. At 9 the next morning, 1 was on the road and had nearly four thousand | dollars in gold coin. For the first three days, 1 gradually ascended the mountains, and, by midday of the fourth, had reached the summit. This did not mean a rapid descent upon the opposite slope, but a journey for | several days over ridges rising from this central plateau. Some of these were densely wooded with pine, spruce and fir, while others were more open and con- tained fine pastures for flocks and herds. | I was desirous of reaching one man, who kept his sheep, during the summer. upon a high and rugged range some miles from my usual route. I halted for din- ner at a small public house lately built to accommodate teamsters engaged in hauling lumber from a new sawmill. The surroundings were not inviting, but I was accustomed to the poorest accom- modations while upon these mountain trips. While a half-breed Indian was earing for my horse, I inquired of the landlord if he could direct me to Rucker’s sheep camp. “Yes,” was the reply, ‘“‘but it’s a hard place to find,’’ at the same time giving me the directions as near as possible. I shook my head as he ended, saying, **] could never find the place in a year’s time. Is there no one here acquainted with the route who can go with me?” He hesitated a moment and then said: **There’s Bill, the half-breed; he knows the trail as well as old Rucker himself. I reckon you can get Bill to go.” Bill was promptly interviewed. ‘You pay me $2 and I take my horse and/| go,”’ was the brief but satisfactory reply. | The required sum was promised and | he at once prepared to accompany me. The moment dinner was eaten we set | off. Instead of being sullen and morose | like most half-breeds, my guide was a talkative and intelligent fellow and gave me much information about the sur-| rounding region. Upon reaching Rucker’s camp, we found the owner absent, and it took us} an hour or more to find him and the band | of sheep he was herding. He detained us longer to tell about the bears and pan- thers that annoyed his sheep than the | time consumed in bargaining for his | wool and making the necessary arrange- | ments for shipping it to us. When we} got back to the public house, it was too late to go further that night, unless I traveled after dark, and to this I object- | ed on account of the gold. The landlord said that he could give | me a straw-bed, adding, ‘‘You see, the | piace is new and we have nothing bet- | ter for ourselves.”’ I was willing to take the bed and so turned my horse over to the half-breed to take care of for the night. Just before supper two more travelers rode up and desired to stop. Rooms are pretty scarce, as you can see, but we can feed you as well as not,’’ said the host. 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Ce -; EXPANSIVE BITS. — Barre . oe eee we z 2 eee PLANES. dis. 10x14 1X, ye 8 Clark’s, small, Sid: dares, GO. ... 15 5....-..., 30 Oule Tool Co.'s, fancy ...................... @A) | 14x20 Ix, ee ee 8 Ives’, 1, 618; 2, 824; 3, B30 ........-.-. eee aE ental omen @6)| Each additional X on this grade 81.50. FILEs—New List. dis. Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy.............-..- @40 _ BOOFING PLATES i 60&19 | Bench, first quality..............---.-+-+-+s @60 | 14x20 IC, Weottemer. 0... 6 New alana aS eG eens Ean: 60&10 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... &10| 14x20 1X, - Ne cece seuseuee 8 CihMMAe ou us 60&10 PANS. 20x28 IC, _ eit ee ee rec ccuae 13 ta cece BO | Fry, ACMC......-.0. see cere cess eeee eens dis.60—10 = 4 7 Allaway Grade Lae sila 5 Holléss Horse Haspe.............--.....-... 50 Common, polised.... ae eean as tts dis. Pay = Ic « “ es * GALVANIZED IRON Te ane Thee ee a 40; 20x38 1TxX, ‘ - eT 15 Nos. 16 to 20;:22 and 2%; 25 and 26; 27 28] Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. List 12 13 14 15 18 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. oe ae $14 00 Discount, 60 “A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 3 ee 15 GAUGES. dis. | ‘‘B’? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20] 14x56 IX, for No. : Boilers, | per pound 10 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ..... --- 59! Broken packs 4c per pound extra. 14x60 1X, “ “ee BicY CLES. best makes. We have taken hold of this line of goods with our ac- customed energy and shall carry a full assortment of the We shall be glad to give full information and prices to any one desiring to secure an agency, cffAS foscraee Grand Rapids, Mich. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Michigan Tradesman Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. 4 WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, The 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, APRIL 15,1891. IS THE RETAILER AT FAULT? The New York Shipping List attributes the failure of the effort to secure a uni- form price on proprietary remedies to the retailers themselves, improving the opportunity to read them the following lecture on the course they should pursue: It would appear as if all the labor and annoyance which fell to the lot of the committee having in charge the rebate or coupon plan for the relief of the retail druggists, as well as the manufacturer of proprietary goods, have been fruitless. The committee decided last week, at a meeting in Philadelphia, to let the mat- ter drop, for the reason that the features of the plan are declared illegal, and the retailers indicated an unwillingness to give the co-operation which is absolutely essential in making any plans adopted for their protection and benefit a success. . Why should the heavy burden fall up- on the shoulders of a few members of the Wholesale Druggists’ Association ? They have received blows instead of thanks and been characterized as the ring-leaders of an immense drug com- bine, because they endeavored to have the retail trade conduct a more profitable business on a legitimate basis. Itisa matter which directly concerns the man- ufacturers and retailers, and if they want to continue the monkey and parrot exhibition indefinitely, the wholesale dealers hereafter should be quiet specta- tors, and allow the retailers to knife each other and clean out the weakest of their class, if that is the plan of. their campaign. The manufacturers have an association to regulate their own affairs, and if retailers desire to carry on the eut-rate war with the view of substitut- ing other goods, that is a matter for the manufacturers to consider and _ dis- eourage; it should be regarded as a picnic to which the wholesalers have not been invited. The latter have done everything possible to bring order out of chaos, but competition is so sharp and jealousy so strong among retailers, that a committee might as well try to make water flow up hill as to pin them down to any obligation of that character. It would be unwise to make any further effort at present to stem the tide of reck- less competition; give them the balance of this year to do as they please, and the ease will rightitself. Selling at or below cost cannot long be continued without important results and these will be shown in due time. Purely Personal. Dan Steketee has been confined to his house during the past week by a com- bination fever and sore throat. Frank Hamilton,of Traverse City, spent | Sunday with his wife and niece, who have been in the city several weeks. D. D. Harris, general dealer and cheese manufacturer at Shelbyville, was in town Saturday. His factory begun operations for the season on the 13th. O. B. Pickett, right bower for M. V. Gundrum & Co., Leroy, was in town last Thursday on his way home from New York City, where he was confined to his bed nineteen days witha severe attack of la grippe. J. F. Maloney, Manager of the Che- boygan Brewing and Malting Co., of Cheboygan, is in town for a few days for the purpose of attempting to seduce some of our manufacturing enterprises to locate in his lively and ambitious city. I. M. Clark’s malady has assumed a more serious form and his recovery is now looked upon as improbable. Mr. Clark has long been an important factor in the wholesale trade of this market and thousands of customers and friends join with THe TRADESMAN in the prayer that he may yet be restored to health. Thos. Heffernan, the Baldwin druggist, will spend next Sunday in the city, on his way to Ireland, where he expects to remain four months. When he left the old home, ten years ago, he promised his mother he would return within a decade, and this visit is in fulfillment of that promise. He will be accompanied by his wife and two children. Miss Emma L. Parsons, who has been a faithful adjunct of The Tradesman Company for the past three years, has resigned the position of book-keeper and cashier and returned to her home at St. Joseph. Miss Parsons was a universal favorite with the patrons of THE TRADESMAN Office, and they will all join with the proprietors and employes in ex- tending her their best wishes and the hope that her future may be a happy one. Miss Parsons is succeeded by Miss Lizzie Rowley as book-keeper and Miss Frances Smith as stenographer, for whom THE TRADESMAN bespeaks the same kindly consideration which has been shown their worthy predecessor. I Gripsack Brigade. John H. Payne will start out on the warpath again on Thursday. Wm. Logie, who has been confined to his house for a fortnight with a severe attack of la grippe, is out again. Geo. F. Owen is losing the distinctive badge of the Orangeman and his friends now look forward to his speedy recovery. Chas. E. Hall has severed his con- nection with the Lemon & Wheeler Company to take the position of city salesman for Andrew Wierengo, of Muskegon. Frank L. Kelly, who has been laid up for two months with inflammatory rheu- matism, is able to be about again and goes to Chicago this week to post up and get his trunks. John Cummins has returned from Bradford, Penn., and resumed his trips on the road for the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. He will remove his family to this city as soon as warm weather puts in an appearance. A. S. Davis has started out two new men—David McWhorter among the city trade and David Meister among the trade of the Pentwater branch and the Alpena country. Mr. Meister hails from Bay City, where he traveled for Chas. L. Fox. | E. M. Hopkins, engrossing and enroll- |ing clerk of the House of Representa- | tives, has engaged to travel for the Barnes Safe and Lock Co., his duties to begin as soon as the Legislature ad- |journs. He will then take up his resi- | dence at Owosso. ———— 9 Sensible Suggestion. A German physician proposes that the manufacturers of preserved meats should be compelled to stamp their cans witha legible date mark. Fora year or.so, he says, canned meats may remain perfectly wholesome, but after that they deterio- rate in a way defying alike precaution and explanation. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. land 3 Pearl Street, GRAND RAPIDS MOSELEY BROS., Jobbers of Clover & Timothy Seeds, BEANS, POTATOES, EVAPORATED APPLES. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., GRAND RAPIDS. Co M&M. RAPE & CAD, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Foreign and Domestic Fruits. 9 No. IONIA S8T., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HEADQUARTERS FOR ORANGES, LEMONS and BANANAS. SEEDS! We carry the largest and most complete stock of seeds in Western Michigan, “and offer only such seeds as are of the highest grade. The Alfred Brown Seed Store. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Parties having Clover Seed to sell, please correspond with us. G. S. BROWN & CoO., —— JOBBERS OF —— California Oranges & Bluefield Bananas. SEND FOR QUOTATIONS. 24 and 26 North Division St. GRAND RAPIDS. Parties wishing seeds of any kind for garden or field please send for our catalogue and wholesale price list before buying. MUSKEGON CRACKER Co., Manufacturers of Crackers, Biscuits «Sweet Goods. Finest Quality and Largest Variety in the State, MUSKEGON, : : : MICHIGAN. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts Are Acknowledged the Most Profitable. SEE QUOTATIONS. THE NEW YORK BISGUIT 60, S. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., - Grand Rapids. re —— THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 A QUIET CUSTOMER. Some Suggestions as to the Treatment of the Thinker. Written for THE TRADESMAN. As a rule, the person who talks least thinks most. He thinks best, certainly, as his mind and tongue are not racing with each other at the same moment. If you are a grocer, have you not noticed how satisfied some of your customers always appear? Appearances are often deceptive. They are thinking, and you may not be aware that their thoughts are to your disadvantage. When you have two qualities of butter in the store and a customer says, ‘‘Give me five pounds of butter, please,’ your thoughts instantly revert to the fact that he placed no ad- jective before ‘‘butter,” also that he is one who never finds any fault, and you do desire to work off that first lot of but- ter and the temptation to weigh that out for him is strong. He is a man who never finds any fault and relies upon the honor of those with whom he deals. You weigh out his butter, and he simply says, “How much?” pays for it, and, with a kindly nod of the head (for he is no talker), leaves for home. It takes only a few such customers to work off the entire quantity, but have a care that you do not ‘‘work off’? those quiet customers as well. If you are a druggist, and aman has been in the habit of purchasing Dr. Fe- mur’s pills, and he sends some evening for a box of them when you happen to be out, do not give the messenger a box of Dr. Ulna’s instead, thinking they will be opened and swallowed without notic- ing the difference and will do just as well. That man may bea thinker and, , although you may retain him for a time, some day when you miss his visits he will have left you forever. Thereisa lady who always comes to you for her extract of lemon and vanilla, because she first saw you making them from the fruit. She has told you—once only—in a few words, ‘*‘ They are just what I want.’? You have missed her cheery “Good morning,’’ from your store, and -gaw her one day entering Jones’ door, and you wondered why. Think a mo- ment. The last time she came for va- nilla, you went behind the prescription case, opened a pound bottle of Presser & Co.’s vanilla and measured out some for her, thinking she would never know the difference, instead of frankly explaining that you were out of your own make. The woman was not angry; she only thought you were not making it quite as good. She is no talker—only a “thinker.” She tried another store—and you have lost a valuable customer. Mr. General Dealer, there is a lady in the print dress who seldom talks much. She is cheerful and good natured, buys only in small quantities but always pays, waits patiently if you are busy, and as you are hurried up by that other snap- pish customer whom you fear will go without the starch she has asked for, you also wait upon her, and a few others first. By and by you get around to the ‘‘lady in print’? and wait upon her, perhaps offer an apology, which she smilingly accepts. A few such apologies are all right, but do not presume too much upon her quiet good nature. She may be a “‘thinker,’’ and you may lose her. Bear this in mind daily, that your quiet customers are generally observers and thinkers, and if there is any one class you are to appreciate and take care of, it is this. They don’t want you to talk, for they are not talkers, but in all other ways they desire to see and feel that you not only appreciate their patronage but are serving them with the best you have and, whenever innovations are to be made, advise them at once. Your scold- ing, fault-finding customer is not half as apt to leave you. It is his or her way of getting through the world, and the nearer the dealer follows the path I have indi- eated with this class of customers, the greater wil! be his success. VINDEX. >_> Can Fill All Orders Promptly. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. an- nounces that it is prepared to ship all orders for sugar, no matter what grade, the same day they are received. 9 << Use ‘* Tradesman” Coupons. GEO. M. SMITH SAFE 60, DEALERS IN FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF - SAFES - Vault and Bank Work a Specialty. Locks Cleaned and Adjusted. Expert Work Done. Movers and Raisers of wood and brick build- ings, safes, boilers and smoke stacks. FIRE PROOF STEAM PROOF BURGLAR PROOF WATER PROOF OFFICE AND SALESROOM : 157 and 160 Ottawa St, Tel, 1173. GRAND RAPIDS. S.A. Morman WHOLESALE Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio LIMB, Akron, Buffalo and Louisville CEMENTS, Stuceo and Hair, Sewer Pipe, FIRE BRICK AND CLAY. Write for Prices. 20 LYON ST., - GRAND RAPIDS. . s Z ; * ~ M & 5 wn : ; = = 3 7 a Z Send for Quotations. WM. BRUMMELER & SONS Manufacturers of and Jobbers in Pieced and Stamped Tinware, Rags, Metals, Iron, Rubber and Wiping Rags 264 So. Ionia St., GRAND RAPIDS. Telephone 640. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. A. J. BOWNE, President. D. A. 3b opaextt, Vice-President. H. W. Nasu, Cashier CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. WANTED. POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED FRUIT, BEANS and all kinds of Produce. If you have any of the above ——— 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 BANE, Chicago, MICHIGAN TRADSSMAN, Grand Rapids. Always Satisfactory. RELIABLE! Other brands of flour may occasionally make as good bread, but for absolute uniformity and reliability our brands “Sunlight,” “Daisy” and “Purity” will be kept at the top, as they have been in the past. Write us for quotations. THR WALSH--DE ROO MILLING 6O., Proprietors Standard Roller Mills, FOLLAND, - HERRICK’S PATENT BASKET STAND. 20, 25 and 30 inch sizes, $3 per Dozen. Always Uniform. ni Indispensible to every grocer. Order through your jobber or direct of the manufacturer, E. J. HERRICK, Grand Rapids. WAREHOUSE PLATFORM YRUGK. This Truck is designed for use in warehouses, whole- sale establishments, flour and feed, and other stores. Has platform 30x38 inches. Frame well made of hard maple. Wheels 8 inches in diameter; caster wheel 6 inches. Height from floor to surface of piatform 11 inches. PRIOE, $5. MANUFACTURED BY GRAND RAPIDS SAM Dae iE LOAD parton irs manera aoa 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs # Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Staniley E. Parkill, Owosso. Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit. four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. Meetings for 1891—Ann Arbor, May 5; Star Island (Detroit) July 7: Houghton, Sept. 1; Le oka Nov. 4. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw. Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit. Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Treasurer—W m Dupont, Detroit. Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in October, 1891. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott Regular Meetings—First We dnesday evening of March, June, September and December. Grand Ra pids Drug Clerks’ Association. resident, F. D>. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. President, J. W. Allen; nail W. F. Jackman. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Assoc iation. President C.S. Koon; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. Large Consumption of Strychnine. Chief among the most active and dead- ly poisons in the world is strychnine. It is the active principle of a plant—the strychnos nux vomica—which is com- monly known as ‘dog button.”? A late number of the Industrial World says: It will surprise many to know that the wholesale drug house ef Dawson, Bole & Co., of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is one of the largest dealers in this deadly drug in the world. This firm has handled eighty pounds of strychnine within the last few weeks, which is an enormous quantity. The relation of this quantity to the en- tire consumption of the drug may be imagined when it is stated that when the Winnipeg orders were sent to the English dealers the effect was to imme- diately advance its value 10 per cent. Their first order for their spring trade was sixty pounds; but they were obliged to increase this by cable very materially, and their sales for the season will be well up to 100 pounds. As an order by a retail drug store for strychnine usually will not exceed one ounce, this will further show the enormous quantity the Winnipeg wholesale house referred to has handled this season. The heavy de- mand for strychnine here is in the spring of the year, and it is required largely for poisoning gophers. In Southern Manitoba and the territory of Assiniboia, this poison is used most extensively. Of course, a great deal of the drug is wasted while being used, as the quantity sold is sufficient to poison every living creature in the country many times over. It is quite probable that it is used for that purpose along the entire line of the Canadian Pacific, wherever an attempt is made to cultivate the land from Win- nipeg to Vancouver, as in the same latitude (unless the country is moun- tainous) the different kinds of ground squirrels abound and will consume the seed or destroy the growing crop, if not exterminated. Fifteen years ago the ground squirrels—a different species and much larger than the prairie gopher— were the pest of the more eounties of California. In the vicinity of Los Angeles, they were so numerous that strychnine was resorted to, to kill them. corn were placed in sweetened hot water for twen- ty-four hours to soften, then a small portion of strychnine in solution was poured over it, while the grain was yet soft | and permeable. southern Grains of Indian This solution is best made | by first thoroughly dissolving the erys-| tals in a small portion of acetic acid | (cold). This acid may then be mixed | with any given quantity of water desired | and poured over the softened grain. It | is now only necessary to place a few | | Morphine is into their burrows to die, but most of them will be found dead on the surface of the earth. Strychnine is a most powerful tonic and stimulant, when used as a medicine in infinitesimal quantities, and is to-day very widely employed as an adjuvant in a line of the more elegantly prepared elixirs and pills. a A Trick to Obtain Morphine. From the New York Tribune. A novel and adroit trick for getting morphine was yesterday successfully played upon the manager of a pharmacy in Park Row. “T have never seen such a clever trick,”’ said the manager. “I thinkI know all the opium and morphine fiends in the city, and lam well posted onall their tricks, but the way in which this chap worked his little game on me was the slickest Lever saw. AsI stepped up to him to see what he wanted, he handed me a prescription made outin the regular way which only adruggist or physician is sub- posed to know how to write. The pre- scription called for two articles, one of which was morphine. I filled the pre- scription and came over to where the man stood and proceeded to wrap them up, when he took out of his pocket a memo- randum and said, as he handed it to me: ***Oh, by the way, here is a listof some things I had nearly forgotten, and which I would like to have you make up for me. The articles are for another person and you had better do them up in another package. Ill not trouble you to wrap up this first package. I will doit while you are filling out that list.’ “The list contained a number of harm- less drugs, which he knew would take me some time to prepare in the back room. ‘‘He wrapped up the two bottles which | had left on the counter, and, turning to one of the clerks, said: ‘I will leave these here untilf{eome back. I have an errand I want to do, and by the time I come back the other things will be ready for me.’ ‘So saying, he wentout and I have not seen himsince. The packages lay on the counter together all day, and he did not come in the store and take them. It be- gan to look a little queer, and, becoming suspicious, I finally opened the first pack- age and found an empty morphine bottle, identical with the one containing the morphine, in shape and size, which he had put there in place of the bottle of morphine which I had filled for him. It was perfectly clear to me then. He had suceeeded in getting the drug by a clever trick and by an adroit ruse had walked off with it without paying for it, in broad daylight and before my eyes. I presume by this time he is working other druggists in other parts of the city with the same trick he tried on me.’’ tl nme meni Slightly Incongruous. From the Allegan Gazette. The P. of I. state trade agency, which has headquarters at Lansing and seeks to supply goods of all kinds to members of the order all over the state, experiences difficulty in finding a wholesale grocery house to fill their orders, and sends them to A. Stegeman of this place. It mist shockingly strain Mr. Stegeman’s philan- thropic soul to abandon his four-per- cent ‘‘racket ’? and do business on the P. of I. ten- pe: -cent basis. >_> oe The Drug Market. Citrie acid has declined. Balsam co- paiba is lower. Assafctida has ad- ; vanced. Gum shellacs are lower. Oil |}semon is higher. Cod liver oil has de- iclined. Alumislower. Chloral hydrate has advanced. Gum opium is steady. unchanged. Quinine is | weak. Sugar of milk is lower. Cocoa butter has declined. a For the finest coffees in the world, high grains of this poisoned corn in and close | grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner, beside the entrance to their burrows, | 304 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids, where it is sure to be eaten about sunset | Mich., general representative for E. J. or just after sunrise. A few will crawl | Gillies & Co., New York City. Grand Rapids Electrotype Co., ELECTROTYPERS aljing Cards STEREOTYPERS, And Manufacturers of Leads, Slugs, Brass Rule, Wood and Metal Furniture, 6 and 8 Erie St., GRAND RAPIDS. WE ARK HEADQUARTERS SEND FOR PRICE LIST. Daniel Lynch, 19 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. F. J. BARBER. A. C. MARTIN. BARBER, MARTIN & CO. GENERAL (Jommission [jerchants FOR THE SALE OF Butter, Eggs, Povliry, Fruit, and all Kinds of Govntry Produce, PAUL EIFERT Manufacturer of Tronks, Traveling Bags and Cases SAMPLE TRUNKS AND CASES MADE TO ORDER. Write for Prices. 41 SO. DIVISION ST., Grand _ - Michiqan, 191 South Water Street, CHICAGO. El. Puritano Cigar. cS ELI PU ITANO 1 The Finest 110 Cent Cigar EARTH. MANUFACTURED BY DILWORTH BROTHERS, PITTSBURGH. TRADE SUPPLIED BY / M. CLARK & SON, Grand Rapids. . BRADDOCK, BATEMAN & CO., Bay City. RED The most effective Cough Drop in STAR the market, Sells the quickest and pays the MANUFACTURED BY ee ? Rakes © a-e.BrooKse co. COUG ee The Finest Line of Gandy in the State, DROP S DOUBLE ACTION. GEARING COMPLETELY COVERED. WHITE CEDAR PAIL. SELF-ADJUSTING SCRAPER. CANS FULLSIZE. USES SMALLEST POSS:BLE QUANTITY OF ICE. THOROUCHLY WRAPPED FCR SHIPPING. THat THE GEM FREEZER ts REcocNizED AS THE ECST IN THE MARKET 1S PROVEN BY THE FACT THAT OUR COMPETITORS ARE IMITATING ITS GOOD QUALI- TIF S, AND USE IT AS THE STANDARD OF COMPARISON WHEN TRYING TO SELL THEIR OWN GOCDS. Do NOT CE IMPOSED UPON EY THOSE WHO MAY TRY TO SELL YOU OTHER FREEZERS BY TELLING YOU THEY ARE ‘‘ Just AS Gooo'’ OR ‘‘ JUST THE SAME as Tre Gem.’ INSIST ON HAVING TH@ GEM an? IF YOu CANNOT CET IT FROM YOUR RECULAR JOBEER WRITE TO US AND WE WILL TELL YOU WHERE YOU CAN GET IT OR QUOTE YOU PRICES AND DISCOUNTS. Ihe Gem precger WZ ‘te Manuractureo ey AMERICAN MATE co. LEHIGH AVENUE AND AMERICAN STREET, ~- - PHILADELPHIA. JOHN H. GRAHAM & CO., MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS, nvr = CHampers STREET, NEw YORK. } | Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in the Cour try and Save Money. Coup ON B 0) Ok § The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Assofcetida, oil lemon, chloral hydrate. Declined—Acid citric, balsam copaiba, gum shellac, cod liver oil, alum, sugar milk, cocoa butter. ACIDUM. pe ee 8@ 10 Benzoicum German.. 80@1 00 Te aise ieee 30 Carpolcam ........... 3@ 35 I ose os 55@ 58 ee ee 3@ ..5 N ser and Dia acue sees 10@ 12 a ee 1i@ 13 Paaueciate Ge... ... 3 eect 1 40@1 80 Sulphuricum.......... 14%@ 5 oe ie 1 on = TeReeriCHin......:.2.. AMMONIA. = S. @e8.< 2.5.5... 34@ ee.....:.-.. 54%@ ; cuibeame Sete de 12@ 14 coe... -. . 12@ 14 ANILINE. Ee ee ma 2 00@2 2 Pe ecco ai ses 80@1 00 es eee ees 45@ 50 ES eS 2 50@3 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po. } 30....... 1 . 4 40 eemaverue ....-......-. 10 Xanthoxylum .. on 30 BALSAMUM. — tec cieeccess 60@ 65 he a eee @1 80 Terabin, Cunada ..... 35@ 40 oo 35@ 50 CORTEX. Abies, Canadian...........- 18 eee se 11 Ciochems Fisva ............ 18 Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 Pramas Virgini.............. 12 Se eo 14 ne a 14 Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 10 EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ “ NO occ 33@ 35 Haematox, 15 lb. box 11@ 12 _ Rice k as 13@ 14 * cee 14@ 15 ts ee a 16@ 17 FERRUM Carbonate Precip...... @ Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ Solut Chloride........ @ 15 Sulphate, eoert .:.... 1%@ 2 Wee i. ss eo 7 FLORA I occ arin 22@ 25 eee |... ......-- 20@ 2 OE ———e 5@ Ww FOLIA oO UW@ 2 aan *acutifol, Tin- nivelly a ee 25@ 28 4 lx. 3@ 50 Salvia officinalis, 4s a 122@ 15 Rosse ene esse 8@ 10 @UMMI. Acacia, ist picked.... @1 00 a di. soa @ 9 . = pais @ 80 ‘sifted sorts... @ 65 ” ioe cs coh ae 75Q@1 00 Aloe, = (po. — 50@ 60 > Cape, (po a @ 12 Socotri @ Catechu, 18, (ei 14 eo ee ie a - Assafootida, (po. 30).. @ a Peeeetwem,.......-..:: wW@ 55 boge, % Guaiacum, oo a) .... @ 35 me soa MS) cay co ces @ Ww Wg eee tye ete @ 9 ayer, (9, oes @ 4 it ao. 2 2@2 40 Shelia ae ee 23@ 30 ble ened...... 23@ 33 Senqnennth a ayeee ee 30@ 75 HERBA—In ounce — Absinthium .. 25 Eupatorium .. 20 Lo — ec eens 25 aire... ..-.-- 28 Mentha ha Piperita. 23 Vir 25 PG ae ac 30 Tanacetum, V... 22 7: Vs. 5... - 25 MAGNESIA. Catned, Pat.-........ 55@ 60 Carbonate, ~~ eaeus cc W@ 2 Carbonate, K. & M.. 2@ 2 Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36 OLEUM. Abeethiom. ......... 00@5 50 Amy, dalae, Dulc dane 45@ 75 — alae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 cides dea slet ek oe 1 70@1 80 ‘aureatl Cortex @2 50 oo Piss eeieawe 3 75@4 00 ROIs oe cess Nac 90@1 Caryophylli........... 1 2@1 25 on ar podti intaned =e . enopodil ;............ 2 NEE Sc ecsnk ase i 15@1 20 Citronella ite = Conium Mac........ - 3@ 65 : 2@1 3 CUDONOO. - 056. t. 5 10 50@11 00 Exechthitos........... — = ON ss acs 1 9@ Ceteperrs we. 2 ooae 10 Geranium, ounce..... @ %5 Gossipii, Sem. gal..... 50@ 75 Hoedeonis 0000006). .0, 1 85@2 00 ee aw 50@2 00 TAVCRGGER ............ 90@2 00 ROO cs coe 2 50@2 85 Montha Piper..:....... 2 99@3 00 Mentha Verid.........2 50@2 60 Morrhuac, gal......... 1 10@1 15 Myrcia, GUNCO......... @ 50 ee, 1 00@2 7 Picis eee (gal. _ 10@ 12 Se some ese 1 04@1 20 aad saa ot oles 75@1 00 Rosae, ounce.......... @6 00 Boece... 40@ 45 — 90@1 00 i 3 50@7 00 Sassafras. .... 45@ 50 Sinapis, ess, ounce.. @ 6 PROT eos cece fac @1 50 Thyme ss an oy we cae ae 50 eo. c. ae @ 60 'TROOUrOMRAN........... 15@ 20 POTASSIUM. Pe Or 15@ 18 Pacuromate ........... 18@ 14 — Ree: 37@ 40 Re pbk ce ecdalu. 12@ 15 Chior, (pe. 3%) ....... 144@ 16 Cie cae eee 50@ 55 Todide. Se dee 2 80@2 90 Potassa, Bitart, —_- 30@ 33 Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15 Petass Nitras, opt.. 8@ 10 Potaus Nitras.......... 7a Proms... .........- 33 Salpeae vo.........; .. 26 is RADIX. Seah... Sa eS Althae................. a ao ere 15@ 2% eo, OO... 3... eos @ Calamus. . a Gentiana, (po. Pa ced 10@ 12 Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden, eo -; ASCE 35 Hellebore, Ala, po.... 18 20 TUG. 0. 4... assy. 15@ 2 beens PG... es. 2 50@2 66 Iris plox (po. 35@38).. 32@ 35 WOR, Ee 35@ 40 Marana, Me.......... @ 3 Podophyllum, Pe... 15@ 18 Rie. a. 75@1 00 OT MMR ics eos cuss @1 % Oe OM oe oe oes unease 75@1 35 oe ...,....-.,... 48@ 53 Sanguinarla, (po 25).. @ Ww a ae ee 40@ 45 eee 50@ 55 Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40 M @ % Selilae, (pe, 3)... .... 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feti- Ge, WO ccs @ 3 Valeriana, Eng. (po. _ @ German. 1b@ Ww i 10@ 15 OE — 22@ 25 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15 — od 15@ 18 ee wa 4@ 6 Cort, (oo, 1)... .-.-- &@ 12 Cardamon.............1 G@@l @ CoxlanGgraum........... 10@ 12 Cannabis _ us S 5 Cydonium.. ; 1 00 Cheno i ion 12 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 0O@2 2 Voonicewlum........... @ 15 Foenugreek, po...... 6@ 8 eS es 4@4% Lini, grd, (bbl. 3%)... 4 mo a eee ee. Pharlaris Canarian. . " suo 4 Me oe 6@ 7 Sinapis, Ai Bape... o.: 8s@ 9 ee 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 D. F. -.., 1 75@2 00 eas 1 10@1 50 Juntperts Co. 0. T....1 Gal & cece uee 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 Sot. Vini Galil........ 1% 50 ant Oporto ........... 1 25@2 00 Wiot B1beG............. 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool ATT 665 cs. oe 2 2@2 50 Nassau sheeps’ wool euerege .,.. .....-.. 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ ere. ww 85 Grass sheeps’ wool Car- Nn crak eeu eww 65 Hard for slate use.... 7 Yellow Reef, for slate We ea 1 40 SYRUPS. See... ...s 50 I oe, cae ac eo cess cae 50 Ee 60 eee ee es ae 50 on ee: 50 Ne ce ees 50 Simflax ‘Otticinalis olka eies 60 i aul es 50 ENERGIE SIEGES Ma ant 50 aka och esciceneswahare 50 cS oe. 50 PRN cas sie is ooo eats 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum Napellis R....... 60 ia _ ra. 50 Oe. 60 ~~ Oo were... 60 em ee 50 pene 0 Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Benzoin.. ee Se : Co.. es oo a ewe al cae 50 Sanguinaria........ ann 50 Pergewe 5. cs ce ee 50 eo ena, CAPO 50 (egw... ......, ....... ee % ——.................... 100 Catechu cieceee ceils oe Cinchona eee ee, 50 Co ee Ccinaiin ay 50 vo ition, eee. , eee... ee Ergot De Se ee ce s as a: 50 Gentian a Se 50 Me cee, 60 Ce ee 50 “cc & 60 Zingther ...... 50 Hyoscyamus 50 Iodine... __... 7 [ Colorless. . 7 Ferri Chloridum.. 35 eee oc, 50 LoeeIm.. wc. 50 Meyeee 8 50 Num Verses... 50 Opii cued iedie pew vac 85 * Camphorated. -. 0 * Deoder... 2c... .2 00 Auranti Cortex.. 50 Quassia .. ceed Oe orn pid oS ee 50 ae. 8. e. 50 Cassia Acutifol. . 50 Co... oe Serpenterie st. 50 percents... ............. @ MRROEN 8. ons ca, 60 Weleeess 8 50 Veratrum Veride............ 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Asther, Spts Nit,3 F.. %2@ Ww ' . “ 4F.. ©@ 2 PGND 24@ 3 “ground, (po. Bee eee ene 3@ 4 Anneie.............:. 55@ 60 Antimoni, Pee 4@ C5 et PotassT. 55@ 60 ae ee aces @1 40 AVEITODFIR oo. oleic. @ B Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 66 Arsenicum . 5G Balm Gilead Bud.... oun 40 Bismuth 8. N..... 2 10@2 2 Calcium oo ‘Is, (48 . Ganibantes Russian, ee @1 40 Capsici Fructus, af... @ 2% a @ 30 “ ‘& po @ 2 Caryophylius, (po. 18) 13@ 14 Carmine, No. @....... @3 75 Cera Alba, 8. & F. 5O@ 55 Cera Flava... 38@ 40 COecen 2.05) 5. @ 4 Cassia Fructus @ 2 Centraria...... “ @ 10 Ceewcoum ............. @ 4 Chloroform . Moschus Canton...... @ Myriatica, No. 1....... 70@ 7 | Nux Vomica, (po 20) .: @ 10 Oe, Berta... 2... 38 =" Saac, H. & P. D. @2 00 Picis Lia, N. C, % gal Oz @2 00 Picis Liq., quarts . @1 00 pin... a & Pil Hrdeak. (po. 80). @ 50 Piper Nigra, (po. 2 “9h e 1 Piper Alba, (po £5) . @ 3 Pie Boren... ...... @ 7 Fiampt Aces ....__.... 14@ 15 Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 Pyrethrum, boxes ar. D, Co, des..... @1 25 Pyrethrum, pY ee. 30@ 35 Ce aa 10 QGuinia, §. P. & W..... 36 Q S. German.. “aime 30 | Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 | Saccharum Lactis pv.. @ 33 | OOG@ORE oo. e 1 80@1 35 | Sanguis Draconis..... 0@ 50 a ee ees coy s @4 50 Sa ucsauc a 14 Po Se 10@ 12 e q ee) ae @ 15 Seidlitz Mixture...... @ 2 /| Lindseed, boiled .... 59 Sinapis ee @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter Dae acai @ S| misine .........;: aes weaker De SpiritsTurpentine.... 44% 50 ee, @ 3 u snuff, Seotch,De. Voes @ 35 ‘ PAINTS. bbl. Ib. Soda Boras, (po. 13... i9@ 18/ Red Vernetian.......... % 2@3 Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33 Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4 oe 14%@ 2 ae. 1% 2@3 Soda, Bi-Cart......... @ »5/| Putty, commercial....2% 2%@3 BUGK, AMM... ool... me 4). strictly pure..... 2% 24%@3 Soda, Sulphas......... @ 2) Vermilion Prime Amer- Spts. Ether Co ........ 50@ 55} ican . 13@16 «¢ Myrcia Dom..... @225| Vermilion, English... 70@75 < Myreia Ing... .. @3 00} Green, Peninsular..... 70@z Vini Rect. bbl. heed, fem: .. @i%4q a Sac | wee @i% Less 5¢ gal., cash ten days. Whiting, white Span... @i0 Strychnia Cc rystal.. @1 10 W. hiting, Giliders’.... .. @% Sulphur, Subl. /3 @4_ | White, Paris American 1 00 Roll 2I4@ 3% | Whiting Paris Eng. ‘Wamerinds ............ Sa 10) Ce 1 4 Terebenth Venice..... 23@ 30 Pe Prepared Painti 20@1 4 Theobromae 6@ 5¢| Swiss Villa er Vanilla... . 9 00@16 00| Paints. i 1 00@1 20 Zinci Sulph.. i. 7@ 8 VARNISHES. No. 1 Tarp Coach....1 1031 3 a Bxtra Turn. 2.6... --160@1 = Bol. Gal i Coach Body...........27 Whale, winter........ 70 70| No.1 Turp Furn......1 00@1 10 bard. Gxica.......--.. & 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60 were. no 1.......... & 50|Japan Dryer, No. i’ Linseed, pure raw.... 56 59 | He 7@ 75 HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of DEALERS IN Sole Agents for the Celebrated SWISS WILLA PREPARED PAINTS. We are Sole Proprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy, We Have in Stock and Offer a Full Line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES. Paints, Oils > Varnishes. Fill Line of Staple Droggisis Sundries. GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction. All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive chem. Send in a trial order. Haxeltine & Perkins Drug Go, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GROCERIES. The Apple Enters Its Protest. Written for THE TRADESMAN. One pleasant afternoon in April I was reclining easily in my arm chair in the store, engaged in reading a lengthy and graphic account of the prospective fruit crop for the coming season. There were no customers about, and my clerk was busy at the desk. I was a connoisseur in fruit and already, in imagination, I was eating the delicious grapes, peaches and pears of autumn. I sat facing a show window on one side of the store, in which the contents of two hoxes of oranges were loosely piled. Over the top of this golden fruit was carelessly scattered ten or fifteen fine specimens of the Northern Spy apple. As I finished reading, I allowed the paper to drop from my hand and my eyes to rest upon the pile of fruit before me. I was musing upon the various beautiful products of nature, for the comfort and happiness of mankind, and was busily comparing their relative values as food when — did my eyes deceive me ?—I saw several of those Northern Spys move about uneasily among the oranges, slow- ly rise up on their fat little legs and feet, their countenances assume an ex- pression of anxiety, and then quietly roll over and settle down into their places again. Suddenly, one of them stood upright, looked me squarely in the face and spoke in a squeaky cracked voice: *“‘Sir! [ rise to speak for myself and my companions, both here and elsewhere. We protest against the treatment to which we are subjected, and we are astonished at the judgment and taste of a large class of people. As arule, these foreigners — oranges, lemons, pome- granates, etc.—are given the front seats, the most pleatant places, and are wrapped with the greatest care, while we are generally kept in some dark place, away from the light of day—are placed in your foul smelling cellars, often kept so long confined in barrels or boxes, erowded together, and with nothing to cover us, that some of us die for want of fresh air or aray of sunlight. The living are obliged to fester and rot by contamination with their dead or diseased companions. Not so with these foreigners. You remove them one by one; handle them as daintily as you would an infant, remove their delicate wraps, and wipe the perspiration from every one, sometimes dressing them ina new suit. You display them by hun- dreds and thousands in the cheerful front windows where they can admire, and be admired, while you allow a bare dozen of us a seat among them. You pervert the taste of the people by toady- ing to these foreigners, and making it fashionable to eat them, whether sweet or sour—and most of them are sour—or whether the people relish them or not, and also by the rude and uncivil manner with which you treat us in their presence. Their richness and sweetness is explained and their beauty commented upon as soon as fruit is asked for, while every one of us is hastily pushed aside, knocked about and told to get out of the way, as if we didn’t amount to anything. How- ever, we have our friends, and now and then a customer is more sensible than you think. That young lady who came in with her mother yesterday fairly screamed with delight when she saw us, and caught me up so tenderly that a woman who stood at the counter with a bag of lemons, looked disgusted and said in an undertone, ‘Hayseed!’ Do you remember, too, that the young lady eried out, ‘Mother, do look at those Northern Spys! Never mind the or- anges, but get a dozen of those apples. Think, mother, what a delicious pie they will make.’ And I noticed that the girl had her own way. Then that fat, good- natured old lady who came with the market basket in the morning. ‘Don’t talk to me about oranges,’ said she. ‘l’m looking for something for a hungry family for dinner; something that will make an apple dumpling fit to grace the table of the President! and an orange wont do that. Oranges and lemons are well enough in their place, but pshaw! I should starve to death on ’em.’ I think, sir, that the apple family should receive the treatment due to our in- trinsic worth, not only as an article of daily food, but a positive luxury as well. Our medicinal value, on account of the malic acid we contain, is also beyond computation, and the individual who will eat two or three apples daily during life will be better for it, both physi- eally and intellectually. Were we treat- ed as carefully and daintily asthe citrus family, we should not feel obliged to enter our protest, and would repay your kindness and expense many times over. Even in the lands where oranges grow, we are treated with more respect and held in higher esteem than in our native land. We know that we deserve the front seat at every store and the place of honor at every banquet in the land, whether it is accorded us or not. And there is one thing more I desire to im- press upon your memory and then I will close *? “Ttis your tea hour, Mr. Adams,” said a loud voice, and my clerk gently shook my arm. I had been dreaming, and I had also been instructed, but I shall always regret that my clerk did not allow me to bear just that one thing more, which the Northern Spy had to say. GROCER, ——__~<>o- The Grocery Market. The clamor for sugar surpasses any- thing of the kind ever before experienced by the wholesale grocers of the State. The retailers are not only meeting the wants of their customers, but many of them are buying on speculation, which cannot fail to result disastrously. Local jobbers are attempting to combat the speculation craze by offering to deliver sugars in May at 434 @4%e, but even this assurance is not sufficient to stem the tide. While the refiners are oversold and are unable to fill orders for imme- diate shipment, the indications are that the country will experience a glut in sugar inside of six weeks, when the re- finers’ price on granulated will probably drop from 4c to 4c, at which figure there is a good margin of profit at the present price of rawsugars. This would mean 4}ge sugar to Michigan jobbers, who would then make their selling price 4.56 or 4%c. Tuer TRADESMAN sees no possible prospect of higher sugar and ad- vises the trade to hold the demand down as close as possible and buy only in suffi- cient quantities to meet the consumptive demand. Package coffee has declined Ke and oatmeal is firm at present quotations. Forcing the price any higher would un- doubtedly curtail consumption which the manufacturers will probably avoid. The Jas. G. Butler Tobacco Co. announce an advance of ic per pound on ‘‘Some- thing Good,’’ ‘Peach Pie” and ‘*Tobacco” May 1. .PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—So meagre are the offerings, that there is really no market. Beans—The market is steady. Handlers are offering $1.80 per bu. for country picked and holding city picked at $2.25@#2.30. Beets—50c per bu. Butter—Stocks are beginning to accumulate and lower —_ are in prospect. Jobbers now pay 17@18c, holding at 19@20c. Cabbages—50c — a= or $4 per 100. Carrots—& Gelery-—Entirely oat of market. Cooperage—Pork barrels,$1.25; produce barrels Cranberries—Nearly out of market. Jerseys have epee! disappeared and Bell and Cherry are held at $9. 310. dealers pay market is weak and uncertain, ers paying 124%@13c and holding at 14c. Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb. Lettuce—i3c for Grand Rapids Forcing Onions—Scarce and firm. Dealers pay $1.40 for all offerings of choice, holding at $1.65. Parsnips—4vc per bushel. Potatoes—The market continues strong and high, handlers paying $1 at most of the principal buying points throughout the State, while in many places competition or superior quality of stock istimpelling even higher prices. Squash—1c per Ib. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys are in good demand readily na $3.75 per bu. Turnips—30@35c per bu PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. ee a a 13 00 a a 12 50 kere Gieer Hip, Sibert cmt. sl 14 50 eres, SOR ME, WO NN iia i ace 14 00 eoeOn Crome, MOEE Out... ok ec 24 5 Clear back, | NS ie RE Sensei ammo 14 00 Standard clear, short Mat ROM... 14 50 sAUsSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. PO NR 7 Pe CS os a 9 I i eck ek 9 Peeneere POO 7% ene 5 Poems MORONUIE og os 5 I, SO 5 eee ee 5 LARD—Kettle Rendered. ne I ih oo eel eens adeccue ulus, ie Oe ee 7% LARD, F n Com- ‘am: und, NE hs epee oor oe - ; ane Se TO... cc. . 6% 6% 3 Ib. Pails, 20 in a case.......... Wg - 7 5 1b. Pails, eo ine Cane... :..... oy 7% 10 Ib. Pails, 6 in a case........... 6% 20 Ib. Pails, 4in a case.......... ox bie OID. COE. ooo os eee esntse cas ane 6% 6% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 200 a; Extra Mess, Chicago packing... ia SCRON, TOU RR SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Hams, average 20 IDS.........-..-.se ee cess eee 9% We ia 93% _ ” SOP SEO 10 - ee 6% - We I oases cece case ce 8% SD ce a 6% Breakfast Bacon, Dee 8 Dried beef, ham prices fon wk bhuley baled osu ce 9% Brie I tee ee oo 6% ets, —- eee espe ti es eae, ex ee Ua ise ant ei 1 penos FISH and OYSTERS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH, I oc peei bs chee cece eee kas case @10 Sic ok posure byte | Vick oh aby oc cba @9 sr es @18 Ce a @5 Es oie eens cig oe @9 Me sd eae @i2 ES oe ei ie @25 pith el ulecie sehr csi. Meee Meecs ca soy 5 @i2 Ree PO ee Bw OoYsTERS—Cans. ear COMMER. oo ce. @40 Pe Oe ec @35 Bene. ....5.5,.. eb supeseuias sedans @27 Bs Aha eee hee acl ewes ouNbuec k cigs @2% SHELL GOODS. Oysters, per Oeics ori 1 25@1 50 cis canes ci piaivids ona 75@1 00 FRESH MEATS. Swift and Company quote as follows: Beef, ON sis on ss oops phase cee 6%@ Hs hind quarters....... @8 S. - 2a - oa os aa" SRM TAO. Bic ines wae @1i2 OS cE Coad sec dense caeesl bob aes @10 Ore: I a bce cue sus ued spice g wis We, OOO occ oes Vo ct ee @10% IN ios oo oslo oot aps vee seep buss @5 A Pc ie @10 ot I 5 i ccs @ 6% ee. —— Oc NON - —— ae POON isso te cede chee ces Ne ee a tac ce 4 CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Full Weight, Bbls. Pails. . 6% 7% Geandard. per ib..........-. “ i. =... . 6% 7% . Twist . =. oe Boston Cream . 9% Cut Loaf...... 7% 8% Extra ©. H.. CS eeu acuas 7% 8% MIXED CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls. Pails. I oo aa ier suer cea cle 6% 7% Ds bi en os neesaa eb eceey coed 6% 7% Ps 8 AL. 4 8 PE cee 1% 8% Broken.. T™%, 8% English Rock. 7% . &% Conserves . 8 Broken Taffy. ee 1% 8% Peanut Square: 9 Mocs cca es 10 French Creams is 10% Vat, Coceeoa.... ..... ss 138% PANcY—In bulk, Full Weight. Bblis. Pails. Lozenges, ms SGidersceres sinh awetcs gy 11% OM eos cons thaw es epee 12% ee Ee oe 1244 Chocolate Monumentals............. 14 eee i 5 6% Me a oe in cess 8 9 UE TI ooo os 5 pore ne ook sco wee 844 7% PIRI oak coe cen ce coh oneness 104 Bp Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box. Re TIS aia oi a hse ns ee bee eee gee ss 55 Rr ok iin vie coop eoen nese esses ees 55 PODSEIIIOE TOD. 065 oc ieee chee ccc ascde eee ss 65 CAO TIE oe pcos base dens epee cy aebeusss 2 Ee oe Coiiase Tre... .. . 5. 6 ee ek cht eae coy tas toe sano ROIS ese 1 00 A Cs Tn ooo oss ie ees 80 Lozenges, ee Ci iuiis suede een. Socenbenantoull 65 WO eae 70 ieepertals.”. ce ae co ae Citas ee cacwued 65 ie irae aces saree ee oue cs bau e 7 A go sce ei ke cee tienes cues = ee en AE A lr pilin oa Ash ene ee Ry ae ahi ks vc ee cece nee cote wnas care is@i? Tees See COO... ane eo i oS essed e aces Ts CI, igo eeccigc sian aes 7 00 OO ec oe ey 70 ee _ AS ME a Sar ae 1 60 Wihttergroen Barrios... .... .... 2.2 ..506.6045 65 ORANGES, California, 128......-. 3 00 a ee ee 3 50 . TH-8 0 -F0G oss cies se 3 50 Messinas, : . a LEMONS. Messina, Ome, MOP. fc se 4 50 MN Fy ol oad hveeicck ce cies 5 25 . I oss hice ts an 4 50 = TANG O00 oss ini ies 5 00 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 18@20 t : choice Yo @16 “ 6 ae @12% - Fard, 10- ib. box aoe auto odes cued 10 - ee cncees eeewen as 8 “Persian, 50- tb, MM ooh nes asevces 4 6 NUTS. Almonds, TAPPAQONR . 00 ooo soos oven ne one. 17% os eheces cepecaiy cas 17 Gan. eek be te pace 1744 Brazils, new.. vee daghceesassc cass) i ne es as @li1 Walnuts, NO, buen coed uae wake @15 r — ioc cee cbesbe scp esuew kes = Table Nuts, No. i aceite eeeedieeye baekd @i5 Es acck uke asa ne sca cule elk @13% Pecans, Texas, “A. Dee eet. Sedat 15Q@17 ee eee @4 00 PEANUTS. Fancy, a P., IE ot bere reece wees dae @ 5% om pre @ 7% Fancy, H. P., Flags. .....-. @ 5% : ** Roaste @i™% Choice, H. Ps Extras.. @ 4% ' Roasted @ 6% The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows: ME FENG. ais on vce ew nas coe een @9 MSGR aie WONG s ss ons i ecee ee. ‘scan @ 8% POR ons ebb Gs ase cn se cetsnn oe thinn @ 7% SINTON isin 6's aren cn ewles shoe: bobs @ 4 OPPO 5. oi vacancy ceenns ce cas eh uens snes 27 @36 NN ois ok rs each cess, ces cee 13 @21 | Black, 18 Cold Pest. .122.02.02.0000.000 @ % CURTISS & CoO., WHOLESALE Paper Warehouse. FLOUR SACKS, GROCERY BAGS, TWINE AND WOODEN WARE. Grand Rapids, Mich. Houseman Block, - THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 18 APPLE BUTTER. Raspberries, Chicago goods............ a ne a an Ss 130 AXLE GREASE. Black Hamburg oe cs 140 Frazer’s. Srie, Dinek 2... 5... 1 40 Wood boxes, per doz...... 80 Strawberries. doz. case... 2 40 Tmweenee |... 3... ta “ “© per gross..... Son | emburg. 6.02062... 2 00 oe pails, Ge oe ie WIG occas ot 1 50 ee %5 Whortleberries. Aurora. Comme 6 coo. 1 40 Wood boxes, per doz...... 60 | BE. © We... eee eee eee 1 25 ss oz. case... 1 %5 Blueberries ie anae Gad 1 30 “ “ per gross.... 6 00 MEATS. Diamend. comes beet Libby’s....... 2 10 oast bee ar 6... 175 See Pe oe -..--. 09 | Potted ham, 13D ven sees 1 10 « Se ee a ee eG 6 . ‘oe ++» 5 50 “ tongue, Ib... a 0 : : ea 65 25 Ib. ee =n 90} “ chicken, %1b........ 95 Acme, % Ib. cans,3doz... 45 Hy aoe - — Se Oe si : a 1b pel i“ 110 see cece eee 85 a ae. oe ae ae ee eee oe te. 90 Telfer’s, *s Ib. cans, doz.- mee a wtecee secs cones 1 a Ib. 85 ' uked............0.. a ae z “1 450 — rag a ieee 13 cy my Siete: Pance............ 135 Arctic, % ® CADB -.. --..+- 1 = Meas Pees. 13 . ; > ee Sr Pests cae 9 60 aoe Dedede dee occu cen ules : = Pts PO oc : Red pasa? _. = ee. oa 115 i 4 ms eset ees 150] Soaked... .. org 65 FE soo sagen . Harris standard............ %5 Enelish _— go | Van Camp's Marrofat .1 10 Brietal ee er a 70 “cs Early June . 1 30 Domestio 22 202202.20000° 12 Go | Areher’s Early Blossom. ...1 35 BLUING. Gitoen rench eo Ng tenes 1 80 ee ee SS eek "ee 2 1TBAB . a ae eo a > sifting box.. = 00 ee SG 90 se a rT) . 800 Squash. “ 1oz oi 450 pe eS id : ROOMS ae ee > pk hd - x DORER. |. cia... ees No =— Pee ceased fe Honey Hoe anne hs See ¢ ee a 2 Carpet eles cheese 7 = : Tomatoes. Parlor Gem... 2.222222... 275 | Y2M CAMP'S-.------.-e- eee. 1 10 Common Whisk a 90 oe Onis. cc 110 er a) Mambots ....... eovcnch —— 30 ee ae 3 25 ree gg cee duaaeewsa adelge 1 05 Be ete oat. pee ee a ese Peeeeeeeee.2.... :.. 5... 2% jeg ey lataretg BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, German Sweet.. 22 ee i wk. ee 500 —— aa 34 PR cc ec 38 Pe a oes ca cs 4 50 Sceniisans Cocoa... 40 BUTTERINE. CHICORY. Creamery. co 4% Bond packed.............. 13% ge ee as ce eimgn sine sma 7 EE 14 CHEESE, Dairy. Fancy Full —: 11 GE Soe wicked... .......... 11 | GO ..10 @1C% oe ase 11% | Part Skimmed......... 8 @9 DLES — Sago.. as @22 Hotel, 40 Ib. "boxes. eae 16 | oes 2)... - @1 00 ‘ ee 10% Swiss, imported ...... 24@ 25 as: 12 domestic .... 15@ = Oe 4. 3 | limburger..........-...-... CHEWING GUM. CANNED GOODS. Rubber, = as eae FISH. Clams. Spruce, 200 0 pieces: Ree le cee eee, 19)... 1 10 ATSUP.. 6s - ee 90 Snider’ 8, a pint a ee 13 Clam Chowder. Mo Pint... eee eee 2 30 Peeee oth... ...... 2 30 a. : ee Cove Oysters. CLOTHES PINS. Standard, : > ie as 4 36 1 0 orene DGS... . 40 Wadd oy osu 2 20 COCOA SHELLS. ak AO cS @A4 Star, 1 Se ess 2 50 Pound packages........ @7 TE anes 3 50 aie 9 Picnic, cea eeepee anatase COFFEE. Mackerel. a > Standard, re eee CE 20% Mamerd. Sih..s.... ce. 3 00 stn eases 4 % Tomato Sauce, i... Sets...” CC ee one Soused, 3 1b MN ee eee ea oe ay 22% Salih Peepery o.oo c 23 Columbia River, fas ee r air. ce — eee 20% EES NN Alaska, 3 Tb. ....eees sooo Prime se ee zis Sardines aan Cae 2214 ic Amertean 348. ..n000---- Bs Oe Imported Ma. See eel ee 23 ee ..183@14 oy «.+- Peeler ty sa ~~ Mustard <. idee raee ace @9 Pri 221, Trout. OE ich as a ead wae aie : 72 eek S Miya 2 50 | Milled ...... eae aa 24 a ne ee sae = York State, gallons... 400 aor we th...... : aa Apr icots. ea baa Saeed PE MR eee oye 2 % Imitation Gna. on BN cin esos ks Se re on oe ae 2 35 | Arabian.. papier tty " Fr&W Blackberries. 1 19| . To ascertain cost of roasted : "" Gherries, coffee, add %c. per Ib. for roast- de 120 ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- aon Hamburg. 1 40 | 28°- PACKAGE 1 60 ‘ McLaughlin’s XXXX....254% Erie 1 30 TE daca secece * vcceacn 2514 Damsons, ae and Green; “ in cabinets ............ 26 ages. as os ee oe 25 Pee a, @1 60 =xTRACT. chininel ee. iss Valley rE ER 15 Peathes. ® Felix a ‘iii ie ees 1 = Pie ..i. og 1 60@1 75 ummeé 8, or wetees tadvecs 50 Shepard's cw as CLOTHES LINES, California............. 2 60@2 75 | Cotton, 40 ft per dos. 1 2% Pears 50 ft.. 1 40 Domestic : 1 25 is 60 ft. : 1 60 Dem 287 = as 70 ft a 1% ‘Pineapples. ss 80 ft. . “490 Common . 130 Jute 60 ft... ts 90 Johnson's sliced... 240, “ tt coo * grated...... 2 65 CONDENSED MILE. Quinces. WARIS i... es a 740 COMMON .55sicse0s ds 1 10 eebabeeens 210 2 20 . gua. 2 35 Muscatels,2crown ... 1 60 se 1% Foreign. Valoneias. «...... ..... 7% Ondaras.. @ 8% Siltemee..........-.... 16 @I7 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. ; miny. nee Lima Beans. Deieg. 6 Maccaroni and — Domestic, 12 1b. box.. Imported. dec ecseseeee 11 Pearl Barley. Bee 6. ss. es 344@3% Peas. oe ae Laeeaee —. 2 Oe 5 50 Sago. OCGA ook ce cee co.cc. 5 est Wadia... 5c... eceee 5 Wheat. Cracked.........-. eee Goce ss 5 FISH--Salt, Bloaters. OTAGO ies od co os ess oe Cod. Meiers. ..2. 5c. 6 @6% oe 2 @8 pet ek eee wes 8 @9 ‘Halibut. SiGe bee ee 10 Herring. BORIOG 6 docs ce cces ns 24 Holland, Doss le 11 00 | 80 Round shore, + % bbl... 2% 4 bbl.. 1 50 Mackerel. No. 1, 4 bis, 90 Ibe........ 12 00 Wo. 5, 6168, te. ...... 5.2. 1 2 Family, 6 Dhis,, 3 Ibe...... . Rite. 10 Ths........ “ ollock. “ WINGY cise vei ec... i. 3 50@4 Sardines. Hudson, Kees.............. Trout. No. 1, % bbls., 90 Ibs........5 00 No. 1, kits, ry 8 RE 80 Whitefish. No. 1, 4 Dbia., © Ibe........7 © No. 1, kits, 10 1 a 80 Family, % bbls., ite... ...: 3 = kits, 10 The ool te FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Jennings’ DC, emon. — 2 - folding box... © ] 3 0: 00 1 50 4 Po = ..1 50 2 00 6 oz . 2 00 3 00 $8 0z " -3 00 460 @UN POWDER. = eek Otte sahiideceide gens 5 50 REE BOOB cco oe tec ceeds 3 00 HERBS. RR ee eres a catcie A SOR: vines ek ideo JELLIES. Chicago goods......... 4%4@5 LAMP WICKS, MO a ee 30 os 40 Oe .2 oe. eu 50 LICORICE. a 30 CR 3] MONO ee ce 18 LYE. Condensed, 2 doz........... 1% MATCHES. ie 8 eles... 2 00 Anchor parlor.. . No. 2 home.. Export parlor. leetodos le, 425 MOLASSES, Blackstrap. mugen houge: -.. 5. -... oo. 16 Cuba Baking. Jo 19 Porto Rico. arene ae 19 WAMOW oo as aa 23 New Orleans. oe 17 Og ee 20 poo 26 Ree. 5.5, G, a 30 Lo 36 One-half barrels. 3c extra OATMEAL. berrem te... @i 0 are berec (00... @3 62 ROLLED OATS. Half bbls 90.. ca @3 62 Barrels 180.. @i 00 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ ae 50 Half barrels, 600 count.... 4 2% Smal js Barrels, 2.400 count “a 00 Half barrels, i: 300 count... 5 00 PIPES. Clay, 7 Se 1% ©. 1. fulleount........ 5 Cen, We. 6.0... 1 26 RICE, Domestic. Carolina — eae eo cage ens 7 Pee 2 SAUERKRAUT. ee 400 fers Weerele........ 2... 5... 2 50 SAPOLIO. Kitchen, 3 doz. in box ees 2 50 ane. fo ll, 2 50 Ps. Snider’s Saute... aise ae SPICES. Whole Sifted. BOG gc Ne . 10 Cassia, China in mats...... 7 o Batavia in bund....15 . Saigon in rolls...... 35 Cloves, Apna. 8. a. 25 — -15 Mace Batavia.. -80 Nutmegs fancy.. Scene a . No. 1 a 75 Pepper, singapore, — “a - met... 19 Pure ceinad in Bulk. APIOOO oo ec ea 15 Cassi a, Batavia beiepeeeccuas 20 and Saigon .25 ONO 35 Cloves, Amees.......-.- 30 Meme. .... . 2... 20 ~~ s African Seco tacese 15 es 18 ia pr Meee vie 20 Mace etavm............... 80 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .25 eleate ee 27 Seaieie eS. 75 Pepper, a eg — a” aa, Loe caeoe wae 25 ee 20 SC Absolute” in —e i Silgeee .<-..... 1 1 55 1 5S 1 55 1 55 1 55 1 55 SUGAR. eS @ 5% a @ 5% Powd@erea |... ........- @ 5% Geemreted,........... @5 Confectioners’ A...... @ 4% White Extra C........ @ 4% Mee C.....--....-.:. @ 4% i i icweneedenaes @ 4% Wome... ks @ Less aaa 100 lbs. 4c advance scaLEs—Perfection. Tea, 2- b, tin —- boa $6 tae LL... 72 * = D, Siar aoe ia eet oea 8 7 = * chen * . 8 75 Grocers’, A. ‘b, Pee scoop. 11 00 brass “ .. 12 3 wip 22-Ib, tin