a, ~ GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1884. “NO. 59. RAILWAY TRAVEL. Characteristic Incidents of a Night in the Day Coach. BY ROBERT J. BURDETTE. A semaphore light at the Broad Street station has just tipped the wink to a waiting train, and it steals out of the elegant station as stealthily as though it was running away to go out West and blow up with the cy- clones, and feared the station master would call it back if he saw or heard it. Out of the white glare of the electric lights, out of the din of hissing cylinder cocks and jang- ling bells, out of the shouting of the ushers, we rumble easily and swiftly along the great elevated railway, over the river lying in the shadow below, and down through a garden of signals, a glittering parterre of red and white and green; a bewildering carcanet of ruby and pearl and emerald, that ties and loops and tangles a score of iron tracks in intricate glitter of dazzling confusion to the traveler; gleaming aigulets that shine on semapore, tower, and switch signal; a rail- way constellation; an aurora of labyrinthine glimmer and twinkle, that is only an order- ly page of quiet reading toa savant of the rail, on the train, or in the yard. LEvery- where moving lights and stationary signals, until all the yard “Twinkles with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-light, an@ jacinth work Of subtlest jewelry;’ eyerywhere shrill-voiced whistles and clang- ing bells; the quick exhaust of shifting en- gines; drifting columns of smoke and snowy puffs of steam, until red and white and green blend with the stars, and the clamor of the yard dies into a mutter and the mut- ter into a murmur, and the murmur is swal- lowed upin the roar of “number seven,” muffled and dull, over the ballasted embank- ment, and shouting in resonant echoes over culvert and bridge, until the dense shadows of clustering trees and wide stretches of har- vest field and meadow, slumbering black and still, and gleaming silver white under the blue skies of summer, shut out the glare of the station, the glitter of the yard, the il- lumination of the Schuylkill bridges, and the long processional perspective of the Phil- adelphia streets. We are climbing the long hill west of Overbrook, and the rapid exhaust of the panting engine wakens a thousand echoes in the woods. At intervals a glare of light, long and fan-shaped, like the tail of a com- et, cuts a swath into the night and throws into sudden and sharp relief the whirling banner of smoke and steam streaming back over the train as the fireman for an instant throws open the furnace door. Lean out of the window and see it and catch a cinder as big as a peain youreye. Did you get one? Well, never mind! Don’t hold it, drop it. You’ve cried upon it until you’ve put it out —and one dead cinder is of no use to any one; and you haven’t room in one eye to car- ry two and have any leisure to employ the eye for anything else. We are running now. You can feel the train quiver and spring under the spur of thirty-eight miles an hour. And just here the usual knowing passenger, the traveler who has been every place and knows it all in his mind, interrupts us to tell me, hold- ing his watch in his hand to prove it,—as though a watch was a pedometer,—that we are making fifty miles an hour easy, if not sixty. It is useless to dispute with this pas- senger, who has forgotten, or, perhaps, nev- er knew, that the official time of the fastest through trains on the road over which he is traveling averages forty-four miles per hour from New York to Philadelphia, thir! y-eight from the Quaker City to Harrisburg, thirty- three from Harrisburg to Altoona, and forty thence to Pittsburg. The trouble with this fast traveler is that his figures never har- monize with the official time-tables. I have known this man to leave Chicago at 9 a. m., run sixty miles an hour right along by his’ own watch, and reach Elkhart, one hundred and one miles, at 12:55 p. m.,—twenty-five miles an hour, as nearly as the tables can make it. When the rapid traveler begins to count the telegraph poles to regulate the speed of the train, you might as well give in; he will make to a second exactly the time he said we were making. Some time when you know, by the official word of the con- ductor, that you are running fifty miles an hour, try counting the telegraph poles, three or four of you just for amusement, and see how widely your counts do not agree for a few miles. And, believe me, take the rail- roads, by and large, you ride twenty-five miles an hour oftener than you ride fifty. Abroad, the lightning train on the Paris- Marseilles line averages thirty-five miles per hour; the express train on the Lehrter rail- road from Berlin to Cologne, thirty-seven and a half miles; the Scottish mail, from Euston Square to Edinburg, forty-one and a quarter miles, including stops; the express train from King’s Cross to Edinburg, forty- two miles; and the Irish mail, London to Holyhead, makes the same time. The fast- est short distance trains in Germany—Span- dau to Steindal, distance, fifty-seven anda half miles—run forty-five miles an hour without stopping; the fast train from Berlin to Lagdburg makes forty miles an hour, in- cluding two stops. In England, the Great Western trains from London to Swindon make fifty-three miles an hour. There are #8 trains that run faster than that, even in our own fast land, but they are not through trains. A sixty-mile gait is not kept up for a long distance. The passenger who is pull- ing out his watch every ten or fifteen min- utes to declare that we are running sixty miles an hour would get home a couple of days ahead of the train, if he could but keep up with his own time. And then it may comfort you to know that if you break through a bridge’ or collide with another train at a speed of thirty-five miles, your chances for escape are just as good as though you were running one hundred. Don’t go into the Pullman to-night, come into the day-coach. If you desire to study character and amuse yourself watching peo- ple, avoid the barren waste of unbending and one-type “respectability” that grades the parlor car to one mediocre level. Sit in the day-coach 5 if you want variety, yowll find it. In the day-coach, people assimilate they fraternize; in the parlor car, they hate each other. In the Pullman, your particular seat, numbered and ticketed to your very self, is so much your own that you experience an uncomfortable, cat-in-a-strange garret feeling if by accident or through weariness you sit anywhere else. And you will yield your seat or your berth to no other human ‘being. In the democratic day-coach there is now and then a thrill of excite ment, caused by some new passengers—usually a woman and two or three children—“jumping your claim” while you are forward in the smoker. Some- times one determined woman turns you out of your pre-emption bodily. There she is now. Her step is heavy, and her resolute brow is not sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought so much as some healthier brows we have seen. Her mouth is straight as a rule, and the firm lines at its corners are not there for nothing. The little man timidly keeping close by her side is her husband, her very own—body, boots, and breeches. She married him herself. She could do it again, too, with one hand tied be- hind her. She holds you with her glittering eye, eftsoons she standeth still; you listen like a three-years’ child; the Gorgon hath her will. ‘Would this gentleman be polite enough to occupy a seat with this other gen- tleman, that she and her husband might sit together?” Would you? Ah, wouldn’t you just! You do and she thanks you in thor- ough-bass. They sit, and the little man holds the bundles and runs errands while the Gor- gon looks around for new victims. ‘Make that man put out that cigar.” Obedient as a tender to a man-of-war, the little man goes and returns. “It isn’t lighted.’”? ‘Make him take it out of his mouth: this isn’ta smoking-ear.” Again the little man goes and comes. “It’s a lead pencil; and he says he’ll hold it in his eye if he wants to.” A few people begin to smile, but one glare freezes them in the midst of their presumpt- uous levity. “Tell that man to close his window; I feel a draught.’’ Another round trip for the meek little man. “He is asleep.” “Wake him up!” And she speaks as one having authority, and not as a woman who married because she wanted to lean on some- body. Away goes the little married man. A gentle shake, a timid— “Sir, would it discommode you too much if I asked you to—” A smothered roar and a volley of savage language, a half-lifted head showing a fierce pair of eyes and a most forbidding ¢ounte- nance, a threatening movement of a fist like the hang of fate, an earnest pledge to fire somebody of the window if the request was repeated, and the meek mercury returns meeker than ever. “He says he can’t; he has heart dis- ease, and will faint if the window is clos- ed.” Measureless liar! The little man is a giant in some things; after all, he has the soul of a man. “Bah!” like a pistol shot. a sick man!’ The very lights burn blue in the glare of her fierce contempt. A majestic stride car- ries her to the seat of rebelliom. She bends above the snoring “slugger.” Bang!. The window comes down, like a wooden impre- cation, in a little puff of dust and cinders. The slumberer lifts his wrathful head, and begins a savage snarl, which ends as abrupt- ly as a stub swich, and his threatening frame shrinks into a placid heap of invertebrate limpness—protoplasm in clothes. Triumph- ant Eurayle resumes her seat, with one ejac- ulation, ‘Heart disease!’ and glares up and down the car, hoping to catch some man lighting a cigar, that she may turn him into stone. : “All tickets, please!’ Lo! the conduct- or, nonchalant, quick in movement, brusque in manner, keen of eye, seeing everything, missing nothing, terse of speach, a very Spartan in conversation, answering a volume with a sentence, making three words with- stand a thousand questions. Much need hath he of this economy of speech, “‘for we we are the same that our fathers have been; we see the same sights that our fathers have seen;” on the very same train, the same seat, the same run, we ask the same “when”? and “what,” every one. How far? and What time? and How much? and Which way? How close the connection? At night? Or by day? What hotel? Which junction? How? Which? Where? and When? And “Anything but the next car will’ ask him them all over again. But nothing seems to disturb him. What a fortune that immobile face would be fora poker player! How he answers the wisest questions without a show of admira- tion, the stupidest and silliest without a sign of contempt! Can you carry a lantern tuck- ed up on ‘your arm like that? Yes, with both hands you could. See, when you try it, all the passengers laugh to see the lantern fall behind you. Can you make your lan- tern at home burn one half so brightly? Not if you put an electric light in it. Can he, does he, read all those tickets so rapidly as he attects to! Therenow? You saw him oe that one without ever looking at it. You think so! Well, try him on an expired limited ticket sometime, or hand him some fraudulent paste board you bought ofa sealp- er. Give it to him some night when he is behind time, dreadfully crowded, and too busy to think, and you will soon know whether or not he is given to punching tick- ets without looking at them. There, he is talking to a young man in pointed shoes and tight pantaloons on this very subject. The young man evidently thought as you did. Listen to the pleading accents of the tender-hearted conductor: “Where are you going?” “T am going to Pittsburg,” says the young man defiantly; “and that ticket is good until it’s used.” “Certainly it is,” replies the conductor ap- parently greatly terrified by the young man’s resolute attitude. ‘‘You’re right about that —itis good until it’s used; but as itisa ticket on the Boston and Maine Railroad from South Lawrence to Kennebunk, you'll have to go there to use it. Keep that ticket: it may come useful sometime; But it won't ride you on the Pennsylvania. I only go to Harrisburg. Three dollars and twenty-six cents please. Better get a ticket at Harris- burg—plenty of time.” And having paid ten cents for having no ticket, that young. man is making up his mind that wasting a local ticket to get through the gate doesn’t pay. Could you stand up and write, as the con- ductor does? You could write very well, but no living creature could read what you wrote. Still, writing on the train in these days of spirit-level grades is not the difficult art it used to be. A great many busy peo- ple write on the train. During the seven years past as least seventy per cent. of my daily newspaper work, during the winters, has been done on the trains. There was a time when I used pen and ink in my rail- way correspondence; not that erratic aggra- vation born in an evil hour called a stylo- graph, but a good old-fashioned pen anda glass ink bottle. I have also upset a bottle of ink in my lap. Without going into par- ticulars, 1 will merely say that the quiet old citizen sitting behind me, at the close of my remarks, which were, conversely, remarks about my clothes, tapped me on the shoulder: and said— “Young man, if I could use the English language as fluidly as you, I'd lecture.” I believed him. All newspaper correspondents frequently write their despatches and letters on the train, and make good enough copy for any printer to mangle. See the man standing up holding his hat in his hand. That passenger is cai aD on his first pass. He calls the conductor “sir,” and hasan impression, that amounts ie a conviction, that the busy official, recognizing in him a guest of the company, will pause and hold a few moments’ conversation with him. To the passenger’s amazement the preciousftrip pass is seized as unceremonious- ly as a local ticket, turned over like a flash for a glimpse of the signature on the back, one quick glance at the passenger’s face— that the conductor may be able to identify him if any question arises about that pass any time within the next five years—the pa- | per is punched full of holes, and the con- ductor is gone, without even stopping to shake hands. A pained look of offended friendship, frost-nipped cordiality, creeps in- to the grieving face of the passenger, lightly tinged with dignified wrath. “PL report that fellow, see if I don’t!’ “What for?” asked his fellow traveler, who, having paid three cents a mile for his ride, is half determined to be a Nihilist and do something dreadful—“what for?” But the offended ‘“D. H.’’—for even so are all jead heads” stingingly entered on the official reports—doesn’t know just exactly for what, or rather, he doesn’t like to tell, so he contents himself with shaking his head darkly and looking things that are fogtunate- ly unutterable. A little girl and her mother get on. They wear sun-bonnets. Don’t peer around into their faces now, but just look at them as they sit before us, and tell me which is the girl and which is the mother? The crown- ing peculiarity of the sun-bonnet is, that it makes the maiden of twenty and the woman of sixty look like twins. There are only two types of faces seen in sun-bonnets. One is faded, listless, wearied, seamed hy the hand of care, and the other is rosy and pretty and bashful. Did you ever kiss a girl in a sun- bonnet—one of the old-fashioned “calico slats’? Man, there is a sense of quiet seclu- sion, of peaceful possession, a kind of “the world forgetting, by the world forgot” f feeling comes over you, back in its shad- owy portals, into which not even the all- beholding sun can peer until his fiery chariot touches the horizon line, that—But I digress. Look up, if you want to envy somebody. He hasn’t shaved this week; and his shoul- ders are broadas his face is grizzled—six feet two—and never had a toothache since he knew how to bite; wears a coat that doesn’t fit him, and a collar that nearly kills him onthe Fourth of July,—never at any other time; conceives it to be his patriotic duty to suffer for his country on that glor- ious day. Eyesas bright as his face is brown, can’t help looking like a rough-cast Apollo, ina blue shirt and jean overalls, and neyer saw the day that he wasn’t hun- gry three times. Isn’t worth a dollar in the world save what he can get at day’s work on the farm in the summer, and in “the pine- woods in the winter; but he has a digestion that Wall street can’t buy. He is hail- ed by a friend; and harken to his response, “Hallo, Leander! How’s your bein’?” The whole car hears and smiles in reply. Leander is the usual sick man of the train. Ue an the deaf old gentleman have been ex- changing vociferous medical receipes for carefully selected ailments for the past twen- ty-five miles. Leander is telling how ill he was just afore hay harvest. First stage, he couldn’t work; second, he couldn’t stand up; third, he couldn’t sit up; fourth, he couldn’t lie down; fifth, he couldn’t drink; sixth, he couldn’t eat. Just here the entrance of the rough-cast Apollo interrupted him, and we will never hear what was the seventh stage of that fell disease. But it is my firm opin- ion that in the seventh stage Leander died. But his afflictions have been few and light, compared with those of his companion of the heavy hearing. Few and evil have the days of the years of his pilgrimage been, and they have been rounded by nurses and doctors. At almost every station he remem- bers a man living there who used to be his nurse. One of these nurses is especially commended as “bein? jest about a reg?lar studied doctor. All he wanted was a hoss and buggy to be a reg’lar studied doctor.” Mr. Spoopendyke himself might envy this vidid description of an educated physician, given in all seriousness by as earnest a man as ever I heard keep acar-load of passengers awake with stentorian remarks. The long five seconds’ whistle calls fora statior, As wedash through do you notice what a sudden increase of speed hurries us like a thunderbolt through the streets of the slumbering village? have often noticed this apparent increase of speed when _pass- ing through a station as though the train was anxious to do its best before an audi- ence. I have wondered if it was real or on- ly apparent, and often I have made up my mind to ask, but as I approached the engin- eer my heart has failed me: something in his face allays my burning curiosity, with- out gratifying it. Onee, when I was younger than I am now, or ever will be again, a rail- way train which I honored with my distin- guished presence, halted, without consulting my wishes, out on the open prairie, between stations. I hastened with the crowd to the engine. I took out my note book and pen- cil, that all the world might know a live re- porter was on the spot, and would have this thing down ‘very fine,” ina very brief space of period. After a little difficulty in finding the right man to cross-examine, I discovered the engineer stooping under the engine, soft- ly tapping something with a copper hammer. I said— “What is the matter with her?” There was a brief interval of silence, as my voice died away, and then the world seemed to be turning around on schedule time so as to be in the round-house atsunset just as usual, and just as though I was not standing there, waiting for an answer to my question. Solraised my voice a little, a very little, for the action of this earth had somewhat affected me. “What seems to be the matter?” Then the engineer crawled out, and giving me a kind glance, stood wiping his hands with a handful of waste while he looked down the track a thousand miles, and, after an embarrassing pause in the conversation, he said, in low, quiet, tones— “She’s dropped her exhaust.” IT thanked himin broken accents, and 1 was very quiet all the rest of the trip. Oh, very quiet! much quieter than the other pas sengers. The man with the oil-cloth ‘‘carpet-sack,” who is storming at the conductor, is the man who gets carried by. He never misses it. If he is only going fifteen miles, the first thing he does is to go to sleep. He declares that the brakeman never called “Mount Joy.” “Ag though,” says the indignant brakeman, “JT ecouldn’t waken a dead man on that sta- tion. Now, if it was Dillersville, or Swiss- field, or some little thin name like that, all i’s and e’s maybe I couldn’t shake ’em up quite so boisterously, but a big mouthful like Mount Joy or Tyrone, where your voice has something to catch on to, why, man, I can put the headlight out with it!” Confidentially the brakeman lowers his voice. : “Why, yes,” he says; “somebody gets carried by every run, unless I bounce him, just like a tramp. i believe when the last only the whistler’s self. ! day comes, and Gabriel sounds his awful | Neither will I. How is it with you, brother? trumpet, the summons, and then they’ll say, ‘Well, you never blow- ed at Snyder’s Crossing! ” The man just in front of us is whistling. | The man opposite has heard | The same | Now listen. him, and now he is whistling too. air or another one; nobody ever knows what | tune a man on the train is whistling save just behind us cannot whistle, so he sings. The sad passenger, | | And the man on the wood-box plays a little | accompaniment to the sibilant aria which he | whistles between his teeth by with his heels. drumming | | This sets four or five other} men to drumming on the windows with their fingers. to railway minstrelsy, is the lot of the man Sad, indeed, at this hour, devoted | who is crowded to the end of the seat and. has no window to drum upon. | day; The tall thin passenger adds a little variety | to the general effect by whistling against the | strident edges of the leaves of a book. one of all the passengers hears the mel- low piping of his fellow-pastengers. man is absorbed in his own hum and whis- tle. Not | Each | And if you ean by listening intently, | and by ealling to your aid a very vivid and, charitable imagination, detect a tune in any | of the whistles, you rarely hear a lively air. The general tenor of railroad music is tinged with melancholy, like the dash of the wild waves on the shingly beach. It has a plaintive, longing quality, a nocturne builded on a theme of homesickness; for it is when the day is done that the whistling madness seizes upon the traveler; when the hurrying landscape robes itself in cool snadows, anda quiet and peace, hallowed as an Easter dawn, broods over the farms where lie ‘‘the penned flocks in their wattled lodge,” and sweet- breathed kine, with Here’s eyes, stand in the perfumed clover, or move slowly down the darkening lane, when, as the night draws on and the stars come out, the train dashes past a cottage set in the background ofa wooded | knoll; in the open door, bathed in a flood of light from lamp and cheery fireplace, a woman stands, shading her face with open hand, as she peers down the winding road, and the little child at her side, waving a merry signal with dimpled hand to the pass- ing train, turns the rosy face and in the direction of the mother’s look to welcome “papa” home; when cosy tea-tables seen through quick glimpses of the windows in| | steals.” : r : : : and the dead rise up and answer | ‘But heis grimy and dirty—deplorably un- there’ll be some men won't | know anything about it until the next day, tidy.” I have seen diamond rings glittering only two joints above very sad-browed finger- nails.’ “He is wicked.” Soam Il. “He So also do some very eminent “statesmen.” ‘He lies.” So do many distin- guished politicians. ‘“He swears.’’ So Wash- ington did at Monmouth. ‘He drinks; he gets drunk.” Alas! that is deplorable. I ean find no parallel for that vice in good so- | ciety: goon. ‘Ile smokes.” So does Grant. “THe is not trustworthy.” There are Ameri- ean bank eashiers in Canada. The clerks in the Mint and the Treasury Department are cheeks and counter-checks upon each other; and there isn’t a bank in the country will trust you with money unless you give a note with good security. ‘He ungrateful: kindness would be wasted on him.” Here, too, I am ungrateful a thousand times a kindness has been wasted upon me nearly forty years. “Oh, well! he’s good for nothing; you can’t do anything with him.” Has any one ever tried? Well, he’s gone; and the only momento we have of him is a stream of terrific profanity that fol- lowed the train as it left him standing in the ditch. “Served him right.’”? Oh, yes, yes, undoubtedly. Still, I can’t help hoping, see- ing the tramp is so like his more prosperous neighbors, that, when our credentials are de- manded, He, who was a friend of publicans and sinners,”’ and sat at meat with them, will not “serve us right.” She comes; my lady comes. parasol, bandbox, basket, shawl-strap, bou- quet, and bundle. She has been sitting in the station nearly three hours, waiting for this train, and in that time has tried to climb upon everything that went in either direc- tion, including a yard engine and a hand ear. Andthen she never thought of buying a ticket until the train whistled, and she fel! into the ear, ‘‘all of a heap,’”’ scrambling her- self together. Now she has lost her ticket. Less than ninety seconds ago she bought it, and where is itnow? Her handbag is in the basket, her port-monnaie is in the hand- bag, and in an inside pocket of the porte- monnaie, wrapped up in a receipt for White Mountain cake and a pattern for a new tidy stitch, is that blessed ticket. There goes her hat! As she balances it back upon her head, down comes her hair “and showers the rippled ringlets to her knee,”’—only the rippled ringlets are straight wisps and merely ‘hang down her back. Y S I E : rR S 1 Co. in the drug business at Fowlerville. 12 Guart Mote 50 Rene ’ “ quanti- OFFICERS. D. M. Harvey succeeds Hoyden & Wil- WASHBOILERS. j i j President—Wm. Logie. : a liams in the meat busi t Constanti With flat or pit copper bottoms, No. 7....$12 00 8 ties to supply the trade of Northern Michigan. Our First Vice-President—Lloy d Max Mills. a n the meat business at Constantine. | with flat or pit copper bottoms, No. 8 14 00 S h | St C Second Vice-President—Richard Warner. ; ; i | Wi > Di “Nolo... ; j i Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins. Sees reine Bis: See et BO. OP ones one: Meee. 2 Cno0 ad iOnery Oysters are canned in Baltimore by the well-known Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman. . tions and fancy goods from Saugatuck to es Boni Nah eae es tg Committee -ctions—Wm. B. Edmunds, 4 ea Kettles, No. 7, $540; . 8, $6; . 9, $6 50. ° chateaiag: D. S. Haugh, Wm. G. Hawkins, Fennville. Tea Pats, oston, with spat Bas Rainn’ es and reliable packers, Bec las sig adeno pepe ter oe lw J. W. Lovely has purchased the interest _ a ne oe 50; 4 pt. $1 75; 5 pt. $2 00 —AT- I) qnvs—_Last & "day ev a : ea or ea ast Saturday evening 1) of Wm. Robbie in the firm of Robbie & Den- oat $4 25: ont 8 oe pte $325. eee Next Meeting—Saturday evening, November | ton, hardware dealers at Howard City. Coffee Pots tin bottom, 1 qt. $1; 2 qt. $1 75; 3 Winolesatle, 15, at “The Tradesman”’ office. Evaporating fruit is growing into a great industry. Besides apples and peaches, rasp- berries, cherries, grapes, sweet corn, pota- toes, beans and pumpkins are also evapor- ated. Cabbage and celery are bleached to a crispy white. The latest notion is evapor- ating finely chopped vegetables to be used in soups. Ten pages this week, and not much of a week for business either. Thirty-one col- umns of reading matter and quotations— seven more than the entire paper contained when it was started a little over a year ago, besides twenty-nine columns of advertise- ments from reputable jobbing houses, with any one of which it is a pleasure to do busi- ness. Sixty columns in all in this week’s issue. And the end is not yet. It is the common impression that we have had inthis country a good deal of red-hot politics to the square ineh; yet Americans who haye been spending the summer in Eng- land say the political excitement on this side of the water is ‘‘a mere bagatelle com- pared with that which prevails there with reference to the Franchise Bill and_ the atti- tude of the House of Lords.” It requires a -great effort to put faith in such a statement; but assuming it to be true, all Americans must profoundly sympathize with the Eng- lish in their unspeakable agony. It will be a surprise to most dealers to learn that for fifteen years past the exten- sive mercantile house of Messrs. Hannah, Lay & Co., at Traverse City, have bought and sold eggs entirely by weight. The sur- prise will be intensified when it is remem- bered that thisis the only establishment - East of the Rocky Mountains where such a custom is in vogue. The advantages of handling the staple in such a manner will be fully and clearly set forth in an article on that subject now in course of preparation by Mr. Smith Barnes, general manager of the corporation, and an active worker in the es- tablishment for the past twenty-five years. Mr. Barnes has kindly agreed to favor THE TRADESMAN with the article for publication, and those who are at all acquainted with his ability as a careful thinker and shrewd ob- servermeed not be told that the treatment of the subject will be thorough and interesting, and that the facts set forth can be relied up- one AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. Jas. D. Barner, State agent for the Hall Type Writer and O. K. Steam Washer, has openéé@ian office in this city at 37 Canal street. : Thomas Crane has started in the grocery business at the corner of Hall street and Madison avenue. Cody, Ball & Co. furnished the stock. Joseph Schursch has engaged in the gro- eery business at the corner of Gold and West Fulton streets. Shields, Bulkley & Lemon furnished the stock. Jacob Ritzma, formerly of the firm of Ritzma & VanHalteren, has engaged in the grocery business on Grandville avenue, just below the city limits. Cody, Ball & Co. fur- nished the stock. Wentworth & Cannon will shortly remove from their present location on Canal street to the new Norris block on South Division street. They will then carry a large line of faney groceries, and also cater to the out- side farming trade. A representative of the Cutler & Savidge Lumber Co., who was in town a few days ago, stated toa reporter of THE TRADES- MAN that his corporation would? cut about 35,000,000 feet of logs the coming winter season against 63,000,000 the year before. He was of the opinion that this proportion will be about the same with the leading lum- bering concerns of the State, in other words a decreased cut of abont 43 per cent. The Cutler & Savidge Lumber Co. has 12,000,000 feet of lumber piled at Spring Lake, besides a small quantity at their retail yards at In- dianapolis and South Bend, Ind. E.J. Savage, who is building a new cheese factory at Coopersville, was in town last Saturday, and pulled Tue TRADEMAN’s latch string. He states that the timber for the new structures is all on the ground and that work on the frame will begin short- ly. The main building, the dry room, will be 22x40, feet in dimensions, story and a half high. The vat room will be 22x18 feet, one story. The buildings will be completed so that operations can be begun about April 15. The milk from 600 cows has been promised, although Mr. Savage says he does aan “ A. O. McEuen, dealer in drugs and gro- ceries at Mason, is moving his stock to Per- ry, where he will re-engage in business. Ed. F. Payne has purchased the interest of Thad. G. Mercer in the firm of Anderson & Mercer, boot and shoe dealers at Saranac, and the business will be continued under the firm name of Anderson & Payne. Whitehall Forum: J. F. Keily is moving the Mason Bros. stock from Montague to Whitehall where it will be located in A. Mears’ store formerly occupied by the Op- penheims, until a store can be fitted up in Montague. STRAY FACTS. The St. Clair Salt Works have commenced operations. C. K. Griggs has commenced the erection of a grain elevator at Rochester. Daniels & Dearing succeed Chas. W. Dearing & Co. in the livery business at Lan- sing. : The Big Rapids Woodenware Co. will probably double the capital stock of the cor- poration. It is expected that the new tannery at Pe- toskey will use ahout 12,000 tons of hem- lock per year. Over 200 dwellings and a large manufac- turing establishment have been erected in Owosso this season. J. Holtenhouse, of the firm of J. & W. Holtenhouse, wholesale celery dealers at Kalamazoo, is dead. R. G. Peters, at Manistee, is building an addition to his salt block 60x224 feet, which will contain 10 grainers. R. N. Thompson has purchased the har- ness business of Marshall Rich, at Ovid, and will continue at the old stand. The City of Traverse, Hannah, Lay & Co.’s lumber carrier and passenger steamer, goes into winter quarters at Chicago this week. D. Cleland, the Coopersville dealer, has shipped 4,000 bushels of potatoes to Ohio, and will send 5,000 bushels more in the same direction. The Oakland Woolen Co. have purchased Samuel H. Richardson’s woolen mill at Rochester and will soon remove their ma- chinery to it. The $25,000 capital stock in the Roches- ter Roller Process Flour Co. has all been taken, and the company has commenced re- modeling and enlarging their building (the old Gillett & Andrews mill,) and expect to get in the rollers and commence operations dur- ing December. L. S. Baker, of Big Rapids, has purchased all the property of the West Troy Lumber Co., including mills, pine lands, logs and about 8,000,000 feet of lumber; also the vil- lage of West Troy and the entire lumber and logging outfit. The original cost of the mills is stated to have been $120,000. <> -9 <> The Gripsack Brigade. B. F. Emery is in Chicago this week, en- tertaining a northern customer of his house. It is no longer in good taste to refer to the drummer as a traveling salesman. He is hereafter to be spoken of as the “genial com- mercial solicitationist.” That Dick Savage possesses a glib tongue all his friends will admit, but no one would suspect him to be guilty of the offense of talking a man to death. Thereis a report up around Petoskey, however, that D. N. White recently succumbed to his persuasive eloquence, and tumbled into the arms of Morpheus. Dick, however, did not notice the condition of his victim and contined the flow of words until he happened to discover a death-like palor creaping over the features of the sleeper. By dint of the use of restor- atives, and the assistance of a physician, Mr. White was restored to consciousness. He declared that he had been dréaming of a place where drummers never tread—the pearly steps of heaven. —_—___— -+ > The Figures in the McVean Matter. Amos C. Beebe, assignee for D. E. Mc- Vean, makes the following report as the re- sult of an examination into the condition of the estate: Total liabilities....... OS eee $17,535.63 Secured liabilities.................2.06. 8,334 00 AW RUIADIG OBECIR, 660s. cscs ees ass 11,279 01 Assets covered by mortgages......... 6,944 00 The assets consist of the following items: WIGECHATIGCING 5 ooo. vos ie eo etee ase: $4,394 38 HGGw BOCOUNES 0 co oe 5565 os es 5 ok 5,559 62 Wien OOINCO 6 6c ck oe ee eee os 6,440 00 BUlpvecoiwavle...- 2... 25 so eet woos 1,342 05 a os oe so soe es 191 238 As will be seen from the above statement, there are $4,335.01 assets against $9,201.63 commercial liabilities. Allowing for the shrinkage incident to such cases, it is not likely that creditors will realize to exceed 20 per cent., although there has been some talk of a settlement on the basis of 25 per cent. ‘| here. qt. $2; 4 qt. $2 50. Cullenders, small, $1 08; large, $2. Dippers, 2 qt. pieced, 85c; pint cups, 24c. Steamers, No. 7, $3; No. 8, $3.50; No. 9, $4. Flasks, 1 pt., 60c. Oil Cans, | gallon, $2. Pie Tins, square, 60c. Bread Bars, 85c. Cake Bars, 5c. Tea Steepers, 1 quart, 85c. Sprinklers, 6 quart, $4.25; Rattles, 18c. Nutmeg graters, 20c. Milk Strainers, small, $1; large, $2. Biscuit and cake cutters, 25c, 30c and 35ce. Measures, 1 pint, 65c; 1 quart, 90c; 2 quart, $1.75; 4 quart, £2.50. Scoops, Retinned, No. 5, 50c; Nos. 14 and 16, vic. Picnic Mugs, 35¢e. Dish Pans, 4 piece, $1.75; 5 piece, $2 25. Sifters, “Victor,” crank, $2.15. Sieves, Tin bound, $1 90; wood, $1. MISCELLANEOUS. Egg Beaters, “Acme,” with crank, 90c. Stove Polish, 35 and 60c. Fire Shovels, 50c. Tea and Coffee Cannisters, 1 tb, 80c, 2 t $1. Dust Pans, 80ce. Slop Buckets, No. 3, covered, gold band, $5. Stove Lifters, 35c. Basting Spoons, 18 inch, 45c. Candle Sticks, 35c. “Knives and Forks, No. 18, 45e: No. 18, bolster- ed, 65e; No. 38, Bone, bolstered, $1; No. 69, bone, fancy, bolstered, $1.20. Paring Knives, 30c and 60c. Butcher Knives, fine, 95; bolstered, $1 50. Bread Knives, 90c. Shoe Polish, Bixby’s No. 3, 35c. Corn Poppers, $1. Cuspadores, Japanned, all colors, 95e. Gem Pans, 8 on frame, $2.25. Pad Locks, 90e. Wisp Brooms, 85e. Traps, 2 hole, 45¢e; 4 hole, 85ce. PRESSED TINWARE. . Full variety always in stock, on which spec- ial low prices will be sent onapplication. Also headquarters for Five and Ten Cent Counter Goods, Glassware and Crockery. Toys, Dolls & Holiday Goods Having bought a large New York bankrupt stock at auction, I can and will undersell any party inthe State. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Visiting buyers please call when Terms net cash. H. L. Wright, THE “BEE-HIVE,” 14 North Division St. - Grand Rapids, Mich. EATON, LYON & ALLEN, 22 and 24 Canal Street, 10 quart, $6. The only general jobbing house in Michigan in our line. Send for cata- logues and terms. . 5A. WELLING WHOLESALE MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS — Lambernan's SUD —AND— NOTION &! PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS, LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER- WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS- PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT- TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK- ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN STRINGS, ETC. I am represented on the road by the fol- lowing well-known travelers: JOHN D. MAN- Gum, A. M. SpRAGUE, JOHN H. EACKER, L. R. Cesna, Gro. W. N. DE JONGE. 24 Pearl Street (rand Rapids, Mich. W.R. Barnes & Co.,, As soon as caught, thereby retaining the sweetness and flavor which makes this bivalve so palatable and makes them far superior to the goods sold by other dealers, which are shipped in bulk and canned in this city, after being from five to ten days out of the water. We claim superiority for our goods, both in Quality and Quantity. “The proof of the pudding is in chewing the string.” Send in your orders and they will receive our prompt attention. EAT( Grand Rapids, ARE HEADQUARTERS. N & GHRISTENSON, "17 Canal street, Mich. he Future: The only Steam Washer The Washer The only Steam Washer with force feed and Perforated Tube prevent boil- through center ing over. of cylinder. It will wash more clothes in a given time than any steam washer in the market. It washes cleaner, as the tube through the center of cylinder has the advantage of steaming the clothes uniformly. The flanges on outside of cylin- der force steam and suds in clothes. Agents wanted everywhere in Michigan. Write for circulars and price. A. STEAM WASHER AGENCY, 87 Canal street, Grand Rapids Michigan. WESTERN MEDICINE €0’S TONIC LIVER PILLS. PLEASANT TO TAKE, ACTS MILDLY, CURES QuICKLY Purely Vegetable; Conta aly on tue Liver “tone DUNHAM'S SURE CURE FOR FEVER & AGUE. y — yup” the system, aid digestion and& a VOne Dose taken during the Chill Va ea urify the blood. POSITIVELY CURE Gas ia-3N . . Sah ? IMEDICINE Ey ADACHE AND CONSTIPATION. In- arrests the disease in 20 minutes. MAME NEVER ENOWN TO FAIL. Moncy re- valuable for Biliousness, Indiges- Price, ATE Sewer) tion, Hypochondria, ete. Sent free aa turned if it does not cure. Waal on receipt of price, 25 cts. Sample 50c. Ask druggist for it. Sent pre- a! package free. WESTERN MEDICINE aid for 60 cts. Address, WESTERN ~ CoMPaNyY., Grand Rapids, Mich. Mueprcine Co.,Grand Rapids, Mich. Weare sole Michigan oF” brand, packed by J. S. FARREN & CoO., Bal- timore, and are prepared to fill orders for CAN or BULK oysters at the low- est market prices either from here or from Balti- more direct. NO BETTER GOODS PUT UP. H. M. BLIVEN has charge of this department and will give your orders person- al and prompt attention. We solicit your order. E" OYSTERS. E Putnam é& Brooks. agents for the celebrated |. Hacker's Standard Manlaciures tiecker’s Self-Raising Buckwheat Is made from best New York and Pennsylvania stock. Has a purple label printed in black ink. Boxes, 32 3 tb packages, $#15. 166 Ib packages, $5. Efeclker’s Self-Raising Griddle-Cake Flour For all uses where a batter is required, and for Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Waffies, Puddings, Ap- ple, Peach, Fish or plain Fritters, Ete. Has a yellow label printed in green ink. Boxes of 32 3 pound packages, $4.50. 16 6 pound packages, $4.95. Eteclker’s Self-Raising Wheat Flours, A little water, with the means of making a fire, being all that is requisite in any situation to _ secure a loaf of excellent lightbread or biscuits, ete. Superlative Boxes, holding 16 6 t) papers.... 2.2.0.6... 6... e eee ee ee eee DD 29 New Process Brand—Boxes holding 32 3 tb papers............-......... 5 00 New Process Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 Ib pappers...................-. 4 85 Red Brand—Boxes holding 423 1b papers...-....<......... sei. tie... 4 50 Red Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 Ib papers.............. ..4 55 Blue Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 fh papers................2....-2.- oo 00 EHecler’s Rolled Wheat, or Wheaten Grits Surpasses all other preparation of wheat for producing and maintaining a healthful, active condition of the system, and is peculiarly beneficial to dyspeptics and persons of sedentary habits. Boxes holding 24 2 Ib packages, $ 3.50 8 box, Efecker’s Partly-Cooked Rolled Oats. Is made from specially selected grain. A very superior article. Boxes holding 24 2 h pkegs., $3,50 ® box. Fiecker’s Farina Is made entirely from wheat, and consists of granulated particles of the berry adhering to the outer pelicle after crushing. It is an especially nutritious food for invalids and infants, and a most delicious desert when made into jelly or blane mange, and served with sauce or fruits. Boxes holding 4 cartoons, 12 1ib pps., each, $4.50. Boxes holding 24 1 pound papers, each, $2.30. Efecker’s Hominy or Corn Grits Is made from fine white flint corn. Boxes holding 242 bb packages, $3.50 @ box. PURITY AND STENGTH GUARANTEED. Heeker’s Perlect Baking Powder Is made from Pure Cream Tartar. .It is PERFECTLY HEALTHFUL, and its Baking Qualities cannot be surpassed. N. B.---We offer the trade every inducement in Quality and Price to warrant them in pushing the sale of goods that have been recognized as STANDARD FOR OVER FORTY YEARS. George V. Hecker & Co. CLARK, JEHWELL & CO, WWELOLESALE Groceries and Provisions, §3, 85 and 87 PEARL STRERT and (14, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - - - ' MICHIGAN. vd ps ”, . s Pd ay 7 ¥ » ; % ™ * %. | ® 2 i Drugs & Medicines Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. OFFICERS. President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix. First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald, Kal- amazoo. Second Vice-President—B. D. Northrup, Lan- sing. : Third Vice-President—Frank Wurzburg, Gr’d Rapids. Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—H. J. Brown, A. B. Stevens, Gev. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W. Fincher. : | Next place of meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday. October 13, 1885. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884. Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each month. : Annual Meetings—First Thursday evening in November, : Next Meeting—Thursday evening, Novem- ber 13. at “The Tradesman” office. Plea for Fewer Legal Requirements. GRAND RaAPIps, Nov. 1. Editor Michigan Tradesman: DEAR Sir—I for one am opposed to ‘any more laws to oblige druggists to keep records of any thing. We can not live up to the laws we have now. J ust take the poison law, as an instance. Let any druggist in this city ask the first lady who calls for mor- phine, what her name is, ete., according to law, and see if he don’t get a sharp answer. Atany ratehe will not see her again. Speak- ing from eighteen’ years’ experience, I say it can not be done. And what is the good of it any way? If Jones or Smith is fool enough to take an ov- er dose of morphine, Paris green or any oth- er poison, can it bring him to life to find out what particular store it came from? Not any. There are other points in this matter, too, but I will wait until the next meeting of the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Associ- ation and bring up the question. O. H. RICHMOND. >_> Meeting Postponed. On aceount of the excitement attending election, the Committee on Time and Place of the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society have concluded to postpone the annual meet- ing of the association for one week, until Thursday evening, November 13, at THE TRADESMAN office. Every member of the Society, and those who contemplate becom- ing members, should be on hand at this meeting, as officers will be elected and other important business transacted. - $2 Discovery of Prussian Blue. A Prussian chemist, when making experi- ments on iron, happened to pour a solution of one of its salts on a solution of potashes, which had for some time been kept on blue animal matter, and found that a substance was formed. Following up the hint thus accidentally obtained, he succeeded after a number of experiments, in discovering a method of preparing the valuable color cal- led Prussian blue. There are blue colors superior to this, both in clearness and dura- bility, but none which, volume for volume, contains so large a quantity of coloring mat- ter. It is, on this account, much employed in house painting, and also in coloring paper hangings. Unfortunately, it is affected by all the alkalies, and therefore is unfit for mixing with any color which contains them. When ground with oil, it takes a yellowish tint, the best method to prevent which is to mix a little lake. ————_—_»>27o > —_—_ Business Depression in France. All reports lately received from France give a very bad account of the state of trade in that country. According to the Paris Economiste all branches of business were depressed, and but little hope was expressed of any great revival in the near Pure petroleum, condensed and filtered for medicinal use, is the best remedy in the world for all skin diseases, burns, sealds, ‘swellings, cuts, sprains, bruises, piles, and all disorders where a pure sweet ointment is needed. Every family should have a can of this petroleum jelly constantly on hand. It will remain sweet for years and never be- come rancid. The filtering process makes this remedy about the same consistency as lard and of a light straw color. ——_——_—__—<_-9 The drug stock of J. R. Hathaway, at Howard City, was recently attached at the instance of Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. ona claim for $187, and a second attachment for $142 was subsequently lodged by T. A. Hinchman & Sons. Dr. Hathaway has been in Dakota for several months past, but is understood to be on his way home to pay the claims and resume business. — <> “Doctor, 1 want to thank you for your great patent medicine.” “It helped you, did it?” asked the quack very much pleased. “Jt helped me wonderfully.” “How many bottles did you find it necessary to take?’ t “Oh, I didn’t take any of it. My uncle too k one bottle, and now 1 am his sole surviving heir.” —_—._ <--> The victims of easy credits are falling with the autumn leaves. ADDRESS To the Members of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. Atthe meeting of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, held in Detroit last September, a special committee was ap- pointed, which was charged with the duty of securing, if possible, the passage of the pharmacy bill, as amended at such meeting, and with the terms of which you are, no doubt, familiar. Similiar codes are now in force in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and many other states, and have been found in their practical workings to be perfectly satisfactory, both to dealers and to the general public. This bill, will, we think, commend itself to every candid and thoughtful person as in the highest degree conducive to the welfare of the community in the security it will af- ford in the proper and faithful dispensing of medicinal agents, and in the safeguards it throws around the sale of poisons. It gives, of course, to the pharmacist cer- tain exclusive privilege, but these privil- eges, we think, are not in reality a full and fair offset for the restrictions under which we, as pharmacists, voluntarily place our- selves in our relations to the general public. In view, however, of the fact that certain exclusive priveleges are granted, we antici- pate that this bill will, like all previous ones, in almost every state in the Union, meet with some opposition. We therefore respectfully suggest that it would be of great assistance to us in our ef- forts, if you would make it a point to secure a personal interview with the representative or senator from your district before the next session of the Legislture, impressing upon him the necessity for and advantages of such a law, and using all honorable means to secure his influence in its favor. Please regard this circular as an address especially to you, and not to your neighbor, and lend us all the assistance in your pow- er. GEORGE McDoNALD H. J. BROWN FRED. M. ALSDORF Committee on Pharmacy Bill. i To Remove Alcohol Stains. Editor Michigan Tradesman: DEAR Sir—lIs there any known chemical, or preparation, that will change varnish back to its original color when turned white by alcohol. Ihave been much troubled by al- cohol spots on my store furniture. Q. H. RIcHMOND. The elegant mahogany furniture in THE TRADESMAN Office has never been contam- inated by alcohol stains, consequently we are unable to recommend such a preparation as Mr. Richmond desires. Messrs. Thomas M. Peck and H. B. Fairchild are authority for the statement that a mixture of equal parts of linseed oil and turpentine, applied with a soft flannel cloth, will restore a var- nished surface to its original color and ap- pearance. ——_—____-2.o___—_ Paper Bottles. Paper bottles are now made on a_ large sealein Germany and Austria. The paper must be well sized. The following is said to be a good recipe for the paper: Ten parts of rags, forty of straw, fifty of brown wood pulp. The paper is impregnated or coated on both sides with sixty parts of de- fibrinated fresh blood, thirty-five parts of lime powder, five parts of sulphate of al- umina. After drying, ten or twelve rolled leaves are coated again, placed over each other, and then placed in heated imoids. The albumen in the blood forms a combina- tion on pressure with the lime, which is per- fectly proof against spirits, etc. The bot- tles are made in two pieces, which are join- ed afterward. => _—__—_ A Practical Illustration. “What do you do when people come in and bore you?” a warm personal friend ask- ed of a certain merchaht. “When they stay.too long the office boy, who is very bright and knows just when to interfere, tells me that a gentleman is in the shipping room waiting to see me on impor- tant business.” “Ha! Ha! That’s a capital way of getting rid of bores who don’t know——” Just then the boy opened the door and sang out: “Gent in the shippin’ room waitin’ too see you on important business.” >> 2 >_—_—_ Consul Drithmar, of Breslau, in speaking of the distillation of alcohol from potatoes in Silesia and the large increase in the im- ports of American corn during 1883, owing to the failure of the potato crop, reports tha for like reasons, and because of the growing popularity thereof, the imports of our corn during the present year are likely to be much larger. A Big Rapids Opinion. From Charlie’s Wide Awake. THe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, published every Wednesday by E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids, is just ‘the paper that every merchant needs. It is devoted to the mer- cantile and manufacturing interests of the State, and oly costs one dollar per year. It enjoys a large circulation, is ably edited and worthy of support. If you desire to subscribe, give us your dollar, and we will have it sent you by mail. >_> Purely Personal. W. P. Granger, shipping clerk for the Grand Rapids Packing Co., has returned from a week’s visit with friends in Detroit. Smith Barnes, Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager of the Hannah, Lay Mer- cantile Co., was a caller at THE TRADESMAN office Monday. He wason his way home from Chicago, whither he had been sojourn- ing for a week previous. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. PPP PPP PPP PPD PDA DL DLS DIA DAL Advanced—lodine, iodide potash, annato. Declined—Oil pennyroyal. ACIDS. Acetic, No. 8.........-+2++-5+: gb 9 @ 10 Acetic, C.P. (Sp. grav. 1.040).....- 30 @ 35 Carb lic ...... 0.2. ce cece eee eect eeee 35 @ 40 Citrie . 2 eee: 55 Muriatic 18 deg.........---++-+eee 83 @ 5 Nitric 36 deg.........- 2 a @ 12 ORALIC ©. occ cee cc cee c ete seco cence 4%@ 15 Sulphuric 66 deg.... 8 @ 4 Tartaric —— Se 48 Benzoic, English.... - B02 20 Benzoic, German..... Dee oe @ 15 Tannic .. i... .cc0ss-secer cece scceees b @ lt AMMONIA. Carbonate.........-----eeeee gb 1b @ 18 Muriate (Powd. 22C).......-.++200+5 14 Aqua 16 deg or 3f......-...+--++0+: 6 @ Tt Aqua 18 deg or 4f.......----- +--+: 7 @ 8 BALSAMS. Copaiba ........ eee eee ee cree ec eres : @ 45 BT kre oe esc ee ee ee oe rine 40 POT Ses ee ea we Hees 2 50 MOM 2.2 sc.cscces cect a eet tt tt et 50 BARKS. Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c).......- 12 Cinchona, yellow.........-+-+-++: 18 Elm, select..........-.0. seer ee ee ees 15 Elm, ground, pure........--++-+++- 13 Elm, powdered, pure........------ 15 Sassafras, Of root..........-+--++:> 10 Wild Cherry, select.........+-+---- 12 Bayberry powdered........---++-- 2 Hemlock powdered.........--+---+- 18 WaANROO .. i... co cces cs ec eecet eet eees 30 Soap ground... ......----sseeeeees 12 BERRIES, Cubeb, prime (Powd "0c)........-- @ 65 JUNIPEL ...... eee ee eee ee ee eee es 8 @ i Prickly ASh.........--+-eeeees ..10 @l 10 EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25¢)... 27 Licorice, powdered, pure.....-... 387% Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 Ib doxes). 9 Logwood, Is (25 ih boxes).......--- 12 Lgowood, %S GQ. 22... .ce: 13 Logwood, 48 GQ 2.4. 8.. 5. <- 15 Logwood,ass’'d do _...-.....- 14 Fluid Extracts—25 ® cent. off list. FLOWERS. AYNICR.... 0. eee e eee eer e een et 10 @ ll Chamomile, Roman.........--+++- 25 Chamomile, German.........--++- 20 GUMS. Aloes, Barbadoes.......-.+++-s++9+ 60@ 75 Aloes, Cape (Powd 24C).....---+--- 18 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60C) 2... :- 50 AMMODIAC .....- eee ee ee ee eet eeees 28@ 30 Arabic. extra select........---+++- 60 Arabie, powdered select.......--- 60 Arabic, Ist picked Be as vere ese 50 Arabic,2d picked.........+-+-+-+:- 40 Arabic,c8d picked...........+-+e+e 35 Arabie, sifted sorts..........:---+> 30 ‘Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35¢c)... 30 BenzoOin.........--. cece ee ecee eects 55@60 Camphor ........----seeseeetee sees 20@ 23 Catechu. 1s (4 14e, 148 16c) ...... ‘ 13 Euphorbium powdered........---- 35@ 40 Galbanum strained............---- 80 Gamboge.........eeeseeeeeeeeeerees 90@1 00 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)........- 35 Kino [Powdered, 30C].....----++-+- 20 MIARTIO. 66. cscs es sect een e ee 125 Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40 Opium, pure (Powd $6:00).<.....--- 415 Shellac, Campbell’s.......--.------ 30 Shellac, English...........+.+-+++: 26 Shellac, native........-.----eseeees 24 Shellac bleached...........+--+++- 30 Tragacanth ............-sssee cree 30 @1 10 ‘ HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. Hoarhound .... 2... cece eee cece sete ee eee eens 25 Tobea «0c... . see cc eee cess cette? 25 PepperMint.........---22ee cree ee cet ee trees 25 TOA ey aan on ota See coc ae ae ene 40 Spearmint ........-.-s eee e cece esse cess eres 24 Sweet Majoram..........-.eeeeee cree eee cess 35 MATZ .. 22-022 ccs settee eee et 25 MHYME .......- cece cece cece eect eee ec esee eee 30 WoOrmwo0d .....-.- eee cece cette ere teeess 25 p IRON. Citrate and Quinine...........---- 6 40 Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal.........--- 7 @itrate -..-.....2---2--+----- +--+ 80 Phosphate ........-+-+e2 esse eeee eee 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25c)..........- 12 @ 13 Sage, Italian, bulk (48 & 48, 12c)... 6 Senna, Alex, natural.............- 8 @ 2 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled... 30 Senna, powdered.........++-+--+++ 22 Senna tinnivelli.........-- --.e-e-s 16 Diva Ursi.-...-..2.-.-3-------. <---> 10 Belledonna...........-2eeeeeeeeeeee 35 FOXGIOVE.. 2... cee cece eee ee eee nes 30 Henbane.........-.....---------- 35 Rose, red.... 22.2 cece cece cece ener 2 35 LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2 00 @2 25 Druggists’ Favorite Rye.........- 1% @2 00 Whisky, other brands..........--- 110 @i 50 Gin, Old Tom............--eeeeeeees 135 @1 75 Gin, Holland.............--+eseee+= 200 @3 50 Brandy ..........2e cece ence ee ceeeees 1% @6 50 Catawba WineS...........-+2205 + 125 @2 00 Port WineS.........-cce cece seer cees 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA. Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0Z.......- 22 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25 CalciMed...... 2.2... cc cc cnceceerenes 65 OILS. Almond, SWEet.......-0--- eee er eres 45 @ 50 Amber, rectified.........--------+5 45 ADIGE 3. os ee se eee es cence 2 10 Bay 9 O%.....--e cece eects eee te es 50 Bergamont.......-.--- essere ee eeeee - 2 Castor .......-.20--- 2. o-oo ooo ee 18 @ 19% Groton. .-.. 2... -. 2-2-3 ee eee see 2 00 Cajeput:...... 2... eee eee cece ee ee eens 75 CASSIO 0. 5s ee ee ee se 124 Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... 40 Citronella ...........2 2002 eee eeees 85 WIOVOS nse pont ce eee so se ss 12 Cubebs, P. & W.......... 0 seen eee 6 00 BrigerOn .......... ee ee ee eee ee ences 1 60 WMinOWOCG>. 22.2 .c-s.0055+-n--s- > 2 00 Geranium # OZ.........-.-e+ esos 75 Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 40 Juniper WOOd.........-.e-e cere ees 50 Juniper berries.......-...-.-++s206 2 00 Lavender flowers, French........- 2 O01 Lavender garden GO 2.36...6 1 00 Lavender spike GO). v.25. 5.6: 90 Lemon, new Crop......-.---++++e+ 1 70 Lemon, Sanderson’s.........-+-+++ 1 75 L@MONGTASS.... 2... ee cece ee ee enone 80 Origanum, red flowers, French... 1 25 Origanum, No.1..........--.+-++- 50 Pennyroyal ...........e eee ee ee eens 159 Peppermint, white............---- 3 00 ROS FOZ... .. eee ee cece e cess e eres 9 75 Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 65 Sandal Wood, German...........- 4 50 andal Wood, W.1[......---.---+ ++ 7 00 Sassafras. .....,...-----ss--s-cen see 60 TAMBY ....0. 0. cece nese ee eee eeseteee 4 50 Tar (by gal 60c)..........--0-e ee ee ee 10 @ 12 Wintergreen ..........---.-es50+- 2 25 Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... 4 50 TAIN oc oo ne Soe wns eee 1 00 WOrmseeG ......5. ss. -1e eee cc eee es 2 50 Cod Liver, filtered..... ... gal 1 50 Cod Liver, best......... Sete ; 3 50 Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 00 Olive, Malaga........... : @1 20 Olive, “Sublime Italian .. ..... 2 50 CANA a ee ee ose 6 @ 67 Rose, Ihmsen’s. .......-.-«.- 8 02 9 75 POTASSIUM. Bicromate..........6.- ey perce 8 14 Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 3a Chlorate, eryst (Powd 28¢)......... 20 Jodide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 3 00 Prussiate yellow.....-...--ee- scene 30 ROOTS. AUKANOE 6 Soo eee ee es 15 Alt@ed. Cub...2,2-. 2.0.25 sess 27 Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............- 17 Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and \s.... 35 Blood (Powd 18C).......... 2002 -e eee 12 Calamus, beeen eee en ace eais cs 18 Calamus, German white, peeled.. 38 flecampane, powdered............ 23 Gentian (Powd 14@)............-.+- 10 Ginger, African (Powd l6c)........ 1B @ 14 Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 20 Golden Seal (Powd 40c)...........- 35 Hellebore, white, powdered....... 22 Ipecac, Rio, powdered............. 110 alap, powdered.......... : 8T% Licorice, select (Powd 12% 12 Licorice, extra select........ wee 15 Pink, true... 2... ccc eee Bees ee ee ee 35 Rhei, from select to choice....... 100 @1 50 Rhei, powdered F. I.......... ..110 @i 20 Rhei, choice cut cubes,..... os 2 00 Rhei, choice cut fingers........... 2 2 Serpentaria...........-..-eeeee eee 60 BGHCRE oo eos ao ents eee ees ss 65 Snrsaparilla, Hondurus........... 45 Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18 Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 10 Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25 Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢)... 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢)........-, 13 Bird, mixed in hb packages........ 5 @ 6 Canary, Smyrna...............-+5 4@ 4% Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c).. 1 @ 12 Cardamon, Aleppee.............+- 2 00 Cardamon, Malabar.........-.-.-»- 2 25 COlOTY ae nee se 25 Coriander, pest English........... a 2] MONNCL ooo sconce ee cates es cose ce 15 IGS, GIGRTN ook oo sc eo ee os ee 3%@ Flax, pure grd (bbl 334).........--- 4@ 4% Foenugreek, powdered...........- 8 @ 9 Hemp, Russian...............----+ 5b4@ 6 Mustard, white Black 10c)........ 8 Quince — es sees te 1 00 Rape, Imelish...-.............-..-- 6 @ 7 Worm, Levant........::....-.-.--- 14 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50 Nassau do do; .s.. 2 00 Velvet Extra do GO 3. 110 Extra Yellow do dO. c2. 85 Grass oO do. 2. 65 Hard head, for slate use........--- 75 Yellow Reef, GO 66 a... 1 40 MISCELLANEUS. Alcohol, grain (bb! $2.21) ® gal.... 2 29 Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50 Anodyne Hoffman’s............--- 50 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12 Annatto 1 i rolis.................- 45 Blue Sowble..........-...----.-.:. 50 Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 id Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00 Alm. 00 8 Ao e.: Bb 24@ 3% Alum, ground (Powd 9¢).......... 3 @ 4 Annatto, prime............ 220.259 32 Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44%@ 5 Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ tT Balm Gilead Buds................. 40 Beans, Tonka. -..--...........- =: 2 25 Beans. Vanilla. ......2...02.2....- 700 @9 75 Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 1 60 Blue Pill (Powd 70c)..............- 45 Blue Vittiol = 3......4.05..2.20 2. T%@ 9 Borax, refined (Powd 138c)......... 12 Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 50 Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18 Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... 20 Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18 Carmine, No. 40..............-.---- 4 00 @assia Buds... 2205 .5.5:..25...-.5.- 12 Calomel, American..............-- 70 Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5 Chalk, precipitate English........ 12 Chalk, red fingers................. 8 Chalk, white lump................. 2 Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60 Colocynth apples................6+ 60 Chloral hydrate, German crusts. . 1 60 Chloral do do _eryst... 1 78 Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90 Chloral do do crusts.. 1 75 @hloroform (2.66 2.00.0... se... 100 @1 10 Cinchonidia, P. & W......o........ 40 @ 45 Cinchonidia, other brands......... 40 @ 45 Cloves (Powd 28¢)............0-006- 20 @ 22 @ochinedl (6s. oe. 30 Cocoa Butter...... es. Seas 45 Copperas (by bbl 1c)............... 2 Corrosive Sublimate............... 65 Corks, X and XX—385 off list...... Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... 38 @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 Ib box.. 15 @reasote.. 6. el 50 Cudbear, prime..................5- 24 Cuttle Fish Bone..................- 24 Dextrine soe 12 Dover’s Powders..............2++ 1 20 Dragon’s Blood Mass.............- 50 Hiegot powdered............-...... 45 ther Sauibbs....0..0.......5. -.- 1 10 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8 Hipsom Salts. .../:.. .............;- 24@ 3 Bireot. fresit. 9.62. ...505..00-.... se ss 50 Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69 Minke white... ........5.2..2...5.. 14 Grains Paradise................... 23 Gelatine, Cooper’s..............-.- 90 Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ 10 Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis.... Glue. Gabinet....5.05.2..-.2..2... 2@ 1% Glue white 050 li @ 2 Glycerine, pure.................65- 19 @ 2 Hops %s and \S...............005- 25@ 40 TVOdOLOLM ROOF. 6... 0.0.......:.. 35 Indigo: 85 @1 00 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 25 @_ 30 Todine, resublimed................ 2 00 Tsinglass, American............... 1 50 JamOnicd (2.5 6.52. s cae 9 London Purple. .:.......-....---- 10 @ 1b Lead: neetate cc. 2otrirss titi. ks. 15 Lime, chloride, (%s 2s 10c & 4s llc) 9 MWOUNNO foci een cae 1 00 VyGepoaiura 5... sees 50 Mace ...... eee eae 60 Madder, best Dutch.............. RK@ 13 Mannals, Hoy. ccs... ae... 75 MOrcury....<..::.2....-.-.--..---.. do Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... #0z 3 05@3 Z ; 4 Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... Moss, Iceland...............665 8 Ib 10 IMOSE) THIGH, 2.0.3.4. 026-025. 03 oa: 2 Mustard, English.................. 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 Ib cans...... 18 WNutwalige - 52... es 20 Nutmegs,;No.1...........-.5.....-- 70 Nabe: WOMICR.............--:..----- 10 Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 40 Pepper, Black Berry..........--.- 18 LE nes aed Shee uo ogee seeaeooe 3 00 Pitch, True Burgundy............. q Quassia 6.22 2............-.---.---- 6 @ 7 uinia, Sulph, P, & W........ boz %@I 00 uinine, German...............6+ ~ 9 @1 00 Sefdlitz Mixture.................- i: 28 Strychnia, cryst...........----..e es 1 50 Silver Nitrate, cryst.............-. 79 @ 8 Red Precipitate............... #2 Ib 20 Satfron, American. ..........----- 35 Sal Glawber.-.:............25.----: @ 2 Sal Nitre, large cryst......... : 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst..... 9 Sal Rochelle...............-- 33 Sal SOGR.) 222... 2@ 2% Saheim... 6... 2s: ese 2 SantoOopin 22.5.5. 5-2... 5 ee 6 75 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch 38 Soda Ash [by keg 3c].... Spermaceti.........-..--.-++++5+ Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s Soap, White Castile............ Soap, Green do Soap, Mottled do Soap, GO dO |. .:.2.0...--2.. Soap, Mazzini..............-- Spirits Nitre, 3 F............. Spirits Nitre,4 F............. os Sugar Milk powdered..........---. Sulphur, flour........ 34@ Sulphur, voll......... e 3@ 3% Tartar Emetic...........--. 20sec eres Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2 70 Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40 Tar, do pintsintin......... 85 Turpentine, Venice......... bb 25 Wax, White, S. & F. brand....... 60 Zinc, Sulphate.............--- 7 @ 8 OILS. Capitol Cylinder...........-...eseeeesteeee eee 75 Model Cylinder..........---+-+5 po 60 Shields Cylinder.........-2---sseeeer cece eee 50 Bldorado Engine..........-.-e sees eee e cree eee 45 Peerless Machinery.........-+----eeseeecerees 35 Challenge Machinery.....:.--.-.-sseeseeeeeeee 25 Backus Fine Engine........--.----+e+sseee eee: 30 Black Diamond Machinery........--+-+++++++> 30 Custor Machine Oil............-+esee eee eee eee 6C Paraffine, 25 deg...... 2. cece eee et ee eee ence ees 22 Paraftine, 28 deg... .... 2... e cece eee ee eect e sess 21 Sperm, winter bleached... ........---+2se50+- 1 40 Bbl Gal Whale, winter..........-... cree eee 80 85 Lard, OXtra........ cece cece cece eens 64 15 Lard, No. 1.......--e eee eee ee ee teees 55 65 Linseed, pure raw.....---.eeeee seen 50 53 Linseed, boiled ..........---2-++2-e+ 55 56 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90 Spirits Turpentine..........---+.s+ ++ 35 40 VARNISHES. No. 1 Turp Coach..........+.-20s sere: 1 10@1 2 Extra Turp.........-.- eee ee ee ee cence 1 60@1 70 Coach Body........--.--+-2seeee ..2 T5@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture........---.-.+---1 00@1 10 Extra Turp Damar........---+-.e-+---L 55@L 60 Japan Dryer, No. EPUrp: .. c..s os coe 70@ 75 PAINTS. Bbl Lb Boralumine, White bulk) ;....... 9 Boralumine, ‘ Reps bso scc ss 10 Boralumine, Tints bulk. 750 off. 10 Boralumine ‘ 5 bs.)...----- sai Red Venetian............006--- 1% 2@ Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ........-.-- 234 24%4@ 3 Putty, strictly pure..........-- 2% 24%@ 3 Vermilion, prime American.. 13@16 Vermilion, English...........- 5@57 Green, Peninsular..........--- 16@17 Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 5% .Lead, white, strictly pure....- 5% Whiting, white Span SH... : @i0 Whiting, Gilders’.........----- @90 White, Paris American........ 110 Whiting Paris English cliff. . 1 HAZELTINE, PERKINS 600, W7holesale ruggists! 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 95 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, and Drugeists Glassware, MANUFACTURERS OF BLEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS, FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS. GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR Wo tr, Parron & Co., AND JOHN L. WuIT- ING, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE PAINT AND VARNISH BRUSHES. —Also for the— GRAND Rapips Brush Co., MANF’RS OF Hair, SHOE AND HORSE BRUSHES. ° Drugeists’ Sundries Our stock in this department of our busi- ness is conceded to be one of the largest, best-assorted and diversified to be found in the Northwest. We are heavy importers of many articles ourselves and can offer Fine Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng- glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive prices. Ourline of Holiday Goods for the approaching season will be more full and el- egant than ever before, and we desire our customers to delay their fall purchasers of those articles until they have seen our el- egant line, as shown by our accredited repre- sentative who is now preparing for his an- nual exhibition of those goods. We desire particular attention of those about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES to the fact of our unsurpassed facilities for meeting the wants of this class of buyers without delay and in the most approved and acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special efforts in this direction have re- ceived from hundreds of our customers the most satisfying recommendations. Wine and Liguor Departinent We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice goods for the drug trade only, and trust we merit the high praise accorded us for so satisfactorily supplying the wants of our customers with Pure Goods in this department. We con- trol and are the only authorized agents for the sale of the celebrated Withers Dade & Co's Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP- PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not only offer these goods to be excelled by NO OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but superior in all respects to most that are ex- posed for sale. We GUARANTEE perfect and complete satisfaction and where this brand of goods has once been introduced ‘the future trade has been assured. We are also owners of the Droewists Favorite Rye, Which continues to have so many favorites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our fins, Brandies & Fine Wines. @ We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim to make as complete and perfect as possible. For special quantities and for quotations on such articles as do not appear on the list such as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor- respondence. Mail orders always receive our’ special and personal attention. S| MAZEL TINE, PERKINS & GU Jennings & Siu (Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,) MANUFACTURERS OF FINE PERFUMES —AND— TOILET ARTICLES. Jennings Flavoring Extracts, Arctic Improved BAKING POWDER. KID DRESSING, MUCILAGH, BLUINGS, INKS, ETC. KEMINK, JONES & G0, Manufacturers of Fine Perfumes, Colognes, Hair Oils, Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powders, Bluings, Etc., Ete. ALSO PROPRIETORS OF REMINE’SsS “Red Bark Bitters’ AND— The Oriole Manufacture Co. 78 West Bridge Street, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. 2 ae ¢.S, YALE & BR —Manufacturers of — FLAVORING EXTRACTS ° BAKING POWDERS, BLLUINGS, ETC., 40 and Az South Division, St. — MICH GRAND RAPIDS, - - FUSE, CAPS, AUGURS ‘snyereddy sulyse[q pue EERCVULES, THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK ANNIHILATOR. Strongest & Safest Explosive Known to the Arts. Farmers, practice economy and clear your land of stumps and boulders. Main Office, Hercules Powder Company, No. 40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio. L. S. HILL & CO., AGTS. GUNS, AMMUNITION & FISHING TACKLE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. $ The Michigan Tradesian. A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH, WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR. [Entered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1884. Overstocking Country Stores. From the Commercial Enquirer. One great cause of ill-suecess in conduct- ing the business of a country store is the ten- dency on the part of some dealers to load up their shelves and counters with goods for which ‘there is no local demand. In this way many get their money tied up. The goods lie about the store until they get stale, dusty or shopworn, and when finally dispos- ed of will scarcely bring a quarter of their original cost. It is a great temptation to a merchant to buy goods below their quoted value. He does not always stop to consider whether or not they are such things as customers are likely to call for. They please his eye and the persuasive drummer convinces him that they are cheap and the money passes out of his possession, perhaps never to return to him again. In buying goods always consider first what the demands of customers are likely to be. Never buy a large amount of fancy goods be- cause they are offered to you at half price. The very fact of their being on the market at alow figure is often an indication that they are going out of fashion or that they have ceased to be a novelty. Buy eautious- ly, even in staple goods, unless you have positive reasons for believing that they are going to immediately advance, and never, under any circumstances, assume liabilities far beyond your ability to meet if a sudden decline should come. it is better not to overstock country stores, but rather to send to market frequently for fresh, attractive and new-style goods. With the’present railroad and transportation fecil- jobbing houses, a country merchant can do a large business on a comparatively small amount of capital, and without taking seri- ous risks. He can please his customers bet- ter, and with a proper system he need not suffer much inconvenience by sending fre- quent orders and receiving small eonsign- ments. Half of the retail dealers who fail in busi- ness get into financial trouble by investing in unsalable goods. Shop-worn goods do not make an attractive display. Sell them at any price and get them out of the way be- fore they become a dead loss. They disfig- ure a store, and they give a frowsy appear- ance to better things that surround them. Buy cautiously, carefully, and for your cus- tomers. and determine in the first start in trade not to accumulate an unsalable lot of odds and ends that represent a large invest- ment that camnot be sold at any price. —__———-@—<—- Some of the Benefits of Compciion: From the American Storekeeper. Competion is not only the “life of trade,” but there is that in it which calls for origin- ality of ideas, and necessitates the develop- ment of keen business principles. There is that quality of compulsion in competition which has been the means of making an out and out business man of the merchant who might otherwise have become one of the too numerous class of fossils, known among the trade as ‘“‘old fogies.” The man who has no competition, or as the saying goes, “Has things his own way,” is very apt to become too well satisfied with himself and his manner of doing business— he lives on his past record, as it were—and never discovers that he is getting into a rut until all his wheels have been bound and he is brought to a stop. There is hardly any town of size but has its two or more wide-awake competing merchants, and any one of these stores can be recognized at sight by the air of attract- iveness and the inviting appearance which seem to say, we are going to treat you as best we know how, and then you’ll buy of us again in the future. It is at this store that you see the contin- ual changes of dress in their windows. You note the look of tidiness which prevails, and you feel that when needing any of their goods you will leave your money with them. And if we would look, then, for the best results of business genius, or for novelty in the art of storekeeping, we must look there where competition is the strongest, and where necessity has absolutely forced them to draw unsparingly upon their stock of or- iginality. a All cellars should be ventilated. Core should remember that a great amount of foul gas is generated by the damp air and the variety of vegetable matter which is us- ually stored for winter needs. The best way to secure ventilation is to have com- munication between the cellar and the chim- ney by means of a pipe or other opening. The upward draft will remove all foul air as it accumulates, and render it nearly or quite as pure as in the rooms above. —_———— Oe Ratskin fur and ratskin slippers are a late London freak. Only the skin about the haunches is used, the remainder being too thin. Four rats are required for a slipper and sixty for a neck piece. Se ees It is claimed that in the city of New York 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 gallons of native wine are drank every year under the belief |: that the wine is imported from France. 2 The Necessity of Caution in Buying. An old farmer down in Jersey opened an ‘account at the bank, not long since, and startled the teller out of a year’s growth by presenting among other checks one tor $172, dated in 1872, and drawn to the farmer’s order by a commission house in New York. He had received it for produce sent the mer- chant twelve years ago, and put it away in the stocking that held his gold and silver. The check was duly honored, though the merchant had oftén wondered where it had flown to. He had had the use of this money all these years, the farmer losing in interest, $123.84. This undoubtedly seems like a ludicrous instance of pure verdancy, but it finds a parallel in the unsophisticatedness of of certain dealers, who hastily purchases stocks of worthless trash, poor in quality, meager in variety, and utterly lacking in style. Goods thus purchased are tied up, as it were, in an old stocking, and are destined to remain on the shelves month after month, when they might be, and ought to be, turning themselves over and over again. Profits de- pend on the frequency with which stocks are turned over, and the quick sale of goods depends on taste in selection and aptness in the difficult art of buying. To get all the profit out of any business, the whole strength and foree of a man’s ability should be di- rected to the buying of goods, and then it is time enough so go at the no less difficult task of selling them. But careful buying makes speedy selling a pleasure instead of a bur- den, a delight instead of a-torture. —-—~ -¢ <- A New Sugar-Making Process. From the St. Louis Republican. Louisiana planters are directing their at- tention to anew process for extracting su- gar, invented by Konrad Trobach, of Ber- lin. Itis purely chemical, differing mater- ially from the mechanical process now used, and if it shall prove to be all it is claimed to be, will effect a revolution in sugar-mak- ing and cheapen the article still more. ‘Tro- bach’s process dispenses with crushing and pressing altogether; the cane is cut into slices by means of machinery, and the water extracted from it by alcoholic vapor, which, having an affinity for the water, absorbs it, i but leaves the saccharine in the desiccated ities and the promptness in filling orders of | eane. This is then treated with liquid al- cohol, which extracts the sugar, and after- ward the sugar is extracted from the the al- cohol, or the alcohol from the sugar, by fil- tering through lime and chalk. One great obstacle to the cheap manufacture of Louis- iana sugar is the difficulty of extracting all or nearly all the saccharine from the cane;a considerable proportion is lost in the bagasse or refuse which is thrown away or burned. If this waste could be saved it would cheap- en the process one cent a pound. The pres- ent sugar-making machinery in Louisiana would be an impediment to the introduction of the Trobach method. It isnot adapted to the new process and would have to be thrown away—a sacrifice which the Louisi- ana planters could ill afford, as their machin- ery is very costly. >a —___ A Sympathetic Crowd. From the Wall Street News. He was telling ’em in the village store that his son in Chicagohad failed, and when they asked for particulars he explain- ed: “Why, he writes me that he bought for July delivery and got left.” “How left?” “T dunno, but I guess he couldn’t deliver it. Mebbe teams was awful skeerce, and mebbe the roads was bad.”’ “Well,”? said one of the crowd, as he brought his hand down on the counter, “if I had a knowed that your son Bill was pinch- ed to deliver wheat I’d have gin him the use of my team a whole fortnight for nuth- in’, fur Bill was one of the best boys who ever left this town.” “And me, too!’ added every man in the crowd, while the old man observed: “It'll probably be a warning to William and mebbe he’ll set In and buy watermelons for January delivery and git on his feet again.” >_> A Puzzled Chinaman, From the Chicago Herald. A Chinaman who was carrying some clean clothes to a room in a business’ block on La Salle Street discovered a fire extinguisher in the hall, and when no one was looking he touched a match to the little end of the hose and ran. One of the occupants saw just enough of the performance to imagine the rest, and he called the heathen back. John came up slowly and the man said: - ““Touch him off again.” John struck a match and the man holding the hose turned the crank at the same moment that the Chinaman ap- plied the match. The escaping chemicals hit John in the mouth and eyes and covered him from head to foot with salaratus. When he could breathe he turned to the man, who had by this time corked up the machine, and smiling in a sickly way, observed, ‘‘Jelusa- lem! Melican man’s fi-clackel too velly quick. Him bustee house wide open some- time.” i —————_ i -0-<— The soap weed, which grows abundantly in Colorado and New Mexico, is coming to the front as a superior material for the man- ufacture of paper. Experiments, it is- re- ported, have demonstrated that from the fiber of the soap weed a’paper equal to the finest linen may be produced, and as the weed grows in immense quantities indigen- ously in the localitles mentioned, the supply of the material is inexhaustible. Needed by every retail grocer or confec tioner, one or more of Kenyon’s Patent Spring Paper Bag Holders. Each has ca- pacity of containing about fifty bags. Their great convenience can be learned by having one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen ‘expressed for $2.50 from Kenyon Brothers, Wakefield, Rhode Island. These Goods are Manufactured only by Hamilton Carhartt & Co, 118 Jefferson ave, Detroit, Manufacturers of Men's Furnishing aaa Goods, HNTERPRISE CIGAR CO. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE FAMOUS AND POPULAR BRANDS OLB :z MPIA, AAI 2D LA BELLE SENORA. Grand Rapids, Mich. CODY, BALL & CO. SOLE OWNERS. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO. MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOKS, We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat- ed Goods —both Bosion and Bay Siate, Our fall samples of Jeatuer Goods are now ready for inspection. Un Goods are npecially Adapted tor the Michigan Trade, 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. APPLES. We have a large Western order trade for Apples in car lots, as well as a good local demand, and also handle Evaporated and Sun-Dried Apples largely. If you have any of these goods to ship, let us hear from you, and we will keep you posted on market prices and prospects. We also handle Beans and Pota- toes. Liberal Cash Advances made on Dried Fruit, also on Apples in carlots. HARL BROS., (Commission Merchants, 1SGOoO Ss. Water st, Chicago, X11, REFERENCE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. REMOVAL! Coal, Wood, Lime, Cement, Sewer Pipe, Htc, Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement. A BENOWLSON. Butts’ Patent Processed “Hulled Corn Flour” ——FOR—— Griddle Cakes, Gems, Waffles, Ete. Ete Finest and Best Selling Article of the Kind ever placed on the Market. Guaranteed to be as Represented, or No Sale. For Sale by all J obbers i in Grand Rapids. Butts’ Patent Processed Buckwheat Is Warranted to be the Straighest and Best Goods Ever offered to the Trade. —THE—- “Perfect” Stove Pipe, A Pipe that Nests, (for shipping convenience.) 00 to GO Joints Packed in a Barrel. No Rivets or Tools of any Kind Required in Putting It Together. A Child Can Do It. Ferfectly Solid and Safe. PATENE APPLIED DIRECTIONS. Lay the pipe on a table, place the RIGHT HAND on the Lock end and the left hand on the other end, (as per cut), and with LEFT ILAND you press the pipe and pull it over until it projects above the end, (as per cut), and with your right hand spring the lock in. SEE THAT THE SEAM CATCHE S, and then the pipe will drop together without further ef- fort. Should it be easier for you, you can reverse the pipe and your hands. Should you not think the same tight enough, just put the joint of pipe on a table or bench, whith ‘the large end toward you, and hammer it down on the inside for about two inches, and you will find you have as solid a piece of pipe as if rivited. WE MAKE IT IN NOS. 24, 25, 26 and 27 IRON. We make it in Russia Iron. We make no extra charge for this pipe, ve making a great saving in freights and giving you pipe in good order when you receive Foster, Stevens & Go desist Manufacturers, 10 and 12 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. PEREINS eS HBSS ——DEALERS IN—— Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 FOR. and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, SPRING & COMPANY -WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— FANCY AIND STAPLE DRY GOODS CARPETS, MATTINGS, Olli, CLOTHS, ETrc.,. ETS. Gand 8B Monroe Street. Grand Rapids, = - - Michigan. rs he } The Michigan Tradesial. BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. RELEASE —ACCEPTOR—DRAWER. The release of an acceptor of a draft by agreement not to sue releases the drawer, ac- cording to the decision of the Supreme Court of Lowa in the case of the First Na- tional Bank of Decorah vs. Day. GROWING GRAIN—DAMAGES. In an action for damages to a crop of growing grain its value may be ascertained by reference to the value of the crop at ma- turity, less expenses, according to the decis- ion of the Supreme Court of California in the case of Harrison vs. Spring V. H. G. Company. AGREEMENT—FAILURE TO FULFILL. Parties to an agreement to purchase prop- erty who fail and refuse to advance and pay their proportion of the expenses can not afterward ask to be placed in the same posi- tion as the purchasers.—Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. FRAUD—RETENTION OF POSSESSION. [1] In the case of Pregnall et al. vs. Miller et al., the Supreme Court of South Carolina held that the retention of possession by a vendor of personal property after a sale by him, « on consideration of a pre-existing debt, was a badge of fraud not conclusive but prima facie, and that the character of the possession was a question of fact to be sub- mitted to the jury with the burden of proof upon the vendee. WIFE—NOTE—ATTACH- MENT. In Kentucky, according to a late decision of the Superior Court of that State, a note executed to husband and wife for the pur- chase price of the wife’s land cannot be reached by an attaching creditor of the hus- band unless it was provided in the convey- ance or the obligation of purchase that the proceeds of the land should not belong to the wife. The fact that the note was made pay- able to the husband and wife does not, in HUSBAND AND “the view of the court, indicate that it was to be the husband’s. PARTNERSHIP—PROMISSORY NOTE. In the recent case of Levi vs. Latham, the Supreme Court of Nebraska held that one member of a non-trading firm has no authority to bind his copartner by a note made by himin the firm name without ex- press authority therefor from his copartners or when the giving of such instrument is necessary to the carrying on of the partner- ship business, or is usual in similar partner- ships; and the burden is upon a party suing on anote given by one member of such firm to prove such authority or usage. INFRINGEMENT—ACCOUNT—LUNATIC. A decree may be made against a lunatic for an account of profits derived from an in- fringement of patent right by him, accord- ing to the decision of the United States Cir- cuit Court for the Western District of North Carolina. The court held that the current of authority established the doctrine that while a lunatic is not liable for injuries in which malice is an essential ingredient in the wrong, yet in cases of injury to property he is liable for compensatory damages to the extent of the injury sustained. FALSE REPRESENTATIONS—WAIVER. Where one purchases property under false representations as to his ability to pay for it, the giving of a note for the property, and a part payment, will not defeat an action by the vendor upon the false representations when the receipt to the money is accom- panied by the statement that it will not be received if it is to be regarded as a waiver. So held by the Supreme Court of New Hamp- shire. In sucha case, however, the court said that the plaintiff may be required to sur- render the note before taking judgment for his damages. SLAUGHTER-HOUSES—NUISANCE. In the case of Reichart, et al. vs. Geers et al., decided on the 18th inst., the Supreme Court of Indiana held that while the con- ducting of a slaughter-house in a densely populated part of the city might not be con- sidered a nuisance per se, yet that the pre- sumption was that it was a nuisance. The court said that even when such buildings were originally built in a place remote from the habitations of men, or from public places, if they became actual nuisances by reason of roads being afterward laid out by them or by dwellings being subsequently erected within the sphere of their effects, the fact of their existence prior to the laying out of the roads or the erection of the dwellings would be no defense. PARTNERSHIP—CONTRACT. Where services were rendered under a contract with a firm as partners it was held by the Supreme Court of Indiana that the partners could not defeat a recovery for the services by showing that during the time the services were rendered they sold an interest and took another person into partnership with them, it appearing that thereafter as before the original partners managed the business and the workman continued to ren- der his services under the contract as though no change had been made. The court held that the workman was not obliged to look to the new firm, and that the service having been rendered under a contract with the firm as originally composed the mere fact that some of the services were rendered after an- #* other had acquired an interest in the busi- ness neither canceled the contract nor re- leased the firm from its obligations. COMMISSION MERCHANT—RESPONSIBILITY. A commission merchant was employed to purchase grain for a mill company, his in- structions being to buy nothing but good sound wheat; he bought what he believeds to be sound grain, but a large portion prov- ed to be damp, and the mill company brought suit to recover damages, and in the trial court got a judgment for amount sued for. The case, the Lake City Flouring Company vs. MeVean, was appealed to the Supreme Court of Minnesota, which revers- ed the verdict of the lower court, holding that one employed simply as an agent does not become an insurer of success in the busi- ness. He does not by merely accepting the employment, guarantee his principal against such incidental losses as may occur in the course of the business; because these are in- cident to all avocations, and no one, by im- plication of law, ever undertakes to protect another against them. If the principal de- sires to hold his agent liable for such losses, he must make his contract of employment accordingly. ASSIGNMENT—GUARANTY—MORTGAGE. The case of Wheeler et al. vs. Glenn, de- cided by the Kentucky Superior Court on the 15thinst., was one in which the assignor of a note simultaneously with its assignment executed to the assignee a mortgage “the better to secure the payment of said note.” The note by successive assignments came to the hands of the appellee, who, having failed to make the note out of the payor after rea- sonable diligence, instituted an action to re- cover personal judgment against the original assignor and for the foreclosure of the mort- gage executed by the assignor to the original assignee. The court held that the language of the mortgage imported a contract of guar- anty that the note would be paid by the’ maker, and that the mortgage was given to secure his guaranty and not the implied lia- bility of the assignor. The court further held that the contract of guaranty was as- signable so as to vest the equitable right thereto in the assignees, that the assignment thereof carried with it the mortgage lien, and that therefore the failure of the appellee to use such diligence as was required to enable him to recover upon the implied liability of the assignor did not prevent a recovery Un- der the contract of guaranty or the enforce- ment of the mortgage lien. 3ANKS—STOCKHOLDER’S LIABIL- ITY. Section 5151 of the United States Revised Statutes provides that “the shareholders of every national banking association shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all con- contracts, debts and engagements of such as- sociation to the extent of the amount of their stock therein, at the par value thereof, in ad- dition to the amount invested in such shares.” According to the decision of the United States Cireuit Court for the Northern Dis- trict of Illinois, in the case of Iron’s Admin- istrator vs. The Manufacturers’ National Bank, reported in the Reporter, the liability here imposed is a contract obligation and not a penalty, and survives against the per- sonal representatives of the stockholders. Judge Blodgett, in giving judgement, said: “From all the various provisions of the act it seems to me that it was the intention of Cong: 35 to make this liability to the extent of the par value of the stock, over and above what the stock had cost, an asset of the bank to be resorted to in the event of insolvency, or a guaranty fund, so to speak, in case the property of the bank was insufficient to pay its debts; whoever became a shareholder as- sumed this liability as an element of his con- tract. He is declared individually responsi- ble for the liabilities of the bank to the ex- tent of the amount of his stock at the par value thereof, and this responsibility at- taches as soon as the relation of stockholder is assumed, and continues until the relation ceases. My view is that Congress intended to give all persons dealing with the bank the guaranty or assurance of _ this stockholder’s liability for the purpose of giv- ing credit to banks organized under the law. The capital paid in on the shares might be wasted by fraud or bad management, but this additional stockholder’s liability could not be wasted, but remains asa fund to be resorted to for the payment of debts when the other means of payment are exhausted, and it would certainly very much abridge this se- curity if the liability of a shareholder is to cease with his death. It seems tome to bea liability which survives against the estate of a deceased shareholder to the same extent as if the shareholder had at the time he sub- scribed to or acquired his stock signed a written agreement to pay an amount equal to the par value of the stock on the debts or lia- bilities of the association when called upon by the receiver of the bank to do so, and such an agreement undoubtedly would suryive as against the representatives of the sharehold- er’s estate.” or There are 315 cotton mills in the South- ern States, against 180 four years ago. NATIONAL The increase in the cotton yield of Georgia for the last ten years is 100 per cent. The once despised saw-palmetto of the South is likely to become a very useful tree. The fiber obtained from the inner lining of the bud is manufactured into a substance so closely resembling human hair that it is employed as a substitute for the genuine art- icle. Paper fiber, hats, fans, and in all prob- ability cordage and clothing, can be furnish- ed by this tree, hitherto considered only an ineumbrance to the soil. enenE) oe Ronen BEST COFFEE in the WORLD Chase & Sanborn’'s Standard i | | ve : : a War fn dually oetly PURE and ofthe | Chaser e€& ee Always packed in Air-Tight Tin cans, thereby perfectly retaining Strength and Flavor. Over 15,000 Grocers Throughout the United States Pronounce it the FINEST COFFER they ever and Canada tify that it has large- RIOR QUALITY. sold and tes ly increased their sales by its SUPE The following testimonial coming as it does from one of the largest if not the largest gro- cers in the United States, is worthy of your consideration: CINCINNATI, December 20th, 1883. Messrs. CHASE & SANLORN, Boston, Mass. GENTLEMEN—In reply to yours of the 18th inst., asking our views in regard to the general excellence of your“ STANDARD JAVA,” will say that our house was founded in the year 1840, and from that time to the present our earnest united efforts have been to se- cure goods which represented the very highest grade of quality, and the success we have had and the reputation we enjoy we attribute to this policy. About a year ago our attention was called to your “STANDARD JAVA,’’ we person- ally tested it very carefully and to our mind it was most excellent. We then ordered a sample lot and placed it before our customers for approval, and it was pronounced by them a very fine Coffee. Since then as you know we have bought largely, and freely admit that it gives the best satisfaction. It is uniform in quality, and we have daily proofs from con- sumers that it is richer, finer flavored and more uniform than the Coffee we formerly sold which was the finest brand of Ankola or Mandeheling Java in the market. Yours respectfully, coseph FR. Peebies’ Sons. Send for Sample Lot. We guarantee to increase your Coffee trade, (Signed, ) We have done it with others; we can with you. CHASE &% SANBORN, Importers, Roasters and Packers, Boston, Mass. U. S. A. CANADIAN BRANCH, MICHIGAN AGENT. 5 ST. PAUL STREET, | EX. &. Chase, Montreal, P. Q. Sweet's Hotel, Grand Rapids. THE “COOD ENOUGE” FAMITEY ULOSED. OPEN. Oil & Gasoline Can. EVERY LIVE DEALER SHOULD SELL THEM. This is the Most Practical Family Can ever Offered to the Trade. Cannot be Excelled for Convenience, Cleanliness, Comfort Lamps are filled direct by the Pump without lifting the Can; the Discharge tube adjusting to suit the height of any lamp. No dropping oilon the floor or table. No faucet to leak or get knocked open to waste con- tents or cause explosions. In getting can refilled, no parts to be left at home to drain oil over floor or become injured. No Corks to lose—Closes itself perfectly air tight—No Leakage—No Evaporation. The dealer in selling this can is enabled to make a good profit, and in a measure avoid the annoyance of the small can, while you guarantee your customer absolute safety and the greatest possible convenience. * MANUFACTURED BY WINFIELD MFG. Co, WARREN, OR IO. H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS. FOR SALE TO THE TRADE BY 4 FOSTER, STEVENS & CO : GEO. C. WETHERBEE & O., DETROIT. Send for Circulars c& Price-List. BUY, SELL, DRINE JOHN CAULFIELD, IMPORTER Bs, B97, 89S Canali Street, GRAND RAPIDS - MICHIGAN. I desire to call the attention of the trade to the fact that in the territory tributary to Grand Rapids, I cannot and will not be undersold. There is no conceivable reason why Chicago, Detroit, New York or Boston should be able to place groceries in Grand Napids’ territory. I certainly buy my goods as cheap as jobbers located elsewhere. Many large houses still purchase extensive blocks of goods as in war times. I pur- chase as the wants of my trade demand, and am, therefore, in the existing condition of trade, better able to sell goods at the lowest prices. The difference in the percent- age of cost to sell goods in Chicago, Detroit, Boston and New York, and what it costs me would in itself make a handsome profit. I am anxious to obtain as large a share as possible of the near-by and home trade; and quotations. and shall be pleased to furnish samples Mail orders are especially solicited and lowest market prices on every order received is guaranteed. Teas. present is a good time to place your orders for Japan Teas. 1 have several in transit, including basket fired and sun dried, my own importations. Please send for samples before purchasing elsewhere, or order a sample chest, subject to your approval. I wish to have it understood that all tea orders will be filled subject to ap- proval; and if not satisfactory, after examination, the goods can be returned andIwill stand all expenses incurred, including outward freight. Coffees and Spices. T have already called attention in the columns of THE TRADESMAN tomy new brands of Roasted Coffees. The marked and deserved success of this department is the very best evidence of the merit of the goods. I devote much time and attention to the selections for roasting and blending, and GUARANTEE better values than are those furnished by Eastern parties, or no sale. The invoices Home Roasted RiO: 0. oe ol ce oe ec Wese we cee. 14 Prime es ee eee ee 16 Select NAFACAINO: oe ee es cs ww wie 18 Imperial Roasted (a blended Coffee). .......... ccc ccc e weer eee 18 ©: G. Roasted Java: 2. eee. eek en ee ee. 23 Mandehling ee Ue Oe Ee ee 25 FAVA AMG NEOCN A ice eck ee 28 I exercise great care in selection and grinding of spices, and can especially recom- mend my two brands of do. &. Strictly Pure Ground. oe. C&. Pure Ground, ‘Also my og. ©& Best Emselish Mustard. Can put up ground goods at any price to suit the trade, and will guarantee values. Canned Goods. My Black Diamond brand It is not a bad time to lay ina stock of the new Thave a large and well assorted stock of Canned Goods. of California Salmon is especially fine. pack of peaches. I have en route a ear load of Country Standards, all Yellows, which I will sell very cheap. Imported Groceries. My stock includes French and Turkish Prunes, Patras Currants, Loose Muscatels, London Layer, Valencia and Ondara Valencia Layer Raisins, Citron, Prunells, Figs, Olive Oils, French Sardines, French Mustard, Crosse & Blackwell’s Pickles, Sicily Canary Seed, Italian Maccaroni, Condensed Milk, ete. Soap and Starch. I keep all the well known and popular brands of soaps at lowest prices, including Babbitt’s, Kirk’s standard brands, Fairbanks’, Schultz’s (Fatherland), Simon’s Con- densed, ete. Iam agent for Gilbert’s Starch Factories, Des Moines and Buffalo. Their goods have always been regarded as equal to any of the crack Eastern manufacturers, and have always held their own in the Eastern States. I am now placing my second car-load within thirty days, and have yet to hear the first complaint with regard to quality of the goods. I am able to compete with Western manufacturers in price, and guarantee quality equal to any in the market. jigars and Tobaccos. This has always been prominent in my trade, and has required much of my attention. I have the exclusive control in this State of some of the best brands of Cigars, Cigarettes, Fine Cut, Plug and Smoking Tobaccos, including in Plugs Senour & Gage’s Celebrated Red Star and Old Five Cent Time; Horseshoe and D. & D.; McAlIpin’s Green Shield and Chocolate Cream; Nobby Spun Roll and Ne Plus Ultra Black Spun Roll. In Fine Cuts, Fountain, Old Congress, Good Luck, Good and Sweet, American Queen, Blaze Away, and Hairlifter. In Smokings, Rob Roy, Uncle Sam, Mountain Rose, and Gold Flake. Gabinet. In Cigars, Glaccum’s Standard, Delumos, After Lunch, Our Winners, Little Hatchets, Golden Spike, Josephus, Commercial and Magnolias, the champion cheap cigar. Wours Truly, JOHN CAULFIELD. 53 ; : Groceries. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples—W inter fruit is selling for $1.75 for choice hand-picked. Beeswax—Steady at 42c @ b. Beans—A firmer feeling prevails, medium hand-picked commanding $1.50. Dealers are still paying $1 for unpicked and selling for $1.25. Butter—Very little creamery is moving, as the high price, 35@36c, virtually bars it out of the market. Dairy commands 20@22c for choice and 18@20c for old packed. Butterine—Solid packed creamery is worth 22c, but yields the palm as regards sales to dairy, which commands 16@19¢ for solid pack- ed and 18 @20c for rolls. Beets—No shipping demand. Cabbages—4@$5 B® 100. Celery—20c # bunch. Cheese—Full cream is firm and high and job- bing at 11%c for August and 12c for September. Makers are holding the October product in hopes of getting higher prices later on. Chestnuts—Ohio $5.25 @ bu. Cider—Sweet, l0c # gal. Cranberries—Firm at $12 for bell and cherry, and $14 for Cape Cod or bell and bugle. The crop of bell and bugle cranberries is estimated at 5,000 barrels, while that of last year was from 15,000 to 20,000 barrels. Last season’s crop of bell and cherry is placed at 36,000 barrels; this year 2,500 barrels is the outside estimate. The crop of Cape Cod berries is almost a total failure, and few shipments to the West are ex- pected. In New Jersey the crop will not ex- ceed 10,000 barrels. This is very small, the us- ual crop being 30,000 to 50,000 barrels. Eggs—Hard for dealers to fill orders, the city trade picking up all receipts at 220. Grapes—A few Catawbas are yet in market, selling at 10c. Hops—The Michigan crop, though smallthis year, is very good, and brewers stand in readi- ness to pay 17@18e # b for choice. Honey—Choice new is firm at 15e. Hay—$12@$14 for new, and $13@$15 for bail- ed. Mince Meat—&c @ b. Onions—$1.%75 @ bbl. for yellow and $1.50 for red. Quinces—Orange are scarce, stray lots com- manding $1.75@$2 ® bu. Potatoes—Somewhat weaker in consequence of reports that several outside markets are. flooded, receipts having been exceptionally heavy. Dealers are still paying 25c, but are buying only for prospective local demand, as a drop of from 5 to 8¢ at several shipping points prevents them from seeking an outside mar- ket. Poultry—Chickens, 14@léc. Fowls 12c. Squash—None moving. Sweet Potatoes—Jersey, $3.75@$4 8 bbl. Baltimore and Muscatine, $3.50% bbl. Turnips—25e @ bu. Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.65 8 bu. for choice. GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. Wheat—Laneaster, 75¢c; Fulse and Clawson, 72¢. Corn—No new stock in yet. Oats—White, 28@30c # bu. Rye—52@5ic B bu. Barley—The Michigan crop is fine and large, and brewers pay $1.25 @ cwt. Flour—Fancy Patent, $5.50 # bbl. in sacks and $5.75 in wood. Straight, $4.50 2 bbl. in sacks and $4.75 in wood. Meal—Bolted, $1.50 8 cwt. Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 @ ton. Bran, $13 # ton. Ships, $14 ? ton. Middlings, $17 # ton. Corn and Oats, $23 # ton. ——__—~>2?.—?> VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders with the various houses: W. A. Stone, East Jordan. J. E. Mailhot, West Troy. J. W. Mead, Berlin. C. Bergin, Lowell. Baron & TenHour, Forest Grove. Norman Harris, Big Springs. C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg. B. M. Dennison, East Paris. G. H. Walbrink, Allendale, John Moerdyk, Jr., Zeeland. L. L. Maxfield, Fruitport. J. Barnes, austerlitz. A. Engberts, Beaver Dam. E. 8. Hipkins, Blanchard. B. J. Robertson, Breedsville. N. Fink, Edmore. Andre Bros., Jennisonville. G. P. Stark, Cascade. D. E. MeVean, Kalkaska. Newark & Sorenson, Cadillac. W. J. Arnett, Morley. F. C. Brisbin, Berlin. O. Naragang, Byron Center. Henry DeKline, Jamestown. Jacob DeBri, Byron Center. Jay Marlatt, Berlin. Waite Bros., Hudsonville. Jos. Newman, Dorr. Chas. Wilson, Woodville. John Walbrink, I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale. J. W. Crocker, Byron. John Glupker, Zutphen. H. A. Crawford, Cadillac. John Gunstra, Lamont. C. Cole, Ada. A. B. Gates, Rockford. Cc. H. Deming, Dutton. ° R. E. McCormick, Rodney. Geo. A. Sage, Rockford. A. Snyder, Rockford. Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia. C. H. Milner, Big Rapids. E. S. Botsford, Dorr. Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam. Walling Bros., Lamont. L. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs. Dr. J. Graves, Wayland. Frank E. Brackett, Whitehall. C. E. & 8. J. Coon, Lisbon. C. H. Adams, Otsego. Hutty & Dickinson, Grand Haven. Wm. Hesler, Rockford. Holiand & Ives, Rockford. R. G. Beckwith, Hopkins. + The Grocery Market. Business has been rather quiet for the past week, but now that election is over an improvement is looked for. Sngars area little firmer, in consequence of a shutting down of the refineries from last Saturday until Friday of the present week. Provis- ions are seeking a lower level. There has been but little doing in oranges of late, as what fruit there was in market was pale sour stuff; but now the new crop of Floridas are beginning to arrive, and with the large crop and reasonable prices, dealers look for a large trade. The quality is said to be fine. Lemons remain about the same with only a limited demand. New figs are now in market at 14 to 16c. for choice and 18 to 20c. for fancy. The quality is fine. Theoyster trade is opening up in good shape and with this cool weather the stock is running as fine as ever seen. >> A Battle Creek grocer found a great deal more than he paid for in a box of lemons shipped tohim. It wasa young boa con. stricter coiled up in a box. A. Dunlap, druggist at Vermontville, has assigned to E. B. Hammond. * WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. AXLE GREASE. HRAVOI'S | 0.605. Lo osk. so soe eee 85 DIAMONG | 5. os hace ee ne eee eee n= 60 Modoc .... 8 GOZ...... 2. ee cece eee eee ees iP 59 Paragon... PB dOZ.... 1.2... - eee cece ee ee ewes 70 Paragon, 20 Ib pails...........--22+---e eee 60 BAKING POWDER. Arctic % ICAaNS............ 22 ee eee eee B doz. 45 Arctic 4 Cans........ 0... eee ee ee ee eee 15 Arctic % DCaMS. .......... cee ee ee eee eens 40 Arctic 1% GANS...........22000+0++2+-2ee2 + 2 Arctic 5 Ib cans............-. 2 eee eee ee - -J2 00 BLUING. : Dory, NO. 2. oc. coves. sores: doz. 25 Dry, NO.3.......--. 2.022 ---- 22200 doz. 45 Liquid, 4 02Z,............02--- ee eres doz. 35 Liquid, 8 OZ. ........---e ee eee ere eee doz. 65 ATCO 4 OZ: 65k. os cane nese se ene #2 gross 4 00 Arctic 8 OZ. sso. pos k we os cee es oe nese ae 8 00 AgeMeIB OZ 6. oe ese es sis te ee 1 Arctic No. 1 pepper box..... Arctic No. 2 oP MO Bon os Arctic No.3 oe es casas 4 50 BROOMS. Mo. 4 Carpet: <.-.-:.-.-.... 5-2 -:.--- 5+ 2 50 No. 2 Carpet............e cece ccc cececcs 2 25 No. 1 Parlor Gem............e22eeeee ees 2 15 NO. TE os cs ose ee cee ss 2 00 No. 2 Hurl ......; fe ee eae 1% Fancy Whisk..............---- eee cece 110 Common Whisk. ...:......<.....-.:-+.-.- 85 CANNED FISH. Clams, 1 standards.............--+-++-+- 1 40 Clams, 2 t) standards........-.----+-+++++- 2 65 Clam Chowder, 3 1b.........---.--++ ++ joeek Cove Oysters, 1 tb standards.............- 1 10 Cove Oysters, 2 tb standards...........-- 1 95 Cove Oysters, 1 ib slack filled............- 05 Cove Oysters, 2 ib slack filled.............. 125 Lobsters, 1 Ih picnic. .........-..--- eee eee 1 5 Lobsters, 1 tb star............--+---65- oo . 2 25 Lobsters, 2 tb star.............. cece eee ee eee 3 25 Mackerel, 1 fresh standards...........-. 110 Mackerel, 5 ib fresh standards..........-- 6 50 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 tb........-.. 3 25 Mackerel,3 ibin Mustard..............---- 3 25 Mackerel, 3 i broiled.............--.+++++ 3 25 Salmon, 1 hh Columbia river...........-- ..1 40 Salmon, 2 ib Columbia river............--- 2 60 Salmon, 1 ib Sacramento...............++- 1 50 Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle..........-.-- 1 $5 Sardines, domestic 348.........--------++++ 8 Sardines, domestic 4S............-+++--+- 138% Sardines, Mustard %S..........-.-..-++++ 12 Sardines, imported 14S............+----+-- 15 Sardines, imported 48..........--.....+++- 20 Sardines, imported 448, boneless.......-.. 32 Sardines, Russian kegs.........-..-..--+- 55 Trout, 31 Drook.............--2--2+20--> 2 75 CANNED FRUITS. Apples, 3 i standards ......... eee eee 90 Apples, gallons, standards, Erie.......... 2 50 Blackberries, standards............-.--+-- 115 Blackberries, Erie.............---e+ee eee 1 55 Cherries, Erie, red.......... 22.0 ee cece eee 1 30 Cherries, Erie,white wax.............---- 1 90 Cherries, French Brandy, quarts......... 2 50 Cherries, White............-. 2 cece ee ee eee: 3 59 WamMsOns ee 28S ck. eee ee ee es 1 30 Egg Plums, standards .............--++-- 1 35 Egg Plums, Erie.... _....----eeeesee cere é Gooseberries, Kraft’s Best............---- Green Gages. standards 2 fh........ Soe oee Green Gages, Erie..........----+2 222s eres Peaches, Brandy...........---2+-seeeeeees é Peaches, Extra Yellow ..........-.-+----+- 2 40 Peaches, standards............-.-----+0+5- 1 75 Peaches, S€CONdS..........-- eee ee eee eens 1 50 Pie Peaches, Kensett’s........-...----++-- 110 Pears, Bartlett, Erie...............---2.--- 1% Pineapples, Erie...........-----22- eeeeeee 2 20 Plumbs, Golden Drop...........-..--++--+: 2 85 QUINCES .. 2.2.2 - eee eee eee eee eee eters 1 45 Raspberries, Black, Erie.............----- 1 45 Raspberries, Red, Erie.............------- 1:40 Strawberries, Erie...............+---e secre 1 35 Whortleberries, McMurphy’s...........-- 1 40 CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA. Apricots, LUsk’s.........--.--2ee eee eee eee 2 60 Ege Plums.............-.---ceeee seen es eeee 2 50 Grapes: .....----.---.-.- s+. ---- 2 2 50 Green Gages.......... 2. cece cece cece eee eeee 2 50 ears ee 3 CO QMuinces ... =... ..-.--..---------------* 2 90 Peaches... es. =. ee 3 00 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay...........----+---- 3 25 Beans, Lima, Erie..................-2200+ 1 65 Beans, String, Erie .. ...............---+-- 90 Beans, Lima, standard...............----- 90 Beans, Stringless, Erie..................-- 90 Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked..........-.-. 1 60 Corn Brie... .:.. 3... --- = 115 (orn, Red Seal... 1. ec 110 Morn, AGMC........-......:--., ..----.----- 1 10 Mprn. BReVELG. 6.2 eee see 110 Mushrooms, French, 100 in case......... 22 00 Peas, Early extra, small sifted Erie...... 2 25 Peas, French, 100 in case ..............--- 23 00 Peas, Marrofat, standard..............---- 1 49 Peas, Beaver... 8 -- ss. - 75 Peas, early small, sifted...............-... 1 60 Pumpkin, 3 ib Golden...........-..---. +++ 1 00 Rhubarb, Bric. .....:....-,-----.------. 1 10 Squash, Uric... ...-_..--..--..--.-----..-- 1 25 Siucecotasn. Hrie.....--.....-.... 21... ---s 1 2 Suceotash: standard.......:.....--........- 75 Tomatoes, Red Seal:.!..........-....-..-- 1 00 CHOCOLATE. Boston premiidm-_....-........--....:.- @36 Baker's premium...................-26- @40 Redes. eee: @35 Germann SWeet. 2... ce ee. .2- @2d Waenned SWECL. 20268252 ic kes @25 COFFEE. Cppen Rio. 3. eee 12 @l4 Green gave o.oo 66125026 VY @27 Green MOCHA. 2.2.20 6.....5 252. nce 25 @27 Bonsted BIO... 2.25.60 os ese 10 @17 Roasted JAVA... 22k se. . sek sees cake 24 @32 Pasnted MOT se 17. @19 Roasted MOChA...........-.-..-...---5; @32 Roasted Mex..... ee 174@20 KGroumd! BiG... eke 94@17 APDNCe so e. @i5% ORR ee es @ii%y DMilmormis — 0.8... @*% SUGVOUINES .. cose se-- 3. eee @15%4 MAPROUR, 226.0335 8 ee c, @15%4 CORDAGE. 42 foot Jute ..... 125 (60 foot Cotton....1 75 60 foot Jute..... 105 [50 foot Cotton....1 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Lemon. Jennings 2 OF... 2k... 32s 2 +. doz. 1 00 de BOL 6. ee 1 50 ae BOE oe oo ee se ees 2 50 o “Oy Cy AR A ey Se es a oa ae 3 50 - No.2 Waper. 2 1 25 - NO. 4 7) ee 1 75 at pint TOUBG..-........:......-- 4 50 eg 1 Sh Fee ee 9 00 of NO. 88 ek esc 3 00 ef ING AO ccs ois ee 4 2) Vanilla. JORIMINGS 2 07.022 26 660 et # doz. 1 40 * WGO7 oe eect eee ees 2 50 BOG ee 2 BOT oo ha eas cee ae ee of NO? TAeCr oe. 6 oo eis bos sass ne NG. 4 Taper 8s. see 3 00 - 16 pint POUTIG.. 02>... <-.--.5.--2. 7 50 i ee TOUDG =. 0525. 60256 5.5 es 15 00 z Oe ae en eee 4 25 « NO, 10>) 68 ee 6 00 FISH. ; Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.............. 1 10 Cal MOG. 8s. se 414@6 Cod,Boneless....... ........- Pocece eee ee 5@I% Cod, pickled, % bDbIs.. ... 60.25. .sc ee. oes 3 00 MAGN oes ke sk 14 Herring 4 BRIS:: 6.626 ses ce eo Se 2 50 HMorminge: SORIOG.. oe ene sl. . 22Q@23 Herring, Holland................. =. - - Beko Mackerel, No. 1, % bbis............. ..5 00 Mackerel, No. 1, 12 ib kits...... See 1 60 BRAG: Selo ee, oo see 25 Trout, NO. 1,44 DIS... 3.5... 6. sn 4 85 Trout, No. 1, 12 T) BItB.o ose. ee 90 White, No. 1,346 DVIS. 20 ess ee ees cease ee 5 50 White, Family, % bbls..............0..0005 2 25 White, No.1, 10) kits....:..........5..... 90 White, No, 1,12 i kits... 2 ce. 1 60 FRUITS. Applies, Michigan: 00... oe. 54@6% Apples, Dried, York State, evap., bbls @8 Apples, Dried, York State, evap., box @10 Cherries, dried, pitted................. @\6 OREO oa Doe oes nk see @35 Currants, crop 1884... 5... sc.e cee 8s 53% Peaches, dried York State............ 18@14 PPUROK, TOTKCY 6565 cs os os @a% Prunes, French, 50 I boxes........... @10 Raisins, London Layers................ 3 25 Raisins, Loose Musecatels............ @2 95 Raisins, Valencias...........5... sess @10 Raisins, Dehesia..................2000 @3 60 MATCHES, Grand Haven, No. 9, square................ 2 25 Grand Haven, No. 8, square................ 1 50 Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 2 50 Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 3 td Grand Haven, No. 7, round................ 2 2 Richardson’s No.2 square.................. 2 70 Richardson’sNo.3 do ... Richardson’s No. 5 do Richardson’s No. 6 do Richardson’s No. 8 Richardson’s No. 9 Richardson’s No. 4 round................. is Richardsov’s No.7 dO ............ cesses 2 5b Kichardson’s No. 744 dO... 2. eee eee eee 1 70 Richardson’s No. 30,3 gro...................2 00 Richardson's No. 812 gro.............00 000 1 25 Electric Parlor No.17..........2..0..ecece00s 3 20 Electric Parlor NO. 18..........0200000.00000- 4 64 4 MOLASSES. BigOK Strap .: 6. cos ccc cc cess cc sccten ee cece ee 16@18 WPORUO TRICO i as aes Sake ee ces 24@28 New Orleans, good................5- New Orleans, fancy..... OATMEAL. ASSID DREN... koe ek ce wees ne oe @3 7 PAID POS es as ora @3 25 Imperial bbls, steel cut.............--. @5 25 Quaker DbIS.. .. 2.20... . eee eee eee eee @6 75 Steel Cut. 65 sews wee wee ns @5 5 OIL. Kerosene W. W...........60.- 0 cee e ss 13 ao. Dewmal test................-.- 19% PICKLES. Choicein barrels med......... eat eas 5 50 Choice in % GO. aia, eee 3 40 Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................. 4 25 Dingee’s pints On ee eee 2 40 American qt. in Glass.............. eee eens 2 00 American pt. in G1d8S......6.. 6. .e cece ee ee eee 1 30 C. & B. English quarts.............220-ce0ee 5 75 C. & B. English pints...............--.-2e00- 3 50 Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins, quarts...5 75 . ae pints....3 50 Dingee & Co.’s C. O. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 oe ’ ee pts ..2 75 PIPES. Imported Clay 3 gr088...............45 2 25@3 00 Imported Clay, No. 216, 3 gross........ @2 25 American GD. 22 see a @90 RICE. SOMO a ss ea oes aces oa 7% Choice Garolima... 50.52.26. .5 sec. tesa sas 6% pre Carolia... .. ...5-< 2-02 cease ee ca eee 1% AI ee ne ioc ee ci eees aes os ae 379 PMINOA eo eee as ees ce st cies ic 6 TRAMIPOON fo esc oe eee ee we ee Shee 5% MVOC ik ies oe tons 3% SALERATUS. Deland’s pure....-.2....5..225-5--: ---.- 5 @ 5% OMUVCRIS 2 eos ae cs cee eee as @ 5% Wayiors G. Mo... 2... fee eee sc ne as @ 5% Gap Sheat 2.5... 3s. bos ee @ 5% AO WASINGIS 66590 as ee ce ce eee ae @ 5% Ses Hoag. .2. 2.06. 0c ke -.@ 5% S53. Wis Best. -.. 6. ss sce. sees @ 5% SALT. OO) Pocket =... 6... 2s oes oe see 2 50 28 Pocket........ 2 35 1003 ® pockets. 2 65 Saginaw Fine.... 1 00 DIAMONG Coco. 5s. ck esin's 1% Standard Coarse.............:....... . 1 55 Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 80 Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 320 . American, dairy, 4% bu. bags.......... 25 HOCK, DUSHOIS. 6.2.25 oe oes ce ee 30 SAUCES. Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints. @5 00 Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, % pts. @3 00 Picadwly, 44 PiBts:... 6.6. es cece. ee @1 00 Pepper Sauce, red small........,..... @ 75 Pepper'Sauce, green ...............--- @ 90 Pesper Sauce, red large ring.......... @1 35 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @1 70 Catsup, Tomato, pints................. @ 90 Catsup, Tomato. quarts .............. @1 20 Horseradish, % pints.................. @ 20 Horseradish, pints.:.............--.6-- @I1 20 Capers, French surfines............... @2 25 Capers, French surfines, large........ @3 50 Olives, Queen, 16 0z bottle............ @3 85 Olives, Queen, 27 0z bottle...... ..... @6 50 Olive Oil, quarts, Antonia & Co.’s.... @7 00 Olive Oil, pints, Antonia & Co.’s...... @4 00 Olive Oil, % pints, Antonia & Co.’s.... @2 00 Gelery Salt, Durkee’s................. @ 90 Halford Sauce, pints.................. @3 50 Halford Sauce, % pints................ @2 10 Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large....... @4 85 Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, small...... @2 9) Preserved Ginger, Canton, pints..... @1 25 SOAP. Lautz Bros. & Co. Aeme (OUD DBYS.... 2.6... k 2s @ 6% Acme; 26 d4D DATS. 6... sk ses @ 64 Wowel-25 Dams —.. 2.2.2 25-2 oe. le: @d 20 Nepkan, 2) bars: 2.30... 635. .-..:.. @5 2% Best American, 601 blocks.......... @6 Palma 60-1 tb blocks, plain...... ...... @ 5% Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped........ @3 70 Master, 100-34 Ib cakes ....... ... a @5 60 Stearine, 100 3% Ib cakes............... @4 85 Marseilles, white, 100 % Ib cakes...... @6 25 Cotton Oil, white, 100 % Ib cakes...... @6 25 Lautz’s 60-1 Ib blocks, wrapped........ @T German Mottled, wrapped............ @ 6% Savon, Republica, 60 Ib box............ @ 5% Blue Danube, 60-1 ib blocks........... @ 5% London Family, 60-1 Ib blocks........ @5 London Family, 3-b bars 80 ......... @4 00 London Family, 4-b bars 80 Ib......... @A 00 Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.............. @3 85 Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped............ @3 75 Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped....?...... @3 25 Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.............. @2 30 Marseilles Castile, Toilet,8 dozin box @l1 25 Al Floating, 60 cakes................. @A 20 Kirk’s American Family........ 8 Ib 61% G0. In@idii... se eee ee. 5% C0, SHvOn -. 0c. oes et 53% do 54 Mo: Revenve .. 2.26.26... ee. 54% do. White Russian................ 5 10 Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory ........... 6 75 do Japan Olive ...... 5 do Town Talk #8 box 3 60 do Golden Bar........ 410 do ATAD: 223255 a. 7. 3 40 do Amber... 2. 5....... 3 15 do. Mottled German.. 4 20 Procter & Gamble’s Velvet............ 3 40 Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... @3 20 Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well.-..... 3 05 PBAOREr 266s oes oe seo ee a 60 tbs @ 6% GalvaniC 20 e ke. oi ees. @A 20 Gowan & Stover’s New Process3ib br @18% Tip Top 38bbar @ 16 Ward’s White Lily..................... @6 5 Handikerehiet. ...... 6.2.6 2.05 ue sss sos @A 20 Bawhives. 65.6 ei ee es 5 50 MOIST) He ss a ee 4 10 Ppl ket ee 5 00 Ma onehiICs ee ee see es 4 20 New French Process.................. 4 50 Spon 3. et 5 00 Anti-Washboard .:...........0.....-.2- 5 00 MWROTIONG 2 rs ee cae es 3 25 MAGIC he ses 4 20 Pits ouvgN >... 52s. cae ess ss 4 00 (Old COUnINY. 268 ie 5% SPICES. Whole. WODVC! ee es @18 PAUISDICR oo eee ec. oss Pe eee ee se 8@10 Gappia 7 ee ae ee: @10 NaTHIMOCRS 62.0. ees 60@70 ClOWeS 3 a a -.. @18 Ground. TODD OU oie ee tenet ses aes I6@25 Allspice ..... Poti) ence ee eae 12@18 CinMAMNON i ee eee eee 16@30 PlOVOR os es a os os ee 15@2é i eo oe oe es aka eecis so cc eee ae 16@20 . -15@30 MORYVODDE oes es ss eee ee ees 25@35 STARCH. Gilbert's Gloss P3b. 3.5. 66 de. cee 6% se ** 3 Ib cartoons............. 6% ae tt OTALOSe os. oc css ; 7 se Se DLR oe ese es a i a 5% ds Comm, 1.66. ae. 7 Niagara Laundry, 40 ib box, bulk..... @5 Re Laundry, bbls, 186 ibs........ @4% ee Gloss, 401 Ib packages........ @6% of Gloss, 363 8 packages....... @6 . Gloss, 6 ib box, 72 ib crate.... @7 e Corn, 401% packages........ @7 Muzzy Gloss 1 th package.............. @6% Muzzy Gloss 3 ib package.............. @b% Muzzy Gloss 6 th boxes................ @i% Muzzy Gloss bulk....................4. @5% MaiZZV COVH VID. ce cose eke oss ee @7t Special prices on 1,000 ib orders. Kingsford Silver Gloss................ @8 Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 Ib box....... @8% Kingstord Corn. .....-5 2052.63... 2. @8 OswesO GIOSS 9.0... 2.5.65. ses... @6% Mirror GIOSS: 2.225266 ee coe eke @6% Mirror Gloss, COrM.:...........--...6-- @6% Piel’s Pearl........ fe ee oe @A American Starch Co.’s AW AIORS. os hee a ee ek, @6% 19 67 GIORS .2. 05.55.55 oes es es @334 BD GIOSS 6c. ooo ean ee eee ees. @6 6 Ib Gloss, WOOd boxes................. @7 Table Corn.............3 eves ceeias 40 tb @6% TINO MOOT eas bs sca eae dae ee 20 tb @7 BaNnOL, DUIS a eee oe gees ees @4 STOVE POLISH. Rising Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s gross...... 5 50 Universal .......... 5 88! Above # dozen..... AR es 5 50 SUGARS. (Cnt Woat a a @i% COU aie ek vn oes ce tS ee @i% Pewderen ee ee @i% Granulated, Standard..... .......... @6% Granulated, Fine Grain.............. @6% CONE A ee @6% BEOVNGArd Ae oo oo so i es sees wes @6% Wxtra C White... bos es os ae 34 @6 xtra Co... 0.53.- 63> H144@5% Wine (A, ee has ees --. 54@5%4 VOUOW ©... ea ee 5 @5% SYRUPS. Corn, Barrels oc is se ek aes 32 Oprn, 4 URIS. isos ee cad sie heres edeei es 34 Corn, (0 gallon kegs............. eee Y @ 36 Corn, 5 gallon kegs.........-.---eseeees @1 85 Corn, 4% gallon kegs............+ ... .... 6. ies es Poe ee es 38 Bod P. Selects: 22. 6.2.2 25s aw, Soo eli 35 SElCGhH ee ae ane 30 We by eae See es aes cs 22 MA GOPICG 0 os aise es bdo ete eke 20 IMG CHRYIE 5. oo ras ee es ee 18 RING es 2 es 5 So be ie Brae as ss 16 Selects, per gallon............. ete ee ee 1% MER MOGTUR ooo oo ae es cd evel eee oe: 110 FRESH FISH. COGHSH. osc. oe inet ce BOBO ee caer dene ses vs 9 IGG OGk 6 oa ese os e PIO IES is eo ecco en ear tees cede as eee 5 Mackinaw Tront:.5 0.06. c es ea wee ene 8 Smoked Whitefish and Trout............... 12 Smoked Sturgeon..............2.0.esee sees 12 Bea MISCELLANEOUS. Advertisements of 25.words or less inserted in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, each and every insertion. One cent for. each additional word. Advance payment. Fok SALE—Jewelry business and stock for sale. A good bargain for the right party. Address W. 8. Barnard, Lyons, Mich. Ie SALE—Crockery, furniture and under- taking stock in growing northern town. Stock will inventory about $1,200. Will rent building for $125 per year. No opposition. Good oppenunyy: Best of reasons for selling. All cash, or part cash and security for balance. Address ‘‘Crockery,” care “The ae 5Ttf OR EXCHANGE—A $600 real estate mort- _, , gage, a $1,250 land contract, 40 acres of wild timber land, and a good livery stock. I will exchange for stock of dry goods, clothing or groceries. Address O. W. Kibby, Bellaire, 59* Antrim Co., Mich. GLOVER SEED BEANS! Dealers having a surplus of either Clover Seed or Beans can always find a cash mar- ket by addressing W.T, LAMOREAUX, Agent, 91 Canal street. RETAILERS, If you are selling goods to make a profit, sell LAVINE WASHING POWDER, This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a larger profit than any in the Market, and is put up in handsome and attractive packages. with picture cards with each case. We guar- antee it to be the best Washing Powder made and solicit a trial order. See prices in Price-List. Hartford Chemical Co HAWKINS & PERRY STATE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, — MICHIGAN. WM, L. ELLIS & CO BRAND Baltimore Oysters ! Do not be deceived. Get the best. No slack filled or fresh water snaps sent out. Any Responsible Dealer on the line of the G. R. & I. or C. & W. M. R’ys can have his orders filled promptly di- rect from the Baltimore packing house by fast freights at special rates. Ad- dress all orders to 3. EE". Me. ESERY, Ast., Grand Rapids, Mich. At home every Saturday. so roe a a j ge : i | . ' HOLIDAY GOODS! CALL BARLY AND OFTEN! importers. The largest stock in Michigan now open and ready-for inspection. it is an acknowledged fact that our line of these goods pays the merchant BETTER PROFITS with QUICKER SALES than any other because Our Goods are Useful. They are Ornamental. | Importers. There is no dead Stock among them. | They are the most durable. They make the most Attractive Stock. DOLLS! Imported Colored Glass. Dressed Dolis, oe Limb Dolls, Polka Dot and Gracquel in Pitchers, Tum- China Dolls, blers, Salts, Peppers, Cider Sets, Water Sets and Spoon Holders. Papier Mache Dolls, MAJTOLICA WARE: Wax Dolls, Kid Dolls, At greatly reduced prices. Smoking Sets and Tobacco Boxes. Cloth Dolls. | ee , China Toys, China Figures and Iron Money sales ex ein Dollar Toys! ._.. +. Ve have such an Assortment that you cari buy your Entire Stock of us. Sond for printed lists showing Assortments we Keep on hand ready for Shipment Send for Complete Price-List of Crockery, Glassware, Chandeliers, China, Decorated Tea and Dinner Sets, Lamps and all Lamp Goods. ROAR ISAT Se OF WE ere es Pe aa Ea ro eset See ia en Se Ladies’ Cups and Saucers, Gentleman’s Cups and Saucers. Plate Sets, Bread and Milk Sets. Fruit Plates. Fruit Ccomports. China Shaving Mugs New Styles Vases. pawn is a pe ; re AT re TERI See ees SS Ea Cassie pee Ss tA Mustard Manufacture in California. From the San Francisco Chronicle. The establishment of a number of mustard manufacturing mills in this city has added a comparatively new feature to the growing industries of the coast. The prolific charac- ter of the mustard plant in the southern part of California will yield abundant material for the manufacture of prepared mustard for home consumption, and enable the mills to supply large quantities of the article in cake for shipment to the East, to be there prepar- ed for domestic purposes. In the manufac- ture of this condiment both the black and yellow seed are used. The former imparts to the preparation the sharp, pungent effect of the relish, while the yellow seed has the effect of softening and communicating the sweet flavor which is possessed by the sauce, as well as to give it color. The mustard supplied to the druggist for medicinal pur- poses is very different from that prepared for domestic uses, being crude in character and relatively very cheap. In crushing the seed to form the mustard cake a rich cil is extracted, which, upon being passed through arefining process and otherwise delicately oil for table use, that to any other than the expert possesses the delightful flavor of the olive oil. Indeed, there is every reason to suspect that much of the oil from mustard seed is refined for table use, and with an ap- propriate label on the bottle, finds its way to the tables of many who delight in the use of that unctious substance known as olive oil. The crude or cheafer grade of oil is exten- sively used by paint works for mixing col- ors, and its application to any use where vegetable oils are serviceable has given en- tire satisfaction. The cost of mustard seed worked, is made into a delightful vegetable | in open market is about two cents a pound, and after the seed is pressed and made into mustard cake the residue in oil will yield more than the original cost of the material. The largest mifl here is about to enlarge its eapacity as the home demand is more than equal to to the production, while the Eastern field is asking for large shipments. <4 << - The history and management of railroads will be made a special course of study at Yale College. ‘Thorough instruction in such subjects is practical education of the highest value. Yale sets a good example to other institutions of learning. Carbon paper, for copying and duplicating can be made in the following manner: Take sweet oil, mixed to the consistence of cream, with either of the following paints (to pro- duce the color desired): Prussian blue, lampblack. Venetian red, or chrome green; they should be ground fine on the stone. Use rather thin but firm paper, put on with a sponge, and wipe off as dry as possible; then lay them between uncolored paper, and press by laying a weight or some other heavy flat substance upon them until the surplus oil is absorbed, when it is ready for use. It is nearing the time for the sons of the Prince of Wales to ask the English Parlia- ment to furnish them twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars a year in order to keep up the style becoming the sons of the future King, and probably for the purpose of show- ing that august body that they are neither witless nor helpless will shortly publish a book describing their experiences while ca- dets upon the ship Bacchante. These two boys give evidence of more energy and pluck than have the sons of Queen Victoria, all of whom seem to find most pleasure in exhibit- ing themselves to their sycophantic sub- jects. ~~ Pounds Sold. in Michigan in One Year WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF HAWKINS A. IN D FOX, MUSSELMAN & LC Mich. Agents. for Grand Rapids, Rae Pea. 3 BD. alia, fee sea} Br ‘ a A * s 4 a Fs > Fy 1 ee 4 m4 Ye. "e MANUFACTURED BY ON & CO. i , DICK, MIDDLET a init id The Michigan Tradesman, tS” Subscribers and others, when writing to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub- lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver- tisement in the columns of this paper. MERCHANTS AND CREDITS. Some General Observations of Interest to Debtor and Creditor. From the U. 8. Economist. Credit is the essentiall element of trade, and if judiciously given, stimulates activity and promotes the happiness of mankind. It is of little consequence as regards soundness of the credit system whether the time allow- ed for payment be short or long. The most important part is that it be not expended be- yond what experience has determined to be aproper proportion between capital and credit. ‘This may differ somewhat in differ- ent countries, and at different times in the same countries, by legitimate expansion and contraction, in sympathy with the financial condition of the country. Credit is of spec- jal advantage in building up trade, and it is more necessary in comparatively poor sec- tions than in financial centers, at least as re- gards long time. Europeans understand this matter apparently better than we do, for they are extending their commercial in- tercourse with distant peoples who have re- sources with little enterprise, and who are willing buyers, if long credits are given them. Some of the most important outlay- ing markets, which properly should be first supplied with our own products, because of their nearness to us, are being secured by England, France and Germany on the basis of long credits. In this connection it is not to be forgotten, of course, that the United States is shamefully in the background for marine facilities for doing business with other countries, and particularly with the States of South America.. Merchants here haye often to ship goods to Europe that they may have conveyance from there to South America. Buta more liberal disposition to sell on long credits and to adapt goods to foreign markets would in time compel bet- ter freight facilities, Are Europeans better merchants than American? Is the mercan- tile spirit larger in England and on the Con- tinent than in this country? Not only are credits necessary, but they involve further obligations of a high order on the part of those who give them. Of course, all risks are calculated and coustitute a part of the charge on goods so sold. It is expected that there may be some failures, that there may be some widespread business troubles, or that there may be money strin- gency at times. Itis part of an implied contract, a part of the high mercantile char- acter, a part of the largeness of the true mer- chant, that when such times do come the debtor should not be pounced upon and forced to the wall because his hands are tied by events which he could not control. It is in such times as these, in fact, that the dif- ference is seen between the real merchant and the mere trader. The man who has his tens of thousands at stake with a customer of whom he hears some rumors of difficul- | ties, is likely, as in more than one case which we know of, to proffer aid or an ex- tension of credit. On the other hand, it is but too often the case that the man who has only afew dollars, or hundreds at most, at stake, is very active with his tongue in weakening and pulling down his customer, caring for no amount of destruction he brings about, so that he may possibly be ahead of others to save the dollar that is ow- ing him. But it is not only when a merchant may be actually in trouble that such creditors seek to work destruction. Itis often the ease in times like the present, for instance, that their principal occupation is to try to break down the credit of men in good stand- ing. Rumor is a powerful agency of des- truction at such times, and however good a balance sheet a merchant may have, it is of- ten in the power and heart of those huxter- ing characters to strike deathly blows in their greed for gain, or out of mere disso- luteness of mercantile character. If a mer- ehant can makea fair showing at sucha time, he is entitled to be upheld by his cred- itors, and besides their interests are identi- eal with hisown. The mercantile commun- ity would be spared many a disaster if a high sense of responsibility in such cases were generally prevalent. Credits not only entail responsibilities of this kind upon the creditors, but merchants should not make rash credits in the zeal to sell goods. A risky expansion of business by such methods as the present system of long datings ahead is apt to weaken the eourage and magnanimity of the best mer- ebants in times of difficulty, but it should be considered that the more risk is taken the more incumbent it should be upon the creditor to stand by his customer in the hour of peril. Credits are necessary and whole- some, but they are inseparable from the cor- relative duty mentioned and a sense of mag- nanimity on the part of the true merchant. —————_ >> A Fortune from Soapsuds. Mr. W. M. Williams, a chemist of London, England, relates the following story about a French chemist who proceeded to Yorkshire to make his fortune. He wasso presumptu- ous as to believe that he might do this by picking up something that Yorkshiremen threw away. That something was soapsuds. His chemistry taught him that soap isa eompound of fat and alkali, and that ifa stronger acid than that belonging to the fat is added to the soapsuds, the stronger acid will combine with the alkali and release the fat, which, thus liberated will float upon the surface of the liquid, and may then be easily skimmed off, melted together and sold at a handsome profit. But why leave the beautiful France and desolate himself in dreary Yorkshire merely to do this? His reason was, that the cloth- workers of Yorkshire use tons and_ tons of soap for scouring their materials, and throw away millions of gallons of soapsuds. Be- sides this, there are manufactories of sul- phurie acid near at hand, anda large de- mand for machinery grease just thereabouts. He accordingly brought iron tanks, and erected works in the midst of the busiest center of the woolen manufacture. But he did not make his fortune all at once. On the contrary he failed to pay expenses, for in his calculations he had omitted to allow for the fact that the soap liquor is much diluted and therefore he must carry much water to obtain a little fat. This cost of carriage ru- ined his enterprise, and his works were of- fered for sale. The purchaser was a shrewd Yorkshire- man, who then was a dealer in second-hand boilers, tanks and other iron wares. When he was about to demolish the works, the Frenchman took him into confidence, and told him the story of his failure. The York- shireman said little, but thought much, and having finally assured himself that the ear- riage was the only difficulty, he concluded after the manner of Mahomet that if the mountain would not come to him, he might go to the mountain; and then made an offer of partnership on the basis that the French- man should do the chemistry of the work and that he (the Yorkshireman) should do the rest. Accordingly, he went to the works around and offered to contract for the purchase of all their soapsuds, if they would allow him to put up a tank or twoon their premises. This he did; the acid was added, and the fat rose to the surface, was skimmed off, and carried without water, to the central works, where it was melted down, and, with very little preparation, was converted into ‘‘cold- neck grease,” and “hot-neck grease,” and used, besides, for other lubricating purposes. The Frenchman’s science and_ skill, united with the Yorkshireman’s practical sagacity, built up a flourishing business, and the grease thus made is still in great demand and high repute for lubricating the rolling- mills of iron-works, and for many other kinds of machinery. a a Something for Nothing. From the American Artisan. The desire to get something for nothing seems to be inborn in human nature. In general, people count themselves fortunate if they get an entirely satisfactory equiva- lent for an expenditure of time, labor or money. Few, however, are averse to receiv- ing benefits without rendering an equiva- lent. Newspaper publishers long since dis- covered this tendency of human nature, and are reminded of it often enough to keep it from passing out of memory. These gentle reminders seldom come in requests for gratuitous space in the regular advertising columns, although such instances are not un- known. The editorial columns are good enough for people who are willing to accept gratuitous advertising. This class of per- sons always have something which they feel sure the public and ourselves must be interested in, and as a matter of news, you know, ete. Now, no persons inthe world are so eager to get hold of news, something good, which they can appropriately use, as newspaper men. None have so keen an ap- preciation of what “the public” will be in- terested in as they. But there isa very wide margin between what would interest the party concerned and what would com- mand the attention of the public, which has no personal interest in the matter. The ob- ligation of the newspaper publisher is hon- estly discharged when he has given a cer- tain amount of space in his advertising columns in return tor astipulated consider- ation. But, asa matter of fact, publishers are exceedingly liberal in their notices, re- ports, news items, ete., which call the attention of readers to persons or products. These notices, while they are of value to the business of the persons or firms mentioned, are gratuitously published because they are of interest to the public, and area part of the current history or record of the progress of trade. No class of business men in the world render so much service to busi- ness interests without asking or expecting direct return as the newspaper publishers. Such being the fact, it is not strange that they should sometimes feel that good nature is trespassed upon when people who rarely or never do legitimate advertising, go too far in their efforts to secure something for nothing. ~~ -9- << Consistent Reasoning. An independent business man who car- ried the bulk of his stock upon his back, and went from door to door to sell his goods, in order to avoid excessive rents, was in the habit of buying his goods from a particular friend. He was sure that he was getting bottom prices. One day, by accident, he discovered that acompetitor buying from the same man was getting his goods much cheaper. Very wroth at the unfriendly deal- ing of his supposed friend, he sought him out at once and took him to task. “You surprise me very much; don’t you see I am doing better for you than for that other one!” “No, I @on’t see it.” ‘Well, you buy an article for twelve dollars, add on fifty per cent.,and make six dollars; the other one pays eight dollars, adds fifty per cent, and makes only four dollars! And yet you say I am not your friend!’ 0 An immense cotton mill is to be: erected in Waco, Texas. Collections and insurance, Special Attention given to Collections in City or Country. Also ‘ FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT Insurance, Shoe and Leather.................. pee Boston MBODOM. «oy ie obs os se es oc tee Dayton, Ohio WOR 8 ee ee Pittsburgh, Pa. Germania: 4 65. eck esae e Cincinnati, Ohio Total Assets represented, $3,516,808. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. TOWER & CHAMPLIN General Collectors, 16 Houseman Block - Grand Rapids Herciles POWUEr, THE GREAT STUMP and ROCK Annihilator. SEND FOR PRICES. JOHN CAULFIELD, General Wholesale Dealer. We are prepared to get up on short notice Banners and Transparencies of all kinds. Let- tered, with or without Portraits of Candidates. Ropes to put up same also furnished. State size you want and we will quote prices. JOBBERS OF HORSE COVERS, OILED CLOTH- ING, AWNINGS, TENTS, ETC., ETC. ALBERT GOYE & SUNS, 73 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. D0 YOU KNOW —THAT— lorillard’s Clima= PLUG TOBACCO With Red Tin Tag, is the best? Ts the purest; is never adulterated with glucose, barytes, mo- lasses or any deleterous ingredients, as is the ease with many other tobaccos? Lerillard’s Rose Leaf Fine Cut Tobacco is also made of the finest stock, and for avro- matic chewing quality is second to none. Lorillard’s Navy Clippings take first rank as a solid durable smoking to- bacco wherever introduced. Lorillard’s Famous Snuffs have been used for over 124 years, and are sold to a larger extent than any others. SHRIVER, WEHATHERLY & OO, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail IRON PIPE, Brass Goops, IRON AND BRASS FITrINGs MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES, PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS, —And Manufacturers of— Galvanized Iron Cornice. SHEDS FIELD AND GARDEN, a WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, SEED STORE, 91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. W.T. GAMOREAUX, Agel OVSTERS! We duplicate Chicago and Detroit prices and guarantee as strictly fresh stock and as well filled cans as any in the market—at bottom prices. SEDs! Clover, Timothy and all kinds field seeds at bottom prices. Write for quotations when in need of seeds. Oranges and Lemons Green and Dried Fruits, Butter, Eggs, and all kinds of Produce. MOSELEY BROS., 122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. JOHN CAULFIELD Is our Agent in Grand Rapids for our FAMOUS GALVANIC SOAP The best easy washer manufactured. B. J, JOHNSON & CO,, MILWAUKEE, W. N, FULLER & CO DESIGNERS AND inegravers on Wood, Fine Mechanical and Furniture Work, In- cluding Buildings, Ete., ‘49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, GRAND RAPIDS - MICH. STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. * A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WH DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- tended to. THE GRAND RAPIDS fo. hte Gy Coll COW (Established 1866) is acknowledged to be the mostcomplete,thorough, practical, economical and truly popular school of its kind. Demand for its graduates greater than the supply. For particulars enciose stamp for College Jour- nal. Address C. G. SWENSBERG, Grand Rapids, Mich. We carry a full line of Seeds of every variety, both for field and garden. Parties in want will do well to write or see the GRAND RAPLOS GRAIN AND SEED €0, $1 CANAL STREET. Westiield Whips, Send for I PRICH List. \ ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. And Lashes of All Kinds and Prices. tr ROYS & GO, Gell Agents Grand Rapids, Michigan. EDMUND &. DIKEMAN, —THE— GREAT WATCH MAKER, JEWELER, 44 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN ae = acHl FIELD her Soy ‘ wanstie AA oe PORTABLE AND STATION ARY BNGIN ES From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft- ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for Complete Outfits. . wy. C&C Deonison, 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, GRAND RAPIDS, — MICHIGAN. eo As ds SS 7 aMULTUMIN PARVO® System of = Common Sense | BOOK KEEPING, | |RETAIL GROCERS, f AND GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, REQUIRES TWO BOOKS ONLY For Ail Purposes. " NAMELY: “THE ACCOUNT BOOK,’§ § combining both DAY BOOK AND LEDGER Min one, by which customers itemized state- § ments are furnished in one-third the time required by the usual process, as. hundreds who are using it will cheerfully testify. : AND , “THE COMPENDIUM,” requiring but 10 minutes a day to record each day’s CasHy B transactions, and supply a complete self- Mm proving PROFIT and LOSS Balance sheet § #) whenever desired. ull details, illustrated by example, sent ¥ free to MERCHANTS sending name and § Aaddress to HALL & CO., Publishers, 154} # LAKE St., CHICAGO, ILL. If possible ff send BUSINESS CARD. ¥ Hi HH iN} 6 ported to this market direct from Japan. Blue Danube, Mottled German, Master, ete. samples. price lists. Crosse & Blackwell’s English Pickles. Lea & Perrins’ English Sauce. Holford’s - se Piceadilly . § Colman’s te Mustand. James Epps’ : Breakfast Cocoa, Choice Brands of French Peas. ee ‘¢ Mushroons, . Italian Macarroni, 1 tb pkg. uy ‘“ Vermicella. Queen Olives, 16 0z° and 27 oz. bottles. French Capers, genuine imported in bottle. Choicest Salad Oil, Antonini & Co., Leghorn. Oat Meal, Hominy, Wheat, Beans and Peas. poe Sein They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will do well to send for samples and quotations before buying new Teas. Soaps. Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this market, for the well+ iu ae IMPORTERS -_ 4 \ Wholesale Grocers, J: Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids. ORE eae ee ee oer ies New Japans. We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices of the new crop of 1884-5 Japan Teas, ineluding all grades of Pan Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured, and } embracing about 1,200 chests in all, which we have recently received per the Pacific . Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio de Janeiro. portation, and we believe we are safe in saying that they are the first Teas ever im- These Teas are positively our own im- known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ BROS. & CO., Buffalo, N. Y. Below we mention ‘ a few of their best-known brands: : f Acme, Towel, Napkin, Best American, Palma, Shamrock, Nickel, White Marseilles. White Cotton Oil, Gem, Stearine, Boss, Lautz Soap, Savon Republique, These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver themin* 16 box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight prepaid. See quotations on Grocery Page. Starch. We are also the Sole Agents here for the NIAGARA STARCH WORKS’ Starch, of 4 Butfalo, N. Y., which we sell at the manufacturers’ prices, freights prepaid on alk shipments of 10 box lots and upwards tofall railroad points in Michigan. See prices on Grocery page of this paper. Please send for'price- Send for Fancy Groceries. We carry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every- thing in the Fancy Grocery department, and are ngw considered headquarters in this line.. Please send for Circulars and Price-lists relative to this department. Parties desiring new stocks will find it to their decided advantage to come and see us before purchasing. Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing. Durkee & Co.’s “ = A. Lusk & Co,’s California Peaches. * : fe Green Gages. s “ Apricots. ' re Egg Plums. o = Pears. woe ' Quinces. ‘ ‘ Grapes. a " Cherries. China Preserved Ginger, all size jars, Knowles & Anderson’s Jams and Jellies. We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Desicated and Cooked Send us a trial order for these goods. Alb ’ correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention. HIS, LAT a ~ Dry Goods. The Latest Fashion in Garters. “There are several styles in garters ‘this | season,” said a prominent dealer the other | day. “Here, for instance, are some pretty | pale-blue, white and pink ones, which are: made of satin-finished elastic “and painted with roses and sprays of vines. You see; they fasten with buckles, and can! be made | | larger or smaller asnecessity requires. The buckle was invented for obvious reasons. No,'they are not worn in front—that is, not directly in front. The buckle comes a little to one side, and on the other side is a dainty | knot of ribbon, sometimes a bow and some- times frilled. “But I think these are prettier; they are embroidered and are usually made to order. A wider scope is given here for the display of taste and originality;than jin the others. The embroidery is not done on the elastic, but upon ribbon in which the elastic is en- eased. Any design in small flowers, such as forget-me-nots and trailing arbutus, may be used with charming effect. Many ladies buy the material and work the designs them- selves. Now, here are some upon which the ribbon, instead of being embroidered, is puff- ed. Prices range from $1 to $5 per pair.” “Do the buekles ever come separate from the garters?” “Oh, yes,” was the reply. The handsom- est buckles are only used when specially or- dered. They are generally sold by jewelers. Some are of plain gold or silver, and some are studded with jewels. The most fashion- able now are those set with Rbine-stones. A beautiful pair that I recently saw are of solid gold, with forget-me-nots in blue enamel. An ingenious device to shield the flesh from bruise is a scented pad, soft and tiny, which is placed under the buckle.” ———_—»>0 > Small Customers. Despise not the day of small things. Small trade is worth looking after, not only be- cause each small trader may—in fact, will— become a larger trader, but also from the fact that the aggregate of the small trades, while they are even yet small, is of no} trifling account. The enterprising merchant treats the purchaser of a nickel’s worth with as much deference as he does the man of many dollars. He is as willing to assist by act aud word the customer who cannot de- cide which one of the many styles of laun- dry soaps she wants, as he is to assist in the selection of a seal-skin sack for the happy bride. Small purchasers appreciate the def- erence and kindness which, in many cases, is thrown away on the representatives of wealthier families, and they are quick to show,their appreciation by working for the genial and accommodating dealer’s interests. Their trade is worth catering to and their good will is worth having. ———__> > Paper Clothing. The Atlanta Constitution, speculating up- on the fact that the patent upon paper col- lars and shirt bosoms has expired, is of opin- ion that we may soon expect to jsee paper garmeuts of every variety manufactured and sold. But it fears opposition to the gener- al use of such material ffor clothing on the ground that no man would care to wear a suit of clothes liable at any moment to melt away if he is caught in a shower, or to be torn into shreds when he is passing through acrowd. Nobody would risk going to a picnic in a paper suit, as the accident of a sudden shower might leave him entirely un- protected and compel him to take shelter in the woods. >. They Were Marked Down. Old Moneybaggs stood in front of his store the other morning hanging a “reduced price” mark on several rolls of carpeting. Along comes Harris, and says to Money baggs: “Those ain’t feathers.” “Well, who said they was?” retorted Moneybaggs, with ungrammatical testiness. “Why, you—that is, you’ve marked them down.” And Moneybaggs fell through a_plate- glass window with a sickening thud. Thus it isshown thatevery man will have his joke, feather it be good or feather it be evil. kA ee A number of milliners at Allentown, Pa., have lately been the victims of a clever swindling dodge. The sharpers, two in number, operated in this manner: One would enter a store and represent himself to be the son of a wealthy farmer living near the city. His story was that his wife, who had not been able to accompany him to town, wished him to select several bonnets and take them home, so she could make a selection. One bonnet she would keep and | pay for, and the others would be returned. When the milliner showed a hesitancy in acceding to this request the man pretended to be offended, and, t6 show his indepen- dence, would offer to pay for the most ex- pensive hat. This would have the desired effect and he was generally successful. ————__-_>?-a___——_ The simple making and selling of men’s clothing is the greatest local industry in New York City, says the Morning Journal. It employes nearly double as many people as any other single occupation, not taking | WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Spring & Company quote as tyauwo: Fruit of Loom, 44.. 8% 4 | Victoria, AA Rly |\Woodbury, 44...... Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. Fruit of the Loom, \Whitinsv lle, 4-4.. i cambric, 4-4...... 12 |Whitinsville,7-8.... 6% Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. 7 |Wamsutta,44...... ..10% Gold Medal, 7-8... .. ey ille, 36...10% Gilded Age......-.. SILESIAS. Crown.......-.-++++ 17° |Masonville TS...... 8 No. 10......6..22--- 1244 Masonville Be. se 10% Com si cs oe. 10 ‘Lonsdale ........... 9% | Anchor........--.-- 15 Honedale Doss. 16 Centennial ......... \Nictory O.......... Blackburn ........- 8 'Vietory Be Davol......<.:---- 14 |Victory 19 oo London.......-.--.- 12%'|Victory K.......... 2% | Paconia.........--- 12 ‘Phoenix A.......... 19% Red Cross......---- 10 ‘Phoenix B........ 10% Social Imperial....16 |Phoenix XX..... oD PRINTS. Albion, solid.......-. one eee: 6 Albion, grey.....--- Gloucestermourn’g.6 Allen’s ee cee Bu Hamilton fancy... 6 Ailen’s fancy.......5%|Hartel fancy........ 6 Allen’s pink.......-- 64%|Merrimac D..... a Allen’ ‘8 purple ee 61%4|Manchester ... on Oriental fancy.. American, fancy... Oriental robes Arnold fancy. Berlinsolid........- 36 Pacific robes. . Cocheco fancy...... (Richmond..... Cocheco robes......- 6y ‘Steel River Bees - Conestoga fancy....6 (Simpson "Bice oes 6 Eddystone ..... .--- 6 |Washington fancy.. Eagle fancy.......-- § |Washington blues.. Garner pink......... 6% FINE _— COTTONS. app _ 4-4.. .{Indian Orchard, 40. Boott M, 4-4......-- Ba Indian Orchard, 36. 8 Boston F, es Laconia B, 7-4...... 16% Continental C, 43.. 7x | Lyman B, 40-in..... ioe Continental D, 40in o% Mass. BB, 4-4....... 5 Conestoga W, 4-4... Nashua E, 40-in.... 9 Conestoga D, 7-8.. 5M Nashua R, 4-4...... 7 Conestoga G, 30-in. 6% |Nashua O,7-8....... 7 Dwight X, 3-4 Noes 6 \|Newmarket N. 7 Dwight Y,7-8....... = Pepperell E, 39-in.. oe Dwight Z, 4-4....... Pepperell. R, 4-4... Dwight Star, 4-4.... M4 Pepperell ’ 7-8.... 6% | Ewight Star, 40-in.. 9 |Pepperell N oe Enterprise EE, 36.. 5%|Pocasset_C, 14... 7 Great Falls E, 44...7 (Saranac R.......... 7 Farmers’ A, ee 6% \Saranac E.......... 9 Indian Orchard, 1-4 7% DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. Amoskeag ........- 8 jRenfrew, dress styl 9% | Amoskeag, Persian ae Johnson’ Manfg Co, Btyles.....-...-.-- 10%: Bookfold......... 12% | Bates..... ee 7% Johnson Manfg Co, Berkshire ......... dress styles...... 2% | Glasgow checks. . Slaterville, dress Glasgow checks, f” y i% BEVICS 2055.02... Glasgow checks, White Mfg Co, stap 7% | royal styles...... 8 |White Mfg Co, fanc 8 Gloucester, new |White Mant’g Co, standard ......... 7 7%! Earlston... ...... 9% Plunket ..........-- 7% \Gordon............- 8 Lunecaster ......-..- 8% iG reylock, dress Langdale..........- %34| styles ..... ......12% WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. Androscoggin, 7-4..21 |Peppereil. 1€-4..... 27% Androscoggin, 8-4..23 ‘Pepperell, 1-4..... 3244 | Pepperell, 7-4...... 20 |Pequot, 7-4......... 21 Pepperell, Sa cocae 22% |\Pequot, 8-4......... 24 Pepperell, 9-4...... 2) |Pequot, 9-4......... 27% | HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. Atlantic A, 4-4..... 74 |\Lawr: nce XX, 4-4.. 8 Atlantic H. 4-4..... 7" |Lawrence Y, 30. Atlantic D, 4-4..... BM Lawrence LL, 4-4. . Ba | | Atlantic P, 4-4...... 5% | Newmarket nN 1% | Atlantic LL, 4-4.... 5%\Mystic River, 4-4... 6 Adriatic, 36........-. %% Pequot A, ‘a 8 Augusta, 4-4........ 61%4|Piedmont, 36.. ot Boott M, 4-4........ 1% Stark AA, 44....... 7% Boott FF, 4-4....... 734 (Tremont CC, 4-4.... 5% Graniteville, 4-4... 6 Utiea, 4+4........... 9 Indian Head, 4-4... 7%/Wachusett, 44..... 1% Indiana Head 45-in. ‘18 |Wachusett BO0-in... 634 | TEICKINGS Amoskeag, ACA. ..13%%; Falls, ORR ss 1844 Amoskeag “ 4-4..19 |Falls, XXX.. 15% | Amoskeag, A..... 13 Falls, BB........... 1% Amoskeag, B...... 12 (Fails, BBC, 36.. ee Amoskeag, C...... ll ‘Falls, awning... Amoskeag, D...... 10% |Hatilton, BT, 22.. Amoskeag, E...... 10 |Hamilton, D....... Amoskeag, F....... 9% Hamilton, Be Premium A, 4-4....17 |Hamilton fancy.. "10° Premium B... .... 16 Extraé4........-...- 16 {Methuen ASA oer 18 Extra7-8...... ..14%|Omega A, 7-8....... ll ce Medal 4-4......15 |Omega A, 4-4....... 13 A IB eae see 12%|Omega ACA, 7-8....14 cr Ae Pe oes 14 jOmega ACA, 4-4....16 RC 7-8 14 \Omega SB, 7-8...... 24 BR 38 coco 16 |Omega SE, 4-4...... 27 A al te 19 ag 4 a eae 2 Cordis AAA, 32..... 14 [Omega M, 44....... 25 Cordis ACA, 32..... 16 Cordis No. 1, 32..... 15 Sere Ssassw 11% Shetucket, 8 & SW .12 Cordis No. oo 14 |Shetucket, SFS....12 Cordis No.3......-. 13 (Stockbridge A..... 7 Cordis No. 4........ 11%|Stockbridge frncy. 8 cA CAMBRICS. Garner ............. BMpire ....5---0-.. Hookset...........- 3 Washington. 4% Red Cross.........- 5 |Edwards..... op Forest Grove oes S.S. & Sons........ 5 GRAIN BAGS American A...... lL. 50\Old Ironsides...... 15 Stark A..........- .21%| Wheatland ......... 21 DENIMS. Boston <2 ...:.-.-:.-- 7% \Otis CC............. 10% Everett blue....... 14 |Warren AR A |: 12% Everett brown..... 14 {Warren BB........ 1i% Otis AXA. ........ 12%|Warren CC......... 10% } OteBe.. 2... 3. .-.- 11%|York fancy........ 1b | PAPER eee Manville............ 6 |8.8. &Sons......... 6 Masgnville .. 6 Garner pete chee 6 “WIG Red Cross.........- 74 Thistle Mills........ Bevin .:....-. 05-.- JIG |ROSE.. oso oes aoe 8 Garner .......---..- TA SPOOL COTTON. Broors. 2.3... 5.22; % 50 |Bagle and Phoenix Cask’ : 0, NF. 55 Mills ball sewing.30 J.& P. Coats....... 55 4|Greeh & Daniels...25 Willimantic 6 cord.55 |Merricks..... ..... 40 Willimantic 3 cord.40 (Stafford ............ 25 Charleston ball sew ‘Hall & Manning....25 ing thread........80 |Holyoke............ 25 CORSET JEANS. Armory .. T,\Kearsage........... By Androscoggin ‘sat... - 84|N aumkeag satteen. 8% Canoe River........ |Pepperell bleached 8% Clarendon. ........ 6% \Pepperell SAt....5.; 9% Hallowell Imp..... om | Rockport........... 7 Ind. ae oe pecs Lawrence BAt. eo: 8% Laconia . ere 7% Conegosat.......... 7 MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA'N, { a oe Methuen AA....... 13% | ' SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. ! North—Train leaving at 9:00 o’clock p. m LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. The Newaygo Company quote f. o. b. cars as follow: ' Uppers, lineh.................-..-. per M $44 00 een ee Bonens, 1%, % and 2 inch................ 468 00 | Androscoggin, 9-4..23 |Pepperell, 10-4...... Satara SamGhe G03) ee aes. 35 | Androscoggin, 8-4..21_ |Pepperell, 11-4. Bi % | Selects, 1%, 144 and2 inch........ 11... 38. 00 | Pepperell, 7-4...... 16% Pequot, 7-4.. - 18 Fine Common, linch..............0 ..-- 30 00 epperell, 8-4...... 20 |Pequot, 8-4.. “a SE a a A ee 20 00 | | Pepperell, 9-4......22%4|Pequot, 9-4......... Fine, Common, 1%, 1% and 2inch. ...... 32 00 | CHECKS. ine No. i. ao 1 in. oie vr 16 feet . - 15 a | ' Caledonia, XX,0z..11 {Park Mills, No. 90..14 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet..............-. 6 00) | Caledonia, X,oz...10 |Park Mills, No. 100. Ah | No. apecoaey : ea cere or ane 00 Bootie, No. 60. Co 10% | No.1 Stocks, 10 in.,18 feet... esses 16 00) ark Mills, No. 50..10 ‘Otis Apron......... t | No. 1 Stocks’ 10 in. 20 fee 17 00 | Park Mills, No. 60..11 [Otis eee eee 10% } N os S Coes at 1 1 yee a ‘ al Park Mills, No. 70..12 ‘York, 1 0z.......... 10 No. 1 Stocke. aan’ 18 eat. settee 16 00 | Park Mills, No. 80..1 York, AA, extra oz.14 No. 1 eee Sin. Pee WW 00 | OSNABURG, No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00 | Alabama brown.... 74|Alabama plaid..... 8 |No.2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet Pee 13 00 Jewell briwn....... 9%4|Augusta plaid...... 8 i No. 2Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet................ 14 00 Kentucky brown. .10%|Toledo plaid........ i No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00 ; Lewiston brown... ea Manchester plaid.. No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet..............-+ 18 00 Lane brown........ 4%\New Tenn. ae aid.. No. 2Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet... ..........5. 14 00 Louisiana plaid.... - Utility plai + | oi 5 Btooks, 84 in., ae be ue 16 feet...... - He { o. 2 Stocks, 8 in., POG ee eG. eer Na detcoke Sin. fect. 13 00 | Avondale, 36....... 8% Lier tae eee 5% Coarse Common or shipping eulls, all Art cambrics, 36...11%4/Hill, 4-4.. ---+ 84 | “widths and lengths......... .....-4 8 0009 00 | Androscoggin, 44. ye eee cg (4 | A and B Strips, for 6in 00... 5 00 | Androscoggin, 5-4..12%4/Hope, 44... ...-.... % | © Strips, 4 ORO MOR 2.152 ase ss : 38 00 | Ballou, 4-4. ....---- pn King Phillip cam- No. 1 Fencing, all lengtha................ 15 00} Ballou, 5-4.........- | pric, 4-4..... ..... 11% No.2 Fencing, 12, 14and 18 feet.......... 12 00. Boott, O.4-4........ 84Linwood, 44....... D | No 2 Wencing, 16 feet. ...6... sss ..s. cee 12 00 | Boott, E.5-5....... a Lonsdale, 4-4 Bi Maw 8% Ne: 4 Mecing 4 Inch. os 15 00| Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 9¥4 Lonsdale oe atts No. 2 Fencing, 4 inch............. 12 00 | Boott, R. 3-4....... 5% | Langdon, GB, 4-4... 9% | Nopway C and better, 4 or Sineh. 2 20 | sence AA 4-4. 744'Langdon. 45........ are Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and B........ a. Chapman, X, 44... Se 4-4..... an Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Ce 14 | Conway, 44... . .. 7%)/Maxwe 1 “10%; | Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1 Common.. 9 Cabot, 4-4.......-- Bi hind here vate * | Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear..........0... 20 00 Caen s 4" Poet ersey, fg. fy, | Piece Stulf, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft....- 10 00 | Canoe, 3-4......---- OpeSeoL --,4 | $1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft. \ Domestic, 36......- '4|Pride of the West..12% | Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A. B..........-.. 36 00 | Dwight Anchor, 4-4. 0% Pocahontas, 4-4 Dressed Flooring, 6in. C..............-+- 29 Davol, 4-4.........- 94 | Slaterville, 7-8...... oe Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common. 1 Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common. Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 ‘additiinal. Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. Band Clear.. Dressed Flooring, 4in., Cc pe en ee ee Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. i com’n Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.2 com’n Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional. SSK ss Sess ssssesss jaxx 18 in. Standard Shingles......... 3 RXR Sin, Phin’... ...: 2.2.3... 3 mee 3 00 No. 2 or 6 in. C. B18 cera Shingles......... 2 00 | No. Pordbin, ©. B. 16 ins... 22... 6. 2. ss. a | ' Lath 1 TIME TABLES. Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division. | MIGHIGAN CENTRAL | fair play and then abides the result. The Niagara Falls Route DEPART. | +Detroit Express.............--...-.--: 6:00 am | tDay MXMPOSS. 26 fo. 538-2 5. 12:25 9 m | | *New York Fast Line..:............... 6:00 pm | | | tAtlantic TOXPUCSB: co i ices ws aa es 9:20 p m | ARRIVE. \ | *Pacific IXPFeSS.. 5c 5 205.66. ese 6:4 am | | Boe PABSODRCL’. 62... sos se. 11:20 a m | Peat es ace. 3:20 p m | '+Grand Rapids Express............... 10:25 p m | +Duily excepi Sunday. *Daily. | | Sleeping cars run on Nos. 101 fond 108. | The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriv | at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York at9p./ im. the next evening. | Direct and prompt connection made with | |Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus ' avoiding transfers. | The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has | Drawing Room and Pesrlor Car for Detroit, | reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10: 30 'a.m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day. | "A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. ally except ; Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv- _ing at Grand bape at 10:25 p. m. J.T. ScHuLtz, Gen’! Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. ; Arrives. Leaves. i *Steamboat Express....... 6:20am ,*Through Mail............. 10:15am 10: 20 am '+Evening Express... ..... 3:20pm 3:55pm | *Atlantic Express.......... 9:45 p m ea 45 pm | *Mixed, with coach........ 0:30 a m GOING WEST. '+Morning Express......... 12:40pm 12:55 pm 4+Through Mail............ 5:09 p m D- 10pm '¢Steamboat Express....... 10:30 p m TMAKOG 6.5202. -65- 128 esc oe 7:10 am | *Night Express............. 5:10am 56:30am +Daily. Sundays excepted. *Daily. |e Passengers taking the 6:20 a. m. Express | make close connections at Owosso for Lansing | and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at ; 10:00 a. m. the following morning. | woe Cars on Mail Trains, both East and est ' rain leaving at 5:10 p, m. will make con- | nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except | Sunday and the train leaving at 5:10 p. m. will | connect Tuesdays and Thursdays with Good- | rich steamers for Chicago. | Themail bas a Parlor Car to Detroit. The vy | Night Express has a through Wagner Car and a local Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids. 2 | D. Porrer, City Pass. Agent. | GxO. B. REEVE, Traflic Manager, Chicago. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives, | +Mail Bo a eae sn sie s aieels 9:15am. 4:00pm |*#Day Express.............. 12:25pm 10:45pm |*Night Express............ 8:35pm 6:10am | PROG) 6-205. es es 6:10am 10:05pm *Daily. +Daily except Sunda Pullman Sleeping Cars on all 1 night trains. Through parlor car in charge of careful at- tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 12:25%p. m., and through coach on9:15 a.m. and 8:35 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. Leaves. Arrives. MEKCQ: 66602. see 6:00am 6:15pm MOXMTORS: 20 ss 4:10pm 8:30pm FOR PYOSS 25305 ec ee 8:30am 10:15 i m Trains connect at Archeravenue for eines as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 The Northern terminus of this Division is Be Baldwin, where close nneetion is made with F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and Manistee. J. H. PALMER, Gen’) Pass. Agent. ' | Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex 8:45pm 9:00pm | Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:20am 10:25am Ft. Wayne &G’d Rapids Ex 3:55 pm G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:00am Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:06 pm 4:35pm Mackinac & Ft.Way: eEx..10:26am 11:45pm Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm All trains daily except Sunday. has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and Mackinac City. Train leaving at 16:25 a.m. has oo Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse South—Train leaving at 4:35 p.m. bas Wood- ruff see Car for Cincinnati. Cc. L. LocKwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. (KALAMAZOO DIVISION.) Arrive.. Leave. | into account the workmen who manufac-| Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for | | Express pee acanpe spat ee i pm 7:3am_ ture and finish the cloths. Inside the city | AM CAN ee am 4:00pm) limits.about 800 establishments are devoted | to the business, with an aggregate capital of | nearly $25,000,000, employing 50,000 opera- | tives and paying out $15,000,000 a year in wages. Coats and trowsers made in New | | York: are worn by workingmen in every’ ' gtate and territory in the Union. ‘ LIST OF OFFICERS: | Presidoat MAmeow W. HAWLEY, of Detroit. Vice-Presidents—CHAS. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit; L. W. ATKINS, Grand Rapids; I. N. ALEXAN- DER, Lansing; U.8. Lorp; Kalamazoo; H. E. EEKER, Bay City. Secretary and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH, Detroit. Board of Trustees TIUs, Chairman, 8. A MUNGER, H K. WHITE | For Two Years—D. Mornnis, A. W. CULVER. | an trains daily except Sunday. ; The otrain | White Pigeon with Atlantic leaving at 4 p. m. connects at xpress on Main | ‘Line, which has Palace Drawing Room Sleep- ing Coaches from Chicago to New York and Boston without change. { The train leaving at 7:35 a. m. connects at! | White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with | Special New York Express on Main Line. i Through tickets and berths in Socning Ce, | For One Year—J. C. PON- | coaches can be secured at Union Ticket 0 67 Monre street and depot. bDaroware. 1a AiNew$Thinguin:.Ovens. “|This is @ provision in the shape ‘of ‘a wire gauze door fitted to the oven, to introduce fresh air while baking is in progress. The Age of Steel says of it: “The ventilated stove oven is with us nu | hobby; our attention has been drawn to it by the experiments which a large stove man- ufacturing company has been carrying on; these have satisfied us of its value, but have not convinced us that it is our bounden duty | to hammer other people into our way of thinking. Our int: r:st in the new invention | is of that impartial kind that declares for The wire gauze door is, we believe, the only method yet hit upon by the friends of venti- lated ovens for admitting fresh air, though we understand an Eastern manufaeturer pro- poses to bring out a stove in which the draft will in some way be made direct from the oven to the flue, and from the outside into the oven, in a new and unexplained manner. With the wire gauze door the hot air escapes through the upper part of the door and the cool air flows in through the lower part, ac- cording to natural laws. The result is, the bottom of the stove upon which the cooking is done is kept comparatively cool. One would think that even with a good fire RO- | ing it would be difficult to bake bread or | roast meat. But itis not, and the hot air escaping from the oven need cause no alarm. “One advantage claimed for the ventilat- | ed oven is that it prevents a great wastage of | the moisture contained in the meat or what- ever may be cooking, and thus insures ten- ' derness as well as greater weight. Inthe, closed oven experiments show thata_ piece | of meat loses 30 to 40 per cent. of its weight, | if well cooked, by absorption. In the venti- lated oven the loss has frequently been as | low as 10 per cent. and rarely, if ever, in ex- cess of 15 or 20 per cent. In other words, | it appears that the meat in the closed oven | is dried rather than cooked, and is made the | tougher because of its treatment. The origi- | nator of the wire gauze oven doors, it may be said, declares that he can take the cheap- | est and toughest steak inthe market and | | cook it in the ventilated oven, with the re- | | sult of making it as tender and juicy as the | best porterhouse. He is emphatically of | the opinion that meats cooked in the oven are made tough and indigestible by the dry heat, which robs them of all moisture. —____—_>-o—__——_—_ Gas Flames Smokeless. ” Mr. Thomas Fletcher, whose remarkable experiments on the flameless combustion of gas will be remembered by our readers, makes some practical suggestions about the so-called smoking of gas-flames. Everyone has observed the black or brown stainsj on ceilings over chandeliers or bracket burners, particularly on those which burn during the daytime as well as the night, and has probably ascribed them to the smoke’ from the burner, perhaps not without wondering that a flame so clear, and apparently so smokeless, shoukd be able to stain the white plaster four or five feet above it. According to Mr. Fletcher, the apparent absence of smoke from the ordinary gas-flame is real, and the stains which appear fon plastered surfaces over it are not caused by smoke, but by dust, which is thrown upward in the as- cending current of healed air over the flame, and clings to the ceiling. A part of the dust consisting of vegetable or animal fibers, is | probably charred by the flame, and this por- tion gives the brown color of finely divided carbon to the stain; and the flame further as- sists the discoloration by sending up watery vapor, from the union of the hydrogen in it with the oxygen of the air, which, when the gas is first lighted, condenses as moisture on the cold plaster, and collects flying particles on its adherent surface. The reason why lamps do not, when properly burned, cause a similiar discoloration is, that they are mov- ed frequently from place to place, and, be- ing generally of less power than a burner, have less tendency to set up a strong ascend- ing current in the air above them. The best remedy for the staining is, as might be ex- pected, the suspension of a hood or bell over the flame. By this the upward current is dispered, and diffusing itself in the cooler air about it, reaches the ceiling only slowly, and over a large surface, instead of being concentrated in a small area. ———— Oe New Kind of Glass, The new glass inventedin Vienna is transparent and more brilliant than common crystal, can be cut and polished, and, when fused, adheres to iron, bronze, and zine. Singularly enough, this glass differs from all others, new or old, in that its composition includes none of the usual ingredients—si- lex, potash, soda, lime, or borax. —___s-oa__—_——— Those who use brass letters on glass win- dows know how often they drop off from unequal expansion, or from the too energetic efforts of window cleaners. They will be glad to have the following recipe: Litharge i two parts; white lead, one part; boiled lin- seed oil, three parts; gum copal, one part. | Mixed just before using, this forms a quick- drying and secure cement. Si The Mechanical World, of London, says that the United States has the best machin- ery in the world; and M. Lourdelot, who | was recently sent over here by the French Minister of Commerce, says that the super- ' jority of tools used here and the attention to , details, too often neglected in Europe, are HRY, Gen’) eet | elements of danger to European industries. oF ag Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 Gnd lONGer ie ee es. 38% Serew Hook and Eye, % .......... -net 10% Serew Hook and Kye %.............. net 84 Serew Hook and Bye %.............. net % Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net iM’ Strap and (Po 2... ss... dis 60&10 HOLLOW WARE. Stamped Tin Ware....................... 60&10 Japanned Tin Ware..................0-- 20&10 Granite Iron Ware................--++-- 25 HOES. Grub) 2 $11 00, dis 40 Grit oe. 11 50, dis 40 Gr geo 500s ee ea ca. a 12 00, dis 40 KNOBS. Door, mineral, jap. trfmmings...... ie 00, dis 6(- Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.... 2 50, dis 60 Door, porcelain, plated trim- PHNGS. 6 20 ii sa Sees list, a dis 60 Door, Soreatain, trimmings list, 8 25, d 60 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain Agee ue a Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ......... a PRCMAGIG . 565 es ee dis 50 LOCKS—DOOR. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis o Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s................ is FEPARTOROS 00201 cs oo cose eae oe es ae dis 60 Norwalk’s.... .. pe esac ek dis 60 LEVELS. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65 MILLS. Coffee, Parkers Co.’8............05-.ee08s dis 49 Coffee, P. 8S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark Seco dis 40 Coffee, Enterprise....................-.5- dis 25 MATTOCKS. AGZG HVG oo ess. ee $16 00 dis 40&10 unt HVE... . 22.2... cs see ee $15 00 dis 40&10 BUDE Rss oo oe is oe ce $18 50 dis 20 & 10 NAILS. Common, Brad and Fencing. ho and OG RAV. . occ cee cece ccs keer ceeds Gd ane 16 GOV oo oe eo ce es 40 GNA OG GOW. oo sss ee ne cs oes cone eee BG GOVANCE. ooo cde cs enka avec cece ess et FING AOVANECO. 6. us ob. nas oe Sele ons ose Clinch nail; adv... c6 es ccc. cence cess Finishin t 10d 8d 6a 4d Size—inches 3 2% 2 1% 7 150 3 00 10d to 60d_............ 23... 23s se # keg $2 » 5 | « Foster, Adv. @ keg $125 150 175 200 . Steel Nails—Same price as above. MOLLASSES GATES. Stebbin’s Pattern ................0..e eee dis 170 Stebbin’s Genuine.... . ................. dis 70) Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25 MAULS. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50 OILERS. Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent... ........... dis 55 Zinc, with brass bottom............. .... phe 50 Brass or Copper.. .: ......-. 5.5. cs ec ec eess 40 Pee ea nt! per roi $12 net Olmstead @. 36-5. 2 see tt) WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. PLANES. | heme a _* PANGY Se dis 15 a : LOCH ECHO oe co. ee cn ccc sees tree dis 25 iePrevailing rates at Chicago are as follows: | Sandusky Tool Go.’s, fancy... ......... dis 15 AUGERS AND BITS. Bench, first quahty.....5.0.. 02.05. Gee dis 20 Ives’, old style is ea dis 60 | | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and dak wa ta weisie sins cae eis wage ye wees is PANS DOURIASS 2... oo. os oe oe dis 50: longed" 0200020000000 dis 50 | Common, polished... “dis 00 Cages Pree Tist0&10 | Dripping..........--...eeeee occas ¥F 8 Jennings’, genuine................--+-+ dis 25] RIVETS. Jennings’, imitation........... ......-- dis40&10 | Iron and Tinned..................-..- dis 40 BALANCES. : | Copper Rivets and Burs.. . dis 40 Spring. 200000 22s. ccs dis 25 | PATENT FLANISAED TRON. BARROWS. Lo Wood’s patent planished, Nos, 24 to 27 10% | Madrona 2.2.0.6. ccs: eee ee se Oe enetie (Ome net 35 00 | 2€ ave hee ROOFING PLATES. : TC, 143 7 | Hand nsec esses eseenrses teen dis $ 60810 IX, axel, cholce Charcoal ‘Terne....00... TB pa ee ain : Ic, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00 | Gong ey eater ue dis 5 ae meme Terne........3, 16 90 eee ae 56 | : ROPES. BOLTS. eal a “ nace a a 18% SLOVO. 2 se. dis § 40: SQUARES. Carriage new list..................... dis 75 | Steeland Iron.......... dis 50 TOY aioe st eeecee sees sees eres eeseenes a pier Sey and Bevels...............-.-..-..-.. 0 ae leiela winless a) 4's ol csi eielsc asia ss 6 a 7] + @ast Garret Bolts..................... Be ee -* Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 55 | SHEET IRON. Cast Barrel, brass knobs....... ..... dis 50 | Com. Smooth. Com. Cast Square Spring ee dis 55 | Nos. 10 to 14.......... 2... ... +. $4 20 ea One CUM ds dis Go| ee tO MF. -- =x enone enn 420 3.00 Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 55&10 | A 18 to 21.... 2... eee eee 42 3 00 Wrought Square ..... streeseneees oon 55&10 ee oe reteset tet e ee eee ees 4 3 00 Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis 30 OS 2060 265... 25 4 40 3 2 Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob NOU 26.2 ss 4 60 3 40 Mie 50&10&10 | _ All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches ives Dadra. dis 50&10 | Wide not less than 2-10 extra. BRACES. SHEET ZINC. Bacher). -2 06... ose el di In casks of 600 ths, # Bb................. 6 Backus. dis ‘ 50 In smaller quansities, @ .............. 6% SpOmords 3. oo dis 50 TINNER’S SOLDER. Vie Bom dis, =ebiNe 1 Refined... 13 00 | BUCKETS. Market Half-and-half.......22..2. 02... 15 00 Wall’ plain $ 400 Strictly Half-and-half.................. 16 Well, SWEVGL.- 05:25) oc 6 4 50 TIN PLATES. BUTTS, CAST. Cards for Chercoals, $6 75. | Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 60 | IC, 10x14, harcoal.................++- 6 50 Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 60 | 1X, 10x14,Charcoal..............-. +. 8 50 | Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed. .dis 60 | IC, 12x12, Charcoal...............-++-. 6 50 | Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint. -dis 50&10 | LX; 12x12, Chareoal _.-....2.2..-.. 1 8 50 Wrounht Loos" Pin.................. 60 _ 34x20; Charcoal.............. 0.545 6 50 | Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip......., fis 60& 5 | 1X, 14x20, Charcoal..... .............. 8 50 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5 | XX, 14x20, Charcoal ..... 0.0.0... 10 50 Wrou ght Loose Pin, japanned, silver IXXX, 14x2 20, Charcool elo ee 12 50 week dis 60& 6 | IXXXX, 14x20, Charcoal... 2.26. 14 50 wroug HOU dis eo | LX, 20x28, Charcoal. 2020202000 l oi. 18 00 bwin insiie Hind eer 60 | DC, 100 Plate Charcoal................. 6 50 | Wrought Brass......0.0.).:........... dis 65&10 | DX, 100Plate Charcoal...... -.. 8 50 | Blind lame dis 70&10 | DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................. 10 50 | Blind, Parker’a. 0.026002, dis 70810 | DAX X, 100 Plate Charcoal..11011.. 00.20), 12 50 lind, Shepard’s.................00005 dis 70 Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 %5 aces for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 1500} Tates. | Spring for Screen Doors 3x3....pergross 18 00 Sicel: Game TRAPS. CAPS. Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s.......dis 35 Ely y’s 1-10 pees ee per m $ 65 | Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 60 i BS SC. - ee oe eee ead cc co a ee 60 Pe Ea 0 ean en ent ens one snes |S, RB: & W. Mfe. Go.’s............5. we aeeeee. 60 | Musket ee 60 | Mouse, choker..................00 0005 20e 8 doz * CATRIDGES. Mouse, delusion.... ase cet $1 26 8 doz | Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 50 = : | Rim Fire, United States................ dis 50 EE ec Pe « < Centra: Fire.......eeeeeeteeciicce dis % | Coppered Market...0000000000.0 ais 55 | CHISELS. Extra Bane...) o.. 6... ee dis 55 | Salah Bimmer... .. <2. . ccc... s sens dis 65&10 | Tinned Market..................2--0ee00, kis . Socket Framing................0eee005 dis 65&10 | Tinned Broom....... ................4.. 8 b [Seekes Commer... ...---.. 66-02-2645... dis 65&10 | Tinned Mattress.....................-... 2 b 8% [SaemeeSliete. 8 L.. dis ool Coppeses Spring Steel..............-... dis 37% | Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis o| Tinned Spring Steel...................... dis 37% Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis plain RONEG. 2 oe 8 b 3% Bie cia aici c fale Ge oe aieia Gia a a alc ale era c elas elereia net | Barbed Fence. ‘ ee: new list ne | COMBS. Wrasse new list net Curry, Lawrence’s.........-.......655 dis 33% | WIRE GOODS EVOCGDIRGISS: 60 ec dis 22% | Bright ce cocks. eee ee Brass, Hacking’s.:..........-.-.....:...- AOSNO | EROGES 2... 2 oo. ioc. dis 70 ee Ce ecw ao iGate Hooksand Eyes...................- dis 70 BOW ee RENNS) oa 80 eo Baxter’ 8 Adjustable, nickeled.......... COPPER. Coe’s Genuine.....................55. dis 50&10 Planished, 14 0z cut to size.............. #8 b a Coe’s Pat Agricultural, wrought. ...... dis 65 14x52, 14x56, WEXOO ee. Coe’s Pat., malleable. ....:...........-2- dis 70 DRILLS MISCELLANEOUS. Morse’s Bit Stock.................... dis 35 | Pumps, Cistern....... 0.0.0... 02255555. dis 60&20 Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 20 Genes es os eee : 70 Morse’s Taper Sodnk................. dis 30 | Casters, Bed and Plate................. dis 50 ELBOWS. Dampers, American.......:.........4-+- 3334 ©om: 4 piece, 6 in:.........-... 2... doz net $1 10 a @orrupated............-. 5... 5: ee dis 20&10 AAGIMStR DIO... 662.8. te dis %4%&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. = dis 20 Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2 2, $24 00; 3, $80 00. dis 25 FILES. American File Association List...... dis 50 WISStOMIS 2.020 dis 50 New American................-.....-- dis 50 Nicholson’s...... . eo ue ee dis 50 Hellers ee dis 30 Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 33% GALVANIZED IRON, Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25and26, 27 28 List 12 13 14 1b 18 —AND— Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. : GAUGES. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50 HAMMERS. Beate GCOS: 60 dis 15 } IG a dis 25 | Yerkes & Plumb’s:...........-:...... dis 30 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 HANGERS. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50 | Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60 Kidder, wood tra.K................... dis 40 HINGES. Gate: Clark's. 1.2, 3... 0.06... :. 2s dis 60 | State 5. 252) per doz, net, 2 2 50 | THe NEW ERA RINK SKATE The‘ original cost of a roller skate is of minor importance to you, provided you buy the one that can be run at the least possible cost in time and money. We claim the NEW ERA to be the most Economical Roller Skate 10: the World and this in connection with their IMMENSE POPULARITY with those who have used hem, commend them to the attention of every rink owner in the country. Our CLAMP SKATE is the only screw clamp skate made which operates all the clamps with one key at the same time. Stevens & Co. 10 and 12 Monroe st., AGENTS FOR MICHIGAN. Sena for Cireular and Price Lists. be » F ‘Tho Michigan Trades, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1884. MUSKEGON MATTERS. Facts and Faccies Picked up at that Place. Dan. L. Root succeeds Brown & Hamblin in the second hand furniture business. E. R. Ford has removed his grocery stock from the old location to the Rice block. Bedard & Metayer succeed Wm. T. Rog- Brief Answers to Occasional Correspond- ents. W. J. Price—The fur market is steady at present. Geo. H. Seymour—Yes, stolen sweets— and trout—are, best. C. C. Drew—Yes, Lonia is a nice place and possesses many attractions. J. N. Bradford—Yes, promiscuous letter writing is dangerous business. W. A. Dunlap—Where are you how, any- wav? Haven’t heard of you for an age. W. S. Horn—Yes, the park opposite the | Spring Lake House is the finest in the| 4 MUSEKECON BUSINESS DIRECTORY. S, §. MORRIS & BRO, PACKERS —AND— Jobbers of Provisions, ers in the drug business on Pine street. With a continuous pavement nearly two miles in length, Western avenue, presents a driveway which has few equals and no su- somo. periors in Western Michigan. : : _ | Dr. J. B. Evans—Your second drama is : as o not unlikely that ” e druggists of this | devoid of plot or interest and is doomed to city will form an association for mutual and : , meet with failure. protective purposes. There are fifteen drug- | S..S, Burnett—Yes, insurance is a good gists in the city, nearly all of whom would | thing, unless you cauKs ae the bea ae co-operate in an undertaking of the kind, at — the premiums. in which case the results would am-| ply compensate for the expenditure of | city, and the lack of rooms at the hotels is State. sion, “Oh, you little dear,” was original with society up to a practical reality. J. E. Ireland—Yes, it is small satisfaction | . — = a8 208 ee e pies | would undoubtedly yield good returns, pro- ae ‘ont = ai = tt . viding you handled the subject properly. ee sae . 4 a conga o Sens Lew. Hawkins--We believe your paten a aes ie ce ted in Michigan, and | car spring could be made to pay enormious- every oes ed would oe ae all Ly, proving the aii a oe ee the facts in the case shown up in their proper L. M. Mills—Yes, we believe Bonanza has and a oe ed ae | more good-looking schoolmarms to the square steal receive the punishmen ey so TICHIY | inch than any other place of its size in the eeeerve. : : | country. It will be a surprise to dealears in other | “peddlers and huxters, and that every farmer | 5+ gones’t cost anything. Geo. Dunton—-Yes, we believe the expres- | M. C. Russell—Yes, Chicago is a wicked ( } Little progress has been made of late sn for a poor marksman to go hunting with a! OnmRcuU rt. Zz COMPAN , 2] unearthing the fraudulent acts of the ere | shot-gun. A cannon is more effective. mels, although the recent examinations of | A. C. Sharp—A treatise on cat accbori ng | ‘Butter, Eas, Cheese, Fruit, rein, Hay, Beef, Pork, Produc towns to learn that Muskegon has no ordi- | F. C. Brisbin—Yes, promises are cheap, | . 8 : / and we see no reason why yeu should not: yerni tions of vegetable | : : : nance governing the actions of vegetabl | continue to aggravate your ereditors—seeing | CANNED MEATS AND BUTTERS. Choice Smoked Meats a Specialty. Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Streets. Kline’s Patent Candler and Eee Carrier. "The Best on the Market. Can be made any Size, Round or Square, with any Capacity. State Territory for Sale by G. C. SAYLES, Sole Agent for the United States, P. O. Box 1973, time and money involved in bringing the | sometimes embarrassing. Muskegon, Mich. WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION | | Consignments Solicited. MUSKEGON , MICH. W.D.CAREY & CO. OYSTERS, : — : | is allowed the privilege of the streets for = | John Read—Sinece you have made a rec-' purpose of disposing of his products. Such | ord asa pedestrian equal to Rowell’s, it: —AND JOBBERS OF— leniency is a manifest injustice to legitimate | might be a good idea to ch allenge that gen-| traders, who help meet the expenses of the tleman to a walking match. city government, the grading and peree of | A. C. B.—It does look like small business = Beeets, ete., and should receive secon /to wal ka mile for the purpose of reading sort of immunity from a class who contrib- | unio one elses pope. Pay for tt ia a ute nothing to these objects. THE TRADES- | man and you will feel better. ia has prepared a eeenber of blank pet: D. S. Haugh—Yes, a series of sparring ex- Hons to the onaaen Council, which i hopes | hibitions would undoubtedly pay well, es- » see thorougly circulated and eee the | pecially in the towns throughout Northern mananite DF every dealer in the city. E — Michigan, where you are best known. getic action on the part of those most direct- | 1. E. Messmore—It is hard to advise one ly interested would relieve the entire trade | in your situation. Now that the campaign of an evil which has been particularly op- is over, the only employment we could sug- pressive the present season. Andrew Wierengo has at last received in- | telligence as to the whereabouts of his ab- | sconding book-keeper, or rather, his where- abouts about a fortnight ago. On the 15th | ult., he called at Gowans & Stover’s soap manufactory at Butfalo, introduced himself | as ‘Mr. Sanford,” placed an ordor for twen- ty-five boxes of soap, and asked the firm to cash a draft on Wierengo for $25. The de- tails of the call are thus described in a letter | from the firm in question: | BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1884. | A. Wierengo, Esq., Muskegon, Mich. { DEAR Sir—Your postal of the 18th inst. | is received and noted. The circumstances | in the order we wrote you about are these: | On the 15th inst., a gentlemanly young man, | calling himself Mr. Sanford, called at our oftice, and said he was in your employ. He | knew the kinds and amount of oursvaps you | handle, and seemed quite well posted on our | business relations, and regretted that our | agent Mr. Toad was not in,-as he claimed to | know him well, having met him in your | store. After a short visit he gave us the or- der we wrote you about. He claimed to have been on a visit to friends in New York, and before leaving mentioned that he was a little short, and would hardly dare to ask us as strangers to cash his draft on you for $25. We told him we would gladly do it for him, but would have to telegraph to you first to make sure he was Mr. Sanford, etc. He then left, saying he would call again, and that is the last we sawofhim. We have marked the order off. Yours, Very Truly, Gowans & STOVER. Immediately after leaving Gowans & Stov- er’s, McKay went out tu Lautz Bros. & Co.’s factory where he introduced himself as “Mr. Black.” Placing an order for twenty-five | boxes of soap, he asked fora loan of $35, | and was accommodated. A draft for that | amount was drawn on Mr. Wierengo by the firm, but, of course, was refused, although the soap was accepted, as nothing was known of the order until the goods reached Muske- gon. Itis supposed that McKay has been hiding in Canada, and that his appearance on this side of the line was for the purpose of replenishing his depleted exchequer. It is not improbable that the $1,400 stolen from Wierengo has been already expended in riotous living, and that McKay will depena for subsistance for some time to come on his swindling propensities. In the mean time, concerted efforts will be made toland him behind prison bars. —_——_——__— > Things Heard on the Street. That the days of cheap trash are number- That there never was a better time for dealers to secure good credit by discounting their bills. ‘That no matter how dark the hour or how dubious the outlook, Michigan dealers never dismiss hope. That dealers can raise the standard of their business by raising the character of the goods they keep in stock. That nothing but the quick and aggressive movement of our bounteous crops can stir’ the sluggish current of the channels of trade. ——__-> ta To Whom Do You Refer? From the Coopersville Observer. THe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN devotes about a column each week to F. C. Brisbin, of Berlin. Better let up on him and give some one else a deal. Its readers in this vicinity would appreciate the paper just as much as they do now. } t | Fruits and Produce. . \ |ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. FJ LAMB & COMPANY REST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES. { ——WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—— } But Ch pF gest would be for you to furnish wind for a U ter, eese 3 Ses 9 baloon factory. | Andrew Wierengo—No, you do not have, ito ubtain a license to write poetry, but it | might be advisable to get the . followiug se- | lections copyrighted: There is a happy land | Far, far away, 1 Where lives a friend of mine, Alex. McKay. | Alex. McKay is now a rover, But he could not swindle Gowans & Stover; | I fear he has now a hard row to hoe Unless he meets lots of Lautz Bros. & Co. | oe The New Wall Finish Company. M. B. Church, of the Church Finish Co., | was seen by a reporter of THE TRADESMAN the other day, and questioned relative to the. present condition and future prospects of the | new corporation. He stated that the work | of getting a new line of goods on the market | was being pushed forward with all possible | rapidity and that by January 1 that object | would be attained. The plant of the new company consists of 120 acres of land; for-| merly known as the White piaster mill prop- | erty, located on the Grandville road, just | south of the city limits. The buildings for-| merly used in the manufacture of plaster | are being fitted up for the new use, and mo- | tive power will be furnished by a sixty | horse-power engine. The water power fur nished by Plaster creek, as yet unimproved, | will be utilized another season. Eight run, of thirty-six inch mill stones will be employ- | ed, both the grinding and mixing to be done | by a new process, patented by Mr. Church. | The plaster rock will be obtained from a. new strata eighty feet from the surface, dis- | covered while boring for that purpose this | fall. The strata is solid rock, twenty feet | thick, and of exceptionally fine quality. Ar- | rangements are now being made to sink a.| shaft in order to get at the strata, which will | be elevated by means of hoisting machinery. | The new company starts out under favor-| able auspices, and will undoubtedly meet, with the same success that marked the:Al- | abastine Co. under Mr. Church’s manage- | ment. —_——_—< 2 Pertinent Business Suggestions. When sending goods by mail always have your own name appear on the outside of the package. If you send goods by express and pay charges, state on the outside of the package, Express prepaid. If you send a package without instruc- tions, be sure and send a letter by the first mail. Always read a letter twice before sending, because any one is liable to make a mistake. What Helped Him Out. A certain dealer was out hunting recently, and a storm coming up hecrept into a hollow log for shelter. After the storm abated he endeavored to craw! out, but found that the log had swelled so that it was impossible for him to make his exit. He endeavored to compress himself as much as possible, but with indifferent success. He thought of all the mean things he had ever done, until final- ly his mind reverted to the fact that he had stopped THE TRADESMAN without paying for it for the time he had hadit. This made him feel so small that he slipped out of the Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc. State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers. NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET, GRAND RAPIIUS. - MICHIGAN. We manufacture a full line, use the best material obtainable, and :qelaaaae our goods to be first- class. _ We carry an fimmense stock of Virginia and Tennessee Peanuts, Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- Nuts cans, Wralnuts and Cocoanuts, and compete with any market. &) wit Oranges a onset We handle FLORIDA Or- anges direct from the groves. The crop is large and fine and low prices are looked for. Oyster | i , ‘ { ‘ | lots, cans or in bulk, at the low- STRAICHT CGOODS--NO SCHEME. PLU G. John Caulfield, Sole Agent. ‘Oysters! WW EOLESALSE OYSTER DEPOT! LLY Monroe St. WE HAVE NONE BUT THE BEST BALTI- MORE AND NEW YORK STOCK AND WILL GUARANTEE YOU SATISFACTION. Give us a Trial. Log without difficulty. | F. J. DETTENTHALER, We are agents for the CEL- EBRATED J. S. FARREN & CO.’S Oysters and are prepared to fill orders for large or small est rates. PUTNAM & BROOKS, ' } WM. SEARS & CO. ' { ‘ Cracker Manufacturers, Agents for AMBOY CHEESE. 37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 4 t WALLPAPER & WINDOW SHADES At Manufacturers’ Prices. SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY. i ‘House and Store Shades Made to Order. 68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. NELSON BROS. & CO. Choice Butter a Specialty | BANANAS, LEMONS, EGGS, CHEESE, TABLES, APPLES, CIDER. | | Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders. MC, Russell, 48 Ottawa St. 6'd Rapids, IRA O. GREEN. WW EXOLEISALE Oysters and Fruits. Sole Agent for MANOKEN BRAND. Grand Rapids, Mich. VEG- 80 and 82 Ionia Street - - Quick Work Soap. RETAIL GROCERS in different parts of the State report QUICK WORK the best selling SOAP that they keep. Why? makes your CLOTHES WHITE and CLEAN. It SAVES LABOR and FUEL. It SAVES BOILING and HARD RUBBING. It leaves the HANDS SOFT and SMOOTH, and NO HOUSE FULL OF STEAM. In price IT IS CHEAPER, and is POSITIVELY GUARANTEED equal to SIDDALL’S, ALLISON’S, BOGUE’S, WARD'S, or ELEC- TRIC LIGHT, or any other LABOR SAVING SOAPS in the market and WILL NOT INJURE THE HANDS, or FINEST FABRIC, for it is made of the BEST AND PUR- EST SOAP MATERIAL. QUICK WORK SOAP is packed in 100 or 50 12 02. Bars in a box, with PICTURE CARDS, 3 fb Printed Paper Sacks, Tablets, etc., in each Box, so that it will introduce itself. It has a NEAT OUTSIDE WRAPPER, the INSIDE WRAPPER IS WAXED to smooth the irons. Retail Grocers are invited to send us an order, 3 to 5 Box Lots, DELIVERED FREE to any Railroad Station in the State. J.H. Thompson & Co Wholesale Agents, i { i Because it is exactly as represented. It |59 Jefferson Avenue -— ~- Detroit, Mich.