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Interesting Description of Life at Lyons. A representative of Tuk TRADESMAN recently had along and interesting con- versation with Ex-Consul Edmund B. Fairfield, who not long ago returned from Lyons, France, the field of his con- sular labors. The interview proved so interesting that it was determined to give the result, together with a brief biographical sketch of Dr. Fairfield, to the readers of this journal. Rev. Edmund B. Fairfield, D. D., was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1821. He came to Michigan at an early date, and at 27 years of age was chosen Prineipal of Spring Arbor Academy. Later, when this institution changed its charter and enlarged its field, Decoming known as Hillsdale College, Mr. Fairfield became its President. In all he was twenty-one years at the head of the in- stitution. In 1857 he was elected Senator from Hillsdale county and in 1859 he was elected; ieutenant governor. He was afterwards chosen Principal of the State Normal Schoo} at Indiana, Pa., and later was elected Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, which position he held for six years. A change of views led to his severing his connection with the Free Will Baptist body, in which he had held such a high place, and he connected himself with the Congregationalists. Upon leaving Nebraska he was called to the pastorate of the Congregational church at Mansfield, Ohio, the home of Senator Sherman. Here he had a most successful pastorate of five years, but resigned to return to Michigan. In 1882 he accepted the pastorate of the Congre- gational church in Manistee, where he re- mained seven years, when failing health making a change of climate absolutely necessary, the consulate at Lyons, France, was secured for him. He ac- cepted, resigned his pastorate, and pro- ceeded to his new field of labor. ‘The degrees of A.B., A. M., D. D. and L L. D. have been successively conferred upon him by various institutions of learning of high standing. Dr. Fairfield has a national reputation as an educator, is an eloquent and effective speaker, and is recognized as an author and writer of ability. As Consul he fulfilled the re- sponsible duties of his office to the entire satisfaction of the Government he repre- sented. On the expiration of his term he returned to Michigan and decided to make Grand Rapids his future home. He has purchased a residence in a pleasant part of the city, which he is at present engaged in fitting up and improving in various ways. Here he was found by THE TRADSMAN, and readily responded to the request to ‘‘talk,” with the result given below: ‘‘] went to Lyons in 1889, and was in charge of the consulate there just four years and one day, Secretary Gresham kindly allowing me to finish my term. I had a very pleasant time, and liked living in France very much, though as a place of residence in Europe I prefer Italy. 1 ADESMAN GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1894. have traveled through Turkey, Syria, Egypt and Palestine in the East, and Germany, France, Spain and Italy in the West, and, to my notion, the Italian climate is the finest in the world. But four years absence from my own country was enough for me and I[ was glad to get back. There is such a marked difference in the social customs and manners of that country and our own, that, to one unaccustomed to them, and who has no desire to transform himself into a Frenchman, the change, though for a time having the charm of novelty, is not a desirable one. Let me illustrate: You are invited to an entertainment, as they would say over there, or perhaps it is an invitation to dinner. In either case you are not invited to the home of your entertainer, but to a salon or hotel, where the entertainment or dinner will be given. You never see your host’s wife on such oceasions; she is away somewhere else enjoying herself in her own way, while her lord and master is doing the same for himself. If you return the entertainment, as, of course, you are ex- pected todo, you may see the wife of the man whose hospitality you are recip- rocating. Home life in France is dull, cold and heartless as compared with American home life, but itis not as bad as many travelers have represented it to be. it is true that there is no word in French tu correspond to the sweet, simple, expressive English word ‘thome.’’? But this is not the result of the absence of the thing itself, but of their manner of expressing themselves. For example: lf, while in France, you were to call for a gentleman at his own house, instead of saying to the servant at the door, ‘Is Mr. B——— at home?’ your question, literally interpreted into English, would be, ‘Is Mr. B——-— with himself?’ Just as, where we would say, ‘How do you do?’ on meeting an acquaintance, the Frenchman would say, ‘How do you carry yourself?’ ‘I don’t care to say much about the morals of Freneh society since the dis- graceful disclosures in the Pollard-Breck- inridge case, but this much ean be said in our favor, that such an affair in France would have passed entirely with- out notice. There could have been no suit for damages in that country. It would have been accepted as a matter of course. French social ethics are diplor- ably and notoriously lax; lewdness is the rule rather then the exception. This is due, in my judgment, to two causes: In the first place, the fact that France was for so long, and, indeed is yet, practical- ly athiestical. This has had the effect of destroying, in a large measure, the people’s sense of right and wrong, and giving them very loose ideas of the laws of meum and tuum, even where, as in many instances, uum is your or someone else’s wife. The other cause is the vast numbers of soldiers scattered all over the Republic. In the neighborhood of Lyons there were 50,000 soldiers quar- tered. Itis impossible to describe the degrading effect which such a body of NO. 553 men will have upon the morals of the youth of acity. They will accost young girls on the street, in spite of the fact that the girl is always accompanied by either her father or mother (and no girl is allowed on the street unless she be so accompanied). France another reformation, this Nothing short of tion can save her tion. “Let me tell you something about the eity in which needs time of complete from her society. rehabilita- another revolu- was the headquarters of my consulate. Lyons is a city witha population of 430,000. As you know, perhaps, its chief industry is the manu- facture of silk. To show the extent of this industry, last year the value of the exports from my district to the United States was $11,000,000. Four-fifths of this sum was paid for silk fabrics, and that about represents the value of silk exports as compared with the value of the exports of all other classes of goods. Just at the city limits, on every road leading out of the city, are to be found small buildings, painted on which is the one word ‘‘octroi,” which means bound- ary. An Officer is stationed at each of these buildings whose duty it is to examine all provisions and people who desire to enter the city. If there is any- thing from which they can collect taxes they must collect them. If the articles have been cheerfully exhibited, all is well, but if not, and an attempt is made to conceal the dutiable articles, then the whole lot is confiscated, sold, and the money goes into the city treasury. This is a tax imposed by the city, and is placed upon almost every article which enters into the daily consumption of the people, and in the aggregate amounts to over $3,000,000 a year. In Paris it amounts each year to the large sum of $11,000,000. Noone can escape the pay- ment of these taxes, and as they come out of the citizens finally there is little inclination on the part of the peasantry to evade them. Merchandising in all lines is carried on pretty much as it is here, though I think there is considerably more talking indulged in before a bar- gain is concluded. But that is the French of it. They are, as a nation, incessant and rapid talkers. In France women are even more largely employed as clerks in stores than they are here. But the women are found everywhere in that country—in the factories and vine- yards, the mills and workshops, in the fields and stores. They are doing much that, in this country, is called distine- tively men’s work, and, though physically they may be the better for it, morally they are degraded. “You want me to tell you something about my consulate? Well, let me see what | can think of that will be interest- ing. To begin with, Lyons, though the chief city in the consulate, and consular headquarters, is by no means in the cen- ter of the district, but is away off in one corner of the district. As I have al- ready told you, the manufacture of silk is the chief industry of the district. . THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. You know that Lyons silk is famous the | yards of silk. No bill came with the world over, and the amount exported | goods when they were delivered, and each year seems incredible. My office passed upon 6,000 invoices the last year I was in charge of affairs there. invoices are furnished the consul, one of which must be sent the collector at the port, one is returned to the eonsigner, and one is kept in the consul’s office. If the goods are consigned to an interior point, then still another invoice must be furnished the consul, which is sent to the collector at the interior This may seem like a simple matter, but there is a great deal of labor connected with certifying to these invoices, as you will confess when | have told you about it. These invoices are supposed to give us a correct statement of the goods invoiced, but, as a matter of fact, they very sel- dom do as the anxious to have them passed at as port. so, manufacturer is low a valuation as possible, as it may mean a saving reach So great when the goods America. he will value the goods to the extent of a cent or two a yard. Now the consul could not possibly detect a difference of two frequently under- cents a yard in the value of a piece of silk: so then a number of experts in the consular go sample of the goods (two samples are furnished with each invoice), examine it carefully thread by thread, place a fibre under a microscope, count the number of office must over a threads to the inch, and so determiue the true value of the goods. Frequently errors, as we always called them, were discovered, and the invoice corrected ac- cordingly. The three invoices must ex- actly correspond, as any variation would be fatal when the goods reached Amer- ica. The fee for legalizing an invoice, asitis called, is $2.50, which gave my consulate last year an income of $16,000 from the exportation of silk alone. The expenses of the office, including my own and all other salaries, were paid from the fees. and the surplus went into the U. S. Treasury. We were obliged to fur- nish our own Government with a report every month, and, in addition, 1 wrote over 300 letters of information a year to collectors at the ports of entry. Many times, too, we were called upon by the State Department for information upon certain points. he does his duty, has much more to do than to draw his salary. ‘‘Are there any perquisites? ‘That de- pends. If a man is honest and does the square thing by his Government, are no pickings. But if he goes into the consular service with the feathering his nest, and making all he can out of the office without regard to the ethics of his methods, then there cer- tainly will be pickings, or stealings, or whatever you wish to call them. I had not been in office many hours, when a number of gentlemen called and told me how pleased they were that I had been appointed to that particular consulate. Now, as they knew absolutely nothing about me, I did not see what difference it could make to them what consulate I was appointed to, and I began to be sus- Later, when one of these same So you ‘see a consul, if there intention of picious. gentlemen called and said how pleased he would be if he might be permitted to make my wife a present of a dress pat- tern of 20 yards of silk, I understood the situation perfectly. Of course, if 1 took the present 1 would be expected to be somewhat lenient with the invoices. I refused the present. but later ordered 20 | | |sent a clerk after the bill, with Three | | | | | with no more offers of presents. |} saw that I was not to be bought sixty days passed and no bill came. I instruc- tions to wait till he got it. He got it all | right, and from that time 1 was troubled They into al- Uncle Samuel to be de- At least one of my predeces- sors was not so particular. A Lyons manufacturer told me that the consul borrowed $1,000 of him and left the coun try without returning the money. The manufacturer did not expect him to re- turnit. But 1 think, though there are some dishonest our consular service is the cleanest and best admin- istered in the world. “J remained in France several weeks after my term expired because I had be- come involved ina lowing our frauded. consuls, of a some- peculiar A certain Frenchman left France and went to the United States 25 years ago, taking with him his wife and two children. In America another child was born. Dur- ing the first 15 years of his stay in Amer- ica he managed to accumulate $5,000. Ten years ago he abandoned his family lawsuit what character. and returned to France, where he subse- quently died. Before his death he made a will but left his family nothing. The widow and children also came back to France, and appealed to me to break the will. I took hold of the case and was successful in recovering seven-eighths of property for the family. French law in acase of that kind may be pe- culiar, but it is just to say the least. The law of that country in such matters is that, when a man and wife begin life together with nothing, and property is accumulated, at his death one-half the property belongs to the wife. If he die leaving one child, one-half the remain- he der must go to such child. If two chil- dren are left, then the second child is to receive one-half of the remaining prop- erty, or one-eighth of the whole and so on. This is the law upon which we rested our hopes of recovering the from the devisees. I have already told you that we were successful.”’ >> _-———— More Demand for Peanuts. An artiele recently published in a Ger- man medical journal! by Dr. P. Farbinger is calculated to largely increase the de- mand for peanuts. He maintains that this nut is an extremely useful and nu- tritious article of food, being especially rich in albumen, of which it contains 47 per cent., together with 19 per cent. of fat and non-nitrogenous extractive mat- ter. He recommends the use of roasted peanuts in the form of soup or mush. On account of their cheapness, peanuts are recommended as a popular article of food, especially in poorhouses and the like; moreover, they are recommended as an article of food for the corpulent, for diabetes, and for the subjects of kid- ney disease, in the last mentioned of whom foods rich in animal albumen are to be avoided. See att tila A Big Pile of Money Thirty cubic feet of greenbacks is big pile of money, and is not often seen ia a buneh. ‘That is the size of the pile that was paid into the New York sub-treas- ury the other day by R T. Wilson & Co., the Wall street bankers, in payment for the bonds of the Cherokee nation, which were recently awarded to them after a long legal fight. The money was in all sorts of denominations from $10 bills to $1,000, and amounted in all to $6,740,000. The money will remain in the sub-treas- ury subject to the order of the Cherokee nation. It is to be divided amongst them per capita, and as the nation is not very large, there will be a comfortable | Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. sum for each. | property We have obtained a limited quantity of the admission tickets left after the close of the World’s Fair and offer them as souvenirs of the great event as follows: Original set of four tickets..... es .25 cents Complete set of ten Bekels. .....+. +... Cee The tickets were especially engraved for the World’s Fair by the Ameriean Bank Note Company and the plates were destroyed as soon as the editions were printed, so that no duplicates ean ever be obtained. The tickets bear portraits of Columbus, Handel, Franklin, Washington a:d Lincoln and will soon be worth many times their present cost as souvenirs of the Fair. We control the sale of these tickets in Western Michigan and are prepared to offer the usual diseount to the trade Tradesman Company’, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SPEAKING OF CHEESE QL sen It may be possible for a grocer to handle poor goods in some lines without suffering material loss in trade, but any attempt to palin off on a customer poor butter or cheese al- most invariably results Ina permanent loss of trade. always possible for the dealer to It is not vet <2 good butter, but it is comparatively easy to procure uniform cheese of good quality, providing the dealer insists on handling the standard brand which has been longest identified with this market. or > ly a a i SHAR Tr. "gACTOR® AF ULLCREAM CHEESE {A GRANDRAPIDS. MICH. This brand has stood the test of time and is universally conceded to lead all other full, cream brands in uniformity, richness and general excellence. “4 » 4 ~ 45 ee 4 4 » - be we { ° 2 = re < “4 » <4 aie oa 4 » - eG u { ° ¢ £ a THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 8 AN OLD-TIME GROCER. Status of the Trade Forty Years Ago. ‘I see that the farmers don’t like the present price of wheat,’’? remarked Ran- som C. Luce, the other day. ‘Well, 1 don’t think myself there is much money in it, but I remember when wheat brought less than half what it does now right here in Grand Rapids. A man took a letter to the postoftice and it cost him a bushel of wheat for postage. It was in 1834-5 when it cost 25 cents to post a letter, and wheat was only worth 25 cents a bushel. That was the price here for some time, and wheat was a drug in the market. People did not write many letters in those days, I ean tell you —it cost too much money to post them. Money was much searcer in proportion then than now, and 25 cents was a big We looked at things dif- ferently in those days. A with $10,000 was a rich when I was young. Now-a-days $100,000 is not con- sidered extravagant riches. There was one thing that occurred here during the wildeat banking days that I want to tell you about. Just after the commission- ers had made their rounds, a gentleman doing business in Grand Rapids at that time filled his saddle bags with old nails and scrap iron and started to go to an- other town with the intention of open- ing a bank. What he had in his saddle bags was supposed to be specie, upon which he would be allowed to issue so much paper money. He did not open the bank, however, as the crash came before he got things into shape. That may sound funny, but it is actually true, and you will understand from this how stable money would be based on old nails and serap iron, and yet much of the money of those days had no better foun- dation. Between wildcat money and counterfeit money, the people had a hard time getting what belonged to them. I madea nice little stake once out of what was generally supposed to be a counterfeit. Bills of a certain de- nomination issued by a well-known bank were said to be counterfeits. I did not think they were, and said so; but the people were scared, and that was enough. I said that 1 would take all of those bills that were brought to me at 90 per cent. of their face value. They proved to be genuine and | made about $100. Another time a rumor reached here that a Mr. Smith, who owned a bank in Atlanta, Georgia, and had ex- tensive business interests in Milwaukee, had failed. There was a great deal of his money in circulation and the holders of it became thoroughly alarmed. I did not believe that Smith had failed. There did not seem to be any reason for it, and, anyway, there was no positive in- formation to that effect, merely a rumor. Sol told everyone who came into the store that I would take Smith’s notes at 90 per cent., paying for them in trade. I was called a fool and a number of other hard names, but I was right again. One man brought in a $10 bill. He didn’t want to trade it all out then, so I gave him a due bill, and when he heard that Smith was sound he wanted his money back, but I couldn’t see it that way and he had to take the goods. Yes, I madea little that time, too. sum of money. man man ‘There is not much to tell about my storekeeping in the old days. It was old-fashioned, like myself, but it filled its place better than most of us do. Trade was almost entirely in the staples —pork, flour, tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, | salt, pepper and the like. There were | few fancy groceries, for people had no | money to spend on luxuries; could get the necessaries of life, they were well satisfied. Pork was the prin- cipal meat, although, as deer were plen- tiful, and the streams and_ lakes abounded with fish, there was no reason why the people should not have had fresh meat. I packed most of the pork brought to this market. I would work all day in the store, and at night, after locking up, would pack pork until 1 and 2 o’clock in the morning. There was a good sale for it, as there were a great many lumber camps in this vicinity then and they consumed large quantities of pork. There was a little money in it, too; I made from $5 to $8 per barrel. “When I first went into the grocery business nearly all our supplies had to be teamed here from Battle Creek, later from Marshall, and later still from Kala- mazoo. It took four or five days to make the round trip to Battle Creek and return, and it was tbe dreariest and most dismal road imaginable. I went to sleep coming home one night, and fell off the wagon and went down under the horses’ feet. I was badly frightened, but not much hurt. I got as far as Ada one Christmas eve about supper time. 1 wanted to spend Christmas at home, and so, though the roads were in an awful condition, I started for home after sup- per. I got here between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning, having been over six hours going ten miles. ‘I have tried to tell you of some of the things we had to coutend with and of some of the hardships we had to endure in those early days; but I have only be- gun to talk. It would take a whole vol- ume to tell the story of pioneer life in this part of Michigan, and, besides, | am not much of a story teller. Some other time, perhaps, I may talk to you again.”’ > <> A Pathetic Farewell. A country mipister in a certain local- | ity took permanent leave of his congre- gation in the following pathetic manner: Brothers and sisters, I come to say good bye. I don’t think God loves this church, because none of you ever die. I don’t think you love each other, because I never marry any of you. I don’t think you love me, because you nave not paid my salary. Your donations were mouldy fruit and wormy apples, and by their fruits ye shall know them. Brothers, I am going away toa better place. I have been called to be chaplain of a peniten- tiary. Where I go ye cannot come, but I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be also. a. E Warz. 2 -o- 2 = The Drug Market. Gum opium is dull and lower. Reports from the growing crop indicate a large yieldaand, as the prospective tariff ap- pears far oft, holders are inclined to un- load at reduced prices. Morphine, in sympathy with opium, has declined 10 cents per ounce. Powdered opium is also lower, for same reasons. Gum camphor has declined, on account of the competition of Japanese refined. Oil lemon isin large supply and lower. The combination of manufacturers have fixed the selling price for Paris green as follows: roec Ween, WS We...... .........,.. 2% be engaged unless all Boas, te to tee ie..............;....- 21 ee 22 Eee ioe. peeneees..... ........ Cit eeeceneecune ae ‘1D. peOkeges...........- bas ss ae 10. Vechiees.......... eee eek ches ee Rebates: 50u to 1,000 Ibs., le; 1,000 to 2,000 Ibs , 1%c; 2, 10 to 4,0 0 Ibs., 2c. Terms, payable Julv 1, ora discount of 6 per cent. per annum for unexpired time. Linseed oil is low, on account of a pressure to sell. Turpentine has declined. THE MILKY WAY. Serious Accident to the West Side Bean Merchant. Most business men have a ‘‘fad’’?— hobby to which they devote more or less attention. W. T. Lamoreaux is no exception to the general rule. He has a hobby, and his hobby isa cow. The cow is, appar- ently, a mild-mannered sort of an ani- mal, but a close acquaintance with the bovine discloses the fact that she isa high-bred affair and comes under Bill Nye’s description of his own cow—one- half cow and the other half byena. Mr. Lamoreaux is universally regarded as a very modest man, seldom indulging in any statements which could be con- strued as being of a boastful character. The only thing which has ever tempted him to kick over the traces in this re- spect is the possession of this cow, which forms the chief topic of his con- versation by day and the chief subject of his dreams by night; in fact, his admira- tion for his cow had reached that point where his friends feared he would be- that the bath tub used by Mr. Lamoreaux that forenoon bore strong evidence of a Fee SALE—LARGE buttermilk bath. cow came in for her full share of criti- cism and, when Mr. Lamoreaux returned | home that night, he was fully determined to drive her off tothe slaughter house or sell her to the nearest milkman. Owing to the opposition of his family, however, he concluded to give the cow another trial, and he now carries his midday lactine refreshment in atin bottle, with a screw top. Mr. Lamoreaux’s cow investment has not proved as profitable as some of his other ventures. His neighbors claim that he feeds the cow a tubful of bran mash twice a day and that, in conse- quence of the extravagant character of the ration, the milk which he could pur- chase for 10 cents a quart costs him not less than 25 cents a quart. Moreover, the neighbors are se incensed over the manner in which he stuffs the animal that they have reported him to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and his friends need not be surprised if they hear of his paying a Court fine in the Police some of these come a monomaniac on the subject. | days. Their fears were dispelled one day last week, when he discovered—ap- parently by accident—that an overcoat pocket is not a good thing in which to transport the chief product of the cow. He started down town at the usual time in the morning with his pockets crammed full of the usual complement of dough- nuts and bottles of milk, intended for his noonday luneh. In getting on the street car, his coat pocket came in con- tact with the railing in such a way as to fracture the bottles, and, on entering the car, the passengers were edified with the spectacle of a man leaking milk in several different places. Milk was run- ning down his overcoat, inside and out- side, and his pantaloons clung to his limbs after the manner of a man who had submitted to baptism by immersion. An eye witness of the catastrophe asserts that Mr. Lamoreaux did not appear to enjoy his predicament and that he looked as though he would like to use language unbecoming a communicant of the Foun- tain Street Baptist Church. It cost him $4 torestore his garments to their pris- tine freshness, and the colored porter at the Morton House barber shop asserted however, A year ago Mr. Lamoreaux conceived the idea that he would like to rear a Jer- sey calf. He fed the calf on whole milk until a little figuring disclosed the fact that the embryo milker had consumed $40 worth of milk, when he wisely con- cluded that it would be more economical to sell the calf for $25 than continue a speculation so utterly devoid of profit to all concerned. The calf speculation naturally recalls Mr. Lamoreaux’s attempt to raise hogs for profit a dozen or so years ago. He bought a couple of -healthy shoats for $12, fed them $18 worth of corn and then sold the whole outfit for $15. When re- proached over his investment, he invar- iable fell back on the favorite argument of Horace Greely and remarked: ‘‘Yes, I lost on the corn, but I made on the hogs.”’ All of which goes to show that Mr. Lamoreaux knows more about beans than he does about either dairying or hog culture. i — i
  • be gained in a lawsuit. | Fraitof the Loom ¥. 7 ode Nonpareil ..1 : Clark's Mile End....45 |Barbour's..... . ....% L lf acontract be made to be paid in| ee 4 | Coats’, J.&P....... * Marehaits.... ......0 ga ee : oy White a. os Holyoke 2 wheat, pork, gold, or any other com- | ¥U!! Value.......... x. --. : 84 a Serew | * é ; | HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. KNITTING COTTON. eo; modity, the court, in adjudicating it, | eee ne seeeeee eres | (Dwight Anchor..... 8 . White. Colne’. \ White. Colored : le / ! anno Me 6. > oe — nt for so many dol- | Catieaenesntox Ts Eecned. ° 8 ae = 0. = 37 . + 3 ee > | ars of lawful money as might be Te- | Housewife A... --.5%|Housewife Q.. a_i. 10... 3% 21. es “4 5 : quired to make up the ascertained value | 5... +S Reese eee, 7 CAMBRICS. : ie | 7s of the wheat, pork or gold. A contract | “ . 6 “ s ea on Slater..... . 4 |Edwards........... 4 ‘| ' . ek ; : 2 ee Bc 92 | White Star......... 4 |Lockwood......... 4 “ stipulating payment in gold is no more} ‘i “a Tq! ss io ae ce Cie ........:. 4 j|Wood’s.... . _ - than if some other article were specitied. | a eee 74| ._ ... re a bol ' : a a q ed 7%| “ ....... 2 RED FLANNEL. e A contract payable in United eet ' : S : a. 2. | Vien...... ....- rw ................ ee gold coin may be satisfied in any lawful | So 9n| oe atiae _ ear, 1 Spe De enon aos = > . ’ é | : | i money of the United States. The} : L =e ——. a. oe Manufacturers and Jobbers of e 5 United States Government has contracted | ae ee MIXED FLARE. ‘ to maintain a silver dollar to be as good i > cae 1“ | = on — nc wa Sey Cl ia ee TINWARE, as a gold dollar, and one of its paper | CARPET WARP. eee. 2 jaan 18% | Telephone 640. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH S . Peerlens, white... ...17 cntegetay colored. ..18 6 oz Western.......-. 20 |Flushing XXX...... 23% dollars to be as good as either. There-| “ — ‘colored....19 | White Star.......... 17 | Union B............29%|Manitoba........... 2344 fore, in the purview of the law, one dol- | Mtegrity..----.--. -. 18%) “ colored .19 a n \4 dea DRESS GOODs. Nameless ..... eS 9 @10% lar is as good as another, and any con-| Hamilton......... “2 ~~ ceetee ste = nn S410 et ce 12% s . . a ae vectte sees CANVASS AND PADDING. fy tract may be discharged with any law- A ae ce 104) tt setceeeeenes ts Slate. Brown. Black./Slate Brown. Black. ore ' im a“ i iz bee Oe eee % ful money of the country. |Nameless----.0-6 | S222 12a on ne role ies on NEW STYLES OF They Can Read Writing. ca ee a e me ts ig) Fe 0 A St. Louis drummer says that the | Coraline............8 50| Wonderful el rc DUCES. Nr ~ fm typewriter has cost him a good many Schilling’s a venesees oo Severen, 8 oz........ 9%|West Point, 8 oz....10% oa oe - / i : es 2 Wi Dorwree’s .........- 9 WW! Maviand. 8oz....... ' ook customers in the backwoods districts of | Grand Rapids..... 4 50|Abdominal........ 15 00 econo), Ti os. — Raven. ie oi ine id Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Terri- CORSET JEANS. Greenwood, 8 ox....11%|Stark “|... ....13% Ui ik tory. He tells of a visit that he made in | Armory ...--. - 6%|Naumkeagsatteen.. 7% | Boston, 8 oz......... 1036|Boston, 10 oz........ 12% ’ d the country some thirty miles from New- Androscoggin... mee : ; of we WADDINGS. > port, Ark., to a customer who had al-! Brunswick...... .. 6%|Walworth ...... .-. 6% ae veeees 7 _ 2 dos....83 50 } } cs wae : a i PRINTS, Solored, dos........20 |Colored “ ....... 7 50 ; ay . ived him gladly and — | Allen turkey reds.. 5%|Berwick fancies.... 54% SILESIAS. 5 tained him royally. This time the robes........ 5}4|Clyde Robes........ Slater, Iron Cross... 8 Pawtucket 16 merchant would hardly speak to him,} ‘“ pink « purple 5 5% Charter Oak fancies 4 Red Cr ee % U ~ and his wife and daughters turned their! {, pres %4|DelMarine cashm’s. 54) « 'Beatord backs, and walked out of the store when| « ae sean 3 Eddystone Fancy . oe e a —_ Ay he entered. The situation was soon! “ shirtings ... 3%! chocolat ee il explained. Said the merchant, tossing a | American fancy.... sel power... 5% SEWING SILK ' aL ; Ses we, | Americanindigo .. “ _ gateens.. 5% i ee LST “ * typewritten letter toward him: ‘You | american shirtings. a Hamilton F a a cll, do hs > (Corticetn ee, ) think up thar in St. Louis thet me an’ | Argentine Grays.. staple - BK 50 yd. doz. = trees ’ my darters can’t read ’ritin’, do you? An’ a Shirtings.. 4 ‘Manchester fancy oi _. HOOKS AND EYES—PER anos. 20 & 2 7 oo os i my letters Arnold Merino. 8 Merrimack D fancy. 5% No 1 Bk & White..10 [No 4BI'k & White..15 2 Monroe St., pri ! ue drummer ex- “long clo |Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 “ 8 “ 8 “ 49 ss "Os GRAND RAPIDS. plained the machine on which the work} « centurycloth 7 Pactn — 8% TNS. was done, and the universality of its use| « gold ee ae 10%| aor Ln a No 2—20,M C....... 50. [Not—i5 # 3%...... 40 ° by business houses; the man would not| ‘‘ green seal Tik 10% Portamouth a -— oe aed lec believe that there was any such machine,| ;, Jellow seal. 1096 |stmpeon mo mourning.. 5% | No 2 White & BI’'k.12 [No 8 white&Brr.2 |CHILDREN CRY FOR IT and persisted in considering the letter as| « ‘ethos zed.iom| « Soiabisck. 5u| “ : - ise an : a printed circular and a personal affront. | Ballon solid black.. |Washington indigo. 6% ' - es 1% «2% T : : 1 i ee @ a colors. 4 : Turkey robes.. 7 SAFETY PINS. ADULTS ADORE IT. A True Helpmate i po ne, green, i aro meee... .... we eee ck 38 wc . ‘ wae : : and orange... 6 | “ plain Mky X& 8% DEALERS HANDI F Wife—“I have made two hundred | Berita solida........ 5% z<3 ela M. : E IT =e —— wey 1 blue.. i . Se Tur- ra Scomene nd 1 Sieenbent. i ca -- | WHAT? usband—‘ ew!” ‘ green .... |__ key r owe = eee 2 orecee Eyed.......... 1 50 . a “ Foulards . . 5| Martha Washington —__ ae 100 anulioen eee You paid only three hundred dollars | “ red%&.... . 7 | Turkey red on % TABLE Ot CLOTH. en WHY for ae old piano, didn’t you? } a SB. _ 4 Man — og (oO 1% 64.. [54.1 65 6—4...2 30 ' “Yes a rkey red........ “Well. I have sold it for fi b us “ 34XXXX 12 |Riverpoint robes.... 5% a ATLAS ous ’ ve hun-| | Cocheco taney a : Wingeorfency = 6% | Cotton Sail Twine. "28 aan 4 red.”’ ers... \ ol cket | Crown .............. Rising * Staréply....17 | SOAP ‘iM! “ XXtwills..5 | indigo biue....... 10% | Domestic ........... 18% ' ee My! my! What are you going to do | ._ oe & [Harmony......... . & ae... ae ae > ; with the money? TICKINES. ee 13 |Wool Standard 4 plyi7% | Made ue ‘‘There isn’t any money.” | Amoskeag ACA....i1%/AC A..... ........ 11% | Cherry Valley......15 |Powhattan ....... ns) “Eh” Hamilton N er 4 een Ad ASA Ce ee, ‘18% Tl Onl «J a. oe a "7 PLAID OSNABURGS 7 Isold it toa dealer. He gives-mea/| ss Awning. . watt River......... 75 | Alabema............ 6% {Mount Pleasant,... 6% r - new piano for a thousand dollars and | Piret Pige Pe ee “solar i fiver ——- — Ee 6% “ana leer he eeu 5 By |Warren....... ae ee le, 7 eee : allows me five hundred dollars for the! Lenox Mills - 18° HOOmMNEAOD 0.00... 16 a “Ge ag onmatmess be ced ule yy old one. If you’d stay at home, and let | COTTON DBILL. Georgia a 634|Riverside........... 5 | HENRY PASSOLT me go to your office and attend to your | | £Sem, SS aes ox ge a o. a. ants errs 5% vas _- aia a aia al 6% r ’ ee a i 3 ae Biver......... 8 eee : 7 business, you’d soon be rich. | cuteom, Kl. lo2 7 fropof Heap.....-.. , eS ......2..., ; eae. 7 | SAGINAW MICH. oceans ~ s REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. Albert Norris, the Casnovia General Dealer. Albert Norris was born in Niagara county, near the city of Lockport, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1838. His father was a farmer. The Sates came to this State in 1850, stopping fora year in the vicinity of Battle Creek, removing from there to Maple Grove, Barry county. This was their home for five years, when Mr. Nor- ris sold out and moved to Assyria town- ship, where he remained until his death, which occurred thirty-four years later. Albert had the usual checkered life in- cident to country boyhood upon a farm. He attended schoo! during the winter months, while the summer months were passed in the ordinary occupations of a farmer’s boy. No boy ever lived who did not imagine he was doing at least the work of two men, and Albert was, probably, no exception to the rule. He managed to worry along, however, until the death of his mother, which event oc- curred when he was 16 years of age. Shortly after losing his mother the boy left the parental roof and_ started to make his own way in the world. Going to the vicinity of Battle Creek he ‘“shired out” by the month as a farm hand, which he continued until attaining his majority, which he reached in 1859. About this time he was married to Miss Mary Smith, of Battle Creek; who, in the years that have followed, has proved an efficient helpmeet in the struggles of life. Upon his marriage he bought forty acres of land and began life as an independent farmer. In 1873 he sold his property in Calhoun county, and came north to Casnovia, Muskegon county. Here he took up the trade of carpentering, which he had learned by doing his own building while in Barry county. This he followed for five years, accomplishing much in the way of edu- cating his children, and making a rep- utation for himself as an honorable and upright man and citizen. He failed to see, however, that he was making much headway in material things. He aban- doned the plane and hammer, therefore, purchased a meat market, donned a white apron, whittled his jacknife, and —waited. He had not long to wait. The venture was successful from the start, and proved the stepping stone to a conspicuously successful business career. He continued to cut roasts, steaks and chops, to the satisfaction of Casnovia epicures, for seven years, doing business in rented premises. At the expiration of this period he erected a brick store building, sold out the meat business, put in a stock of drugs and in- stalled his son, James L., who is a reg- istered pharmacist, in charge of the bus- iness. Two years later a grocery de- partment was added, and in 1886 he built another store adjoining the first, the two being connected by an archway. The new building was stocked with a full line of hardware aud building ma- terials. On his first entry into the drug business Mr. Norris had taken his son, James L., into partnership, the firm name being A. Norris & Son. The firm carry a stock of watches and jewelry, and are also dealers in lime, tile, brick and ag- ricultural implements. They own and conduct a grain elevator and buy all kinds of farm produce. Mr. Norris is the father of four child- ren, two boys and two girls. The elder _THE MICHIGAN son, James L., has nieans been intro- duced. The younger, Fred A., years ago elected to be a tinsmith, learned the trade, and now has charge of all the firm’s work in that line. Of the two daughters, the elder, Fanny, is married, and, with her husband, resides in Cas- novia. The younger daughter, Bertha, is the only child now left in the home nest, as the two sons are also married. i Treat Them Right. From the Chicago Dry Gooas Reporter. It is decidedly poor policy to treat the traveling salesmen who enter your store with their samples in an unpleasant or slightly discourteous manner, even if you do not want goods at the time, or prefer other houses than those with which they are connected. These people want your trade and are always willing to extend trade courtesies (legitimate ones, we mean here) to secure it. They always know of peculiarly good offer- ings suitable for ‘‘drives,’’? but the amount of goods of which is limited. They will be likely to let their best friends, or those whom they have most hope of getting as customers, hear of these offerings, either personally or by mail in case they are home when the offerings are put on sale. It is surely just as much your interest to know of particularly good chances of getting exceptional bargains asthe consumers whom you seek to at- tract to your store by advertisements of cut price sales. The same general principles apply to the wholesale as well as to the retail trade, and a little instance drawn from the former will demonstrate the truth of the facts enunciated above as applied to the latter. In charge of a certain department in one of the leading Chicago wholesale dry goods houses is aman who has made himself unpopular among the trade by the dis- agreeable manner in which he treats everyone except the ‘‘fattest” customers. In fact, some people go so far as to say that Re actually ‘‘queers’’ his depart- ment, and that they really do not see how the house ean afford to keep him in their employ. His department is one that deals mostly with imported goods, and he is often called upon by repre- sentatives of the largest and best Euro- pean houses. Frequently one of these men whom he may not have seen for months will approach him with an out- stretched hand and a pleasant good-day on his lips. The department manager is just as likely as not to grumble out something that sounds like ‘Don’t want anything,’’? and to turn cn his heel and leave the astonished traveler on the spot. Of course, the European representatives do not like such treatment, and avoid that house if possible. When they have anything particularly good in this man’s line he is the last one in the city to hear of it. Thus does his meanness return on his own head and work real injury to the interest of his employers. i A Kentucky woman recently brought suit against a railroad for killing her horse and her husband. She got$150 for the horse and 1 cent for the husband. Hardware Price Current. hese prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGCURS AND BITS. dis. = ee 60 WO a 40 ime WO 25 eae, wees... ke... k. 50&10 AXES. First Quality, 8. . Bronze.. eo elee -.8 7 00 D. oe 1x 00 ' SBS Steel tidceucsces-sceu- OGG ' I. B Beeel...... .... 13 50 BARROWS. dis, Railroad eee es $ 14 00 Caceee.......... 2... .. bet 3000 BOLTS. dis. Stove. ... este el. Carriage ae 75&10 A eee ee an gen 40&10 Sleigh ee 70 BUCKETS, Wer pees ...........:..4............ 4... $350 Well meevel....... i... 400 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Geet Loose Pin. fared... .... 2.2... ooo an 70& Wought Narrow, bright 5ast joint..........60&10 TRADESMAN reese Eee Pe. 8. Ok 7 lien lll HAMMERS, Li ee, Bal | | Maydole Oe ie co, dis. 25 Wrought pee De er hi oe dis 25 Wrought Brass............ a 40) MGewee Grime. an 40&10 ee, CN 70&16 | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . .80¢ list 60 Sera, Fereers................... 70&10 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand.. - 800 40&10 ie Weer 8c. 70 | HINGES. BLOCKS — ig A . dis.60&10 Ord i ui ) “per ‘dos, net, 2 50 rdinary Tackle, list April 1892..... .....60&10| cae ‘Hook ‘and ‘Strap, ‘to 42 in. 4% 14 and CRADLES. OR ee 3% ee dis, 50&02 | Screw Hook and Eye, %................. net 10 onow name. le «= s 5 2 eee rere 5 | * “ Benson a uae Stpene? a 50 ly’s 1- 8. oe 10 F i eile ee 4 | Barn Door Kidder Mfg. C ‘w ood track... .50&10 an ee “ 35 | Champion, anti-friction.. : £0&10 Musket eh “ 6g | Ren, Weld (EGE te 40 ee | git hy CARTRIDGES. | Pota.. nee 60&10 ce eee... Seas Se GL 60410 Central Fire eed ce sceee . dis. Met eeecere.. ..... 8 = CHISELS. | Gray enameled.. 40&10 an a HOUSE FURNISHING aoops. socket Firmer..................-.-...-.. ae 10 | Stamped a Were... -new lint 70 Socket Fraiming....... a Ne 10 | Japanned Tin Ware.. : COO 5&10 Bocmccomeee ......................- &10 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.. a COMBS, ° oT pewieneee..... : 40 Hotchkiss . Sea cces 5) CHALK. White Crayons, per gross.... -- 12Q1l2z% dis, 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut tosize... .. - — 28 i4 4x52, 14x56, 14x60 .... 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and eM 23 Cold Rolled, ——......................... 23 memes oe 25 DRILL8. dis. Mores Eat Steeme ....... 50 ‘apes Ge eiretent Sueek................... 50 maroc @ Peper sues. ..................... 50 DRIPPING PANS. ees ee er oe ....................... 07 Derge aiaceh, per powned...... tl. | OE ELBOWS. oe ee e%................... met | 78 Corrugated . ee cee seu oe ese oo Oe 40 epee... co. dia. 40610 EXPANSIVE BITS, dis. Clark's, amall, $18: larga, @6............... 30 avee, 1, Ge: = Oe, 2 g FILES—New List. dis Disston’s ...... a New Avertcay ..... ................... ...60810 I 60410 Weer ee eo 50 Ercher a SOraG Mame... 8.5... 8... 50 GALVANIZED IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27 28 List by 13 14 15 16 17 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50 KnNoBs—New Liat. dis, Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 55 Door, porcelvin, trimmings ................ 55 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain............. 70 LOCKS—DOOR. dis. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 Matory, Wueoler & Co. #................... 55 Ce 55 we ee 55 MATTOCEKS. Ree ee = 00, 9 60 ae ve. = Hants. ....- Sperry & Co.’s, Post, ane. . * 50 MILLS, - Coffee, oa Cam... .... 40 P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’ 5 Malleables.. 40 “ Landers, Perry & Ciores............ 40 “« Enterprise .... —. 30 MOLASSES GATES. dis. Seopa’ s Patsers................-... Cogee ae 60410 Se gE ee ee ee Enterprise, self-measuring............ on NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. eee ee Oe ee oto 1 50 eee Gee ee, gs we i 50 eee Base Base Re ee soe acc ay 10 40. 25 > ............................. 25 SS. 35 EE 45 7. 45 50 60 7 90 12 1 60 1 60 65 5 90 7 90 - 8 Seca 1 10 Clinch! 10. eed oe eee 7 us S... 80 “a 90 Barrell %..... Loe o. 7 PLANES. dis. Cree eo Oe 6 Pane... @4v Seeeees 8 ... . 50 Sanduaky Toe! Co.'s, Caney... .. 2.6... .000- @40 Meer, Ure Guerer...... 8 ect tee @40 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood. . ....50&10 PANS. a Bee dis.60—10 a, polished Oe ges oes cece. dis. 70 BIVETS. dis. Te 40 Copper Siveta and Hurs................... . 5-10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. “A? Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 “B? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 Broken 5 4C per pound extra. Granite Iron Ware _. new lst saya WIRK goons, | Bilght.. . soasease | Screw Eyes... - 70810810 Hook’s . 70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Eyes. Mn 70810810 LEVELS. dis.7) Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ROPES. Sisal, zone larger ...... ee ae Mantiia..... i. o BQuAt LEE. dis. Bie wd tron... «= ..:........ eave. 7 Try and Bevels. ' | et {tre a. ioe eee a eee ae bee 26 SHEET IRON, Com. Smooth. Com. Mom, to 14............ ' 4 05 2 94 Nos. 15 to 17 -. 40s 3 05 Nos. 18 to 21. eit eee ee. | Oe 8 05 oe Se . 406 3 15 ge agg ee «- £40 3 25 Re a........ 445 3 35 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, ‘over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra BAND PAPER, a dis 50 SAB corp. Silver Lake, Wane A... liat 50) paee A... ' 55 : Wore 2 ...........,...... ¢ 50 . Drab B..... 55 " werec .... ..... ... @ 35 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS, Solid Hyes...... : i .- per ton 825 ‘SAWS. dis. . ee 20 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 70 a Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot. 50 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30 “ ¢ ampion and Electric Tooth X Cus, pec tome... 30 TRAPS. dis. Steel, Game...... dt ecee a oe Oneida Community, Newhouse’s......... 35 Oneida C a — & ene 8. 70 Mouse, choker.... .... en .18¢ per dos Mouse, Nee aT "81.50 per dos WIRE, dis. EE EE 85 Annealed Market.. oo -70—-10 Coppered Market.............. ee 60 woonee Maree... 62% Copperea Spriue Siew ................. |. 50 Barbed Fence, galvanized... 2 66 _ painted ...... 2 2 HORSE NAILS. Au Sable eee, eu dis. 40&10 Wane... dis. 05 ecmte womens... dis. 10410 WRENCHES. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. 36 Coe’s Genuine 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, 5 Coe’s Patent, malleabie.... " -T&10 MISCELLANEOUS, dis. pare Cope ww i 50 Pease Cen. 75&10 porcwe mewlue........................ - 70&16 Catone, Bee 4 @ Piste.................- B0&10810 Dampers, American.. ‘ Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.. — “esaio METALS, PIG TIN. Pig —-:: ee ede eet ares eG 26¢ Pig Bars.. 2... ee 28¢ ZING. Duty: Sheet, 24c per pound. rw Ce ' 6% Per pO... og 7 SOLDER, 4% - ce eu oe AE Extra Wiping . Lelees eS The prices of the ‘many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. nee LS per pound TE ee —MELYK GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal Ret eeeea ett ceeueccues |... 87 50 14x20 IC, eee ees el ee aa i r 9 25 9 2€ Each caditional X on this grade, 81.7 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE. 10xi¢ — 7 75 14x20 [ : 6 75 10x14 a " 8 25 14x20 IX, , 9 25 Each additional X on this grade $1.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, ™ Weeeoser.................. 6 Su 14x20 IX, ' oa ee ee 8 50 20x28 IC, ' ee 13 50 14x20 IC, “ Having re-or anized our business and acquired the fae- tory building and machinery formerly occupied by the Hud- son Pants & Gverall Co., we are prepared to furnish the trade a line of goods in pants, overalls, shirts aiid jackets which will prove to be trade winners wherever introduced. are not already handling our goods, and wish to secure 1 communicate with of our line solicited. Kare, PresidentTand Gen’] Manager. VooRHEES, Superintendent. you the A ately. An inspection a = E. D. agency for your town, if us immedi 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs® Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Two Years—George Gundrum, Ionia. Three Years—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan. Four Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. Five Years—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. President—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Treasurer—Geo. Gundram, Ionia. Coming Meetings—Star Island, June 25 Houghton, Sept. 1; Lansing, Nov. 6 and 7. and 26; elle — Michigaa State Pharmacettical Ass’n. President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit. Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. — Secretay—S. A. Thompson, Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, Walter K.Schmidt; Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder. Powdered Medicinal Extracts. Solid extracts of vegetable drugs to be of requisite’ quality should possess, in a marked degree, the distinguishing char- acteristics of the material of which they are made. Each should present a dis- tinctive individuality and in those sub- stances in which the active constituent is alkaloidal, precise assay should show a full average percentage. Odor and taste should be fully preserved, and that excess of inert matter, usually denomi- nated ‘extractive’? and largely predomi- nating in this class of articles as usually found, should be avoided or materially diminished by skill of process. The choice of a proper solvent or menstruum for the active properties of a drug in- volves experience and extended observa- tion. Error in, or indifference to, this es- sential is quite likely to result in a mini- mum of active constituent loaded with a maximum of ‘“‘extractive.’”’ Both physi- cian and pharmacist wiil realize that this means again in bulk and weight, and thereby a commercial advantage, but the therapeutic purpose and object are less- ened to a culpable degree. The initial point, of course, in this as in all other classes of finished pharmacuetical prod- ucts, is the selection of good, sound drugs —a quality of which, better than the av- erage. is not too good, and often not good enough. Then the process, in allits de- tail of reduction from liquid to solid, should be carried from beginning to full completion, within the vacuum still or vessel, at such controlled or regulated temperature that heat can in nowise prove a destructive element. As com- plete an exclusion of surrounding atmos- phere as is possible preéludes that tend- ency which, it is known, induces a change in the state of single and asso- ciated alkaloids, and disturbs that nice adjustment in which these exist in a na- tive or natural condition. With the ap- plication of a proper degree of skill and the scrupulous pains which such impor- tant agents as medicinal extracts should always receive at the hands of the man- ufacturer, it is believed that this class of products can be made to present such unusual features of excellence as are not generally met with in commerce. Did the conditions of demand and use justify entering upon the preparation aright, of solid extracts, among the other operations of the dispensing pharmacist, and could the necessary apparatus be satisfactorily applied, the character of products would prove quite a revelation in knowledge to the uninitiated—that is to say that the attainment of complete and perfect products results in a class of preparations so totally unlike what we are accustomed to see as to offer sugges- tive ideas to the novice and the student. We should be enabled to learn much have of the substance known as ‘‘vege- table extractive.” Of course, we are aware that those active and potent prin- ciples of vegetable substances are inti- mately associated with and closely in- volved with the juice, sap and plant composite. But we must acquire a knowledge of how these can be sep- arated from each other without injury to each, and must learn, moreover, that the material from vegetable structure and organism, which yields to the solvent ac- tion of liquids, varies greatly under dif- ferent circumstances in kind, quality and amount of bulk. This clearly points to a need of more knowledge of the char- acter, proportion and quality of the men- strunum which should be employed. Per- colation with warm and cold solvents; the use of that percentage of spirit which would solve neither sugar nor gum; a prolonged action of aqueous men- struum inducing a certain chemical un- ion of starch and tannin; the formation and character of ‘‘apothem,”’ that al- most inevitable concomitant of vegetable infusion; the changes of color which oc- cur in the course of evaporation or con- centration; existing conditions of atmos- phere favorable or unfavorable to drying and powdering—these are a few of the numerous agencies which merit study and attentidn, and which, if not be- stowed at times during the progressive stages of manipulation, will result in unsatisfactory and it may be indifferent products. Wma. B. THompson. a oe 4 ‘ = a THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Wholesale Price Current. Advanced— Declined—Gum Opinm, Gum Opium po., Morphia, Gum Camphor, Oil Lemon, Linseed Oil , Turpentine. ACIDUM. eee Benzoicum ae. Boracic a6 ‘ Carbolicum . oe ee gece ee as eee... Nitrocum i Oxalicum . we Phosphorium ae Salicylicum . An Sulphuricum.. Tannicum... ion Tartaricum........... AMMONIA. Aqua, 16 deg.. . 4m 6 mr Gee... 6@ 8 Ce Cmigsidum ............ Ea i ANILINE. Be 2 0O@2 2 otk ag 80@1 00 ee........,,.....-.... a on eee 2 50@3 00 BACCAE, Cubeae (po 36).,.... 4@ WB ee 8@ 10 Xanthoxylum . 2 30 BALSAMUM, COetOe ...... a. @ Peru. . . @2 09 Terabin, ( Canada .... 60@ 65 Tolutan . a“ 35@ 50 CORTEX. Abtos, Camadian............ 18 Comes .......... 11 Cinchona Flava ... 18 Euonymus atropurp.. 30 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 Pres Voree..-........... 12 oe 10 ee 12 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 EXTRACTUM. Glycyrrhiza en: 2U@ B es 3@ 3 Haematox, 15 tb. box.. 110 ' PO cee dcveee 13@ 14 ' A ck. 14@ 15 " igs. <-. oo FERRU Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ Solut Chioride........ @ 15 Sulphate, com’l.. 2 2 ' | FLORA. Se 18@ 20 eS ee es 320@ 35 Rate lucesss 50@ 65 FOUIA, Pires =... ....... 18@ 50 aon “acuiltol, Tin- nivelly ....-. --....- B® 2 “ 35@ 50 Salvia siniiine” rH a 15@ 25 a 8@ 10 @UMMI. Acacia, ist picked.... @ 60 ' 24 ae @ 40 a “ Cac @ 30 _ sifted sorts... @ w - me 4... ss. 60@ 80 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)... 30@ 60 Cape, (po, 20)... @ Socotri, (po. 60). @ 50 Catechu, 18, (4851 14 48, 7%)... @ 1 Ammoniae ............ 55@ 60 Frere (po. 35).. 40@ 45 eeeeme............ W@ 55 ares ............ 46@ 50 Euphorbium po...... 35@ 10 GeIpAntm......-.....- @2 50 Gamboge, po........ 10@ td Gualacese. (po 35).. @ 30 Kino, -_ 1 i. @! 15 Re ic kes @ 80 Myrrh, (po abe. @ 40 Opii Ag 3 Sood 00) ..2 65@2 75 PE eee tau ess 355@ #2 i bleached..... 33@ 35 Wraeecenee ......--... 40@1 00 HERBA—In ounce packages. Absinthium .............. _++ Eupatorium ................. 20 - eeu 25 aie 28 Mentha tha ‘Piperita sinbiciseswealue 23 OE nice, eee 25 on ede sos i ee ds ces seuss 30 Cee, 22 EO, isco eee cscs ue, 25 MAGNESIA, Caleined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 Carbonate, io es 2@ 2 Carbonate, K. 2@ 25 Carbonate, Jenningd.. 35@ 36 OLEUM Areata. ........- 2 50@3 00 Amygdalae, Dulc 45@ 75 Amydalae, Amarae 2 a ee 1 Auranti Cortex....... 4 ee, ES 3 00@3 20 — aah =e: i en a. 4... Cpe... o.oo @1 60 Cinnamonii ......... -1 10@1 15 See s,s @ 45 Conium Mac.......... 35@ 65 OO isa penecee , 8@ 0 Cae... .-.......- . 2a a. heleda sume > 50@1 60 Berorom ..............1 See Gaultheria ............ 1 70@1 80 Geranium, ounce..... @ % Gossipil, sem. ..... 70@ 75 Hedewne 1 25@1 40 mereeers, .............. 50@z2 00 a 90@2 00 Se 1 50@! 70 montna Piner.......... 2 85@3 60 Mentha Verid......... 2 20@2 30 Morrhuae, gal.........1 30@1 40 aoe —a......... @ wb Oliv 90@3 00 Picls § Liquida, (gal. 36) 10@ 12 ao 1 22@1 28 emake ete tey 75@1 00 Rosae, ounce. 6 50@8 50 Suceini.... 40@ 45 ee bemeel ...... ......-..8 Sassafras..... a gi O88, ounce.. op’ TUOODEOMES........._. POTASSIUM. PeCern................ toe we ienromete ...:....... 13@ CO 40@ 43 ee 129@ 15 Chiorate (po 23@25) .. 24Q@ 2% Cyereee............... 50@ 55 Iodide. . . -2 90@3 00 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 27@ 30 Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15 Potass Nitras, opt a“ 8@ 10 Potass Nitrag.......... 7 9 Paeerees.............. 2@ Ww Halpueee pe........... 15@ 18 RADIX. Acomiam ............. 2 a meee... 8... 22@ 2% Auer... ........ 12@ 15 Bee PO co. , @ Culeeie. .....<... 5... 20@ 40 Gentiana (po. 12)..... 8@ 10 Glychrrhiza, han 15).. 16@3 6 a oe Canaden, = 30 He aan, Ala, po.. 16 20 Inula, on bids peewee cee 15Q 20 Ipecac, p bebe ee te es 60@) 7 Tris sir a 35@38).. 35@ 40 eecepe pe.......... 40@ 45 Maranta, ‘¢s.. ro @ 3 Podophyllum, Po... biaee 15@ 18 Rhei.. «+. Tn © eA @1 75 - a 75@1 35 sae ia . 35@ 38 ameimasia. (po 2 25) .. @ Ww Serpenserk............ 45@ 50 ReOe ok. 55@ 60 Similax, Officinalis, H @ @ se M @ 25 Bellies, (po, M)........ 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feott- oe, pG......... @ 3 Valeriana, Boe. (po. 30) @ % German. 1@ W —s.... ......, 18@ 20 Peomsuer 7........... 18@ Ww SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20).. .. @ 15 A . (graveleons).. 22 25 oo ............. ve oo 6 Carul, _ ‘ 1 2 Cardamon............. 1 0O@1 25 CorianGrum........... 11@ 13 Cannabis Sativa....... 4@ 5 Gontam.... ........ Wao Chenopodium ........ 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate...... 2 25@2 50 Peenscaee........... @ 15 ee po.. 6B 8 Lint . - 4 @4% Lini, gra. (bbl. "B%). .. 34@ 4 Peper, .........,.-,.- 35@ ——: 3 oe 4 sinapis Ai — ope gees 7 @8 ae... 11@ 12 SPIRITUB. Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 D. F. R.....1 75@2 00 Leica eue ed 1 25@1 50 Juniperis Co. 0. T 1 65@2 00 oo 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. £...... 1 75@2 00 Sot. Vin? Galli........ 1 75@6 50 wae Oe ........-.. 1 25@2 00 Vint Alpa.............1 Caen co SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool errieme............. 2 50@2 75 Nagssac sheepr’ wool ones ........--.. 2 00 Velvet extra sheep’ wool Garriage....... 110 Extra walee sheeps’ Rie. .......-.... 85 Grass sheeps’ woo! Car- ee... 85 Hard for slate use.... vis) Yellow Reef, for slate SE 1 40 SYRUPS. Ce 50 50 60 50 50 50 60 50 wee 50 i oo snce sate ees 50 MO ees ores eases 50 To.atan . ‘ieee. Prunus virg.. Deed ceesscusa Oe TINCTURES, Aconitum Napellis R.. “ ac ) gt . ee 80 | ~ “ 2d¢do8 -_se : » 1 doz .- oo Cream’ Flake. i 83 oz o—_— ~*~ 45 4 02 4 doz 60 6 of 4 doz 80 8 OZ 4doz 1 10 1 2 doz 2 00 me * ide 9 00 Red Star, is > cans. hd ove ‘ ‘ * > ss 16 Telfer’ &, sb. cane, dor. = “ * = 1 sD Our, L eader, yy lb cans 45 » cons...... i> ? ibe ans 153 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. English i. 90 Bristol... 30 Domestic . 70 BLUING. Gross Arctic, 402 ovals. 3 69 8 oz ' 6 75 _ ints, round. .. 90 . Ko. 2, sifting box 22 “No. = 4 00 “ Wed . & OC - 1 os ball “a 4m Mexican Lig juid, 4 ‘Oz 3 60 Oz. . 6m BROOMS, Ao. 2 Hurl ene .._ No. 1 eee 2 00 No. 2 Car ‘ . 22 No. 1 - 2 50 Parlor Gem.. ee oe Common Whisk oe 80 Fan Stee ee eee 1 00 Warehouse.. oe BRUSHES. Stove, No. . eee 1% ee 150 " - .... 12 Rice Root Scrub, 2 row. 85 Rice Root Scrub, Ztow.... 1 25 Palmetto, goose.........-.- 150 CANDLES. Hotel, 49 Ib. boxes... 10 Star, 9 Paraffine 10 Wicking 24 CANNED GOODS. Fish. Clams. Little Neck, 1 ib..... if - - 2.......--.1 Clam Chowder. an: 8 lb 2 ‘ove Oysters. Standard, I > i. 2 2 i can Star, : neat .2 45 eee ..8 50 Piente, 2 lb. 2 90 . 2 Mackerel. Standard, L ee wees 110 ib... oe Mustard, a. ee Tomato Sauce, 2 i fo —— .2 25 Salmor. Columbia River, oe... «ee —e...-...-. Alaska, = ie cenene te : = minke. .s.-... 5 reyenngvened Common.... . 00@1 30 Johnson's ‘sliced. 2 50 r eresea...... 2 Booth’s sliced 0 : B2 5) ' ee cs 2 5 Quinces. os... 1 10 Raspberries. ae. 110 Black Hamburg a 1 46 Erie. black 1 20 Strawberries. Ee 1s —— i= : 1 30 aie ee ee 1s Whortleberries. Ipebertes ........ 85 Meats Corned beef Libby’ 8. 1% Roast beef Armour’s. 1 80 Potted ham, 6, - 1 40 os wee cess 85 tongue, = -... 1 35 ee _ — —....... % Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh stringless....... 115 French style..... 2 00 ee... 1% cin ee eee C ee 70 Lewis Boston Baked........ 13 Bay State Baked............ 1 35 World’s Fair Baked........ 13 ee ee. cc... 1 00 Corn. Hamburgh . a Livingston Eden . ST 12 Purity 8 Sabwal tzer, imported. “ domestic .... Honey 40, —— pd ee 75 Pp Hamburgh marrofat 1 20 early June . ...1/0 . Champion Eng..1 <0 ook... 2 ancy sifted ....1 90 Soaked eee eee ee a 65 errs mendes, ............ 75 VanCamp’s marrofat....... 1 10 o early June..... 1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25 French... oo 215 ms " Mushrooms. —.... 1 1 _ Pumpkin. - ae... 85 Squash. _—_——— 115 Succotash. ined eeucuey 140 a ee £0 — he enon — 1 50 eee ce 1% Tomatoes. I oooh bei c eee os ouss 1 10 ee eee... ee... ..... cee icete teen cn eee... 3 50 CHOCOLATE, Baker's. German Sweet.. ...... 23 ee. 37 Breakfast Cocoa... 43 CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. — pint, 25 bottles os Pin . 450 ones 1 doz bottles 3 50 Triumph Brand. Half pint, per doz..........1 35 Pras, a OOeees..........,..- 450 OO 3 75 CLOTHES PINS. Serces bORes............ 44@45 COCOA SHELLS. mS ib. beee......-... hot = Less P growed eee oey a @3% Pound packages........ 6%@7 COFFEE. Green. Rio. Fair. cues 18 ee 19 —— Ck 2 Golden.. a Peaberry .. oe “Santos. | ee... oe EE WO ns eee 22 Peaberry .... 23 Mexican and Guatamala. Fair. 2 Good. “22 Meuey a Maracaibo. ae ,.................-... OE SS Java. Interior ... .. . Private Growth. 27 Mandehling . i -28 Mocha. ee ........ . 25 ee... ....... ae Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add ec. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Package. ee XXxXxX.. 23 % 2 Bu 2 Lion. A 100 Ib. case.... 23 95 Extract. yamey City % BTOSS........ 75 115 Hummel’s, foil, BTOSS. se 1 65 tin ao CHICORY Me ec aes _s Oo ee ee _. CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, on ...... per dos. 12 : a 1 40 . —.....- ” 1 60 c 7 ae...-~s- = 1% o e...-... ” 19 Jute i....... - 85 = 72 ft i 1 0 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz. in case. N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Ree ce, = 6s 7 40 a 6B Daisy... ov Cc hampion.. 4 50 — a '425 Dime . . 3.3 Peerless Evaporated Cream. CREDIT CHECKS, 500, any one denom’ Bs 3 1000, - “a 2000, Steel Ns cee COUPON pooms. “Tradesman.” Si books, per hundred.. . 200 82 a g 3 “ if “ee i 3 00 8 5 oe “ “ a 3 00 #10 “oe “a a3 ce 4 Ou #20 ee a“ “ i 5 00 ‘Superior.’ 81 books, per hundred oa B2 .. oo & 3 “ uu “ 3 3 50 g 5 “oe “oe “ co 4 00 $10 uy . r aoe 820 oe “ a : 6 00 Universal.”’ 8 1 books, per hundred 83 00 ‘es CS - oe 83 i “ .. > 6 hC* * .. 500 6 - 6 00 9 so 7 00 Fr Above prices ¢ on coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 books or over.. 5 per cent 500 . ue i .10 “ “ 1000 ae . COUPON PASS BOOKS. {Can be made to represent any denomination from 810 down. | 20 books... .. #100 _— a 200 me Uc 3 00 — _ ~_ * Le cuue eee ee eT 17 3 CRACKERS. Butter. Soyer ee e........- ..» OM Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 6 a. A 5% Family nae cartoon...... 6 Salted XX Loan oe Salted eax, ‘cartoon ...... 6 a ™% ee oe Seee..........-... 6 Sods. Soda, XXX. . Soda, City.. Se Soda, Pease elles 8% Crystal occ esas 10% Long Island Wafers........ — o Outer EEE. ....-....... 5% City ek . boxes - Lemon Orange . 5 e e 10 Raisins. Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes. @s Sultana, 20 --7%@8 Valencia, » * Prunes, California, 100-120... i” 90x 100 25 Ib. bxs. 7 ia 80x90 . oon “ 70x80 “ 84 . axe 8% a oe eee es cen ee 10 ns Prone, O49. ...... ..:+; " WR ci bs iseccunas , 80-9)... bolas ° Oe cc ieee ENVELOPES, XX rag, white, me 1 OiG...... 2... ..---..- 81 7 Wo. 2, 6%... , 1 me. 1,6... 1 6F se... 1 oO XX wood, white, No. 1, 6%. a Le No. 2, 6% 2 Manilla, ‘white. cee ee 1 0% a... ... 95 Coin eS ae 1 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina, 100 Ib. kegs........-...- 3% flominy. TN sone cous i eo NE ee 3 00 Lima Beans. eee 34@: % Maccaroni — _— Domestic, 12 Ib. box. 5 Imported... i 10%@.1 Oat meal. Barrels 200.. alee 4 25 Half barrels 100......... 2 2% Pearl Barley. Regs...... A 2% Peas. —— we... LS Split per ey 3 Rolled Oats. erect... ...-.... @4 B Half bbis 90 : @2 B Sago. I eck copes s,s 4% Bast India............ SEER 5 Wheat. Cracked.......... a. Oe FISH--Salt. Bloaters, eseeeete ... kas Cod. ae... Whole, Grand Bank..... 44,@6 Boneless, bricks.. ...... 7@9 Boneless, strips... ....... 6@8 Halibut, eee ia. 10@13 Herring. Holland, white hoops keg 76 i a. ee ee a ee Round, oy bbl > Ibs ope 2 50 ko 139 Oe 20 Mackerel. OO vite ea es 65 Sardines. Russian, KOGs....--........ 55 ‘out. No. 1, % bbls., 100)bs... No. 1 % bbl, 40 ibs..... ‘ Tie. 1, RO, 10 Re en esi s,s mo Loi Wee... .....-... 61 Whitefish. Poutiy % bbls, = —- iolbeuue 7 co 83 00 ao aie 1 10 Ib. kits Liane ae & 4 8 Ib. “ ui @ MATCHES. Te, © OE on kn coe ote 1 65 Deer Sere. ......-....... 1 70 ee 110 BOGS PATIO oo. 5 oe cos en -4 00 ay are prepared just before FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Souders’. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Bestin the world for the money. Grade Regular Vanilla. Poe... . -oo8..... 2 Lemon, oe... 81 50 oos..... 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla. 7o..... 81 75 dos..... 350 Jennings. Lemon. 1 202 regular ani a = 1m 40% 2 00 6 Ox , ae oe 3 00 a 3 er.......- ‘1 35 2 00 No. 4 taper _. oo 2 50 Northrop’s Lemon. o— 2 oz oval taper vis) 10 3 02 i 1 20 75 2 oz regular “ 85 1 20 4 0z _ 60 22 FLY PAPER. Thum’s Tangtefoot. Single case.. acces oe Five case lots... ee 2 50 Tee Cees wee......-.... 3 40 Less than one case, 49¢ per box GUNPOWDER. Rifle— a 8. Kegs.. | = Half kegs. i. Quarter kegs... a ——————— 30 4 lb cans. i 18 2 hoke Bore—Dupont's. felt ke aaa w Quarter kegs... ..........-. 1@ roe ....... 34 Eagle Duck— epee. ice y se ceecn ee... 1 00 Half cs... ......... 5 & Quarter kegs............... 30 De Oe. ok, es 60 HERBS, SAZ!S... veeeee veer “sce Hops....---: eee cae 15 INDIGO. Madras, Sib, Somee....... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes... 50 JELLY. 17 Ib. pails ae oe @ :0 a @ 80 LICORICE, ee 30 Mee, 25 ee 12 _ Condensed, 2 dos........... 1 25 ee... 2 2 MINCEoMEAT. Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 7 5 Pie preparation, 3 doz. in : case . - ional MEASURES 7. = ieeen. eee ce _. an Hat gallon. eas ‘oe 2 apes NS . 70 a _ icf 45 Hal a a 40 en, for vinegar, per doz. ee a 7 00 Half po -. Sn oo. uart . ik eee 3% int _ Ca MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Sugar house. ‘ 1 Cuba ‘Baking. ee econ he 16 Porto Rico BE vce ereete eee c iene tan 20 OE cc uiaeie. ccbeees ss 30 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count. @4 50 Half bbls, 600 count.. @2 7h Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 50 Half bbis, 1,200 count 33 PIPES. Cc lay, ee 1 70 =. ©, falloeunt........ 70 Cee me 8. 1 20 POTASH, 48 cans in case. peeeeere.......... se, 4 00 Frenne Salt Co.’s.......... 3 00 RICK, Domestic. Carolina ag is ed aes 6 bese cee eee eos 5% He ns —___ 4 Imported. Japan, No. : Se ee, 5% ee 5 a covccccccce 6 Pee. es-ae0 4% SPICES, Whole Sifted. ee S% Cassia, China in mats...... 8 . Batavia in bund... .15 - Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna...... a Deneeeer...........- 11% meas eteis....... ......; 80 Nutmegs en 7 He 70 ™ No. pore, bia nese: 60 Pepper, Singapore, black....10 Re white... 20 - Oe ce i, 16 Pure le in Bulk, Ae 15 Cass ja, Batavia oe 18 ee Saigon .25 . ren... 35 Cloves, iober na. 2 Zansibar........... 18 Ginger, a ieee ei ea ce. 16 meee. ........,.. 20 " San oe meee eee... 65 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22 Trieste asda ee euas 25 Nutmegs, No. 2 40 Pepper, Singapore, wate = . Cayenne. . i “I 720 ee 20 “Absolute™ {p Packages, 48 yas Bien .........,.. «a+ O8 a S4 155 Cloves. . boobs 1 55 Ginger, Jamaica... 84 155 ° irrees......., 4 135 Deere... ........... 84 155 oe... .. 4 155 Sarre. ..... i. 84 SAL SODA, ce 1% Gramainsed: wees... 1% SEEDS, eee 8, @i5 Canary, Smyrna....... 4 eee... ei ce... 8 Cardamon, Malabar... 90 Hemp, Russian....... 4% Mixed Bird........... 5@8 Mustard, white....... 10 OE oe ee as, 9 ee... 5 Cuttle bone........... 30 STARCH. Corn. mW. 5X ice acces 5% Gloss. 1-lb packages es ee ee 5 ee 5 6-lb Pe ee 5% <0 and 00 1D. bowes.......... 3% la eae cas 3% SNUFF Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, ae... ..... 35 french appee, in Jare..... 43 SODA, ane eevenaese sencveses cue Koas, tnglish ieee eae alae 4% SALT. 100 3-lb. sacks . & 60 5-Ib. eo Ce eee 1 8 ae ee 1 80 mor ee... 150 56 1 — in linen bags.. 32 281 dr i6 18 Warsaw. 66 lb. dairy in drill bags... 30 28 Ib. “ “ ai a 16 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 Higgins. 56)», dairy in linen sacks. 75 Soiar Rock. OO Th, WOMB. ike 5 ce eees 22 Common Fine. a a 85 eee 85 SALERATUS, Packed 60 lbs. in box. MN oa havoc hee cs once 54% ee a 5% OS ee 5% yg ee ioe cureueuen a SOAP. Laundry, Allen B. ao 8 Brands, Old Country, 80 1-Ib........3 § Good Cheer, 60 1 a Lowe essed 3 90 White Borax, 1c) ¥-10...... 3 65 Proctor & Gamble. Ce i 3 45 Ivory, 10 oz. oe ame 6 75 DO cece 400 Lenox . aa. oo Mottled German. 315 Town Talk.. . 3 25 Dhieinais ‘eae Single —........... 3 9% 5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Jas. 8S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, wrp d..84 00 plain... & 94 N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands. Pee Cee... ss, 4 00 Brow, Oo) bare.........-..- 2 40 ’ bere... 11... oe Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. 3 —-...... 75 Cotton Ofl..... 6 00 eerecce....... ...5...... 4 00 Oe 4 00 SILVER SEAP Silver Loe 3 5 oC 3 30 Savon — oo....., “seo Sunflower . se 2. OMe 3 25 Economical ..... 2% Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 50 ' hand, Sdos....... 2 50 : Passolt’s Atlas Brand. ee ee 3 6 anette. dl eeon te... o.. & O ee SUGAR. The following —— repre sent the actual selling prices in Grand Rapids, based on the act ual costin New York, with 38 cents per 100 pounds added for freight. The same quotations will not apply to any townwhere the freight rate from New York is not 38 cents, but the local quotations will. perhaps, afford a better criterion of the market than to quote New York prices exclusively, ne eee 8 38 Peweeree.... 6... 488 Crenteeton «|... 4 63 Extra Fine Granulated... 4 75 Cubes .... i Be Za Powdered... Lie Si Confec. Standard A. ... 4 No. 1 Columbia A......... 4 38 mo. & Empire A... -.... “<3 4 ik 4 4 SYRUPS. Corn. Oe ee Peat ee. 17% Pure_Cane. Reet ......................... 19 Oe 25 Ce 30 TABLE SAUCES, Lea & Perrin’ iB, iarwe ...... 4 7 —e...... 2% Helford, ——s... ......,.. 3 75 —-......... 2 Salad Dressing, larme ..... 4 55 eat ..... 2 65 TEAS. JaPaAN—Regular, Pee @17 Mee ca ere y coy on @20 one 24 @26 Cauencess. ......... 2. Ga PE ek ane eye. 10 @i2 SUN CURED. WE oe conc ace, @l7 Choicest. . @35 Extra choice, wire leaf @40 G@UNPOWLER, Common to fair....... 25 Choicest fancy........ 7 @85 OOLONG. @26 Common co fair... ...23 @30 IMPERIAL. (Common to fair....... 23 @26 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 YOUNG HYSON, Commor. to fair....... 18 @26 Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. 18 @ TOBACCOS, Fine Cut. P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands. Sweet Russet..........30 @32 Tiger... 39 D. Scoiten & Go's ‘Brands. HIAWeChG ............. 60 Cale... ol. = Rocket . Spaulding & Merrick’s esate Sterling ... 30 Private Brands. Bazoo . “ @30 Can Oa @27 7 oe ............, 24 G5 Uncle Bon,............08 @es McGinty a al 2 ' i, Dhis....... 25 DenGy Jim... ........ 29 Torpedo . tee aeeuce 24 i in drums.. 2 Sm Yeon 6... 2 cs e 2 " Creme... 8... 22 eine. Sorg’s Brands, Soceraeed ........... 39 One ....... Vos = INGeny Twist... 40 Scotten’s Brands, Bee 26 Hidwathe oJ. 38 ‘wales Civ |... 34 Finzer’s Brands, Old HBomeaty.......... 40) cone yee. a Lorillard’s Brands. Climax (8 oz., 4le).... 39 Gr en Turtic.... ‘a 30 Three Black Crows. J. G. Butler's Brands. Something Good...... - Out of Sight... Wilson & McC ‘aulay’ 8 Brands Gold Rope Happy Thought. ..... 7 oe 3 NoTax.. aes. 31 Let Go. . 27 aie, Catlin’s Brands, Miln dried... .... V7 — Golden Shower ............ 19 Pires Meee |. .......... 29@30 American Eagle Co.’s Brands. Myrtle er Deas 40 Stork eee German ee Sone of eee MEAL ESTER SA Se SE CEE 38 cave, oe fOM 32 Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands, ere 16 Banner Cayendish.......... 38 ea tee ..............,... 28 Scotten’s Brands, Wer 15 money Hew. 26 ono Eeregee. 30 F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s Srands, Peerless. . Ses eee y ee Old Rom 8 Seema... ........ 22 Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands. Meme, st 41 Leidersdorf’s Brands. moe Se 26 Unele Gein.............. » -28@32 mom Ceover... | ode Spaulding & Merrick, ign Gand Fatey............. 25 Traveler Cavendish....... 38 Pe 30 Plow au ast ase ceene Corn Ca ‘ ae inn ee. 8... este 7 @8 oer... 8 @9 81 for barrel. WET MUSTARD, Hun, POL GAL ....... 22... 30 Beer mug, 2 doz incase... 1 7% YEAST, eae 8 1 00 wearers... Weees Poem ................ 1 00 bo a 5 MO eee ca eee ase 90 HIDES PELTS and FURS Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: HIDES. ee, Se 2@2% Part Cured..... ule e. @2 oe @ 3% Bee ye eee a 4@5 Kips, green es eueceess 2 @3 | @4 Calfskins, _— ae 4@5 mred....., 4n”n@ 6 Deacon hn feo, 10 @25 No. 2 hides }¢ off. PELTS. Shoarlings............. 5 @ 2 Reyes i... .....-.,.: 25 @ 60 WwooL. Weeoed ............: 12 @16 Mie weeeee .......-..... e @i2 MISCELLANEOUS, Tee ne cg 4@4% Grease butter ........ 1 @2 Hwitones...,.......... 1%@ * Mh 2 00@2 50 FURS. Bagger .......,........ 80@1 00 oer 4... --15 00@25 00 MO ech aa cys: 3 00@T 00 Oe, Whe ccc 0@ 75 Oe, ONS ose i 10@ 2 Fisher. . io .-3 00@6 00 Fox, red. ecu es dean 1 W@1 40 Pow, Crome... ......... 3 CO@5 00 Fox, » Brey eee ceee eens 50@ 70 Lynx... ...-1 00@2 50 Martin, Meek 1 00@3 00 “ pale & yellow. 75@1 00 Siik, Gark. ........... 25@1 00 Muskrat.. —.. Oppossum.. ee swan es 5@ 15 Otter dark ...... ... 5 00@10 00 Raccoon ......... 3 75 Skunk _ 4 00@1 25 Wee 1 00@2 00 Beaver castors, ib @5 00 Above prices are for No. 1 furs only. Other grades at cor responding prices. DEERSKINS—per pound. Thin and _— elue ance 10 Long gray, dry.. L., 10 Cray. Gry ......... ——.. 15 Red and Eine, Gry...... 25 WOODENWARE. Tie, Nat... 6 00 ae 5 50 . oS 4 50 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 1 30 No. 1, three- hoop.. 1 50 Bowls, a bissebee cece as i 7. ‘ ue 7 tas ‘ 19 “a a Baskets, ir... 35 — bushel. 115 . full hoop 13 o willow ci" ths, No.1 5 25 ag No.2 6 2% ' “ - No.3 7 25 " splint " mers . ' " No.2 4 25 “ “ oe No.3 4 75 INDURATED WARE. WO ca 2 Tubs, No. J eee 13 50 Tubs, No. 2 besepec be OMe Tubs, No. 3... (iets ccs 1 oO Butter Plates ~ Ov “a 250 1060 aaa 6 210 No 2 7 24 No. 3 $0 280 a 100 350 Ww =" apse aatasa tal Universal . . 22 No. Queen . “ ‘a. oo Peerless Protector. -2@ Bagmaw Gionhe,............ 1 % Double. Water Witch. 2 Wilson . cee 5 Good tue peerless... eee GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS WHEAT, No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) 52 No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 52 MEAL. CO 1 40 Granuinted,..-........ . 1 FLOUR IN SACKS. Perr... ee. 2 05 co .. ... ..... oe Bhp 1 55 Peers. ................... © So tee ee : 50 Rye. . | *Subject to usual cash tlie count. Flour in bbls., 25¢e per bbl. ad ditional. MILLSTUFFs, Less Car lots quantity Bren ....3.... $15 00 816 00 Screenings .... 12 50 13 00 Middlings..... 15 50 16 50 Mixed Feed... 17 50 17 50 Coarse meal . 16 30 16 30 CORN. Cae ie... 2% Less than car lots.........-. 46 OATS. Car lets 8... 37 Less than car lots...........40 HAY, No. et, car lots....11 . No. on lot. ..... 12 FISH AND OYSTERS. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: FRESH FISH. Wao ............ @s8 wees @38 Biece Deee............ 12% Pipe @15 Ciscoes or Herring @4 eee. ............. @15 Fresh lobster, per lb 2u De coe. 8 a 2 Pickerel..... @10 Pike... ....,.-.-..- @7z Smoked White.. @s Red Snappers..... eos 15 — River Sal- a 12% Mackerel Coen aces 18@20 oY ee a Counts.. @40 @. 0. Belecw....... @33 eoaniine oo i 25 Fr. £2... @25 pe p22 Standards..........0- @2! oYstERs—Bulk. Extra Selects..per gal. 1% I ee 1 50 ere... ... 110 Hue. 2 20 SCanOns......... cl. 1 50 Peete 2. 4. i,..., 1s occas cones SHELL GO0ODs. Goncm, per 100.......1 Ses Clams, eee 75@1 00 PROVISION». The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Ca quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. So Ee Div Short cut . : et gl, iz wD xtra clear pig, short [OL AT NE 15 40 Extra clear, heavy. a Clear, fat Be 14 5g Boston clear, short cut. 14 7% Clear back, short cut. eheeetuces a. oe on Standard clear. short cut, best. 15 00 SAUSAGE. Pore ee... Tm Bologna ll iv ee lene des 6 Egy See dak cu eseemenes. .. \ Blood . ™ eee 6 ———.......,... ae eee ll 10 Me T% LARD. Kettle Rendered... ...... 9 Granger ..... 5% Pamir ............ a e a 6% Cottolene.. hl 7% 50 lb, Tins, ‘4c advance. : 20 Ib. pails, %e 10 Ib. %e - § lb. ee %e “a om * Fe - BEEF IN BARRELS, Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs - 800 Extra Mess, Chicago —-- — 7 7% Boneless, rump butts. . -10 00 SMOKED MEATS—Cany assed ¢ or r Platn, Hams, average 20 oe... . Petes... .............,. 1014 a o 12 to 14 lbs... i044 _ icnic. . Sky ' est boneless... 9 Shouldere............ 8 Breakfast Bacon boneless.. 9% Dried beef, ham = 10 Long Clears, a Briskets, medium.. 7 pl ee 634 DRY SALT MEATS. i 3 D. 3. — a 12% Pat tac... 10) * PICKE ED Pies’ FEET, —o.......hlULUmlL..ULULUL < 00 rst oS 90 TRIPE. Kits, honeycomb wD Kits, premium os 65 BEEF TONGUES. Barrens... .. ee 22 00 Half barrois........ 11 00 Fer pou... . .... .... 11 BUTTERINE Dairy, sold packed........_.... _ Dairy, —.. |. . 2s Creamery, solid anaes 17% Creamery, rolls... 18 FRESH BEEP. Come cs 8 ta. 2 Gl? Pore G@naitGie 3... HG | Hind quarters... eee aes aoae Lot oe, © Loins | _a glo Hibs. .....--.. eas 7 @9Y moons... .... 5 @6G Cimon... cw @ 4% — .... . 34o@ 4 a—.l. Bivemstemeccecs cep GCGRENG WiGOW 8 . o cds... ut... Sy aoc... sa a“ 93, Leaf Lard.... ested 9 MUTTON CARGASS ......<. Pete t eee ee. oe BMG i. cell, @i7 VEAI ———................. — 6@i7 CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. LAMP BURNERS. meee 45 ee BO Cae ne eee 75 ee es 7 LAMP CHIMNEYS. Per box. 6 dos. in box. ——..ll,r.rtrtCtiCiCSsCSsi‘.> Names of Post Offices. Postmaster General Bissell has ruled that hereafter only short names, or names of one word only, shall be ac- cepted as names of newly established post offices. The only exception allowed is where the name is historical, or has become affixed to the locality by long usage. Changes in the names of post offices will only be allowed for the best of reasons, which must be presented to the Department. The Postmaster General says that these rules will remove a source of much annoyance to the Department and of injury to the postal service. all parts of the country. In 1892, —- OO _ LL | | Pa | j accompanied by his wife and son, he visited the Pacific Slope, remaining for some months. Upon his return he started the manufacture of the Mozart music leaf turner, his son, Dana, being superintendent of construction. Personally, Doctor Brown is one of the most companionable of men. Possessing a large fund of general information and a wit as keen as a two-edged sword, he is able to talk with interest and in- struction for hours atatime on almost any subject and inany company. Whether the topic be business or war or science, he is equally at home andis never em-| barrassed by the lack of ideas or by a| dearth of- words in which to express | them. As asoldier he wona renown of | which he may well be proud. As a} physician, he was-the pioneer in the dis- covery of the ‘‘lost arts’’ so eloquently | | Smasher of his friend the grocer. A Big Precious Stone A Montana paper records the finding by a Mr, Norwood, of Granite Creek, of an enormous amethyst. His attention was first attracted toit by the brilliant play of colors as the sunlight fell upon it. The stone weighs 12 pounds and measures 9 inches through its largest diameter, and 5 through its smallest. The color takes the most beautiful shade, a violet-blue and a pinkish purple, in one hexagonal prism, which will measure about t inches. A variety of tints are shown through the balance of the stone according to the mixture of peroxide of manganese when it was formed. This particular specimen is of the hardest variety of quartz or rock crystal, cutting plate-glass almost as neatly as a diamand. — _> -—_> “Who is the ‘Co.’ in your firm?” asked “My wife.’”? ‘‘Ah, she’s a silent partner, is she??? The grocer rubbed his chin fora moment. ‘‘Well,’’? he replied, in some doubt, ‘‘she ain’t so all-fired -ilent when you come to think of it.” ALWAYS STANDARD AT WHOLESALE BY Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Ball—Barnhart-—Putman Co. Olney & Judson Grocer Co. B. J. Reynolds. FINEST QUALITY. POPULAR PRICES. SEEDS! Everything in seeds is kept by us— Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Blue Grass, Seed Corn, Rye, Barley, Peas, Beans, Ete. If you have Beans to sell, send us samples, stating quantity, and we will try to trade with you. We are headquarters for egg cases and egg case fillers. 128, 130, 132 a. fT, LAMBREAUX CO., w. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MiCH. BUYS’ BENGH BARREL TRUCK Patented, The Simpliest, Most Substantial and [lost Satisfactory Barre! Truck ever invented. For Prices, Terms and Illustra- ted Circular, call or Address, 731 A. BUYS: asrvitron sr. \ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ys ve A | °F 2 a oe rie ey ¢ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. What a Man Is Worth. Will B. Wilder in Fame. From time to time items make {the round of the press concerning the income of people of note and it is safe to say that these items secure a careful reading no matter what else in the paper (bar- ring the advertisements) misses atten- tion. Every lawyer is interested to know what Sir Charles Russell’s income amounts to in English pounds, while he contemplates the pounds of flour and meat with which his monthly bills make him more familiar. Every artist knows to a penny what the Angelus has sold for, and authors check off the editions of David Grieve one after another and try to estimate the author’s royalties. So the advertising man reads the statement that J. E. Powers was paid $30,000 for a year’s services in writing Cod Liver Oil advertisements, and the counter-state- ment, equally without authority, that this is an egregious mistake, and he wishes that he could get Mr. Powers’ opinion on the probability of its truth. Sometimes this natural curiosity to know how many plums are falling to our neighbor’s share wins the inquirer a smart little rap over the knuckles, as happened in a recent instance where an American, visiting England, compiled what he claimed to be statisties of the maximum and minimum incomes in the different professions and published the resultin the Forum. The Publisher’s Circular, of London, resenting this Yankee*> scrutiny of British customs, characterizes the article as impertinent tattle, and proceeds to bury the author under its contemptuous indignation, but without stating whether the alleged sta- tistics are too high or too low. If it could only have been induced to give the correct figures, its withering sarcasm could have been more easily borne by American readers. There is, however, some excuse for curiosity on this point, since under the present adjustment of society the success of everyone who works is measured, more or less, in terms of dojlars and cents, and there are few in this western world who have learned to accept suecess or failure with the equal composure which oriental philosophy demands. Even if we have got to a point where we would blush to say that we are working simply for the dollars and cents, we still feel free to confess that we are working for success. If, therefore, the income of the worker is the true measure of his success, there is some justification for the self- complacency of the man whose income makes the subject of the newspaper item, and for the curiosity of the men who read it with so much eagerness. But it is well, in connection with this, to remind one’s self of the representative character of this asset, and to remember that, to preserve its dignity, it must continue to mean a measure of work. This country has already been dubbed ‘‘The Land of the Almighty Dollar.’’ Whether de- served or not, the naming is apt to make the title deserved in time, on the author- ity of an old adage. It is, perhaps,worth while, therefore, to say out loud, what is certainly true, that this land is by no means as yet exclusively the land of the NSU MEAS DON’T FAIL_-~* TO ORDER AT ONCE FROM YOUR JOBBER A QUANTITY OF Borden’s Peerless Brand Hie Evaporated Cream, i A PURE, WHOLESOME, THOROUGHLY STERILIZED UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, ON WHICH YOU CAN MAKE A GOOD PROFIT. Prepared and guaranteed by the NEW YORK CONDENSED MILK CO., New York. SOLD BY ALL. THE LEADING WHOLESALE GROCERS. - = Guaranteed Absolutely Pure. QS Pe DYDD YH MF AD CERES E EE almighty dollar. It holds a large class of citizens, and representative citizens, too, who do not measure success by the balance sheet, but who give honor to the leaders of public thought and the direct- ors of public affairs without a moment’s consideration of the place they would oc- cupy in aroll of the country’s wealthy men. The rich man wins a certain kind of respect because of his wealth, but it is respect with a qualification. If un- supported by the qualities which would win their owner respect were he a poor man, the wealth alone is mocked, ‘toa very healthy extent. The men who win the real respect of their associates, of their townsmen, of their countrymen, are the men who stand for energy, integrity, genius—for some quality which in itself is a force. Money simply represents a force. Money is so very useful a servant that it is a pity to discredit it by claiming for it} powers and virtues which no good friend would assert it possessed. When one claims, for instance, that a man’s in- come is the true measure of the value of his efforts, that the fortune which he has aceumulated represents what he ‘‘was worth,’’ the statement is so) pal- pably false that to some people no course is open but to fling away to the other side of the circle and declare that money is an unmitigated evil, and that innocence and virtue will only be possible after a revolution of social conditions,«which shall annihilate that medium of ex- change altogether and forever. Between thesmercenary moles and the fanatical visionaries it behooves the level-headed business man to keep a steady balance, for the salvation of the future depends on the sanity of the present. WALTER BAKER & CO, The Largest Manufacturers of COCOA and CHOCOLATE IN THIS COUNTRY, have received from the Judges of the World’s Columbian Exposition The Highest Awards (Medals and Diplomas) on each of the following articles, namely: BREAKFAST COCOA, PREMIUM NO. | CHOCOLATE, GERMAN SWEET CHOCOLATE, VANILLA CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, For “ purity of material,” “excellent flavor,” and “uniform even composi- tion.” SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & CoO., DORCHESTER, MASS. 15 Acme Hand Potato Planter . SIMPLE, DURABLE, PRACTICAL, Oo Works perfectly in Clay, Gravel or Sandy Soil, i y y Sod or New Ground. Plants at any and uniform depth in moist soil. 0 Makes Holes, Drops and Covers at One Operation. ae A* DEMONSTRATED SUCCESS As necessary to Farmers as a Corn Planter, PLACE ORDERS EARLY WITH— FLETCHER HARDWARE CO, DETROIT, MICH., ok FOSTER, STEVENS & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., PRICE: $12 PER DOZEN. The. Salt thals ale salt is fast being recognized by everybody as the best salt for every pur- pose. It’s made from the best brine by the best process with the best grain. You keep the best of other things, why not keep the best of Salt. Your customers will appreciate it as they appreciate pure sugar, pure coffee, and tea. Diamond Crystal Salt Being free from all chlorides of calcium and magnesia, will not get damp and soggy on yourhands. Put up in an attractive and salable manner. When your stock of salt is low, try a small supply of ‘the salt that’s all salt.” Can be obtained from jobbers and dealers. For prices, see price current on other page. For other information, address WV ANE UT. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., ST. CLAIR, MICH. t2" FoR QuoTATIONS SEE PRICE COLUMNS. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence. New York, April 27—Trade in this city during the week has been of only an average character. While there is an evel movement in the grocery and pro- vision trades, there is slackness in other departments. There is not an overflow of visitors from out of town, and those who are here are purchasing with exces- sive caution. Coliections are reported as difficult, and the waiting mood that has characterized our business houses for so long still remains with them. Business with retailers remains fair, and some of them are actually using the great dailies to advertise in—a thing almost unheard of heretofere. Strange, too, that retailers do not use this medium more than they do. The big bazaars frequently advertise nothing but their grocery departments, but the retailers seem to be committed to a contrary policy. Strikes and lockouts are reported as in- juring business in many sections, and this, of course, is reflected in business here—especially where the strikes are east of the Alleghanies. It is too bad; put the fact remains. Thomas Lidgerwood, one of extensive retailers up-town, made an as- signment last June which he now seeks to have set aside on the plea that he was intoxicated at the time he signed the papers. This is important, if true, be made a note of by others. The retail grocers are making strenuous efforts to have their license rate for selling liquors reduced. The rate now is $200, and this, it is claimed, in greater than the re- sources of the average retailer will allow. Licenses are now graded from $25 to $250, the same as paid by 1.quor dealers, and grocers say they are not liquor dealers, but have to keep supply of ‘‘wet goods’’ in order to retain their grocery trade. Probably if such firms as Acker, Merrall & Condit were called upon to choose between their liquor trade and their fleur sales, they would stick to the former, if indeed, they would not prefer it to all the rest of their stock. At least, it would seem so to see the endless wagon loads of ‘‘wets’’ constantly being delivered at the hatchways of the store. It will bea difficult matter to convince the average man that the retailer does not sell liquor for revenue only, and the general impression is that the license ought to stand. The coffee market weakness, which, in observable more than a week. Quota- tions are searcely any lower, but holders seem inclined to let go, and the situation in Europe is not encouraging to the bulls. The stock here is not large and in the U. S. but 183,000 bags. Mild sorts—Java, Maracaibo, Mocha, ete.—are fairly steady, bat, in sympathy with the stronger sorts, are gradually becoming freer of sale. Molasses is as ‘*slow as in January.” Sales are almost completely stopped, but holders are in hopes the tide will turn and some relief be experienced. Syrups, in sympathy with molasses, are dull within the range of 12@18c, up to 22¢c for something fancy. Sugars are increasing in season advances, and the market remains steady. A lively discussion is going in our papers as to the profits of refiners, and the battle of words waxes hot and heavy. {tis generally thought that the refiners are making enough to keep the wolf from the door, at least, and, so far the editors are showing that they are making enormous profits; in fact, more than are fair. The turn of Congress is being watched with much _ interest. Granulated sugar is still selling at 4\4e. The riee market shows no great anima- tion. Supplies of domestic are not of the best quality, and foreign seems to have the upper hand. Prices are low and seem bound to remain so. The improvement in canned goods, which set in some weeks ago in a very small way, has grown to gratifying pro- portions, canned gallon apples now quotable at $3.50. vance is most marked the most and should shows signs of fact, have been sales as the in this article, being | While the ad-! a Es M ICHIGAN | the whole line shows more Sceanees than has characterized it for some time. Dried fruits are doing better, also, and a higher plane has been reached by apples and berries, as well as for foreign fruits, prunes, raisins, ete. Supplies of butter are quite liberal and | the market is quiet. For the best Elgin searcely more than 23ce ean be obtained. For the lower grades the range is 17@ 19¢, but they are not much sought after. Cheese is in good demand, and quite a number of mail orders have been re- ceived. The best State brings 12¢¢ The week closes with the volume of business hardly what was hoped for, but, upon the whole, the trend of prices is upward JAY. — _ Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion. Atthe regular meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Association, held at Protective Brotherhood hall Monday evening, April 16, A. J. Elliott presided, in the absence of President Viergever. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. J. Geo. Lehman moved that four ad- ditional members be designated to serve temporarily on the Committee on Trade Interests. The motion was adopted and the chairman appointed as such Messrs. Lehman, Wagner, Schuit and Odell. Messrs. Wagner and Elliott, who were appointed as the representatives of the Association at the Municipal League, asked for instructions. E. A. Stowe moved that the Commit- tee be requested to use its influence to secure an amendment to the charter, abolishing the office of Sealer of Weights and Measures. B. S. Harris said that he considered the office in the nature of a necessary nuisance and believed it could be im- proved up: nif occupied by a man who understands his business. J. Geo. Lehman said that the office ought to be oecupied by a man capable of repairing scales. Jas. A. Stratton said that, in his opinion, the Sealer should never leave a pair of scales until they were properly repaired, if out of repair. The subject was then laid on the table, to be taken up again at the next meeting. Peter Schuit moved that a committee of three be appointed to interview the millers to ask them to discontinue selling flour at retail. The motion was adopted and the chairman appointed as such committee Messrs. Schuit, Stratton and Lehman. Treasurer Lehman reported a balance on hand of $252.17. The report was accepted, and the meeting adjourned. —_— > Let Them Try It Once. General Master Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, thinks that Coxey’s peregrinating army is the fore- runner of a tremendous insurrection of labor against capital. Mr. Sovereign is mistaken. The army does not represent labor in any sense. It represents the worthless element of our population which wants to be supported without labor; wants to live on the labor of the rest of the commnnity. Doubtless they would get up an insurrection, if they could. But let them try it once! When the insurrection of people who will not work begins, the thousands of strong- armed toilers, who will work, and who have their little homes and their little savings to eare for and defend, will crush that insurrection so promptly that Sovereign and his fellow mouthers and idlers will think that there has been a cyclone somewhere. FRANK i le An alarm clock is intended to wake you up in the morning. Our advertise- ment on last cover page is inserted to get your attention. That done, we hope the logical facts set forth therein will secure your orders. The Putnam Candy | Co. STOWELL. 7 RADESMAN. IGHIGAN AN CENTRAL “« The Niagara Falis Route.” (Taking effect Sunday, Feb.11, 1894.) Arrive. Depart 10 20p m........ Detroit Express ........7 am 5 Wem ....*Atianticand Pacific.....1 pm [eee ..... New York Express ..... 5 0pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex- press trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00 am; re- turning, leave were 4:55 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m Direct caniemanieaiiis made at Detroit with all through trains erst over the Michigan Cen tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALmguisT, Ticket Agent, Union Passenger Station. a = ANDOWEST MICHIGAN ex. GOING TO Parecraigngiat Lv. G’d — 25am 1:25pm *11:320pm Ar. Chicag 25pm 6:50pm *6:30am RE" TU RNING ‘ieROM CHICAGO, i, Ceeeeee...... 7:35am 4:55pm *11:30pm Ar. Gd Rapids......... 2:30pm 10:20pm *6:10am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:45pm Ar. Grand Rapids......9:i5am 2:30pm 10:20pm TRAVERSE CITY, CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly. Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm Ar. Manistee........ MO cous 8:15pm Ar. Traverse City.... 12:40pm 8:45pm Ar. Charlevoix. ..... Be eens 11:10pm Ar. Petoskey eee 5. as 11:40pm Arrive from Petoskey, ete., 1:00 p. wm. and 10:00 p. m. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS ToChicago,lv.G.R.. 7:25am 1:25pm *11:3¢pm To Petoskey, lv.G.R.. 7:30am 3:15pm _........ To G. R..lv. Chicago. 7:35am 4:55pm *11:30pm ToG.R..lv. Petoskey 5:00am 1:30pm ........ *Every day. Other trains week days only. ary “ FEB. 11, 1894 DETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN R, K. GOING TO DETROIT. Grand septa po stee 7:00am *1:20pm 5:25pm Detroit ..... .11:40am *5:30pm 10:10pm RETU RNING “FROM DETROIT. Lay. Peerats............: 7:40am *1:lipm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12:40pm *5:15pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS, Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:40am 10:55pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. BR Lv. Grand Rapids.. . 7:00am 1:20pm 5: “_— Ar. from owes 2:40pm 5:15pm ..... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morpn- ing train. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t Law; Ar. iy. GRAND HAVEN & WAUKEE Railway. EASTWARD. MIL- Trains Leave \tNo. 14/t¢No. 16\tNo. 18(/*No, 82 G’d Rapids, Ly 6 45am 10 20am 8 35pm 10 45pm —— seas | 7 40am/11 25am) 4 27pm /|12 27am Johns er 8 2%am/12 17pm| 5 2)pm| 1 45am aenamas Lies Ar; 900am 1 20pm) 6 05pm)| 2 40am E. Saginaw..Ar j10 50am| 3 45pm) 8 00pm) 6 40am Bay City .....Ar|11 32am] 4 35pm) 8 37pm| 7 15am Flint ........Arj1005amj 345pm) 7 05pm) 54 am Pt. Huron...Ar|1205pm] 550pm) 8 50pm} 7 30am Pontiac ......Ar|10 53am] 305pm)} 8 25pm) 5 37am Dewoll....... Ar |11 50am] 4 05pm} 9 25pm) 7 00am WESTWARD. Trains Leave *No. 81 |tNo. 11 |tNo. 13. a Raekee......... Lv| 7 00am| 1 00pm) 4 55pm Ga Haven......... Ar} 8 20am] 2 10pm| 6 00pm +tDaily except Sunday. *Daily. Trains arrive from the -_ 6:35 a.m., 12:60 p.m., 4:45 p. m. and 10:00 p Trains arrive from the ‘peek, 10:10 a, m., 3:15 p.m. and 9:15 a. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18 Parlor Car. Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car. Parlor Buffet car. Jas. CAMPBELL, City T’cket Agent. No. 15 Wagner Grand Rapids & Indiana TRAINS GOING NORTH. Leave going North. For Traverse City, Mackinaw City and Sag.. For Traverse City and Mackinaw City........ opm WO DA, oc ckc ccc ancdedeceesseneeescaienecs 6: 4 pm TRAINS GOING SOUTH. 740 any Leave going h. Vor Cinctemall..........-- For Kalamazoo and ——~ For Fort Wayne and the Eas For Kalamazoo and Ohicago.. Chicago via G. R. & 1. BR. R. Lv Grand Rapide........ 12:05 pm 2: oS 11:20 pm CR oc tienen cons 5:30pm 9:00p 7:40am 12:05 p m train has iieouh Wagner Ppuffet Parlor Oar. 11:20 p m train ome, om Wagner Sleeping Car. Lv Chicago 6:50 a 4:00 pm 9:35 pm Arr Grand Rapids 2:15 p - 9:15 pm 7:25am 4:00 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car. 6: 35 pm train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. For Muskegon-—-Leave. From Muskegon—Arrive 7:35 am 40am 5:20 vi m 0. L. LOOK WOO: Genera! usieians and Ticket coat PECK’S Pads the be&t profit. 640 pm HEADACHE POWDERS Order from your jobber. CANDULS, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bblis,. Pails. menses, , Ree >.. 6 7 eieucs 6 7 “ 7 _. 6 q moon Cooee............ Bh a 8% Extra H. H........ 8% MIXED CANDY. Bbis, Pails. ee 5% 6% ee Ee a 6% es 6% i% ie cd q 8 Misien BOCk.................1.,- a 8 Conserves . ieee i’ 8 Broken Taffy .. : baskets 8 Peanut Squares. Lee ee 7% 8% French Creama.......... biases: 9 Valley Creams. . eee 13 Midget, 30 Ib. beskets. a ae 8% NN ee 8 Fancy—In bulk Pails, Lozenges, ee 8 —— 9% Chocolate om es 12 Chocolate Momumontals....................- 12% ie ee 5 ee 1% OO ae 3” —_— PANcY—In 5b. boxes. Per on OE 50 eee 50 ee 60 Chocolate Drops.......... Pdse er isecceueencae 7 eee bv —————— eee 40 Lecorice rope.. ......... A. B. Licorice Drops..... _ Lozenges, OS OE 60 —: ee Oe nn 65 imperials.. Seek tbewege sees bans ..60 eae cece ana ee cas 7 MO ce acd ee Molasses Bar.. eee occu ee at ot .55 Hand Made Creams. een -- 5B Prams (eeeeee........-.... ee a Ee ee .) ee ees eet ea ee dems os i iii ube ian 1 00 gE 60) CARAMELS. No. 1, wrapped, : Ib. boxes ee 34 Noe. 1, os 51 No. 2, . : Fe eeeheae eine eee 28 ORANGES. Navels, eS a el esa eels a 126... ’ 159- 176 200: ae “6 LEMONS. eee 3 00 ec ee, 3 25 Pe I i ee ee meee Cees Oe... ee i O_O Oe 4 00 BANANAS. Ce ee ee 2 00 Oe 1 23 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS, Figs, fancy layers, a ee @i2% Ee ieee @l4 “ exira ' 14 Liston sone on eovene @15 Dates, Fard, 10-1b. box Veueyied ee reudencs @7 ” ee, @>a* . Persian, GO-2b, OO0............... @5 NUTS. Almonds, —— ates Chek bese de apes @16 cities eee ses ens @15 ” California ee ese ris ct ee @ EE @s&% Filberts . i @ll Walnuts, Grenoble. @13 Le ee @ilvu . ie cee c de bere eee ds @i1z Table Nuts, —- beets be ee @12 aaa @il Pecans, enn B. ee ia @7 eee a eee Hickery Natper bu....,......... beats 1 Cocoanuts, full sacks............. 3 50 PEANUTS. Fancy, H. P. ee 5 ‘Roasted has mean seins $ 7 Fancy, H, P. Te... eh ereas eh ae eesae Sw 5% Oasted...... — 1 Choice, H. Ps OO $ 4% ~ ee... ee ee @ 6 OILs. The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows: BARRELS. is ys 8% XXX iW. . Mich, Headlight .. a __————————— @ 6% Stave Gasoline. Hoes ese beee @ 7% oo eke ces eee ete eee ween sR? O86 TT os ice i ive as es cocssecte Get Bisok, 16 cold teat........... ..00 hs ee @ 8% FROM TANK WAGON. Eocene ecceoeee 7 Zu W. W. “Mich. Headlight... oe 5 POULTRY, Local dealers pay as follows: aia LIVE. a 8 I cee eek iene layed, 7 $ s” ee ee 6 @ 6% I erie eee el care de pee ene 8 @9 a .8 @ DRAWN. I ice di dsc nencbehereneuu vere vases 11 @il2 Ms ie been esac ce water es ..12 @I13 ~~ e e 11 kee cout enh eeiee (ieee 10 @li Ne cee eee ee ee ee UNDRAWN. I icc sche secede ce ees ew enn e banks @ 9% OB ie iie vides esc epee ccc ai van one KO 8 I osc ees ee Nevicb ai beeueeen s 6%@ 7 I eli ets cee ee as oiehecns > 8 @?Y MD kk acs eee auebewea cones 8 @9 . a” “ $e + @ , PS r € -* ra RINDGE, KALMBACH & C0. 12, 14 and 16 PearlSt. 0 RIVER SHOES WE KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM, * \ 1 1% If you want the best for Style, Fitand Wear, buy our | ~~ + ¢ make. You can build up a good trade on our lines, as they will give satisfaction. » @ We Manufacture and Handle only Reliable Goods ar "AGENTS FOR THE — BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO A FEW oe « SPECIALTIES *'* CONTROLLED e BY a “+? »@ WESTERN i ~» MICHIGAN 7 @ == WITHINGTON & COOLEY ‘ini. Co. ee AGRICULTURAL TOOLS, » | @ WICKWIRE BROS. _ WIRE CLOTH, : The FAVORITE CHURN, The ACME POTATO PLANTER, BABCOCK’S MONITOR CORN PLANTER, The TRIUMPH CORN PLANTER, BARTHOLOMEW’S POTATO BUG EX- TERMINATOR. Also as Completea Line ot Fishing Tackle as anybody carries. Patented. NO. 3. The above cuts show a few of the many purposes this device will serve Cut No. 1 meagerly shows its adaptation as a Screw Driver—anyone readily understands that it will drive a screw in, as several othér devices on the spiral plan drive a screw the same way, but there is no other one that will dothis: Take ascrew out withexactly the same push movement as it was put in. and just as quickly; this is done by simply grasping the brass shell with the left hand, and having hold of the wood handle with theright; simply give the right hand a twist toward you; this reverses it to take out a screw; in like manner give ita turn from you, and it is ready to drive the screw. In either case, when it is closed as shown in Cut No. 3, if desired, it will act as aratchet, turn ing the screw half round each ratchet movement made by the operator, and still another valuable position is obtained by simply turning it as before stated, but instead of clear from one side to the other, stop at half way; atthis point it will be as rigid as if it was one solid piece of iron. Cut No, 2. Here weshow the spiral clear extended, another use made of it other than driving screws, here we show its usefulness in a carriage, wagon or machine shop where many small burrs are to be taken off and put on; the screw driver bit is removed and a socket wrench put in with which burrs can be run on or off, twenty times quicker than by the old way Cut No. 3. This shows not only its usefulness in the carriage, wagon or machine shop, but carpenter, plumber or undertaker’s establishment as well, in fact it is indispensable to any worker in wood or iron where screws or burrs are used, or boring, drilling. etc., is done, and in finishing up work with hard wood, where a small hole must be bored or drilled to receive the nail or screw, it is a wonderful convenience. Thus it will be seen it well merits the name it bears, The Univer- sal Screw Driver and Brace. The chuck and shell are highly polished brass while the handle is finished in natural wood; it is substantial, durable and the most powerful tool of its kind made. WRITE FOR CIRCULAR. S. FE. BOWSER & Co., Man?’s. FORT WAYNE, IND. New York Biscuit Co., MANUFACTURERS OF WM. SEARS & CO.’S Grackers and Fine Sweet Goods, W* constantly have the interests of the trade in view by introducing new novelties and using the best of material in the manufacture of a superior line of goods. The Continued Patronage of the Oldest Established Grocery Houses in the State is our BEST TESTIMONIAL. ei OUR GOODS ARE ALWAYS IN DEMAND, AND NO WELL APPOINTED GKOCERY STOCK IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A FULL LINE. SEND IN A TRIAL ORDER AND BE CONVINCED. ———————————— We also take Orders for the Celebrated KENNEDY BISCUIT, made at our Chicago Factory. S. A. SEARS, Manager, ST. y prasren TEVENS & Cf MONROR GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Dwinell, Wright & ¢ vii, Wail Oy the Rock. COPRFEES. When you anchor your commercial interests to the manufacturer direct, Royal Java, and cut off middle men’s profits, to Royal Java and Mocha, your own benefit, you are buiiding on Aden Mocha the rock. We began to Mocha and Java Blend White House Mocha and MANUFACTURE CONFECTIONERY G -— t | thirty years ago, witha single furnace olden Santos, | ‘ina back room. We have kept up with Ex. Golden Rio, | : . P No. 37 Blend. |t the times and now occupy eighteen : | bit have trebled our coffee business since we have ben each 25x100 feet, and have handling these brands, and any dealer can do the same. $20, sewies in eccuneases in first-class modern OLNEY i JUDSOR GROCER ee a cessful ‘aiielanien of a business. gents Weste m Michigan, Grand Rapids. Do They Raise Poultry in Your Neck of the Woods ? Buy all the first-class you can get and ship tome. I want it and will — a 117 and 119 Monree St, |e PUTNAM CANDY CO. Leonard’s Summer Leaders. Lawn Mowers. ‘you not think it will pay you to draw yoursupply from us? We should like to ‘have you. Try us. Yours for business, New Process Stoves. We handle only the Best quality,ata price We want an agent inevery town Write no higher than others ask ‘or cheap ma- chines FIRST GHOIGE LAWN MOWERS. 9in. Mowat... 2... 8 2 38 14 in. " » Sse 16 in. ee 3 00 Every mac hine guaranteed. Refri inatets. We manufacture the THE LEONARD GLEANABLE REFRIGERATOR. Order a sample line. now and secure the. Agency of the best re- | frigerators made. | Write for prices and | illustrations. | to usfor discounts. The Standard Light- ings Co’s NEW PROGSES STOVE Leads all others. New Process Covk Book given with every 8 stove. Childr ren’s i; Cane Great variety. Allthelatest designs. kiigh grade goods Quick sellers Good profit to the dealer Ask us for illustrated catalogue and price list. H. “LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. f v