The Michigan Trades

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, “AUGUST 19, 1885,

NO. 100.

 

 

ESCoTTs

Icky Fly Paper.

Better than Ever.

Order through any Jobber in
the City or from

ESGOTT, 75 CANAL of.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

The Genuine says ‘“* ESCOTT’S,”’ and is printed
on fine white paper.

 

SHERWOOD HALL. MARTIN L. SWEET.

ESTABLISHED 1865.

Wi, He
WAGON & HARNESS GOODS

JOBBERS OF
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
We Carry a Very Complete Line of Car
riage, Wagon and Sieigh stock, in
Both Wood and Iron.

HARNESS GOODS: Lumbermen’s Heavy
Case Collars; Lumbermen’s Bolt Harness
Sweat Pads: Collar Pads; Snaps Bits; Web
and Leather Halters: Buggy Tops and Sun
Shades; Cloth Cushions, in ‘stock or made to
order, to fit, on short notice; Curry Combs,
Horse Brushes; Whips, Buck, € Calf and Leather
Lashes; Horse Blankets; Compress Leather
Axle Washers; Harness Oils; Harness Soap;
Varnish for Buggy Tops.

WAGON GOODS: Spokes; Hubs; Felloes;
Patent Wheels; Axles; Logging Bob ‘Runners;

Yast or Steel Shoes; Wagon ‘and Plow Cleyises;
Wrought W hiffletree Irons; and all goods per-
taining toa Wagon, Cart, Buggy, Carriage or
Sleigh.

GENUINE FRAZIER’S AXLE GREASE in
wood boxes, 25 ib pails and barrels; Buyers for
general stores, Harness and W azon Makers
will find it to their interest to eall on us when
in the city or write for prices, as we keep a
line of goods not found elsewhere.

Nos. 20 and 22 Pearl st., Grand Rapids.

S.A.

 

 

 

WHOLESALE

MEN'S FURNISHING GOOD)

LUMDEPAN'S Supplies
FISHING TACKLE

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NOTIONS!

OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS,
AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER-
WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS-
PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT-
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK-
ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN
STRINGS, ETC.

 

PANTS,
LADIES’

Particular attention given to orders by
mail. Good shipped promptly to any point.

I am represented on the road bv the fol-
lowing well-known travelers: John D.
Mangum, A. M. Sprague, John H. Eacker,
L. R. Cesna and A. B. Handricks.

24 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

KEMINK, JONES & G0,

Manufacturers of

 

Fine Perfumes,
Colognes, Hair Oils,
Fiavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders,
Bluings, Etc., te

ALSO PROPRIETORS OF

OE MINED Ss

“Red Bark Bitters’
The Oriole Manufacturing Go,

78 West Bridge Street,

      

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN.

EATON & CHRISTENSON,

Agents for a full line of

N. W. Veable & Gos

PETERSBURG, VA.,

FLUG TOBACCOS,

NIMROD,
E. C.,
BLUE RETER,
SPREAD EAGLE,
BIG FIVE CENTER.

 

 

DRYDEN & PALMER'S
ROCHE CANDY.

Unquestionably the best in the market. As
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond.
Try a box.

sohn Caulficida,

Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.
STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE "DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO
CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at-
tended to.

W. N. FULLER & C0

DESIGNERS AND
Einerawvers on Wood,

Fine Mechanical and Furniture Work, In-
eluding Buildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade,
GRAND RAPIDS = MICH.

PRR CIDER

VINEGAR!
an ; alias
Warranted to Keen Pickles.
Celebrated for its PURITY, STRENGTH
and FLAVOR. The superiority of this
article is such that Grocers who handle it
find their sales of Vinegar increased. Needs
put a trial to insure its use in any house-
hold. PREMIUM VINEGAR WORKS,
290 FIFTH AV., CHICAGO.

 

 

 

Premium Vinegar can always be found at M.
C. Russell's, 48 Ottawa street.

Many a Good il SES Man

 

Hardworking Traveling Man

IS KEPT BACK BY A
Sickly Wife or Ailing Daughters.

To such men the book on “Woman’s Na-
ture’’ published by the Zoa-phora Medicine Co.
would be invaluable.

Price only 10¢ to cover posiage.

Address

Zoa-phora Medicine Co., Kalamazoo, M
Mention this paper.

O. H. RICHMOND & CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Richmond's Family Medicines,

RICHMOND’S LIVER ELIXIR.

The best selling live
the mar Ok

 

and blood medicine in
50 cents.

Richmond’s Cubeb Cream,
Richmond’s Ague Cure,
Richmond’s Cough Cure,
Richmond’s Easy Pills,
Dr. Richards’ Health Restorer.

Retailers, please order of your jobbers in
Grand Rapids, Chicago or Detroit. If your job-
ber does not handle our goods, we will fill your
orders. Pills and Health Restorer can be sent
by mail. 141 South Division st., Grand Rapids.

UG. A VOIGT & GO.

Proprietors of the

TAR MILLS,

Manufacturers of the following pop-
ular brands of Flour.

“STAR,”
“GOLDEN SHEAF,”
LADIES’ DELIGHT,”
And “OUR PATENT.”
NT HIN Parties in want should
. write to or see the

GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0.

71 CANAL STREET.

ALBERT GOYE & SON},

MANUFACTUREBS OF

AWNINGS, TENTS,

HORSE AND WAGON COVERS.
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.
State Agents for the
Watertown Hammock Support.
SEND FOR PRICES.
73 Canal Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

We carry a full line of
Seeds of every variety,
both for field and garden.

 

 

 

 

ABUSES OF CREDIT.

The Necessity for Uniform Legislation on
this Subject.

If all men would pay their debts, dollar
for dollar, at maturity, there would be a
great deal more pleasure in doing business.
Few persons stop to realize that every man
who robs his creditors of any portion of
their just dues adds to the burdens every
citizen has to carry, for some one has got to
make up to the creditor the amount he has
lost by his dishonest debtors. Bad debts are
counted in the cost of doing business, and
usually a business man expects to average a
certain amount of loss from this cause every
year, so that every individual who buys any-
thing has to help pay for the indebtedness
of persons. who either cannot or will not
pay. <A portion of this loss to the creditor
class—which is shouldered off on to the
community at large eventually—is the result
of failures from legitimate causes, but a
greater proportion comes from the unscru-
pulousness of the debtorclass. An earnest
and honest effort on the part of those who
have failed would have resulted in more
than one-half of them being able to pay
their indebtedness in fw. For those who
have done their best but still have met with
misfortune, we have nothing but the Keen-
est sympathy; but for those who have de-
liberately planned their failure in advance,
and, in order to realize as much as possible
from it, have pushed their credit to the full-
est extent, we have the same feeling that
we entertain for any other class of erim-
inals. . Their purpose was to defraud and it
would have been no worse had they planned
to rob their victims by any of the processes
known to the criminal classes. The result
to the victim is the same in either case.

The laws relative to insolvency in some
states are well caleulated to encourage
fraudulent bankruptcy. In many eases
they make it so difficult to obtain legal pro-
ceedings against a debtor, that a creditor is
deterred from resorting to the courts lest he
find himself engaged ina litigation that is
sure to be costly and the resuit problemati-
eal. In some instances it has seemed al-
most as though the failure of the debtor was
only a trap to entice creditors into the
clutches of lawyers and the couris. We
know of eases where the creditor has been
so plundered while endeavoring to collect
an amount honestly his due that he was
glad to get home, minus his debt and ex-
penses, and thankful that he was not im-
prisoned instead of the man against whom
he had invoked the aid of thelaw. He was
like the colored paeacher who passed his
hat around for a collection, and, on its re-
turn, finding it full of emptiness, was
“thankful to get his hat back.” Toremedy
these defective and diverse state laws, in-
tended to protect the resident debtor from
his alien creditors, there is a pressing need
of a uniform bankruptcy law that shall be
uniformly operative in all the states. Such
a law needs to be so framed that an honest
debtor may conform to its provisions and
still be afforded another opportunity to fight
the battle of life; at the same time it should
be so stringent that no man can obtainadis-
charge in bankruptcy until he has madea
clean showing of his record, and accounted
satisfactorily for his failure to meet his ob-
ligations. A man in business should either
have the wherewithal to pay his debts or
the goods for the purchase of which he con-
tracted his liabilities. But if he has neither
goods, money nor visible assets, a bank-
ruptey law ought to be seaching enough to
compel him to show what he has done with
them, and no law should be permitted to in-
terfere to enable him to escape a full and
fair accounting. In most branches of trade
there is always exhibited a great amount of
sympathy for an honorable, but unfortunate

“debtor, and those who have extended credit

to him are usually ready to compromise with
him on reasonable terms, and to extend a
helping hand to start him in business again.
But, unfortunately this readiness to com-
promise has been taken advantage of by un-
serupulous men, who have deliberately and
time and again pushed their credit to its full
limit, obtained large amounts of goods and
then failed with premeditation and malice.
Then there always turns up some preferred
creditor, or some convenient friend who
holds a chattel mortgage on the goods, or
the assignment is made in such a manner
that legitimate creditors get little benefit
from the winding up of the debtor’s estate.
This performance has been repeated so
many times, the same individual practicing
it on several occasions, that it has become
an old story. Committees are appointed to
represent the creditors in such cases and to
make the best terms possible. The idea of
prosecuting a fraudulent debtor is seldom
entertained because of the legal obstacles in

the way to which we have referred.
The decadence of the standard of com-

mercial integrity is responsible for the great
number of failures that have occurred in late
years. A few years ago a business man
thought so highly of his business integrity
that he was seldom led to contemplate an act
so disgraceful and dishonorable that it would
attach a lasting stigma to his name. But
all this has been changed. The public has
been led to look with too much leniency up-
on many things that would not have been

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higher standard of com-
mercial integrity. Bankers and speculators
use the trust funds committed to their
for the advancement of their own schemes,
and instead of meeting with the condemna-
tion and punishment they have richly de-
served, they are regarded as simply amfor-
tunate and worthy of pity and sympathy.
The conviction of James D. Fish, the im-
prisonment of Ferdinand Ward and a few
embezzling bank officials in New Jersey, in-
dicates that honest public sentiment has
been outraged too long and that the people
are awakening to a realization of the fact
that they have been over tolerant of such
criminal lapses from the paths of rectitude.
Now that the reaction has setin apparently,
we hope to see it extend till the old stan-
dard of commercial integrity is re-establish-
ed and dishonor regarded as a crime. When
that time comes we may expect to see fewer
failures, and the credit system so revis-
ed and amended that there will be fewer
bad debts to charge to the profit and loss ac-
count.

 

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Rules Followed by a Successful English
Merchant.

A suecessful and famous English mer-
chant gives the following rules for a busi-
ness man:

1. Take your shop door off the hinges at
seven o’clock every morning, that no ob-
struction may be Lees to your customers.

2. Clean and setout your windows before
seven. o'clock a fae this with your own

1ands, that you may expose for sale the ar-
ticles which are most saleable, and which
you want most to sell.

Wear an apron, if such be the badge
of your business, and consider it a badge of
distinction which will procure you respect
and credit.

4, Apply your first return of ready mon-
ey to pay debts before they are due, and
give such transactions suitable emphasis by
claiming discount.

5. Always be found at home and in some
way employed, and remember that meddling
neighbors have their eyes upon you and are
constantly gauging you by appearances.

6. Re-weigh and re-measure all of your
stoek, rather than let it be supposed that you
have nothing to do.

7. Keep up the exact quality and flavor
of all articles which you find are approved by
your customers, for by this means you will
enjoy their preference.

&, Buy fer ready money as often as you
have it to spare; and, when you take credit,
pay to a day, and wnasked.

9. No advantage will ever arise to you
fromany ostentatious display of expenditure.

10. Beware of the odds and ends of a
stock of remnants of spoiled goods and oy
waste, for it is eare of such-matters wherein
your profits lie.

11. In serving your customers be firm
and obliging, and never lose your temper,
for nothing is gained thereby.

2. Never be seen in a gambling room
or any other disreputable place.

18. Prefer a prudent and discreet wife to
a rich and showy one.

14. Spend your evenings by your own
fireside, and shun a public house orasottish
club as you would a bad debt

15. Take stock every year, estimate your
profits and do not spend above one-fourth.

16. Avoid the common folly of expend-
ing your precious capital upon a costly arch-
itectural front; such things operate on the
world like paint on a woman’s cheek—re-
pelling beholders instead of attracting them.

17. Every pound wasted by a young
tradesman is two pounds at the end of three
years, and 256 pounds at the end of twenty-
four.

18. Remember that prudent purchasers
avoid the shop of an extravagant and osten-
tatious trader, for if they deal with him they
must contribute to their follies.

Let these be your rules until you have real-
ized your stock, and until you can take dis-
count for prompt payment on all purchases,
and you may then indulge to any degree
which your habits and sense of prudence
may suggest.

3.

He Would Smoke It on Sunday.
From the Buffaio Courier.

A Buffalo man who recently made a trip
to New York tells the following story of
himself:

He entered the smoking room of a New
York Central sleeper standing in the depot,
and there found a stranger of Celtic extrac-
tion indulging in a pull at his pipe. The
ear reeked with the perfume, and the Buffa-
lo man found that his two-for-a-quarter
cigar did not stand the slightest chance. It
made him mad that such a stench should be
permitted, and when the conductor came in

he made complaint.
“T have no more right to stop his smoking

a pipe than I have to stop your smoking a
cigar,” said the ticket puncher.

‘Well, hand him a cigar then,” said the
Buffalo man, and he pulled out one of the
same brand he had in his mouth. The con-
ductor approached the man of the pipe, when
the following took place.,

Conductor—The gentleman presents his
compliments and asks you to accept a cigar.

Man with the pipe—True for the gintle-
man; he’s a scholar; but as I have me pipe
lighted T’ll kape the cigar and smoke it of a
next Sunday.

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Business and Gambling.

*

You go upon the Board of Trade,

Where margin merchants meet,
And take some little options

On January wheat;
You watch the little ticker,

Till the hands swing round the ring,
Then you find your little boodle

Has gone a-glimmering.

That’s Business.

You go into a faro bank
And buy a stack of chips,
And wateh the ecards come from the box
Which the dealer deftly fiips:
While your head is dull and aching,
At the breaking of the day,
You see that fickle fortune
Has gone the other way.
That’s Gambling.
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Moralizings of an Oid Timer.

A Weldon Creek merchant sends THE
TRADESMAN the following communica-

tion:

“Good morning, Tom.”

“Good morning, William.”

“Vow is business?”

“Poor, very poor.”

“*T see you have a large stock.”

“Well, yes, I have; but I bought and paid
for most of it last year, and Tam not going
to give it away, nor give a prize with every
box of matches I sell at 3 cents a box.”

“Old friend, you are blue to-day.”

‘“*No, William, I never was more jolly in
allmy life. The fact is, I am well and out
ot debt and am out of the race. Iam look-
ing on and allowing the cheats and dead-
beats do the little business there is to do,
and taking a big, long rest, after eighteen
years’ hard work in the husiness. I think I
want the rest and I ean afford it. I can get
up to-day and sell more goods in one day
than you ean in two, and you know it; but
I don’t want to commence and cheat any
more now than I have done in the past. In
fact, I aman old man and I have been
straining my conscience all my life to com-
pete with others, and now that the grave
stares me in the face Lam done lying and
cheating. We are lying and cheating all
our lives more or less.”

“Good moring, Tom, I am off.’

““No, sir, stand and take a small lecture
from an oldman. Have you ever had your
conscience rebuke you when you sold 13
ounce plug under the guise of a large 16
ounce honest plug; 8 ounces tin foil fancy
smoking tobacco for 4 ounces; 18 cent tea

for a fine 50 cent article; 12 cent coffee
for a darling fine 25 cent article; 2234

Or
wo

pounds pork at 8 cent for 1’ pounds; 2
cent box Balm Giliad for a round 25 cents?
Did you smile when you saw the honest
granger hand you his old-tin cannister for
36 gallons of your advertised oilat 12 cents
per gallon water white? Did you pine to
have his father hand you his glass oil can
for 1 gallon. Did you ever sell best flour at
cost and make up on 13 cent Japan tea at
50 cents? Yes, sir, you have done all these
things. Don’t deny it. You sell now three
5 cent segars for a nickle, and 2 packages
of soda for 18 cents, 2 mop sticks for 15
eents and you cheat back on light weight
and poor goods in faney wrappers and book
figures and put your conscience off with a
promise of doing better soon. Your acdver-
tisement is a lie. Your goods are a lie and
your time is spent in trying to out-He your
competitors.

‘““That is enough, Tom, I can’t stand it.
You are full of blues “and it puts a damper
on my Spirits.”

“All right, go on and run after this
world’s goods. Cheat and lie as I have done

and you will find I am right later on.”

‘“There is an honest way of selling goods,
but it is out of fashion now. We must be
stylish, of course, so I do not blame you,
but I would say before parting, bear in mind
always that there is another life come,
and like me you will see it when you are 68
years old, and all these little things will ap-
pear as large barriers in your way to happi-
ness and torment your later years and ter-
rify your last hours.”

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General Unreliability of the Telegraph.
From the Chicago Current.

A telegram should be followed with a
letter, unless communication have been well
established by wire. Letters are distributed
by grown men, expert tn their business to a
degree that astonishes anyone who contem-
plates the triumph of their art. But tele-
grams are distributed by sleepy and stupid
little boys, who dream mostly of little boys
in books who went in swimming and never
carried telegrams. One of these little boys,
in a great city, will be given a dozen dis-
patches involving a half day’s travel. The
boy so marks the envelope and proceeds on
his way. At the end of many hours he re-
turns to the main office and reports that he
failed to find his man. No one ever heard
of any further action by the telegraph com-
pany, other than in rare cases a dispatch to
the sender, sometime the next day, to the
effect that ‘‘Yr msg to J. Smithfield not
did.” A letter to any fairly-known‘resident
of any city will reach him if no malicious
person intervene to divert it to the Dead-
Letter Office. Buta telegram to any pri-
vate citizen, addressed at his place of busi-
ness, is by no means a trustworthy method
of transmission, and the precentage of such
communications which ‘‘go astray” is enor-
mous.

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S. O. Smith will start a broom factory at
Plainwell.

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Honors to an Inventor.

Very few people are aware of how much
the modern world owes to Nicholas Le-
the inventor artificial soda. By
combining six salts he produced very cheap-
ly the soda used in commerce, and the result
has been a revolution in manufacturing pro-
cesses of enormous value to the industrial
world. Indeed, some writers claim that the
manufacture of this soda was as fruitful of
good as the invention and application of
steam. Baron Liebig said that without
this process modern chemistry could hardly
be called a science. It seems that with this
artificial soda sulphurie acid and hydro-
chlorie acid can be made in 2immense quan-
tities and at very small cost. A statue is
about to be erected in Paris to commemor-
ate the fame Nicholas Leblane. This
memorial was first proposed in 1855, and
it has taken thirty years to raise sufticient
means «from the manufacturers who Have
profited so greatly by Leblane’s process of
making soda. The public places of Europe
are filled with the statues of emperors,
kings and warriors. Statesmen, poets, and
authors are not forgotten, but as yet inven-
tors the men who have made our modern in-
dustrial world possible, have not had the
recognition which is justly their due. We
in this country ought to show an example to
Europe by paying special honors to men‘of
science whose inventions and labors have
made this world so pleasant a place to live
in. We_ should ues to Fulton,
Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, to
Morse, Peter Cooper, Edison, and all who
have given us greater control over the rude
forces of nature.

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The Effect of Snuff.

“Speaking of buying snuff,” aa a lead-
ing tobacco merchant the other day, as an
old man with a bent form and a weazened
face went out of the store after tightly clos-
ing and a snuff-box of ancient
make, *‘reminds me of they used to
tell of an old couple up in my town who
turned to dust years ago. Both took snuff,
and ho Bless me!

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a story

w they did take it, too!

she would often buy a bladder of snuff of
my father, who kept store, just to try
it, and then if she liked it he would buy
some. He was converted to teetotalism, as

to tobaceo, snuff and rum by the Washing-
tonian movement, but she kept on with her
smuff. From the hour of his conversion he
held up the frightful consequences of it be-
fore her. Many the time did the folly of
the mad impetuous eareer of his wife adorn
the tale and point the moral in the old gen-
tleman’s logie by the fireside. She still lived
on and still took snuff. Aunt Philena was

ninety when she died, Uncle Nathan was

ninety-five. After the good old lady’s re-
mains were laid in the coffin they called
Unele Nathan in to look at them. The old

lady looked peaceful and good, but Unele
Nathan couldn’t see anything but the failure
of his logic of a score of years. He looked
into her face that was as ealm and peaceful
as her life had been, and drew a bandana
handkerchief from his eoat tail pocket and
blowing a blast upon it followed by wiping
his eyes. ‘Then he looked around upon the
friends near by and said in a quavering but
rather triumphant tone: ‘‘There, my young
friends, (sob) s-ee the t-terrible effects of
snuif’.”’

 

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A fraudulent mineral spring has been ex-
posed in Austria. Chemicals were intro-
dueed into an underground stream a consid-
erable distance from its exit. The proper-
ties of the dectored water were commended
honestly by physicians, and the enterprise
had entered upon a career of prosperity,
when a skeptical visitor dug out the truth.

A scientist claims that petroleum applied
to wood renders it less liable to take fire, as
there is less of a combustible fuzz to form
on the surface. The petroleum enters the
pores of the wood and renders it more like
cedar. Apply it freely with a coarse brush,
and in a few weeks, when it has all soaked
in and the surface becomes dry, the surface
can be painted. Petroleum isa good pro-
tection against the decay of out-buildings,
fences, ete., without the addition of paint.

Mr. B. Jordan, a member of the office of
the English mining archives, has spent sev-
eral years in studying the various liquids
that might possibly be applicable in con-
structing an accurate and highly sensative
barometer, and finally found that glycerine
produced the best results. A glycerine bar-
ometer constructed by Mr. Jerdan, in 1870, is
still in use. The glycerine which is very
pure, is manufactured by Price & Co., and
has a specific gravity of 1.26, and on ac-
count of its high point of equllition the va-
pors have no pereeptible tension at the ordi-
nary temperature, and it will only econgeal
at a very low temperature. The height of
a column of glycerine is 26 feet 9 inches,
and a variation of 1-16th of an inch of mer-
cury corresponds to a variation of about 1
inch in the column of glycerine. As glycer-
ine is very apt to absorb the moisture of the
air, it is covered with a thin layer of prepar-
ed thickened petroleum in the cistern of the
barometer. Mr. Jordan has constructed

 

barometers for the South Kensington and
Jermyn Street Museums; both have given
perfect satisfaction, and to show the scien-
tific value of the instrument the Royal So-
ciety has built one at the Kew Observatory.

 

 

 

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The Michigan Tradesman,

 

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Hercautile and Manufacturing lateresis of the Siate,

 

BE. A. STOWE, Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
Advertising rates made known on application.

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1835.

 

 

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange,

 

Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—W m. Sears. :
Executive Committee—President, Vice-Pres-
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one
year; L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two
ears.
Aubiivation Committee—I. M. Clark, Ben W.
Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Transportation Committee—Samuel
Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux. :
Manufacturing Committee—Wm. Cartwright,
E. 8. Pierce, C. W. Jennings. :
Annual Meeting—Second Wednesday evening
of October.
Regular Meetings—Second Wednesday even-
ing of each month.

Post A.M. C.1AL

Organized at Grand Rapids, June 28, 1884.

Sears,

OFFICERS.

President—Wm. Logie. :

First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.

Second Vice-President—Stephen A. Sears.

Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.

Executive Committee—President and Secre-
tary, ex officio; Chas. S. Robinson, Jas. N.
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.

Election Committee—Geo. H. Seymour, Wal-
lace Franklin, W. H. Downs, Wm. B. Ed-
munds and D. 8. Haugh.

Room Committee—Stephen A. Sears, Wm.
Boughton, W. H. Jennings. :
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in

each month.

Next Meeting—Saturday evening, August 29,
at “The Tradesman”’ office.

Grand Rapids Post T. P. A.

Organized at Grand Rapids, April 11, 1885.

 

President—Geo. F. Owen.
Vice-President—Geo. W. McKay.
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.

Treasurer—James Fox.

Next Mecting—Subject to call of President.

 

 

COFFEE STRONGER AND TEA
GROWING WEAKER.

Our statistics of foreign commerce for the
last five years throw some interesting light
on the tea and coffee consumption of the
people. Weare consuming more coffee and
less tea year by year. Thus, in 1881 we
used 79,130,000 pounds of tea, or 1.54
pounds per capita, while in 1885 we used
only 66,372,000 pounds, or 1.16 per capita.
In other words with 6,000,000 more popula-
tion now than five years ago, we are con-
suming 12,700,000 pounds less tea. With
coffee the showing is just the other way.
Five years ago we consumed 423,276,000, or
8.23 per capita, while now we are consum-
ing 539,264,000 pounds per annum, or 9.46
per capita—an increase of about one and a
quarter pounds per capita.

In the United Kingdom (Great Britain
and Ireland) the increase is in the consump-
tion of tea and the decrease in coffee—the
tea having inereased from 158,570,000
pound to 175,097,000 pounds from 1880 to
1884, while the coffee increased in the same
time from 32,569,000 to only 33,000,000, the
per capita falling off from .96 to.91 It will
be observed that while it takes less than one
pound of coffee a year for the average Brit-
on, the average American requires nine and
half pounds; but when it comes to tea the
Briton consumes four pounds to the Ameri-
can’s one.

The American Grocer finds an explana- |

tion of the increased consumption of ecotfee
and the decreased consumption of tea in
this country in the roasting process adopted

by grocers, which saves families the main |
. j
The in-

trouble in preparing coffee for use.

troduction of the harsh Japan tea has at the |
same time lowered the standard of this bey- |

erage, and that may have something to
do with the decreasing favor it meets with.
In the United Kingdom, where only the

fragrant China and India teas are imported, |

the consumption steadily increases.

 

2. A. Kneeland, manager of the Delaware
Co. Creamer Co., was in the city a couple
of days last week, for the purpose of deter-
mining whether it would be advisable to re-
move his factory and business to the Second
City.

ception accorded him by the business men |
of the town, and expressed himself as agree- |

ably surprised at the business advantages
afforded by the place. He is negotiating
with a leading manufacturing firm, and in
the event of a successful termination of the
negotiations, will make Grand Rapids his
headquarters within the next sixty days.

The British sugar refiners are complain-
ing about American competition and asking
their government for protection. It seems
that our refiners, when exporting sugar, are
allowed a drawback equal to the amount
paid by them in duties on the imported raw
material. In other words, they are allowed
to import raw sugar free of duty when they
refine it for foreign markets. Either our
refining machinery is more effective or our
workmen are more skillful than the English,
for American refined sugar is sent to Eng-
land and sold at a lower price than the Eng-
lish article—and this is the competition the
British refiners are complaining of. They say
they are suffering ‘‘in the consequence of
the bounty afforded through its customs
laws to the American manufacturer.”
this is a mistake. Wedo not pay our re-
finers a bounty; we simply give them back
on exported refined sugar the duty they paid
on the raw commodity. It is fair, square
American competition that troubles the Brit-
ish refiners—and the fact shows what Amer-
ican ingenuity and skill can do in the field
of manufacturing.

He was much pleased with the re- |

But |

The dream of cheap iron in the South
seems to be about at an end. For years the
organs of Birmingham and the other iron
producing centers of the South have dis-
coursed eloquently and effectively on the
subject of $9 and $19 iron, and pointed out
the immense profits accruing to manufac-
turers of the same. The effect of such

ment of millions of Northern capital in
Southern mineral lands and iron plants, re-
sulting in losses almost too immense for
estimation. Indeed, the unbiased opinions
of the correspondents of Northern papers—
several of whom have recently made tours
of the iron regions of the South—leads to
the conclusion that most of the talk of cheap
iron has come from the owners of mineral
lands, who are anxious to unload their bur-
dens upon unsuspecting purchasers.

 

Grand Rapids people have read of the
swaggering cowboy, who swoops down up-
on a frontier town at intervals and suc-
ceeds in holding the inhabitants at bay so
long as he remains in the place; but they
little thought that the Second City would
ever witness such a sight—a drunken bully,
armed to the teeth, parading the streets in
search of aman whom the loud-mouthed
rowdy knew was not in town. Our people
would neyer have been compelled to submit
to such a disgrace were it not for Mess-
more.

 

Business men generally are having less
and less to do with the Western Union tel-
egraph monopoly, the outrageous charges,
the mistakes and carelessness of poorly-
paid operators, and the dilatoriness of
youthful messengers having combined to
render the service afforded by this company
unreliable and unsatisfactory. Letter post
is slower, but surer, and does not involve
the misunderstandings and errors which
necessarily accompany the Western Union’s
second-class service.

 

One of the surest guages of the condition
of business is the amount of shipping done
by rail and boat. All the transportation
companies centering here report a remark-
able improvement dnring the past fortnight,
necessitating the employment of additional
men to handle the freight, and river traffic
has not been so good for months. These
indications, coupled with others equally as
suggestive, all point to the return of busi-
ness prosperity.

 

 

TuE TRADESMAN recently expressed a
desire for a correspondent in every city and
town in the State, to whom it could depend
for all news of a business nature. About
fifty desirable appointments have already
been made, and others will be attended to
as the applications are received. Those
wishing to servein the capacity indicated
should apply without unnecessary delay.

 

Cleveland quotes kerosene at 9%ec for
Water White and 8¢ for Michigan Test.
Adding the cost of transportation and in-
spection—said to be equivalent to 1!¢c—it
is difficult to discover where the profit lies
iu selling oil at this market for 1017 and 9c,
respectivly.

 

SESSION Ost RAPS CEN PN a

Purely Personal.
Mrs. M. C. Russell is rusticating at Petos-
>

 

key.
Dr. C. S. Hazeltine still tarries at Mack-
inae Island. .

Amos. S. Musselman spent Sunday at Pe-
toskey and Bay View.

Will Lamoreaux has bought an owl. The
, animal won’t go hungry, for it is made of
| stueco.

J. Ely Granger has returned from the
| North. Contrary to expectation, he is still
single. :

; gud. Miner and wife have returned from
Macatawa, where they have been camping
| for five weeks past.

| W. E. Holbrook, of the Cincinnati Fur-
niture Worker, is in the city, interviewing
he furniture manufacturers.

Robert Hunting, with the Merchants’
| Dispatch, completely crushed the pretty
waiter giris at Macatawa Park Hotel last
week.

S. A. Welling went to Detroit last Wed-
nesday to visit his daughter, Mrs. Hamilton
|B. Carhartt. He is expected home _ to-
' morrow or Friday.

Jim Fox is the custodian of a new joke,
imported from Europe at great expense,
which he is prepared to share with his
friends on the most favorable terms.

John J. Sours, book-keeper for Cody,
Ball & Co., has gone to Elk Rapids fora
week’s visit with his parents. He is ac-
i/companied by his wife. Walter O’Brien
will mangle the ledgers during his absence.

Ss a AG eg

For Brewers’ Use.

Barley gives every promise of a large
| yield, and the indications so far are that the
| crop will be secured in excellent shape.
Local brewers propose to open the season
| by offering $1.15 to $1.20 per 100 pounds, at
| which quotations the bulk of the crop will
probably be placed.

The Michigan hop crop is ordinarily good
in quality and quantity, and will probably
bring from 12 to 15 cents a pound. Old
New York hops are offered. at 1214 cents,
and the new crop will probably not com-
mand very much higher prices.

Tanbark, aloes and glucose are—but it
|won’t do for Tur TRADESMAN to be face-
| tious.

 

 

| The extent to which the savings banks of
| New Hampshire have loaned money in the
West has excited some apprehension, and a
legislative hearing has been appointed on a
bill which proposes limitations.

newspaper statements has been the invest-|

 

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN THE CITY.
Follett & Dregge succeed K.

Follett in the
lumber business. :

Geo. A. Pickle, grocer at 115 Broadway,
has sold out to a Mr. White.

 

A. P. Waitehas engaged in the grocery
business at Evart. The stock was purchas-
ed here.

Tradewell & Tanner succeed Tradewell &
Wood in the upholstery and retail furniture
business on South Division street.

The first cranberries of the season reached
this market on the 15th. The fruit was
wild and most too green to excite an active
demand?

John Hines & Co. have lately furnished
Gould & Fink, of Edmore, with a boiler,
and are now at work on one for the Morton
House, to be used for heating purposes.

J. ©. Simonds has recently furnished
shingle machines to 8. I. Shaw, near Kent
City; E. Lockerby, at Whitecloud; aad to
L. & L. Jennison, who have added shingle
machinery to their sawmill at Jennison-
ville.

Wallace Franklin, State agent for Fair-
banks, Morse & Co., has solda Westing-
house engine and Erie City Iron Works
boiler to J. Kealer and Wm. Grill, who are
about to engage in the manufacture of hard-
wood lumber at Athens.

The C. Whitefleet grocery stock, on West
Bridge street, was turned over to Cody, Ball
& Co. on a bill of sale by Mrs. Whitefleet
last Friday. The value of the stock is not
equivalent to Cody, Ball & Co.’s claim, and
a few other creditors are left out in the cold.

It is stated that the Bissell Carpet Sweep-
er Co. is so encouraged by the rapid and
enormous growth of its business and the
pressing need for even more room than is
afforded by the present large building, that
another five-story structure—similar in ap-
pearance and arrangement to the present
bloeck—will be erected to the north of the
factory next season.

E. Fallas, the butter and egg jobber, has
about completed the erection of a fine brick
residence on the east side of Livingston
street, just south of the reservoir. He in-
tends to erect a cold storage warehouse on
an adjoining lot next season. Mr. Fallas is
one of few Grand Rapids men who has faith
in the future of limed eggs, having put down
125 casks of pickled goods.

 

 

“fT Jook for 60 cent wheat before the
downward movement takes a turn,” said a
well-known authority on grain matters the
other day. ‘‘Just think—there is more old
wheat in the Chicago elevators now than
there was in the entire country last year.
In other words, the surplusage of old wheat
last year was 17,000,000 bushels and this
year it is over 70,000,000 bushels.

D. P. Clay has coneluded to erecta
store room on the site of the previous struc-
ture, to the south of the Grand Rapids Man-
ufacturing Co.’s other buildings, 170x386
feet in dimensions and one story high. The
building will be of brick and so constructed
as to offer the most resistance to fire. This
structure will serve to
row of buildings for the company for 400
feet.

Capt. Ganoe, who represents the Manistee
salt interests of Messrs. Englemann and
Peters at this market, says he has sold over
2,400 barrels of their product during the
past sixty days. As an evidence of the fact
that the Manistee manufacturers have come
to an understanding with the Saginaw pro-
ducers, Mr. Ganoe says he has _ received in-
structions to sell at the quotations given hi
by the Salt Association of Michigan.

A well-known business man recently met
a Western Union messenger boy, who in-
quired after the location of a number on
another street. Upon telling the boy that
the information desired was not possessed by
the gentleman, the lad replied that he was
going to the lake, and would return the mes-
sage to the office next day with the report
that he wao unable to find the address. Such
is the wonderful dispatch of the Western
Union!

“Grand Rapids is the most enterprising
city in the country in a good many things,”
said a well-known produce dealer, ‘‘but in
one respect she is away behind the times.
I refer to the matter of a cold storage ware-
house. If some of our men of money but
knew it, ten or fifteen thousand dollars in-
vested in such a project could not fail to
pay handsome returns. There isn’t a pro-
duce merehant or a jobbing house in this
city who wouldn’t have something in it half
the time, and I dare say half the retailers
would make frequent use of it. Again,
hundreds of outside dealers would ship their
little stocks of perishable goods to this mar-
ket, instead of to Chicago and Detroit.”

 

Those merchants who buy their oil at this
market have profited to the extent of many
dollars by the local fight between the Stand-
are Oil Co. and Curtiss, Dunton & Co. Chi-
cago quotes Water White and Legal Test
oils at 121g and 101¢e, respectively, and
Detroit at 1114 and 10c, while Grand Rapids
jobbers have been enabled to sell at 1014
and 9e—a saving of 214 and 114 over Chi-
cago quotations, and 114 and 1¢ over Detroit
prices. This is equivalent to an average
saving of $1 per barrel, no small matter
with a merchant who handles three or four
barrels of oil per week. Saginaw is the
only market which comes anywhere near
these quotations, and there the reduction is
due to the same cause—the determination
of the Standard to crush out a competitor.

make a continuous |
‘county, for the past four years, has com-

 

jears. It will be located on the vacancy of

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Henry E. Dunean, grocer at Schoolcraft,
is dead.

Mr. Messenger has engaged in the gro-
eery business at Tustin.

Williams & Sabine, wholesale fruit dealers
at Detroit, are closing out.

H. A. Chapman & Co. succeed G. L.
Smith in general trade at Somerset.

Webster & Phillips, grocers at Reed City,
have dissolved, L. D. Webster sueceeding.

James Beatty, of the wholesale grocery
firm of Beatty, Fitzsimmons & Co., at De-
troit, is dead.

Brookwalter & Lowe, hardware dealers at
Burnip’s Corners, have dissolved,
Lowe succeeding.

{. Wellington & Co. sueceed Gillett, Wel-
lington & Co. in the drug and boot and shoe
business at Springport.

W. A. Carpenter & Co., dealers in lum- |

bermen’s supplies at Farwell, have been
burned out. Insurance, partial.
Wagar Bros., druggists at Edmore, have

Silas |

rangements for sinking a salt wellat Tall-
man.

Daniel Newton, the Hastings harness and
trunk dealer, contemplates starting a braneh
store at Plainwell. : :

t. T. French has purchased Mr. Wood’s
interest in the retail furniture business of
Chapman & Wood, at Middleville. The
new firm name is Chapman & French.

J. O. VanAnden has retired from the firm
of Burk, Rich & Co., cigar manufacturers at
Detroit. The business will be continued by
the remaining partners under the same firm
name.

Lansing wheels into line with a lodge of
Stationery Engineers, being the fourth or-
ganization of the kind in the State. <A.
| Brisebois is president, Wm. Toolan  secre-
| tary and W. E. Cody treasurer.

—~o--2--—-
Short Sayings of Great Men.

; D. P. Clay—Yes, crops never were better
| than this season, but you mustn’t expect the
| farmers will talk any more cheerful. If gold
| dollars grew on trees, and could be had for

dissolved, F. G. Wagarcontinuing. G. A. | as .

WwW Wl i - a pe 1 S \ the picking, the farmers would grumble be-
agar will continue in the hardware bus- | : :
as Neto cause they weren’t picked and put in baskets.

Plainwell Independent:
have a third clothing store, if Gabriel Wolff,

of Otsego, does not change his mind. He

|
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iness,as heretofore. |
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expects to open in the opera house biock |

about Oct. 1.

signed to W. Irving Latimer. Liabilities,
$3,000; assets, $2,500, which are fully coy-
ered by chattel mortgages to a loeal bank
and Hasty’s mother.

J. C. Miller has moved his drug stock

from Douglass to Saugatuck, where he has |

formed a copartnership with his father, un-
der the firm name of C. Miller & Son, and
added a line of groceries.

Uilke DeVries, who has been associated
with his father in general trade at James-
town for five years past, has purchased the |
drug stock of G. F. Richardson, at that
place, and will continue the business.

A Millbrook correspondent writes: F. A.
Voorheis has retired from the hardware bus-
iness. The firm now consists of James

tichards of Detroit, and C. D. Richards, of
Millbrook, but goes by the old firm name.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

R. G. Peters is considering the advisabili-
ty of putting aband saw into his mill at
Eastlake, near Manistee.

Thompson Smith’s Sons have purchased
a steam fire engine for the protection of |
their mill plant at Dunean City.

A Rodney correspondent writes: Mr.
Swift has sold his mill, which he has just
finished, to Mr. Young, of Edmore.

Ed. Kenter has traded his saw mill in
Ganges township, Allegan county, for the
tug ‘‘ Hattie Adams,” of Muskegon.

The total amount of salt maufactured at
Manistee since the first well was sunk there
was 411,523 barrels on August 1, of which
208,048 barrels were made after December,
1884.

It is reported that there is a great searcity
of laborers in Missaukee county. Swan,
White & Smith find it difficult to secure all
the men they want for the rapid building of
their logging road.

A. D. Martin, who has operated a shin-
gle mill in Ensley township, Newaygo

pleted his cut and will shortly remove the
mill to some Northern point.

Mecosta Sentinel: G. Collin & Co. have
completed the cut of shingle timber in the
immediate vicinity of their mill and will!
move the mill to Horsehead Lake, which
will cause a delay of a few weeks in cutting
shingles.

A Cedar Run correspondent writes:
Messrs. J. & P. Simmonds have secured a
saw mill from parties in Indiana. We un-
derstand the mill is at Travese City on the

Mr. Fox’s mill.

The Kirby-Carpenter Co., at Menominee,
pays its men an average of $39.50 a month,
which includes all drawing wages and _ sal-
ary except the woods boss. The Bay Shore
Lumber Co., at the same place, pays an
average of $46 a month.

Ryerson, Hills & Co. lately finished oper-
ations for the season at Newaygo, having
put in 16,000,000 feet of logs over the Pick-
erel Lake railroad. Their train made eigh-
teen trips a day, hauling ten cars each trip |
for forty-eight days. A million feet was
thus transported every three days.

The White River Log & Boom Co. has
sorted and delivered forthe spring drive
84,184,620 feet of logs. Besides there were
20,000,000 feet brought in by rail for the S.
N. Wilcox Lumber Co., or by other parties
in the same manner. The cut for the sea-
son will amount to over 100,000,000 feet—
or more than the cut for last year.

W. W. Starkey, lumber dealer and stave
manufacturer at Ionia, has given the First
National Bank of Ionia a mortgage for
$1,500 on his machinery, and sold his inter-
est in the business to his brother, Frank
Starkey. The latter claims to have en-
dorsed notes for the econeern, and taken
this method of securing himself against
loss. Starkey’s liabilities amount to about
$10,000, with assets nominally the same,
and he claims he will be able to pull
through all right and meet all his obliga-
tions.

STRAY FACTS.
A. J. Prindle succeeds Mrs. Freeman in
the fancy goods business at Howell.
Smith & Parsons have engaged in the
restaurant business at Benton Harbor.
C. P. Rogers succeeds Rogers & Morri-
son in the livery bnsiness at Greenville.

Plainwell is to}

John Caulfield—Between you and J, that
| house of mine isn’t going to cost me more
‘than half as much as I figured on. The
| cheapness of lumber, labor and other articles
entering in the construction of a dwelling

; house is a matter of constant surprise to me
Geo. A. Hasty, grocer at Lansing, has as- |

J. UH. Spires—The lumber trade will never
prosper until the railways adopt a uniform
tariff and stand by the same for two consec-
utive weeks. As it is now, we no sooner
get a new tariff and begin figuring on that
basis than along comes a change in rates,
which demoralizes the business, dissatisfies
the purchaser, and frequently consumes all
the profit involved.

A. L. Ruffe—The ‘‘ Rochester German”
is a safe insurance company to let alone, as
the individual who adjusts the losses of the
company in this State possesses none of the
attributes of a gentleman. A khowledge of
the manner in which he conducted himself
in this community has resulted in the ean-
cellation of nearly every one of the com-
pany’s policies held here.

Geo. N. Davis—On my return from Col-
orado three or four years ago, I telegraphed

| my wife from Chicago that I would be home

on the late train that night. I sent the tel-
egram during the forenoon. Two days af-
terward, while I was eating dinner a West-
ern Union messenger boy brought in the
dispateh, whieh I refused, and the local

| manager abused me like a thief because I
} . ~
' would not pay the message fee, 25 cents.

W. T. Lamoreaux—No, I don’t do any
business with the Western Union which
ean possibly be carried by any other
line. I don’t like the disreputable way that
eoncern has of treating its patrons. ‘To il-
lustrate: I received a telegram last fall
from a Chicago house, asking what I could
furnish a earload of beans for. I replied
$1.25 a bushel, and reeeived an. order to
ship. About the time I thought the beans
would reach Chicago, I drew on the house

| for the amount, and was surprised to have

the draft returned and car refused, on the
ground that the price named was not that
agreed upon. An interchange of telegrams
revealed the fact that the operator had made
a mistake in transmitting my first message,
making $1.25 read $1.20. Itook the dis-

patch and the copy of my first message up
to Mr. Baxter, the local manager, who

agreed to reimburse me the $17 loss which
I incurred in consequence of the operator’s
error. He forwarded my proofs on to New
York, and I soon received an insolent reply,
the gist of which was that I might go to
shoel. I then demanded the return of my
proofs, but the demand has been denied
and whenever I talk suit, the company’s
agents put their fingers to their noses and
suggest that I better obtain my proofs first.
That’s the way they do business, and the
less I have to do with them the better I am
off. ee
The Union Label.

The Knights of Labor at Muskegon, Fre-
mont and several other surrounding towns
have resolved to boycott all dealers handling
non-union cigars—that is, cigars not bear-
ing the union label, and the labor organiza-
tions in this city have posted handbills on
the billboards requesting merchants to han-
dle only union-made goods. With a view
to ascertaining how this arrangement will
affect the jobbing trade, a reporter of THE
TRADESMAN recently called on a leading
tobacconist and made the necessary in-
quiries.

‘We give our trade whatever they ask
for,” the jobber replied. ‘*Three-fourths of
our goods are made in union shops, but the
manufacturers usually prefer to leave the
label off, and consequently send the labels
to us in packages. If a dealer wants labels
on his goods, we paste them on for him; but
if his trade doesn’t demand them we don’t
take the trouble to disfigure the boxes. Do
we ever put the label on non-union goods?
Of course we do. We eater tothe working-
men’s whims in this respect the same as we
would a ehild’s. They don’t know the dif-
ference. and half the time the non-union
goods are better cigars, and made by better
workmen, than the union goods. The un-
ion label is too often used to bolster up
poor goods and bad workmanship, and even
those who are. fieree for the union label
goods will be smoking cigars without the

label within the next six months.”
__—_____—<-@-<-___—

Attention Everybody.

Insure in the United States Accident As-
sociation of New York. The annual cost of
$5,000 insurance and $25 weekly indemnity
is $13 per year. For information or appli-
cations, address P. D. Richards, General

 

Butters & Peters have completed ar-

Agent, Box 388, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The Gripsack Brigade.

A. F. Peake, State agent for DeLand &
Co., Fruitport, N. Y., was in the city last
week, interviewing the jobbing trade.

Chas. Livingston, traveling representative
for E. G. Studley & Co., learned a new card
trick at Big Rapids one day last week.

S. W. Bush was in the city last week on
his way to Springfield, Ohio, whither he
was called by his house—Jas. Craig, De-
troit—to look after important business mat-
ters.

Wim. A. Clough, who is ‘‘doing” the Wis-
consin trade with Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.’s
sundry line, exhibited samples to the
State Pharmaceutical Association at Janes-
ville last week.

his

B. Frank Emery went to Whitehall Sat-
urday, where his wife and children had
been spending a week with relatives. Mus.

Emery is accompanying him on his regular
Northern trip this week.

A good many of the Grand Rapids travel-
lers are taking their vacations piecemeal in
trips to the various where lake
breezes, fishing, bathing and boating, com-
bined with big appetites, keep them in good
trim for fall work.

A. E. Brownell, representing the Ameri-
ean Cigar Co., of Coldwater, put in Sunday
at this market. Mr. Brownell’s Sunday vis-
its to Grand Rapids—he always strikes this
market on that day—are not due to a female
attraction, but are the result of an ardent
admiration for one of our leading divines
and a desire to hear him expound the gos-
pel as often as possible.

Ale Ge
Intrepid Travelers—Three of a Kind.

“Yes, a traveling man gets in a tight
place once in a while,” said a well-known
member of the fraternity, ‘‘but as a usual
thing he is equal to the emergency.
you frequently refer to the ‘elephantine
proportions’ of Gid. Kellogg, but Gid. is no
coward, if he is big. I remember a little
oecurrence which I witnessed up at Evart
several years ago. Gid. and the late Billy
Pittwood were walking up the sidewalk of
the main street, when they met a posse of
drunken river drrvers, who informed the
fioys that it would be necessary for them to
take the middle of the road. Billy shied
out into the road without further argument,
but Gid proceeded without hesitation, plant-
ing one of his fists between the eyes of the
foremost bully. The blow sent the fellow
nearly to the middle of the street, and a
similar movement on another red-shirted
specimen sent the latter sprawling in the
gutter. The remainder of the party profit-
ted by the example of their two companions,
and gave the right of way without further
argument.

“Yve heard the boys tell of an experience
Albert Antrim had on the bridge between
Alleyton and White Cloud a number of
years ago. In those days, Antrim was in
the file business, and at the time I speak of
he was earrying a package of files over to
White Cloud for shipment. When about
half way over the bridge, he met several
log runners, who informed him that he
would have to go back or lie down while
the rowdies pased, accompanying the threat
with upraised peavies. Antrim happened
to have a six-shooter with him, and whip-
ping out the weapon, he turned the tables
on the aggressors, and compelled them to
lie down while he passed them. And if I
remember rightly, he gave the fellows part-
ing kicks all around as he passed by.

resorts,

 

I see

‘Steve Sears ain’t much of a fighter, but
if he ever got into a corner, I imagine he
would make it exceedingly lively for his op-

ponent. Ihave heard him tell of an occur-
renee which happened ona train on the

Newaygo branch about a half dozen years
ago. Steve was the only male passenger
on the train, and it was necessary to put a
couple of ugly customers off at a way sta-
tion. Steve exchanged places with the
route agent, Who volunteered to assist the
eonductor and brakeman. One of the fel-
lows broke away from the trio, and rushed
into the mail car, where he proposed to pick
up acouplixg pin. Steve saw ata glance
what the rough would do in such a weapon,
and leveling his revolver, drew a bead on the
scoundrel. Both stood there watching each
other for several minutes, when the rowdy
asked permission to leave the train, which
was granted. Steve then discovered that
his revolver was too rusty for effective ser-
vice, but it probably saved his life just the
same.”

 

 

 

 

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Drugs & Medicines

 

STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo.

Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City.

Three Years—Jacohb Jesson, Muskegon.

Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.

Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

President—Ottmar Eberbach.

Seeretary—Jacob Jesson.

Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. 5

Next place of meeting—At Detroit, November
3, 1885.

Michigan State

 

Pharmaceutical Association.

OFFICERS.

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.

First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald, Kal-
amazoo.

Second Vice-President—B. D. Northrup, Lan-
sing.

Third Vice-President—Frank Wurzburg, Gr’d
Rapids.

Seeretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.

Treasurer—W im. Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—H. J. Brown, A. B.
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W.
Fincher. :

Next place of meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday,
October 13, 1885.

 

(rand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.

 

OFFICERS.
President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.

Board of Cer 1sors—John Peck, Chas. P. Bige-
low, Jas. S. Cowin. :
Board of Tr ustees—The President, Wm, H.

Van Leeuwen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White,
Wim. L. White.

Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum, M. B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.

Committee on apy ig ren late Watts, O. H.
Richmond, Jas. 8. Cowin. : : :
Committee on Trade Matters—H. B. Fairchild,
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen. ee
Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in
each month. : :
Annual Meetings—First Thursday evening in

November,
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, September
3, at “The Tradesman”’ office.

 

 

Arsenic Eaters.
From Chamber’s Journal.

It must not be supposed that any one takes
to hedri, or arsenic eating, quite openly.
On the contrary it is generally begun in
seeret and at the inerease of the moon, and
in some villages with superstitious obsery-
anees. <A very small dose is at first taken
once a week—bread and butter is the favor-
ite medium—then twice a week and so on
until, when the individual arrives at a dose
daily, the dose itself increased till as
much be taken as in ordinary circumstances
would kill two or three individuals. But it
must not be undeastood that these people
ean consume the drug altogether with im-
punity. When they first begin with their
very small doses they are seized with nau-
sea and burning pains inthe mouth and
stomach, and are probably very much more
uncomfortable than a boy who has taken
his first cigar. But one peculiarity of ar-
senic eating is this: that when a man has
once begun to indulge in it he must continue
to indulge; for if he ceases the arsenic in
his system poisons him; or as itis popularly
expressed, the last dose kills him. Indeed,
the arsenic eater must not only continue his
indulgence—he must also increase the quan-
tity of the drug, so that it is extremely dif-
ficult to stop the habit; for, as sudden ces-
sation causes death, the gradual cessation
produces such a terrible heart gnawing that
it may probably be said that no genuine ar-
senic eater ever ceased to eat arsenic while
life lasted. It is curious that while on the one
hand, the human organism is so remarkably
sensitive to arsenic aman may, on the other
hand, indulge in these poisonous doses for
years. This is probably owing to the fact
that arsenie acts on the skin, and thus is
being constantly carried out of the system,
and also because it is readily eliminated by
the kidneys. Now, this prevents any aecu-
mulation going on in the tissues, and thus
what might seem almost mythical is at least
brought within the range of possibility. It
has been calculated that this process of
elimination has to be carried on for fourteen
days before a given dose is entirely remov-
ed. But yet the fact remains that these
Austrian peasants can swallow arsenic to
an extent and with an impunity unprece-
dented in the annals of toxicology. For the
solution of the problem we may offer the
following considerations: First of all, the
human organism may become accustomed to
most if not all poisons, if they are adminis-
tered at first in exceedingly small doses;
and in this way a poison, as is well known,
may become a “‘mithridate” to itself. See-
ondly, though the human organism is ex-
tremely sensitive to arsenic, yet some con-
stitutions may be less so than others; thus,
for instance, the arsenic eaters of Styria are
allof them robust mountaineers, whose
forefathers have eaten arsenic from genera-
tion to generation, so that, as may be sup-
posed, each generatidh has become more ar-
senic proof than the one beforeit. Thirdly,
like most mountaineers, the Styrians con-
sume large quantities of milk and butter as
well as other food rich in fats, when the
oily matters to a certain extent unite with
the arsenic, forming an arsenical soap,
which does not so readily enter into the
blood, so that the total amount of ar-
senice assimilated is proportionately small.
From this we see that if the Styrian partakes
of an unusual amount of this deadly drug
he is at the same time not only less suscep-
tible to its influence by his hereditary de-
scent and his habits, but his:food supplies
him with some sort of an antidote.

a te

Montreal drug clerks are making efforts
to secure reduced working hours. They
think fourteen hours a day toomuch for any
one to work.

Salicylic acid, which was at first recom-
mended by Dr. Squibb as a preservative for
solutions of cocaine hydrychloride, has been
found sometimes to produce an_ irritating
effect. Boric acid (1 in 200) has been tried,

is

e with satisfactory results.

 

Sumac in this Country.
Frequent requests are made to deseribe
how sumac is prepared for the market in
this country, where it is sold, the prices it
brings and other questions relative to its be-

ing put on the market by country folks.
Probably as authoritative knowledge as is

obtainable from any one souree is that con-

tained in a report on sumac prepared under

the direction of the national department by
dr. William MeMurtrie.

In this report it is claimed that experience
has fully demonstrated the value of our
principal American varieties of sumac for
tanning purposes, although .the preference
is usually given to the foreign product. The

varieties especially employed in this country
are: Rhus typhina, staghorn sumac, grow-
ing 10 to 30 feet high; Rhus glabra, smooth
or white sumac, growing 2 to 12 feet high;

thus copallina,. dwarf or black sumac,
growing 1 to 7 feet high, and Rhus cotinus,
fragrant sumac, which is also a dwarf and
often compounded with the copallina.

Sumae grows spontaneously in such large
quantity in various sections of the country
on poor, rough and abandoned lands and
hillsides that it has never been subjected to
cultivation, though there appears no reason
why the hardy sorts may not be cultivated.
Of the varities mentioned Dr. McMurtrie
names the Rhus glabra, or smooth sumac,
as the most valuable for tanning purposes,
though the dwarf sorts are also used.

In this country where sumac is manutfac-
tured—and this is done more extensively in
Virginia than elsewhere—the leaves are col-
lected and cured by country people and sold
and delivered to owners of mills for grind-
ing. The more intelligent dealers in the
raw material urge upon collectors to observe
the following particulars. The leaf should
be taken whenin full sap, before it has
turned red, has begun to wither or has been
affected by frost, to insurea maximum value
for tanning purposes. Either the leaf-bear-
ing stems may be stripped off or the entire
stalk may be cut away and the leaves upon
it allowed to wither before being carried to
the drying shed; but care must be observed
that these are neither scorched nor bleached
by the sun. When wilted they are conveyed
to a covered place and spread upon open
shelving or racks to dry. Care is required
to prevent overheating and fermentation,
hence a free circulation of air is necessary.
Sumae should remain within the drying-
house at least one month before sending to
market. When prepared for shipment it
must be quite dry and consequently brittle.

ne
A Druggist Asks for Information.
VANDERBILT, Aug. 17, 1885.
Editor Michigan Tradesman:

DEAR Sir—A young man came into my
drug store the other day with the following
prescription:

 

R
Sulphate Soda.. Beas
Chloride Soda............... Le
BiCarb Soda.. oe Ziv.
Pally, GANG OY. oo. 8 334.

M. Sig. Tablespoonful dissolve in glass

of water immediately.
Dr. M. D.

After reading it, the young man asked if
Iecould put it up, and on replying in the
affirmative, he told) me to hurry up, as his
mother was pretty sick. After a trip toa
grocery store for the chloride of sodium,
writing the directions, ete., I charged the
boy 40 cents, whereupon he replied with a
surprised look: ‘Why, Dr. —— said
it would not cost more than fifteen cents.”

 

 

 

Now, I would like to know how a drug-
gist can afford to give such a doctor a com-

I would like to
Soliman Snooks on this subject.

F. P. M.
Blodiciuce Most -Prescribed.

Mr. W. Willmott, the distinguished En-
glish chemist, in an analysis of 1,000 pre-
seriptions, found that quinine was far ahead
of any other single medicine ordered, but
classifying all remedies in their natural
groups, he found mercury prominently at
the top, then potash, bark, opium and iron.
He found that out of the 768 simple and
compound medicaments of the Pharmaco-
peia, only 485 occurred at all in these 1,000
prescriptions, while three-fourths of these
were not prescribed ten times in the 1,000.

An American writer, who has madea
careful investigation of the subject, recently
made public the following comparative pro-
portions in which twelve of the leading
medicines had been ordered in 1,000 pre-
seriptions which had been taken at random:
Quinine was ordered 238 times, opium 136,
nux vomica 130, iron 128, iodine, mercury,
bismuth, aitd bromine altogether 59 and 60
times.

mission on prescriptions.
hear from &

 

a oe

The Northwestern Commercial Traveler
pays this journal the following compliment:
THe Micu1iGAnN TRADESMAN is the com-
mercial travelers’ paper of that State: at
least it devotes a very large portion or its
space to the interests of the traveling men.
It is well conducted and contains much in-
formation beneficial to the merchants and
their representatives.

“That bald head of mine is worth $1,000
a year to me,” said Henry McDowell, the
other day. ‘‘You see, I frequently meet a
furniture dealer who apparently takes little
stock in what I have to say, and all the ar-
gument I can bring tobear on him falls flat,
until I accidentally lift my hat. The sight
of my bald head is reassuring, and a sale
necessarily follows.”

It is said that Jamestown, in south Aus-
tralia, has by wholesale planting of gums
(several species), pines, catalpas, tamarack,
figs, willows, olives, acacia, and some other
kinds of trees, been changed in five years
from a dry, hot, almost uninhabitable place
toavery desirable residence. The gums
are twenty-five and thirty feet high.

 

Some Facts about Corks.
Corks are divided into four classes accord-
ing to their thickness:
1. Thiek corks, having more
millimeters in diameter.

than 31

2. Ordinary or commercial, from 25 to 40
millimeters.

3. Bastard Corks, from 23 to 25; and

4. Thin cork, less than 23 millimeters.

Each class is again divided by the French
and Spanish merchants, according to their
quality and the fineness of the cork. In the
cork tree plantations of Lot et Garonne,
Catalonia, and the Mediterranean region
generally, a forest kept in good condition
and worked for ten years will yield two-
thirds of good ordinary corks, and one-third
of thick and thin cork. A cork of good
quality should be white, tawny or pink,
with a close, fine grain, and free from
cracks. Wet plantations give a soft, flabby
description of product.

The powder of cork is met with in trade
under the name of liegine, and is used in
place of Iyeopodium for healing skin cuts,
ete. The waste resulting from the manu-
facture of bottle corks is made useful by
being mixed with plaster, ete., for parti-
tions, filling walls, and other purposes. It
also produces an excellent kind of charcoal,
which is said to be good for gunpowder
manufacture.

Linoleum is a composition of cork powder
and linseed oil. Sometimes cork powder is
found highly adulterated with sawdust and
clay. Cork leather is made from Indian
rubber and cork powder; it ismuch used tor
waterproof articles.

Catalonia and Algeria possess the cork oak
in great quantity, and it is suecessfully eul-
tivated in Corsiea, in the French depart-
ments of Var, Lot et Garonne, and else-
where. It grows about 200 years, and at-
tains some 30 to 40 feet in height, as an
average, though trees as high as 65 feet are
met with here and there.

The virgin cork is the suberous bark 3 it
has little commercial value, being only used
for marine buoys, fishing net floats, orna~
mental flower pots and ferneries, and for
making Spanish black. The bark reaches
its proper thickness in about eight years,
but a tree is not unbarked until it is twenty
or thirty years old. A young tree will give
six to eleven pounds of cork, while an old
tree will yield 250 to 350 pounds.

The manufacture of corks for bottles dates
from the seventeenth century ; machinery is
now largely used for this purpose, by means
of which one man can turn out about 5,000
to 6,000 corks a day.
<9 <—_____—-

 

Increase in Opium Eating.

Frequent reports have of late been made
of the alarming increase of the use of opium
and morphine in this country, especially
among women. But it seems that the use
of these drugs is spreading everywhere.
In Spain and France opium is used more
freely than ever as a preventive of cholera.
In Russia, where the heat this summer
seems to be terrific, the thermometer show-
ing an average exceeding anything that has
been known in 140 years, opium is being
used as @ means to keep cool and quiet. The
Russians, who are hard drinkers, are afraid
to indulge in the use of aleohol during the
extremely hot weather, and seem to have
partially exchanged it for opium, probably
upon the authority of experts who have in-
dulged in it almost all their lives, and who
aver that, far from distorting the mental
faculties of men as alcohol does, opium
sustains them, and renders a man unusually
bright and good spirited the next day. It
seems to take the edge off all sharp sensa-
tions and perceptions; to wrap a man as if
in cotton wool, and put him on a shelf.
More than this a writer in a London con-
temporary avers that while wine robs a man
of his self-possession, opium sustains and
re-enforces it, and communicates serenity

and equipoise to all the faculties. If the
use of the drug becomes as wide-

ly spread as it is reported to be, the Bengal
Government will see its revenues substan-
tially increased. It spends now about $10,-
000,000 annually upon the cultivation of the
poppy, and derives a revenue of about $40,-
000,000 from the sale of opium. It is to be
hoped, however, that the use of opium is
not going to be followed, as it was in India,
by the use of ganja, a preparation made
from the juice of the hemp; for, while the
opium eater does not hurt any one except
himself, the ganja eater is invariably driven
crazy, and becomes a murderer, and a thor-
oughly uncontrollable monster. The Indian
Government makes the sale and purchase of
this drug a penal offence, but its preparation
is so easy, and the craving of those who use
it is so irresistible, that its fatal work is
making as great progress among the natives
of India as opium is making in Europe and
this country.

 

“ —_—>—9 <>

itis generally believed that lard oint-
ments are more readily absorbed by the skin
than those prepared by petrolatum. It is
reported, however, that E. Jwras has made
experiments with animal membranes to de-
termine the comparative rate of osmosis of
the medicament in ointments prepared
respectively with petrolatum and lard. In
experiments with iodide of potassium oint-
ment it was found that the most iodine
osmosed in the case of the petrolatum oint-
ment. It remains to be seen, however,
whether or not his results ean be confirmed
by experiments on the living skin.

An exchange says that when paraffin is
thoroughly mixed with linseed oil, cast into
small blocks, and allowed to cool, it may be
used to make any fabric, asccloth, felt and
leather water-proof, by rubbing it with such
a block, and ironing afterward to equalize
the distribution of the material in the pores.

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT,

—

a A CTT C COC CC OTE
Declined—Linseed oil, zum opium, cuttle fish |

bone, Malaga olive oil, oil pennyroyal.

Advanced—Nothing.
ACIDS
Accuc NO. 87:3. oe. 9 @ 10
Acetic. C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35

Oe 62 38 @ 40
CHIC oe . @ 65
Muriaticis deo @ 5
Nite s6deg is . @ 12
OXANC ee 12 @ 14
Sulphuric 66 deo 6. 1.2... es, 3 @ 4
Vartaric powdered... ...........2. 52 @ 55
Benzoic, English............. 2 02 i8
Benzo, GOrman 6 6.0: 12 @ 15
MPOMIDNG cece ee eee a 122 @ 15

AMMONTA.

PArDOMSEG.. .. 0s Bh 5b @ IB
Moarinte (POwWd. 226)... 2 6. cee l4
Aqua 18 dee Or Sho. 7 62. 3... 5. @ 6
Aqua 18 dés or 40) 000 ee. 6: @

BALSAMS,
Copatba 65.262. ee. 40@45
ee ee 40
PPO a See es eee cee ns 2 00
OID res ee 50
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ IL
Cinchona, yellow.....-.......... Be 18
Mol S@l6GU 2 ee be cee. 13
Him. prOUnd, PUL. ....-......625.: 14
Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15
Sassairas, OF TOOU... 63.0.0... <:5..¢ 10
Wild Cherry, select... ..........:... 2
Bayberry powdered...:........... 20
Hemlock powdered................ 18
WENOO, 8 occ se el ele eek. 30
SOU SrOUNG) 6 fe eee, 12
BERRIES,
Cubeb prime (Powd - ee @ 75
HUMIPer 6. oe see. eo. - 6@ f
PRICK IV ASD ooo occ soo oh ese ce 50 @ 60
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 th boxes, 25¢).. 27
Licorice, powdered, pure ENS Bye
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ib doxes). 9
Logwood, Is (25 Ib boxes).......... 12
Lgowood, %s dO. 12... 1... 13
Logwood, 14s GO .......5.: 15
Logwood, ass’d Oe 14
Fluid Extracts—25 #2 cent. off list.
FLOWERS.
PAYIMCR ec cess jo @u
Chamomile; Roman..:............ 25
Chamomile, German.............. 25
GUMS.
Aloes, Barbadoes...:..5::......... 6 75
Aloes, Cape (Powd 20c)............ 12
‘Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60¢)....... : 50
mngobiae oe. 23@ 30
Arabic, powdered select.......... 65
Arabie, ist picked. ....5......-..... 60
Arabic.2d Picked... 0. .5.........- 30
Arabic, 30 pleKeG:.......-......... 45
Arabic, sifted s@rts..........<..... 35
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c¢)... 25
IONZOM 6 ioe. eee ccc ne. on G80
Camphor. 2200.43 a... 23@ 27
Catechu. Is (4 14e, 4s 16¢c) ...... . L 13
Euphorbium powdered............ 35@ 40
Galbanum strained................ 80
GambOGes tse $0@1 00
Guaiae, prime (Powd 45¢)......... 30
Kino [Powdered, 30c].............. 2
MGSTICI 30. se ee.
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered aie). 40
Opium, pure (Powd $4.90)...... Gees 3 50
Shellac: Campbell's: ...:........-.- 30
Shellac; BDSM ee see. 26
BHeMAG: MAbIVe:.o655. 6... ck oe 24
Sheliae bleached. ....-.0....... -.. 30
fbracacambh 6.60 oc: 30 @I1 00
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
IFOSMNOUNG (005.282 25
NUODOIA: 62 occ a ce 25
(ROPPCTVOMNG. ee ee 2d
WG ee 40
Spearmint .....00.0.....3...... Oca eete gels 4
Sweeb MajOraAm< 6) 3.00.00 oo5 os. e- 35
MAINZ) ee ee es acc wees ces 25
OIWVANING) 22 es cece os 30
WOrmwWOOd 0..20.....25-5, 2.24.) Cee, 25
IRON.
Citrate and @Quinine..............: 6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20
Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7
CiEGAte (66 e e . 80
IPMOSPNAte 6... oc... 65
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25¢)........... 18 @ 14
Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & 4s, l2e).. 6
Senna: Alex: natural... ..0.000.... @ 2
Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30
Senna, powdered... .......:.:<..... 22
Senna tinnivelli........... ..... la 16
Wiva Wrst ee. 10
Belledonma.......2.........0.-22--..% 30
HOXSIOVEG. 0 30
MROMNANeG 7. 3d
ORG, VCC. ee. 2 35
LIQUORS.
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash ey = n 2 25
Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 2 00
Whisky, other brands........... a 10 @I1 50
Gin Old Tom) 135 @I1 75
Gin: PROUAMNG. 332 620.86 2 o @3 50
Bran Coe ce 175 @6 50
Catawba WiIReCS... 52... ...22522., .- 125 @2 00
IPOLGW INOS: oo. eee ee ee 1 33 D2 50
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’ 8,2 OZ. cen. 22
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37
Citrate, i, P.& Co.’s’ solution.... 2 25
CalGIneGG ts ee. 65
OILS,
AMONG SWOCE cco eos oe 45 @ 50
Amber, rectified ewe eo soca. 45
SATMIRO ie ol. J 8&5
aye O22. 2.6 0s se ssn. 50
BOVOUMONG.,.....55....0.2 0... te 2 00
CHStOr. 18 @ 19%
CrOUCOD ooo. 2 00
Cal@DUG 6.222.205.0226... ee 75
CARSIa 2025 ie a. 1 00
Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... 35
Citronella 60. es oe: 75
@IONGS i. ses 12
Cod Liver, N. BU... | 8... 8 gal i 20
Cod Liver, best......... 2 1 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, a8 6 00
Cubebs, Pew. 7 50
HYIGCTON 250200000 s ck. 1 60
IPG WOCU 6 el boats oo oes 2 00
Geranium 98 OZ... ...:- 0.0.0.0... id
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 7dc).. 35
JUPIDEr WOOd 22.6... 2:8... ele 55k 50
JuMiper DELVICS.. 2... 6... 2... 52... 2 00
Lavender flowers, French......... 2 01
Lavender garden GO 32.50 1 00
Lavender spike GO 2... 90
HeMOn, NOW GYOP.... 05.05. cece oes 1 40
Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 1 50
OMONSTRSA.: 00... coe sees ces ce 80
Olive, Malaga eae ; @ 90
Olive, ‘Sublime Italian ....... 2 75
Origanum, red forere French.. 1 25
Onipanum, NOV... 0. , 50
Pennyroyal eee ee eee cogs ‘ bb
Peppermint, white................ 4 30
MORO SP OZ 25. 2. ris se es 8 50
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50) 65
SEIEYs ee ee Sosa cone te: @ 67
SAINI oe eae ee aes s cae os 1 00
Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50
Sandal Wood, Wol.:.c:..-....:..e. 7
SHSSHITASS 22006. Glcelt sci e eee 3 55
Spearmint ©. .......e sees esse seers @i 5

TA SY os ones ue ce vee sce ce ae 450 @d 00
Mar(by @al oe). . o6c 8. coke sce 10 @ 1
Wintergreen 5.0.56)... kas ce 2 10
Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $4.00)..... 3 50
Wormsoed: : o.oo css eee 2 00

POTASSIUM.
Bicromate...5.......-.:...2.6. 8 Ib 14
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 40
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28¢)........ : 2
Todide, eryst. and gran. bulk..... 3 00
Prussiate yellow... 0... 0.660045. ; 28

ROOTS.
PTA OG oo es Soak ices es pee cas 20

ANPNOG, CUG. oes. o ce se ees 25
Arrow, St. Vincent’s.......... 17
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and 48. 33
Blood (Powd Tite 6) a eee P 12
Calamus, peeled bo heel rca eu 20
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 35
Elecampane, powdered............ 20
Gentian (Powd 15c)................ 10
Ginger, African (Powd 14¢).. seuss LE @ 12
Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 17
Golden Seal (Powd 25c).. See 20
Hellebore, white, powdered. Mage ges 20
Ipecac, Rio, powdered............. 1 20
Jalap, powdered................. on 30
Licorice, select (Powd 15).. Se 15
Licorice, extra select.............. 18
PAM, CUNO. oe ee ecole eace ee 40
Rhei, from select to choice.......1 00 @1 50
Rhei, powdered BE. 1................1 10 @Il 20
Rhei, choice cut cubes........ reas 2 00

Rhei, choice cut fingers........... 2 25

 

 
 
  

 

 

 

Perpenthiig oc 50
DODOKH 2s ns, ee 68
Sarsaparilla, Hondurus..:........ 49
Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 20
Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... a)
Valerian, English (Powd 30e)...... 25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢)... 2
SEEDS.
Anise, Italian (Powd 20e). ae 15
Bird, mixed in b pe wekuges........ 5. @°6
Canary, Smyra.. 4@ 4%
Caraway, DCs Pon (Powd 20¢). 1 @ 18
Cardamon, Aleppee.............3. 1 du
Cardamon, Malabar...............: i 7d
Colery: 5. i es Te 20
Coriander, pest Enaetish.....:..... 10
HPOMNG! (coo) ee 15
Flax, clean.. 3%x@
Flax, pure gard (bbl 34 4@ 4%
Foe nugreek, powdered............ ic @ 8
FIle, (MUSRIAT oe 44@ 5%
Mest ‘a, White Black 10e).. 8
CUE ae 75
RDG. Helen ye. 6 @
Worm, Hevant... 29. 2... 2s. .- : 14
SPONGE
Florida sheeps’ wool, cs ar g ge Leese 225 @2 50
Nassau do ado 2... 2 00
Velvet Extra do do 110
Extra Yellow do 00 85
Grass 1o dQ.) 2... 65
Hard head, for slate use........... 75
Yellow tect, GQ) ole ik: 1 40
MISCELLANEOUS.
ao grain (bbl $2.22) 8 gal.. 2 30
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 25
eee Hoffman’s Be eta eo: 50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 2
AMNaBEO, EID EOUB. oes 45
AU 8b 24@ 3%
Alum, ground (Powd 9¢e).......... s@ ¢
‘Annatto, DPINIO cc. sk. 45
Antimony, powdered, ecom’l...... 4%¥@ 5
Arsenic, white, powdered........: é@ &
Hive Soluble oe. 5
Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00
Baim Gilead Buds..-............2: 40
Beans: Nona. 06. 2 GO
Beane: Vena 0 es 700 @9 75
Bismuth, Sub mitrate ..:)... 2... 2 30
Bive Pill Powd ie)... 2... 6. 50
Bie Vitriol 00 oo. 6 G7
Borax, refined (Powd 12¢)..... ... 1@12
Cantharides, Russian powdered... 2 00
Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d. 22
Capsicum Pods, Bombay do... 18
Carmine, No. Oo 4 00
Cassia Buds... 12
Calomel, American. ..-.......:.2. 75
Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5
Chalk, precipitate English........ 12
Chalk, red fineers... 0 8
Chalk, white lump ea 2
Chloroform, SQuUIpD'S. 26... 1... 1 60
Coloeynth apples Noe eee 60
Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 50
Chloral do do eryst.. 1 79
Chioral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90
Chloral do do crusts.. Lt
Chler Fae ce ee A 17 @ 8
Cinchonidia, P. & ee ed 23 @ 28
Cinchonidia, other br ands. SD cece ae 23 @ 28
Cloves (Powd Pest6) a 18 @ 2
Cochinenl (3. 40
@ocoa Butter. 2... 45
Copperss (by bb? Ie). .......... 6. 2
Corrosive Sublimate............... 70
Corks, X and XX—40 off list......
Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... @ 40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 i box.. bb
@Crensotes 50
Cudbear prime: .). 6. ...0..... 1.2... 24
Cuttle Fish Bone... ................. 20
IDONENING 12
Dover's Powders... 2.:.0........- 110
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50
Hreot powdered ........2........, 45
Ether SGUIDDS..:.055..05:05... 1. 110
Emery, Turkish, all Nojs) 7 8
Epsom Salts (bbl. 13).............. 2@ 3
IESOt, Preste 50
Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 60
Blake white. ......-...00.... 8. as 14
Grains Paradise............... wees 25
Gelatine, Cooper’s...............-.. 90
Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ 0
Glassware, flint, 79 off, by box 60 off
Glasswavx'e, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Gime; Gaomet.. |... sl. 2 @
Give white::..2..0............2..., 16 @ 2
Glycermme, pure: .......02.....0 02. 16 @ 20
Hops 45 and 48.06.66... ko... 25@ 40
Todoform @ OZ... ....0.0.......0.. 40
WIS OF oe 8 @1 00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 85 @ 40
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, boxes @1 00
Jodine, resublimed........¢...:.:: 4 00
Isinglass, American............... 1 50
UADOMICH (Oe %
Hondon Purple: 6... 10 @
Mead acetate: (0 15
Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10e & \s lle) 8
BUpWlNe oe 1 06
IsVCONOGIUM oe es 45
MEQGG i ee 50
Madder, best Dutch.............. W2K@ 15
Manna, | BS. Bo, 95
IMOLEGURY (000 ee 60
Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... Boz 3 00@3 25
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 40
Moss, Veelamd: 2.0.2.0)... %8 Ib 10
MOSS: Irish.) 3205.0... J Mee 12
Mustard, Engli ish ee, ee 3
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ib cans...... 18
INGE BS 23
INUemers NOU ec eo 60
INES, WOMNICH a | 10
Ointment. Mercurial, 46d.......... 45
Paris GECCW i Mm @ 2
Pepper, black Berry...) ....:-.... 18
Boon et ot ic acl 2 50
Pitch, True Burgundy............. iG
Quassia ee oes eee ee lee sca 6 @ Tt
Quinia, Suiph, P. & W......-. boz %2 @ iT
Quinine, German..........2....... 7R2@ iT
Red Precipitate.... ........... 42 Ib 83
Seidliez Mixture .c.0 0.0.02. 28
Btryenmia Gryse:..2.... 1.5.06... 3. 1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 74 @ 78
Satiron: American: :.............. 35
Sal Glauber... 0. oe ee. @-. 2
Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10
Sal Nitre, medium eryst.......... 9
Sal Rochelle: oo... 5... c. 33
Sar coda...) 6 8. 2@ 2%
SHNGIN ee ee a 215
SAMGOWUN (250. cs ccs 6 50
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Seotch....... 35
Soda Ash [Dy kee so].............. 4
Spermaceti ee. 35
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s 44@ 5
Soap, White Custile.:.............. 14
Soup, Green do (2. ... 20)... ii
Soup, Mottleddo  ................ 9
Soap: do do. ..0...0. 53.02... i
Soap, Mazzini....... Feces wesc i4
Spirits Nitre,d H..:.......... sss 20 @ 2
Spirits Nitre, 4 eo eee 30 @ 382
Sugar Milk powder CC 35
Sulphur, Hour... 0... oe... e.. 8y@ 4
ERIN OU ce 3@ 38%
Martar PMGUC. ooo. occ e sce oe. 60
Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 270
Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40
Tar, do PINES ID Cin... os 85
Turpentine, Venice........... 48 Ib 25
Wax, White, S. & FF. brand........ 5d
Zine, Sulphate...) 060. ee. 1@ 8
OILS.
Capitol Cylinder. 2. ooo ee 75
Model Gylinder.: o.oo. ok 60
Shield Cylinder... 6 ee. co a. ecco 50
Midorado Wmgme. oo .si sk. kek 35
Reerless Machinery... ... 2) ...0.00. 256s kn. 30
Challenge Machinery................. esas «io
Backus Pine Broeine. 2... .. 0.66... kes. 30
Black Diamond Machinery........ Bee oce 30
Castor Machine OU 6C
Paraftine, ¢ x CO a 15%
Waraiene, 2S GOR go oe ee ec cc 21
Sperm, winter Dleashel.. 1 40
Bbl Gal
Whale: Winter. ...0.5.5.640.2 60.05.25 50 75
MSURCE. COMUNE 06 os cae cs os ace cs ess 55 60
Miard, NO. Fos. ce 45 5d
Hinseed; pure raw......c........0..% 43 46
Hinseed, DOUCH .- o.oo ee 45 49
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90
Spirits Purpontine... 2... ..3..00.... 42 46
VARNISHES.
NO: tT Burp Conch... :. 23.2... 2... ke 1 10@1 20
Pietra PUP oo... occ kw ca ne cece 1 60@1 70
@COGGH BOdy 2 ooo oe ak ee 2 Es 00
No.1 Burp Hurniture:....:....:......6 1 10
Mxtra- Purp DAMP... oo. 6... este e ee: 1 BSL 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp...... pidecss - @ 5
PAINTS.
Bbl Lb
Red Veneovan.. 6.5.0 6.ci ccs. 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3
Putty, commercial ............ 2% 24%@ 8
Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 24@ 3
Vermilion, prime American.. 18@16
Vermilion, English............ 58@60
Green, Peninsular............. 16@17
Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 6%
Lead, white, strictly pure..... 64
Whiting, white Epowen.. Bee: : @7
Whiting, Gilders’. eocee us @90
White, Paris American...... 110
Whiting Paris English cliff... 1 40
Pioneer Prepared Paints..... 1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa Prepared Paints... 1 00@1 20

 

WY In oelesale

re

Druggists

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 8g, gr,
93 and 95 Louis Street.

 

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Drags, Medicines, Chemica's
Paints, Oils, Varnishes
alt Drngeist’s

~

UASS WARE,

MANUFACTURERS OF

ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL =PREPAI
FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS.

AND

LATIONS,

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John i. Whiting,
Manufacturers of Fine Paint and
Varnish Brushes.

THE CELEBRATED

Pioneer Prepared Paints.
—Also for the—
Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of
Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of our busi-
ness is conceded to be one of the largest,
best-assorted and diversified to be found in
the Northwest. We are heavy importers of
many articles ourselves and ean offer Fine
Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng-
lish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive
prices.

We desire particular attention of those
about purchasing outfits for new stores to
the fact of our UNSURPASSED FACILI-
TIES for meeting the wants of this class of
buyers WITHOUT DELAY and in the
mostapproved and acceptablemanner known
to the drug trade. Our special efforts in
this direction have received from hundreds
of our customers the most satisfying reeom-
mendations.

Wine and Liquor Department

We give our special and personal atten-
tion to the selection of choice goods for the
DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit
the high praise accorded us for so satis-
factorily supplying the wants of our eustom-
tomers with PURE GOODS in this depart-
ment. We CONTROL and are the ONLY
AUTHORIZED AGENTS for the sale of
the celebrated

WITHERS DADE & GO:

Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND
OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP-
PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not
only offer these goods to be excelled by NO
OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market,
but superior in all respects to most that are
exposed for sale. We GUARANTEE per-
fect and complete satisfaction and where
this brand of goods has been onee introduced
the future trade has been assured.

We are also owners of the

Irugeists Favorite Rye,

Which continues to have so many favorites
among druggists who have sold these goods
for a very long time. Buy our

ills, Braudles & Fine Wines,

We call your attention to the adjoining
list of market quotations which we aim to
make as complete and perfect as possible.
For special quantities and for quotations on
such articles as do not appear on the list,
such as PATENT MEDICINES, ete., we
invite your correspondence. :

Mail orders always receive our special and
personal attention.

HAZELTINE, PERKINS & C0

 

  

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WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

THE LEADING BRANDS OF

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesmal. D, W. Archer ' Trophy Gorn,

WIDE BROWN COTTONS.

 

 

= Sa 7 7 Se oF ees 25
se ndroscoggin, epperell, 11-4...... 27%
A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH | pepperell, 7-4...... 16% Pequot, 7-4......... 18
WEDNESDAY. Pepperell, 8-4...... Pequot, 8-4......... 21
——_—_ Pepperell, 9-4...... DN Pequot, 9-4......... 24
E, A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. CHECKS. y
a

Caledonia, XX,0z..11 |Park Mills, No. 90..14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office in Hagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. oe ee ae 100.15 ; ;
Telephone No. 95, ey rig ah Ghee as j Offered in this Market are as follows:
Sind ae ig a oH et. ae 10% | i
ar. 9 TK, 1 OZ......----
er ot ee ce at Gran id Rapids 48 | 5a yic Mills, No. 80.18 York, AA oxiinen ts Tt. Cj . I OBACEO. *
Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... 7
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1885. ce sii 8 AEA NO. 2. AND 3 CANS. ae hs oe ee hl le Ul
ewiston brown 2 ancnester al - - - ~ = a
Gonservatiom in Business, | Ememrown.',... Sa Now tom pla. | = YOUNG, TENDER AND SWEET, ea -
Correspondence Fancy Goods Record. BLEACHED COTTONS. a a i 2 7 = ‘.
Avondale, 36....... 844IG »G, 4-4...... 5 )
It was Voltaire, I think, who once said, Art ‘cambrics, 36 oy “11s Hi eae. i NATURAL FLAVOR RETAIN BD. Bi ACK R ABBIT - = = = = e 88 »
‘“The man who has no enemies is no friend Androseostin, eo 6 a ; . '
of mine.” Yet there are different kinds of foe: haneet! bi, King’ ewes cam- o GUARANTEED PURITY. SILVER COIN . a . = z A6
the genus enemy, and when all kinds have Bott, 0. fh... 8 8% Linwood, eb 11% $1,000 IN GOLD PANIC - - - - - - - - 46
been exhausted - there is a nondescript ani- lgalety ea ou Sate cache ene : A R . a 2
mal who is neither a friend nor an enemy in Boott, n st... Bi Reade. GB, 44... of NOT SIWERETENED WITH ST G ARB. BLACK PRINCH, D K - oO
the accepted sense of enmity and friend- Ciaornan ae 6 Rissonvtig, BIG STUMP - - - - - - - 838
ee ee ee eee oe eee eee se -..hLULUl(i OCG
St a » Exce abot, J-5...-..----- New aaey, a =
ee ai con- Domestic, iB... fe 7 Pride of the eS hs NOT BLEACHED WHITE. 2c less in orders for 100 pounds of any one brand.
servatism. It is not a happy fault, by any | Dwight Anchor, Pocahontas, 4-4.... 7% Ww
means, and the men who know it when they ee Loom, 4-4.: By kn : ae NO ATER IN CANS. FINS CUT.

 

Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 744;|Woodbury, 4-4...... 5%
Fruit of the Loom, Whitinsville, 4-4.. "Y%

cambric, 4-4...... 11 =|Whitinsville, 7-8.. : 6%
Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. 6%|Wamsutta, 4-4...... . 16%
Gold Medal, 7-8..... 6 |Williamsville, 36...10%

see it and seek to avoid it are the traveling
salesmen. ‘They meet it every day in the
week, and seek to find the more congenial

THE MEIGS FINE CUT, DARK, oe saecl
STUNNER, DARK -

The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only. Respectfully,

 

 

members of the house with which to tran-| Gilded Age........- 8% sa)

sact their business. lien. eewalle TS. 8 THE ARCHER PACKING CO,, Chillicothe, Ills. RED BIRD, BRIGHT [ z S a e .0OO »
Occasionally it happens that they make a Coin oe He ear ea es ee TO OPERA. QUEEN, Bete : 7 = " 40

mistake, and a recent case in our trade} Anchor..........--- 15 (Lonsdale A......... 16 : . : fc

points clearly to an error in judging: human- Blnekdburn 20000000. 8 voter see See Our W holesale Quotations else- awa . % - 382

ity from the surface. The affair is a most! Davol.........-.---- Victory D.......... ° e . e & yy - - = ad = = 00

peculiar one for many reasons, as it involves Londo. See ee where in. this issue and write for 2c less in 6 pail lots.

the dissolution of a gs that = Achar Bal Wana. a [Phoonix a as : : : : ‘i
as very prosperous. nere were two mem- PRINTS. SS | Pp CG iv f SMOBRING
bers, one with experience in the trade, who oT , a Ea rues. ! pecla a rices if ar O 5. a

headed the firm name, and the other with| Allen’s checks...... 5%4|Hamilton fancy....6 4 :

money who took second place in the busi-| Allen Spinks Cones V a { 01 k R i P . hi yeh ARTHUR'S CHOICE, LONG CUT, BRIGHT .22

ness. The latter gentleman was very con- es a red ces. oe : 6 ale prepare 0 iid 0 cil rlces HH anyt Ing WE adie, RED FOX, LONG CUT, FOIL = = - 26

servative and was regarded by salesmen as Arnold fancy.....--. Oriental robes......6% man i) L 5

abete noir whom they dreaded to meet. Ape ae GIPSEY QUEEN, GRANULATED 2G

The partner with experience was a hail-fel- | Cocheco robes.....-- 6% See ne teneonee 5 a x : OLD COMFORT, IN CLOTH - - - Ga e

Conestoga oe - 6
Eddystone ... -..6
Eagle fancy..
Garner pink..

Washington fancy..
Washington blues. 7%

“634 3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

SEAL OF GRAND RAPIDS, IN CLOTH
Dive: Soren. EY CLOTH - - - -

low-well-met with salesmen, bought goods
freely, and from all who had anything worth

 
 

 

   
   
          
         

buying. His income was contingent upon FINE Saw COTTONS.
the profits, and in order to make these pro- ave ee pare Coton or a 2c less in 100 pound lots.
fits as large as possible after a recent stock-| Boston F, #4....,.. 13g Laconia B, %-4...... 16% ay =
taking, he voluntarily destroyed or removed Continenial C, doin si Mise BB 57 ae i These brands are sold only by
the invoices of large purchases of goods oe es " see on ecttiers Seen : i : VY ‘ *
still held in stock. The partner of money | Conestoga G, 30-in. 6 |Nashua 0, 7-8. oe 3 A rthur l\ f el S OG CG O
felt that they had more stock than the re- ree Se: ee a Beene Beda Oi e '
ceipted statements called for after deducting Dwight a - ee - 6% pepe . oe im At Manufacturers’ Prices.
sales, and the upshot of the matter was that | Ewight Star, 40-in. - 9 |Pepperell } N, 3-4. me a ae
he proposed a dissolution and advised credi- Goset Halle B, £4... i eam pag oe = ; ns SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY. ‘ 0 eSa, e rocers
Saranac H.-..22..- J

Farmers’ A, 4-4.....
Indian Orchard 1-4 iM
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

cc ee. 714|Runfrew, dress styl 7%

 

tors of his willingness tor confess judgment
for all claims and pay them in full. The
latter action changed the tone of opinion in

i i ; T DEE
HOUSE & STORE SHADES MADE TO ORDER. Who warrant the same to be unequalled. We guar- 2

Amoskeag

 

 

 

 

i z Amoskeag, Persian Johnson Manfg Co, aa
his favor, and hereafter salesmen will be} — styles........-..-- 10%| Bookfold......... 12% 68 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. antee every pound to be perfect and all right in
willing to accept his orders without ques-| Berkshire 12200001." ere, every particular. We cordially invite you, when in
tion. I have taken this case as one which | Glasgow ee e 7 pea dress _ ¥ y
sllustrates the folly of forcing goods upon a| Qyassow ecks, Fy 1 "| white Mts Go, step Ue e SO] ! | OS. ©. the city, to visit our place of business, 55 and 57
customer who is not entirely responsible, | .TOveL SIS: s25; © White Manfe Co, - Canalst. IT MAY SAVE YOU MONEY
and of selling large bills to those who are standard ........: 7%4| Earlston... 8 : :
too willing to buy when common judgment Sect Cg a a ene otaee ee 4) BROW W's " e
:shows that they cannot reasonably command | Langdale Peet ts Rag hss se 12% a my F

ae i WIDE B 1 TONS. i
sufficient trade to consume them. In the} snaroseoggin, 7-4. 21 Pepperell. 10-4.....27% Paper Bag’ Li
case just cited every salesman who went ee 6+... = iPequot, esis po eee +. B24 ye

gp Aes cso po Gis ie cine as
here to sell saw that the house was rammed | Pepperell, 8-4...... 22%) Pequot, 8-4......... 24 AND
Pepperell, 9-4.....- 25 |Pequot, 9-4......... 274%

full of goods, and although the firm was
doing a good business, yet it was apparent

HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.
Atlantic A, 4-4..... 74 i Lawrence XX, 4-4..
Atlantic H, 4-4..... 7 |Lawrence Y, 50..

Twine Holder!

 

to everyone that they were not moving | Atlantic D, 4-4..... 6y! Lawrence Lh, i | 6 ao
; . j aiy ‘chases. Atlantic P, 4-4...... ewmarket N...... , 64 rw
ee in eons to eh arenes! , ante 1 bk es Mys ce itiver, i oe (COMBINED.)
1e moral of this case is that if both part-| Adriatic, 36......... 7% Pequot A, 4-4....... 74 :
Angus, 14 bo eloes 6% Pie mont, Bo. once 64 Patented April 29th, 1883. 5

ners had been of the same disposition it} poott Mi) 440212202: 63 (Stark AA, 44.0121. M4

would probably have cost their creditors a| Boott iat. 71% (Tremont CC, 4-4.... 5% CAPACITY 2,500 BAGS.
: a ell Graniteville, 4-4.... 8 5% Utica, A es 9
neat sum for their experience In Over-S€ll-| Indian Head, 4-4.. \Wachusett, 4-4..... 7%| Saves time, bags and valuable
selling. As it is now they are made secure Indiana Head 45-in. 14 Wachusett, 30-in... 6% | counter room. Is neat and orna-
only through the efforts of the partner WhO} 4 moskeag AGA, Pale, KEES... isy, | Mental, constructed of malleable
was always regarded as the objectionable Amoskeag ‘* 4-4..19 Falls, BR ss 15% | iron, neatly Japanned, with steel WHOLESALE DEALERS IN wt
ee + Amoskeag, A...... 13 |Falls, Bis se 11% | wire needles, and will never get out
member of the firm. Amoskeag, B......12 |Falls, BBO, 36...... 1944 | ofrepair. Weighs about 6 Ibs. and

1 |Falls, awning...... 9

Amoskeag,
.10%|Hamiiton, BT, 32..12

—————_____ o>
Amoskeag, D

occupies 18 inches square of space.

  

 

 

 

Failed in One Thing and Succeeded in| Amoskeag, H 10 |Hamilton, D....... 9%| Can be adjusted to any height of
Another. Papert ag rn | ee ae . a” ceiling. Is suspended from ceiling
The man who has never failed in business em 88 IMethuen am directly over counter within easy Ky Vi
eee ee |, | Bxtradd......-- ee 16 |Methuen AAA... 18 | distance of salesman. For further NN
cannot possibly know whether he is honest | Extra7-8...... -.-.- 14% Omega A, 7-8....... 11 | information address Ways Sta le cb i Cy
or not, cannot possibly know whether he Gold Medal 4-4...... Le iOmega A, 4-4....... 13 a ia \ p i i¢ cui }
: ee CCA 7-8....-....-..- 12%) ‘Omega ACA, 7 -8....14 : TAA
has any “grit” in him or is worth a button. | OT 44...--.--+.----- it Omega ACA, a -16 GEO. R. BROW N, NAY s
It is the man who fails and then rises who sf sl mee SE. raed hi
ig - sreat in his way AMAA os... 19 |Omega M. 7-8 ......22 PALMYRA, N. Y. Hl
ery ea ee | Cordis AAA, 33.111114 |Omega M, 44......- 25 : ne
Peter Cooper failed in making hats, failed] Cordis ACA, 32..... 15 |Shetucket SS&SSW 1% SOLD BY Ni
# . 4 9 a]
as a cabinet maker, locomotive builder and ee No. 1 Pee ae ae ec a Ay 4
grocer. But as often as he failed he ‘‘tried, | Cordis a : ee 13 Stockbridge - ce a . :
ea
tried again,” until he could stand upon his Cone ae eae re: Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Chicago, Ui.
feet alone, then crowned the victory by giv-| Garner .......------ 5 fae gies. " : 9
ino & : : ee de Hookset.......---.- 5 ashington........ 3% WM & C G ° °
ing $1,000,000 to help poor boys in time to| ped Gross........-. 3 |\Edwards........-..- 5 A, rthnur eles QO. rand Rapids Mich.
come. Forest Grove....... SoS; «Sons... 5 d 9
: cae GRAIN BAGS.
Abraham Lincoln failed to make both! american A...... 18 00|Old _Lronsides...... 1b 4
StarkA.......-.-. - 22%|Wheatiand ......... “1

ends meet by chopping wood, failed to earn
his salt in the galley-slave life of a Missis-
sippi flat-boat man. He had not even wit
enough to run a grocery, and yet he made
himself the grandest character of the nine-

DENIMS.
Boston .....-..- 6% \Otis CC.............
Everett blue 1344;/Warren AXA...... 4

a
Everett brown.. : 3% iW arren BB........ 11y%
Js 12% Warren OR a 10%
GtsBe 11%|York fancy........ 13% 5 g a a
PAPER CAMBRICS. C A RPHT S
3

  
 

mt pet

Otis AXA..

teenth century. . anv asa pees eee : G S. & Sons......... :
: asgnville......... 5 ' — eee eee
Horace Greely tried three or four lines of WIGANS. rn PROPRIETORS
business before he founded the Tribune, a shige ri uma ieas 8
Garmer’.........---- T%

worth to-day $1,000,000.
Patrick Henry failed in everything he

Grand Rapids Tank Line.

SPOOL COTTON.
50

 

 

: ; Brooks .........--+: Eagle and Phoenix
undertook until he made himself the orator | Clark’s O. N. F.... 55 Mills ball sewing.30
of his age and nation z a were a aoe ree? - Daniels.. 7 a
‘ é : i ic 6 5 CkS oo 505,5..-6 : Sas + es : va wes
ee aa Cans: 3 ar 0 Staffor a. aie We receive Illuminating and Lubricating Oils direct from the Refineries in Tanks,
Charleston ball sew \Hall & Manning. se 25 and barrel it here.
A Plaster. ing thread........ 30 |[Holyoke...........- 25 9
; : CORSET JEANS.
, From the Evansville Argus. AXINOTY. 6505s 050s 744|Kearsage..........- 85 COU) Fu BRANDS.

y
‘Ffere she comes. Who’ll take the mus-| Androscoggin sat.. 84 Naumkeag satteen. 8%
6

' ; vanaville dry Canoe River........ Pepperell bleached 8%| XXX Water White. Prime White, Michigan Test.
tard plaster?” said an Evansville dry goods | Gjarendon, 11.2022: 634 Pepperell Bats... 244 El 1 Michi T : 6
clerk to another, as alady with a sharp nose | Hallowell Imp..... 6% |Rockport tee ectroleum. ichigan Test.
oe 5 . oe E Ind. Orch. Imp..... 7 |Lawrencesat....... 84
eee pci tea ase LWvTBRICATING OIL, CLOTHS #
e

 

store and proceed to tumble over a big pile
of goods.
“Tt isn’t my turn, said the young fellow

COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS.

A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.............

King Cylinder.
Globe Cylinder.

French Valve Cylinder.

a Dark Valve Cylinder.

oe be nlacte x roeir
addressed, I took the ae inet Wee, Ohio White Lime, car lots............. ae Eureka Engine. 25° Parafine.
and it’s somebody else’s turn. Louisville Cement, per bbl............ ade. + tholden: Wo: 2 Golden. ETc. To.
‘What a funny name,” said a customer Akron Cement per bbl..............-. 1 3
% a y “ape m : pee a , Se dtalo Cement, per bbl..........-..+- ; wie i No. 3 Golden. Zero W. Va.
who was standing by, ‘‘why do you call her’ Car lots Oe wees cares es 11 .
a : — Plastering hair, per bu................ 250, 30 15° Chill Test W. Va. Summer West Va. @
a mustar plaster ‘ grees sodas ‘ ; gs le 65 es os nee ee 3 1 75 74 Gasoline. 87 Gasoline.
“Si , ase 2 gi tt and plaster, per ton..............-... 50 , :
Simply because she gets in front of the Land plaster, car lots................4. 2 50| Extra Globe Engine. Lard Engine. 6 d 8 M S t
counter and buys nothing, and asks so many | Fire brick, per M........-----++++-++5 $25 @s $35 | Lardoline. Castaroline. an onroe tree ’
questions that she irritates the poor devil Fire clay, per gee ape nee tess 8 00 Rubbing Oils Amber Engine
who is waiting on her.” eee caine big egg oxen ea — ote. - ee = Globe Axle Grease
# ' _| Anthr. v nut, car lots. :
How does that make her a mustard plas- | Cannell, car lots............-.++e0e00+ @6 00 We guarantee best value for the price on all our Lubricating Oils.
ter?” oe ae. oo a nis aad eae ‘ se .
: ossburg or Cumberland, car lots.. 4
“Because she is a counter irritant.” Portland Coment.........c+.0--+e000- 3 B0@A 00 CURTISS, DUNTON c& CO Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

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The Michigan Tradesman.

BUSINESS LAW.

 

 

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts
of Last Resort.

 

WILLS—ANTE-MORTEM PROBATE.

A statute of this State providing for the

probate of wills before the death of the tes-

tators was lately held inoperative by the

Supreme Court of the State in the case of
Lloyd vs. Wayne, Circuit Judge.

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DEED.

The certificate of a county clerk to a mar-

ried woman’s acknowledgment of her deed,

not signed until his term of office had ex-

pired, is not binding, and the deed passes

no right as against her, according to the de-
cision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

 

INTEREST OF PURCHASER.

The purchaser at sheriff's sale of the in-
terest of a partner in the personal property
of the firm is not thereby entitled to take
possession of any portion of the property.
All he acquires is the right to an account,
and _he is not entitled to anything until the
firm debts are paid. So held by the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania.

 

TELEGRAPH COMPANY—NEGLIGENCE.

The case of Smith vs. Western Union
Telegraph Co. was one brought for neglect
of the company to deliver a message sent
appellant by his broker informing him of
the purchase of stock on his account. The
market declined heavily and the broker,
hearing nothing from appellant, sold out the
stock ataheavy loss. The appellant as-
serted that if the message had been deliver-
ed he would have remitted a margin suffi-
cient to prevent the stock being sacrificed,
or have directed a sale at the first point of
decline, and sought to recover from the com-
pany his loss on the sale. The Kentucky
Court of Appeals, however, held that as to
appellant’s loss the negligence of the com-
pany was a remote source of damage for
which he could not recover.

 

ASSIGNMENT— ATTACHMENT —INTERVEN-
TION.

In the case of Bennett, assignee, etc., vs.
Denny, decided by the Supreme Court of
Minnesota, it appeared that prior to the
making of an assignment, but on the day
when it was made, the defendant, as United
States marshal, by virtue of process of the
Circuit Court against the assignor, attached
the assigned property. The assignee made
application to the Circuit Court to be per-
mitted to intervene in the action in which
the attachment issued, and to become a

‘party defendant therein, and for the dissol-

ution of the attachment. Leave to intervene
and become a party defendant was granted,
but the motion to dissolve the attachment was
denied. The Supreme Court of Minnesota
held that such denial did not bar or prevent
the assignee from proceeding against the
marshal as for the conversion of the assign-
ed property, though the attachment remain-
ed undissolved.

 

PARTNERSHIP—POWERS OF SURVIVOR.

A surviving partner may not make an as-
signment for creditors with preferences,
without the consent of the representatives
of the deceased partner, according to the de-
cision of the New York Supreme Court.
The surviving partner may, however, make
a general assignment without preferences.
The cowt said: ‘‘Heis liable, both asa
surviving partner and individually, for all
the partnership debts, and his right to the
possession and control of the property for
the purpose of paying and extinguishing the
copartnership debts entitles him to the ex-
ercise of his own discretion in the applica-
tion of the assets or other proceeds for that
purpose. Heisno morea trustee in any
strict sense of that term for the creditors of
the firm than is any other debtor for his
creditors, and their remedies against him in
the collection of the debts of the firm are
precisely the same as those which existed
against the firm prior to its dissolution by
death of one of its members. But as be-
tween him and the representatives of the
deceased partner a clear and well-defined
trust exists, which devolves upon him duties
and obligations in respect of the disposition
and application of the assets of the firm and
their proceeds which equity recognizes, and
when abused or evaded will interpose to en-
force. * * * * The surviving partner
being a trustee for the settlement of the es-
tate as between himself and the personal
representatives of the deceased partner, can-
not pass his whole duty over to another
trustee without the consent of such repre-
sentatives; andthe attempt to do thatis, in
our judgment, such an abuse of his powers
and duties as justifies the representatives of
the deceased partner in applying to a court
of equity to take possession of the estate by

a receiver.”
—_—__—»> 0 >

Successful Co-operative Establishment.

As a practical example of a co-operative
store, attention is called to the quarterly re-
port of the Industrial Co-operative Associa-
tion of New Bedford, Mass. Figures are
given in detail with a publicity which might
serve as an example to more ambitious cor-
porations. From the last report it appears
that the receipts for the sale of groceries,
provisions, etc., for the quarter were
$8,057.33. This is an increase of $1,771.80
over the corresponding quarter of last year,

 

’ and may be taken as an indication that there

is a steady growth. The general expenses
were $753.80, and a dividend of 6 per cent.
was declared on purchases.

 

 

 

TIME TABLES.

Michigan Central.

DEPART.
*Detroit EXpress..........-...0..eeeees 6:00 am
*Day PEpress........ ..-. 2.2622. 6+ <=. 12:45 9m
*Atlantic EXPYesS...........-.2ceeecees 9:20 pm
Way treight:....0..-5 0. <.4.-5-+-----5- 6:50 a m
ARRIVE.
*Pacific Wxpress.....:...-...-....----- 6:00 am
Ma ae ce eee 3:50 p m
+Grand Rapids Express..............--. 10:50 p m
Way freight... .-..--......---...-..- 5:15am

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific
Express.

Direct and prompt connection made with
Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada
Southern trains in same depot.at Detroit, thus
avoiding transfers.

The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has
Drawing Room and Parlor Car for Detroit,
reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30
a.m.,and Boston 3:05 p.m. next day.

A train leaves Detroit at 4 p.m. daily except
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv-
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:50 p. m.

J.T. SCHULTZ, Gen’] Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

 

eaves. Arrives,
PMG ce ces 9:15am 4:25pm
+Day Express.............. 12:35pm 10:45pm
*Night Express............ 8:35pm 4:45am

*Daily. +tDaily except Sunday.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains.
Through parlor car in charge of careful at-
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on
12:25 p. m., and through coach on 9:15 a.m. and
9:35 p. m. trains. ‘

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves. Arrives.
Express..... Pee ees 4:15pm 4:0hpm
SURMPCSS 5k ees 8:05am 11:15am

All trains arrive and depart from Union De-

ot.
é The Northernterminus of this Division is at
Baldwin, where close connection is made with
F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and
Manistee.
J. H. CARPENTER, Gen’! Pass. Agent.
J. B. MULLIKEN, General Manager.

 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO DIVISION.)

Arrive. Leave.
SUXDUTCER.-- .--528 5... : s.... 7:15pm 7:30 a mu
Maal 88. ee 9:50am 4:00pm

All trains daily except Sunday.

The train leaving at 4 p.m.connects at
White Pigeon with Atlantic Express on Main
Line, which has Palace Drawing Room Sleep-
ing Coaches from Chicago to New York and
Boston without change.

The train leaving at 7:30 a.m. connects at
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with
special New York Express on Main Line.

Through tickets and berths in sleeping
eoaches can be secured ait Union Ticket office,
67 Monre street and depot.

J. W. McK ENNEY, Gen’! Agent.

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING EAS?

Arrives. Leaves.
+Steamboat Express....... 6:17am 6:25am
*Phrough Mail............. 10:10am 10:20am
+Evening Express......... 38:20pm 3:35pm
*Limited Express.......... 6:27pm 6:30pm
+Mixed, with coach........ 10:30 am

GOING WEST.
*Morning Express......... 1:04pm 1:10pm
*Through Mail............ 5:10pm 5:11pm
+Steamboat Express....... 30:40pm 10:45pm
“BULL Ce ge ee A Jlvam
*Night Express............. 5:10am 5:20am
+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.

Passengers taking the 6:25 a. m. Express
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
10:00 af m. the following morning.
woe Cars on Mail Trains, both East and

est.

Train leaving at 10:45 p. m. will make con-
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except
Sunday.

Themail has a Parlor Car to Detroit. The
Night Express bas a through Wagner Car and
local Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand Rapids.

D. PortrER, City Pass. Agent.

Gro. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING NORTH.
Arrives.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex 8:45 p m
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 7:00 am
Ft. Wayne& Mackinac Ex 3:55 pm

 

Leaves.

10:25 a m
5:00 pm

G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am
GOING SOUTH.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:15am

Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 3:50pm 6:00pm
Mackinac & Ft.WayreEx..10:23am 11:45pm
Cadillae & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40 pm

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

North—Train leaving at 5:00 o’clock p. m.
has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and
Mackinac City. Train leaving at 16:25 a.m. has
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse
City.

South—Train leaving at 4:35p.m.bas Wood-
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

c. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & I. trains for St.
Ignace, Marquette and Lake Superior Points,
leaving Grand Rapids at 11:30 a. m. and 11:00 p.
m., arriving at Marquette at 1:45 p. m. Return-
ing leave Marquette at 2:00 p. m., arriving at
Grand Rapids at 6:30a. m. and 5:45 p.m. Con-
nection made at Marquette with the Marquette,
Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad for the
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.

F. MILLIGAN.
Gen’! Frt. & Pass. Agt., Marquette, Mich.

 

Goodrich Steamers.

Leave Grand Haven Tuesday, Thursday and
Sunday evenings, connecting with train on D.,
G.H.& M. Ry. Returning, leave Chicago Mon-
day, Wednesday and triday evenings, at 7
o’cloek, arriving at Grand Haven in time for
morning train east.

 

Grand River Steamer.
The Steamer Barrett leaves her dock for
Grand Haven, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri-
days, returning on alternate days.

 

 

 

C. S, YALE & BRO,,

—Manufacturers ot—

FLAVORING EXTRACTS |

BAKING POWDERS,
BLOINGSs, ETc.,
40 and 42 South Division, St.

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN

 

 

 

Geo. H. Richards has sold his cigar fac-
tory at Plainwell to Jos. Monroe, late of
Alamo.

 
   
 
 
   

- Wholesale Manufacturers of

AND DEALERS IN

Oranges,

NUTS,

es TE’ C.

 
  
  
 
   
 

Putnam & Brooks,
PURE CAN

Lemons,
Bananas, Figs, Dates,

JUDD c& CcO.,
JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE
And Full Line Summer Goods.

102 CANAL STREET.

READ! READ! READ

HAZELTINE, PERKINS & CO. have
Sole Control of our Celebrated

Pioneer Prepared Paint!

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.
Read it.

 

When our Pioneer Prepared Paint is put on
any building, andit within three years it should
crack or peel off, and thus fail to give the full
satisfaction guaranteed, we agree to repaint
the building at our expense, with the best
White Lead, or such other paint as the owner
may select. Should any case of dissatisfaction
occur, a notice from the dealer will command
our prompt attention. T. H. NEVIN & CO.

Send for sample cards and prices. Address

Hagslitue, PerKis & C0

GRAND RAPIDS, ~ MICH,

 

 

Ifin Need of Anything in our Line, it

 

GT MILLING GO,/EDMUND B. DIKEMAN,
ee GREAT wit AKER
FLOURING MILLS, |

Manufacturers of the Following Pop-
ular Brands of Flour:

JW hie rR,

“ CRESCENT,”
“WHITE ROSE,”
“MORNING GLORY,”
“ROYAL PATENT,” and
“ALL WHEAT,” Flour.

44 CANAL STREET,

 

GRAND RAPIDS, -

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker Manu acturers,

Agents ror

AMBOY CHEESE.
87, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

meat maRmR & FO =

MANUFACTURERS AGENTS FOR

MICHIGAN.

 

 

 
 
   
 
       

 
 
 
    
 

 

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S.

MANUFACTURERS OF

| STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. ltl

eR ee ae ere

PE ery i Garry Engines and Boilers in Stock pijjilt
Zs p for immediate delivery. Mia li

As

 

“ ni eel
SAW AND GRIST MILLE MACHINERY,

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery,
Saws, Belting and Oils.

Write for Prices. 130 OAKES STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

S W. VENABLIE & CO,

PETERSBURG, VA,

MANUFACTURERS OF
OF

AND OTHER

Plug Tobacco.

 

FAVORITE BRANDS

MIMOD oo... eee 44| SPREAD BAGLE..................-22---4..--- 38
TO ee os os oe ae 40; BIG FIVE CENTER.................--2--000- 35
Bi PPR een ea ee 38 | In lots of 72 pounds or over two cents less

 

FE ADAMS & CO’S

ARK AROMATIC

Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco is the very best dark goods on the Market

Eaton & CHTISteSOD, AgTS.,

Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

IN Cel N ES

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft-
ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for
Complete Outfits. .

PATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS

Barlow’s Patent

Manifol Shipping Books,

OF

Send for Samples and Circular.

BARLOW BROTHERS,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Z ach
ns
mas -MANSFIEL

 

 

     

ee

VY. €C, DWenison,
88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN.

G. ROYS & C0,

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

 

  

FUSE, CAPS, AUGURS

rv q

PS THT

J The Great Stump and Rock

A NNIHILATOR |

IRS \
j

Send for new |
Price - List for
Fall Trade.

ORDERS PROMPTLY PLGED

 

 

 

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Strongest and Safest Explosive Known
to the Arts,

Farmers, practice economy and clear your
land of stumps and boulders. Main Office,
Hercules Powder Company, No. 40 Prospect
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.

L. 8. HILL & Co., AGTS.
GUNS, AMMUMTION & PISHIMG TACKLE,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

CHOICE BUTTER A SPECIALTY!
CALIFORNIA AND OTHER FOREIGN AND
DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Care-
ful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.
M. C. RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Rapids.

RINDGH, BERTSCH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

BOOTS AND SHOES.

AGENTS FOR THE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CoO.

We have a splendid line of goods for Fall trade and guar-
antee our prices on Rubbers. The demand for our own make
of Women’s, Misses’ and Childs shoes is increasing. Send in
your orders and they will be promptly attended to.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

JENNINGS & SMITH,

PROPRIETORS OF THE

Arctic Manufacturing Co,

2O0O Iayon Sst. Grand Rapids.
ASK YOUR JOBBER FOR

Jennings Flavoring Extracts,
———-- AND

 

 

Arctic Baking Powder.

— SALVEVddY DNILSV'TE

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Groceries.

BILL OF PRICES

 

 

Adopted by Cigar Makers’ Union No. 46.

The Grand Rapids Cigar Makers’ Union

has adopted the following scheduie of prices:
SEED SCRAP MOLD WORK,

ay imehn gad under.............. 3 84s. $7
aoe stich end andor: 6. 8
Banter and ner oe. 9
SEED LONG FILLER WORK.
so tub ANGE. 2s $8
Ae ICN ANG UNOEr. ee Bes 9
pamen end wider: oo... sos. eee. 19
HAVANA MOLD WORK.
Ae enon wnder.... oe $10
So, inch and qinder.-. 6 <5. li
ac 420Cn OO UNNer 08. 2... 12
pinoh pnd qmder.- 6... 13

All seed scraps with less than four molds, $1
a unprepared scraps, $1 extra.

All mixed scraps, $1 extra.

All mixed seed and Havana, same as clear
Havana.

All cigars not straight, $1 extra.

All hand work, $1 extra.

The executive board shall have control over
ail jobs not mentioned in this bill.

All wages must be paid in cash.

The only change of importance in the above
schedule over the previous scale is in refer-
ence to fancy shapes—‘‘cigars not straight’
—on which the makers demand $1 extra,
alleging that it is worth that much more to
turn them out. Three firms refused to con-
cede the demand, in consequence of which
all the operators employed by Hugh Schnei-
der & Co., A. Kuppenheimer and Mohl
& Kenning went ‘‘on strike” Monday morn-
ing. Schneider & Co. soon weakened, and
their men resumed work, and the same will
probably be the case with A. Kuppenheimer.
Moh! & Kenning, however, refuse to ‘‘be
dictated to,” as they express it, and declare
that the strikers shall never go back to their
shop except at the old prices. They have
few manufactured goods of their own in
stock, but assert that they can fill all orders
with cigars made by other manufacturers
which will be uniform in quality and fully
as cheap in price as they can make them.
The outcome of the matter will be watched
with interest by business men in all

branches of trade.
————~ 9 ~<a
An Eloquent Debtor.

The Plumb & Lewis Manufacturing Co.
has a debtor down at North Lewisburg,
Ohio, who is equal to the task of dunning
himself once a day, and injecting into each
letter a wealth of eloquence which would
make Ingersoll or Demosthenes blush for
shame. The name of this modern wonder
is J. Spilman, and his business—aside from
his letter-writing proclivities—is principally
confined to the repair and sale of tinware.
The oratorical scribbler bought a bill of
wringers of Messrs. Plumb & Lewis in the
spring of 1883, and during the following
November made the astounding revelation
that he could ‘not pay for them until he
got the money.” He subsequently gave his
note for the amount, and in April, 1884,
wrote that he would be unable to ineet the
same. The house then threatehed legal
proceedings, and from that time until snow
flew explanatory letters from the delinquent
were a matter of daily occurrence. The
following are excerpts from some of the
letters:

**You seem to wish me to believe that this
country is a despotism and that you are the
despots.”

“Why do you raise hell over a debt of
$15? Itseems you’d take a man’s heart
blood. My God! our God! I will get you
your money. The hideous roaring of sheet-
iron thunder will cease and my happy, glad,
perspiring hand will give you $15.”

“Tf I had as much property as thelaws of
Ohio allow a debtor, I’d think myself well
otf. My wife owns all the household goods,
horse, wagon, barn, house, and a $200
claim for borrowed money. My son also

has a preferred claim; so you see it is no
use to try and force collection. Mrs. S.
says she will not trouble me unless someone
trys to wring my neck. Then, of course, she
will not lose her claim.”

Mrs. Spilman would do well to exhibit
her husband as a genuine curiosity

at the county fairs and dime museums.
——--~ 9 =<
Concerning Cotton Seed Oil.

“A curious fact about cotton seed oil,”
says the Mexican Financier, ‘‘is that it does
not enter into commerce under its own
name. It is mostly used an as adulterant or
substitute for other oils. The reason of
this is that, when it was first produced in
quantities which made it an article of com-
merce, it was seized upon to adulterate other
products, and the fact that the oil was of it-
self an excellent and valuable article was
quite lost sight of. This is unfortunate, for
cotton seed oil should be sold, as it deserves
to be, on its merits. Searcely five per cent. of
the olive oil, so-called, imported from France
into Mexico and the United States is genuine.
Ninety-five per cent is adulterated with cot-
ton seed oil in quantities ranging from 60 to
85 per cent. The writer has himself seen
at the levees at New Orleans large iron
steamers loading with cotton seed oil for
France, and in New Orleans itis an open
secret that this oil is destined soon to re-
turn neatly bottled, with a label warranting
it to be ‘pure olive oil.’ ”
o_o

The Grocery Market.

Business continues good beyond expecta-
tion, leading to the conclusion that the era
of good times is at hand. Some grades of
sugar are higher, all kinds of raisins and
sealed herring are firmer. Whitefish and
trout are lower. New imported Holland
herring have put in an appearance during
the week, and command 1.10. Kerosene
continues low, and dealers would do well to
keep their tanks well filled, in anticipation
of an advance.

Clover seed and timothy are firm at the
advance, and the demand is fully up to the
average for this season of the year.

Candy is active and firm. Oranges are
steady and lemons are lower. Nuts are ac-
tive and advancing.

 

 

 

“In Union There is Strength.”
From the Manistee Times.

W. BR. Burt, President of the East Sag-
inaw Salt Association, arrived in the city
Friday afternoon, and after holding a con-
sultation with our salt manufacturers, in-
duced all exc®pt Charles Reitz & Brothers
to join the association on probation, as it
were, for the term of six months. At the
end of that time the Manistee manufacturers
may withdraw or remain in the Association,
at their option. In view of the fact that
there are 400,000 less barrels of salt in
Michigan at the present time than at the
corresponding period last year, the Manis-
tee manufacturers conceived the idea that
their uniting with the Association might
haye a tendency to send up the price of salt
still higher; hence the union, offensive and
defensive. Should the arrangement prove
unsatisfactory to our manufacturers they
can resume their independence next March,
and still retain their old customers, and the
prestige they have already acquired. Man-
istee has two important advantages over
the Saginaw Valley in the manufacture of
salt—first, its salt is of a better quality;
second, it has better and cheaper transpor-
tation facilities—hence it can act independ-
ent of the association, if its manufacturers
decide to do so. With our large and in-
creasing salt industry, we shall soon be one
of the most important salt markets in the
world.

 

ee
Nothing to the Harvest Apple.
From the Detroit Free Press.

A Watermelon and a Cucumber which
found themselves on the same stand ata
grocery establishment yesterday began quar-
relling:

**You are all colic, to say the best of you,”
remarked the Melon.

““And you are all seeds and rinds,” retort-
ed the Cucumber.

“‘Come now, what’s all this row about?”
uueried the grocer, as he finished selling a
quart of strawberries.

““Why,” answered the Melon, ‘‘old Chol-
era Morbus here is jealous of me.”

“No such thing! Old Rind and Seeds
prides himself on being able to kill two men
to my one, and you know that is all wind?”

‘‘Wush, my children,” whispered the gro-
cer. ‘‘While I appreciate both of you for
all yow’re worth, neither of you is justified
in doing any bragging at this season of the
year. The Harvest Apple is now knocking
em out in one round.”

8 -9-<-
Grand Haven Celery.

I am now receiving from 150 to 200 dozen
bunches of Grand Haven celery daily, and
disposing of the same to the best trade,
which claims that it is superior to the Kala-
mazoo goods.

A. J. Brown,
18 North Division street.
eg

“T can’t eat that ice-cream,” he said as he
shoved back from the table with a disgusted
expression on his face. ‘‘Anything wrong?”
queried the proprietor of the parlor as he
rubbed his hands and looked anxious. ‘‘It’s
beastly stuff.” ‘‘Dear, me, but I’m sorry.
Susan, what flavor did this gentleman or-
der?” ‘‘Vanilla, sir.” ‘‘And you gave it
to him?” ‘*Yes, sir.” ‘Ah that explains.
I’m out of vanilla and she must have used
kerosene. Ill make it at half price to you,
sir, and you get all the advantage of a sure
cure for sore throat.”

Mr. Lemberger in a recent paper stated
that he had succeeded in distilling, from
orange flowers gathered in Florida and salt-
ed down, a water comparing favorably with
that imported from the south of Europe.
As orange trees are now grown abundantly
in Florida the petals are consequently plen-
tiful, and he suggets that a new industry
should be started in that State, in which low
priced labor might be utilized in gathering
the blossoms, especially of the wild or bitter
orange.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

—_—

 

Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week,
each and every insertion. One cent for each
additional word. Advance payment.

 

y ANTED—A thoroughly competent and

practical druggist of twenty years’ ex-
perience desires a situation. No objection to
keeping books. Good references. Address
“Pharmacist,” box 1,516, Muskegon, Mich. 100*

RUG STORE FOR SALE—Stock will in-
voice $1,860. Will sell for $1,200 cash.
Good town, good trade, and satisfactory rea-
sons for wishing to sell. Address “C,’”’ TRADES-
MAN Office. 102*

OR SALE—In a growing town on the D., L.
& N. Railway, agrocery stoek, with post
office, and living rooms in store building. Will
sell cheap for cash. Sickness is my reason for
selling. Address Mrs. A. N. Ellis, West Mill-
brook, Mich. 100*

\ ANTED—Situation by an experienced
drug clerk. Address D, Box 1632, Mus-

 

 

 

 

 

kegon, Mich. 101*
RUGGIST — Young man, experienced,
wants a situation in drug store. No ob-

jections to small cities. Good references. Ad-

dress *‘P,”’ care THE TRADESMAN. 101*
y ANTED—To exchange for general mer-
chandise, 2,000 acres of timbered lands.
The timber on said lands is hemlock, beech and
maple, oak and yellow birch, 14% miles from
Flint & Pere Marquette R. R. in Osceola Co.,
Mich. There isalumber and shingle mill on
saidlands. Address ‘‘B.” care THE TRADESMAN,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 101

{OR SALE—The brevier type formerly used

on THE TRADESMAN. The font comprises

222 pounds, including italic, and is well-assort-
ed and very little worn. Address this office.

 

 

ANTED—Change of situation at any time,

by a Holland young man, more or less

acquainted with different languages and about

three years’ experience in drug business. Ad-
dress A. B., TRADESMAN office.

 

Vee SALE—Drug stock and fixtures, with
good run of custom. Best of reasons for
selling. C. H. Adams, Otsego, Mich. Mitt

eee WANTED—As traveling sales-
h man for a wholesale house, Good security
and references can be given. Address Sales-
man, care THE TRADESMAN. pe

 

 

JARTNER WANTED—A_ well-established
manufacturer of proprietary remedies,
having now on the market a line of popular
patents, wishes a partner, with some capital,
to push the sale of same.
care ‘‘The Tradesman.’’

Arthur Meies & Co., Sole Owners of Red Fox and Bie Drive Pl YS,

Address, ‘‘Patent,’’
94tf

 

OUT AROUND.

News and Gossip Furnished by Our Own
Correspondents.

Charlevoix.

Aug. 15—T. D. Smith has sold his grocery
stock to E. M. Clark. The two stocks will be
united and business carried on at'T. D. Smith’s
oid stand.

Muskegon.

Aug. 17—T. D. Stimson and Ryerson, Hilis &
Co. have sold 2,180 acres of pine land in Mis-
saukee county, containing about 50,000,000 feet
of timber, to Mitchell Bros., of Cadillac. The
consideration is about $200,000.

Hugh Leonard has sold his drug stock to
Bergeron & Co., who will continue the busi-
ness at the old stand.

Kalkaska.

Aug. 15—About2,000 bushels of huckleberries
have been shipped from Kalkaska this season.

Will Pipp, our hardware merchant, has rent-
ed a house, and if nothing bigger than a moun-
tain gets in the way, will take unto himself a
wife ere many moons come and go. Will stands
well up in society, being nearly seven feet tall
by one foot wide.

Luther.

Aug. 1i—The saw mill of Wilson, Luther &
Wilson commenced sawing Saturday, after
laying still two weeks.

F. J. Fletcher, jeweler, has been elected sec-
retary of the I. O. O. F. lodge.

Wilson, Luther & Wilson have built a new
and expensive rollway on the mill pond. The
firm has just bought a big tract of pine of Mr.
Peters, of Mamistee, and they are extending
their logging railroad to this tract, about six
miles from town.

Mr. Marven, of Addison, was in town last
week, looking up an opening to start a news-
paper. He will probably begin publishing a
paper soon, as he was very favorably impress-
ed with the village.

Big Rapids.

Aug. lji—George Beaumont leaves this week
tor San Jose, California, to join his father, who
went some six weeks ago. They are negotiat-
ing for a large fruit farm near Stockton.

Geo. Fairman’s residence on Michigan ave-
nue is nearly ready for occupancy. It is one
of the finest in the city, and will add much to
the appearance of the avenue.

John Foster, an old builder of our city, has
the contract to build the Morrissey brick store.
He commenced the basement wall on Friday
last, and is to have the building completed
within 90 days.

Mrs. T. N. Colvin leaves this week for the
East, where she expects tospend the balance
of the summer and fall.

Frankfort.

Aug. 17—Williams & Colfax have just fin-
ished burning a kiln containing 80,000 red
brick.

The people of Frankfort have allowed a good
thing to slip through their fingers in letting
the Wilson Manufacturing Co. locate its branch
hoop and stave factory at Charlevoix, where
the people have raised $4,400 to secure the lo-
cation of the enterprise.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—The local tanners are offer-
ing $5 per cord delivered, cash, which price is
fully as satisfactory to the inland shippers of
Northern Michigan as the Chicago and Mil-
waukee quotations, which are $7 at both mar-
kets.

Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.59 per pound
for clean washed roots.

Rubber Goods—Loeal jobbers are authorized
to offer 45 per cent. off on standard goods and
45 and 10 per cent. off on second quality.

FRESH MEATS.

* John Mohrhard quotes the trade selling
prices as follows:
Hresn Beet sides... 2... ise 6 GT
Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 7 @8
Dressed Hoes: ......:......;........... 6 @ 6%
Maurpton, CArCASSOS.:...........2.....2. 54@ 6
PMN ee 8 @9
POUR SAMSALO 8s Gee. T%@ 8
BOlOCMR ee .. 8 @9
WOWIR 12 @l4
Spring Chickens... sso. 20.006.0 02... @18
OYSTERS AND FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS.
He SClMCIS. ee 35
DUHMOATOS 8 eee
FRESH FISH. ‘
Mackinaw TrOUb. 6. 2....5..505 5 2.5.5.5. 6. 6
SVONTONGA 6
BRING KISABR ee 8
COU ee 12
PU PS 5
MROCKISABB 2 ec 5
PRIOR oe ee ele 4
AOC KK BUNPIKO oe ee. 5
Wealleyed PIKC. 363.0 ooo see. 6
Smoked White Fish........... Do 10
PMOMOUATOUL | 225 6o 6s eee et 10
Smoked SHUTLCON.. 56.66. 10

HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. 2
Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows:
HIDES.
Green ....@b 6 @ 6%|Calf skins, green
Part cured... 7 @ 7%|_ or cured.... @10
Fullcured.... 8144@ 8%|Deacon skins,

 

 

Dry hides and #8 piece..... 20 @50
KIDS - 2252. 8 @I12
SHEEP PELTS.
DUCATINES ee 10 @25
figmb Skims.2 0... 6..26 665.2. ae sis 7...20 @40
Old wool, estimated washed # ib...... @20
NOW. os Sos oe a ee 44@ 4%
WOOL.

Fine washed 8 b 20@25|Unwashed........ 5
Coarse washed...16@18| a3
Michigan Cranberry Growers.
ar AM: Gerow 2006s oa. Cheboygan
Wan AtuiOtl eee ee ee Cheboygan
BOY Wes dds WYO? i es ec Glen Arbor
W.W. Barton and Louis Gubbin........ Leland
RAG, MMC ee oo ee Romulus
Mode (OMMnes 8. eos oe St. Joseph
MOOIW OS all 2 oe Three Rivers
DC; TsGGCn. oo os occ. Traverse City
Sonn Clark. 82.5205. oc i. coe: White Fish Point
Alexander Barkley............ White Fish Point
Wm. Hawkins........ gies bess White Fish Point

—_ <--->
“Sanding”? His Marsh.
From the Grand Traverse Herald.

D. C. Leach is making quite extensive
improvements on and additions to his cran-
berry marsh, at Walton, this year. It has
been clearly demonstrated by him that
“sanding” brings good returns in a greatly
increased yield and the newly set portions
will all be treated in this way. He has just
let contracts for planting and sanding seven
more acres. This ‘‘sanding” is done by
simply putting upon the surface of the
marsh a thin layer of sand taken from the
adjoining plains. ‘The improvements made
this year will prove a valuable addition to
an already valuable marsh.

ee — an

The experiment of planting tobacco has
been tried at Reno, Nevada, and has proved
successful, while it is thought that the cli-
mate is well fitted for curing the leaf.

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

These prices are for cash buyers, who pd

promptly and buy in full packages.
Advanced—Sugars, raisins, scaled herring.
Declined—W hitefish, trout.

AXLE GREASE.

 

 

HEAZGr S. 2.02... 2 S0i Paragon ........ ok 50
Diamond... ...0..5 1 75) Paragan 25 i pails.1 20
MOGOC 2.0: 56 1 65

BAKING POWDER.
Arctic 4% Ibeans.... 45) Arctic 1 ib cans....2 40

  
  

 

Arctic 4 bcans.... 75) Arctic 5 cans....12 00
Arctic 4 tbcans. ..1 40,
BLUING.
MEV OINO 2. Oe ee eee doz. 25
Diy NO 8. doz. 45
WHOM, 4 O75 0050. ce ade. doz. 35
MUIGNIAG, 6 On 62 fo ee doz. 65
AVCUIG 4:07.25... -.2. 0 ee. coe #8 gross 4 00
PANGUIG 260%... 200 oe ee 8 00
PAYCUCGIOOZ (6. ess ong. oe 12 00
Aretic NO. 1 pepper DOx.........5:.3....... 2 00
Arctie No. 2 ne Oe ne eee 3 00
Arctic No.3 ce le ee . 4 50
BROOMS.
No. 1 Carpet. ....... 2 50)NO..2 Hurl....:...-. 75
No. 2Carpet........ 2 25|Faney Whisk.......100
No.1 Parlor Gem..2 75|CommonWhisk.... 75
No.1 Hurl, :.. 3... .: 2 00
CANNED FISH.
Clams. llp standards. .:...2............-; 1 40
Clams, 20) stamgards. 2:0... 3.2. ..55.0 2. 2 65
Clam Chowder, 3 1D...-:........... eed as 2 20
Cove Oysters, I Ib standards.............. 110
Cove Oysters, 2 Ib standards............. 2 00
Cove Oysters, 1 i slack filled............. 75
Cove Oysters, 2 Ib slack filled.............. 1 05
Mobsters, EIb picmic. 2.2. ...2.....-.......- 1%
mobsters: Wp S6ar 2.6 ee ee. 2 00
MODSters, 2 Ib Star. lt 3 00
Mackerel, 1 ib fresh standards............ 1 00
Mackerel, 5 ib fresh standards............ 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 fb........... 3 25
Mackerel,3 thin Mustard.................. 3 25
Mackerel, 3 ib broiled......... pus ee ar. 3 25
Salmon, 1 f Columbia river............... 1 40
Salmon, 2 i Columbia river............... 2 60
Salmon. fib Sacramento:.............:.... 1 25
Sardines, GOMestic 48.:...-.......2....... 6
Sardines, domestic $48.................... ry
Sardines, Mustard $65........5............ 10
Sardines, imported 445.................... 3
rout, Sib DVO. 25.030... 2 %5
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, > ) Standards... 5.32... 5 2.55. ck 90
Apples, gallons, standards................ 2 40
Blackberries, standards................... 1 05
@herries, red standard. ...........2.....2. 80
IDATISONS see ee 1 00
Hoo Plums: standards 6. ....:....¢...... 1 40
Green Gages, standards 2 Ib........ oe .1 40
Peaches, Hixtpa Yellow ..............2..... 2 40
Peaches, StanGards.....5.. 02.2.) . 2. 1 7d@1 95
Reaches, SCCONGS...... 6.6... le. 1 50
Pineapples, Wmie (2206. 0... 2 20
Pineapples, standards...........:.......... 1 70
@uimGes 6200. se 145
Raspberries, Black, Hamburg............ 1
CANNED FRUTTS—CALIFORNIA,
Apricots, Lusk’s...2 40|/Pears............... 3 CO
Heo Plums. ........ 2 S0iIQ@uinces ............ 2 90
Grapes 220): 2 50 Peaches ........:..3 00
Green Gages....... 2 50}
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...........2........ 3 25
Beans, Tima, standard. ....0....5......0.. 75
Beans, Stringless, Hrie.................... 95
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 1 60
Corn, 2hrophy oso. os 05
Ress, HrencCh 2 1 75
Peas, Marrofat, standard................... 1 70
Beas, BCAVED oes ee 90
Peas, carly small, sifted... ... 1... 1 80
Pumpkin, 31 Golden......:........2..... 8H@I5
Succotash, Standard. ...................... 90
Pomeatoes, Tropny.....6.0 2.05006 ee. 1 00
CHOCOLATE.
IBOStOM (26726. 2. oe. 36|German Sweet....... 25
BAKERS 6.0.6 en lo. 38) Vienna Sweet ....... 23
RumKles” os. 6... 35
COFFEE.
Green Rio...... 9@13 |Roasted Mar...17@18
GreenJava..... 17@27 | Roasted Mocha.28@30

Green Mocha. . .28@25
Roasted Rio....10@15

Roasted Mex. ..17@2
Ground Rio.... 9@16

 

 

Roasted Java ..23@30 |Package Goods @12%
CORDAGE.
72 foot Jute ..... 125 |72 foot Cotton....2 25
60 foot Jute..... 1 00 {60 foot Cotton....2 00
40 Foot Cotton....1 50 |50 foot Cotton....1 75
FISH.
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.............. 65
Cod; whole. ie 4@5
@od Boneless... ee, 5@6
EPSOM 11
merrng 46 ODIG oe 2 50
Herring, Holland, domestic... ..... ..... 55
We : IMpPOLbEG. 22... 11)
Herring, Scaled. .....5..... ee ees 20@22
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, % bbls............ 5 00
ce . es I2ib Kits. 2... 80
es - | ae 70
te INO. 3; 44 DDIS. 5. 3 50
ss 21D Kits. 62
‘ co ee 55
SHAE DOM 2 50
Meoub, 6 DIS 2 te 3 50
I its. 2 60
ee 5D
White, No. bo bbIs......055..0.. 1. 5 6v
White; No.1; 12 i kits..........0. 2.2... 80
White, No. i 10% kits... 22... 70
White, Hamily, %¢ DbIS..5.....5.5.......0.. 2 45
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Lemon. Vanilla.
Jennings 2ZOF 6. 8 doz.100 1 40
a BO ce cas ae ee 150 2 50
fe OOF es 250 400
fs SiOZ. bes 350 5 00
ss INO, 2 Dapper)... 3... 125 4150
ss oO. ee ee 1% 300
£6 te PIDb LOUNG.......5.....; 450 7 50
cs 1 eee --8 00 15 00
se INO. Bo 800 4 25
se Noo 10). 3 425 600
FRUITS
@herries, dried, pitted................. @16
Citron ee 28@33
Currants ee. 5@5%
MOACHKOS, ATICd 6.625000). 12@18
Prunes, Purkey, MEW.................. 4%
Prunes, French, 50 ib boxes........... 10@13
MMISINS, VAlONGIGR. 26.55.5500 053.0, 9@9%
Raisins, Layer Valencias.......... @i2%
WaIsIns; Ond@armas.. 2... 6... i... @13
IRAISING, SULURMAR... 2.0... ie: T4@ 8%
Raisins, Loose Muscatels............. @3 00
Raisins, London Layers............... @3 45
Maisins, Dehesias:. . 2... 6c... @4 25
Raisins, California Layers............ @3 10
KEROSENE OIL.
Water White...... 10% | Legal Test....... 79)
MATCHES.
Grand Haven, No. 9, square................ 1 50
Grand Haven, No. 8, square................ 1 50
Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 2 2
Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor.............. 3 50
Grand Haven, No. 7, round..-............. 2 2
OSDIKOBRUINO) 2.00 oe 110
Oshkosh NOS. 2G , 1 60
SWOGISH 200s %5
Richardson’s No.2 square.................. 27
Richardson’s No. 6 CO 2 70
Richardson’s No. 8 GO) ee 1 70
Richardson’s No. 9 CO ee 2 55
Richardson’s No: 19, do  _................ 1 75
MOLASSES.
Black Strep... 3.63.5. H@16
BeOvVtO MICO... 20 ees ce 28@30
New Orleans, 200d): 6... 38@42
New Orleans, Gholce:.... ......5.....5.. 5. 48@50
New Orleans, fancy....................... 52@d5
1% bbis. 8e extra.
OATMEAL.
Steel cut...........5 50/Quaker, 48 tbs...... 2 35
Steel Cut, % bbls...3 00 Quaker, 60 Ibs.:.... 2 50
Rolled Oats........ 3 60;|Quaker bbls........ 6 00
: PICKLES.

Choicein barrels med............ coe @4 %5
Choice in % GQ oe eo @3 15
PIPES.

Imported Clay 3 gross................. 2 25@3 00
Importeé Clay, No. 216,38 gross..... .. @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216, 2% gross...... @1 85
Ameriogn 'D.Dir os. oi ae @ 9
RICE.

Good Carolina...... OG. ave oe: 64@6%

Prime Carolina..... 644) Patne . 2.050.250 6
Choice Carolina..... 7 |Rangoon....... 54 @6%
Good Louisiana..... 5%|Broken.............. 3%
SALERATUS.
DeLand’s pure...... 54%4|Dwight’s ............ 54
Chyren'’s: ..2.0. 00.6: 54\Sea Foam........... 5%
Taylor’s G. M....... 544|Cap Sheaf........... 5%
SALT.
60 Pocket, FY Dairy... .:...6 62... 0. 2 25
Be POCKCU 3) oe Gc ee. 2 20
100-3 TH) POCKets.. 26.2: ous oes ce. 2 45
Saginaw or Manistee.................. 1 06
Diamond Coe. oe a 1 60
Standard Coarse... 2.2.66 6b os es : 1 55
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 2 80
Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... 80
American, dairy, 4% bu. bags.......... 25
HOCK, DUBNEIS? ee fw
SAUCES.
Parisian, *6 Pints: 2.026225: 2 5. oe: @2 00
Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ %
Pepper Sauce, green.............. ee. @ 9
Pepper Sauce, red large ring......... @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring..... - @1%

 

 

 

      

Catsup, Tomato, pints................. @1 00
Catsup, Tomato, quarts .............. @1 35
Horseradish, % pints.................. @i 00
Horseradish, pints.....:........2 2.1... @1 36
Halford Sauce, pints.................. @3 50
Halford Sauce, % pints................ @2 20
SOAP.
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne....... @A 60
* ee © Monday ..2.......:. @3 35
SPICES.

Ground. Whole.
Pepper... 22)... 16@25|Pepper........... @i9
ASpiCe. a... .. 12@15) Alispice .......... 8G10
Cinnamon........ 18@30 Cassia ............ @10
ClOVES 2600.0. 15@25,Nutmegs ........ 60@65
Ginger ....2252... 16@20|\Cloves .......... . @18
Mustard.......... 15@30;

Cayenne ......... 25@35)
STARCH.
Kingsford’s, 1  pkes., pure............ @6%
ss dD OKSS.. DUTe. 8. . @b6%
fs 1 tb pkgs., Silver Gloss.... @8
me 6ibpkes., ‘ oe QS
a 1 i pkgs., Corn Starch.... @8
(Bulk) Ontario... @d
SUGARS.
Cut Boat @ 74
Cubes @ 7%
POWderedi a @ 7%
Granulated, Standard................. @B6 94
Gramulated:, Of 0 @ 6%
Conrectionery At. @6 3L
SeMMGHN A @b6 4
Butmra@, White: @ 6
Ibe Oe @ 5%
Hime ©. 0 ee @ 5%
WellowOl 3 @ 54
Darli@ 5 @ jg
SYRUPS.
Corn, Barmels. 30@32
Com Jo UbIse co. oe B2@34
Corn; 0 shillon keos, 6 @ 35
Corn: > gallonikees... @1 75
Corn, 4% callon kegs... @1 60
BUme SUSAR ele bbl 23@ 35
Pure Sugar Drips................ 1% bbl 380@ 38
Pure Sugar Drips........... 5 gal kegs @i 96
Pure Eoat Sugar Dripg... ._.).- % bbl @ 8
Pure Loaf Sugar. ...._... .5g2al kegs @1 85
TEAS
J pPat ORGINAL 20/5) Seger
Japam fais £O £000... 2. SUGS5
LUDO 40@50
POM GUSte es 15@20 |
WOunm YEOH!) 0 . d0@50
GunmPowder...-5......5... ease eos c se 3d@50
OOM 338@55@60
CONSO ee 25G30
TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PAILS.
Dark AmericanEagle67|Sweet Rose.......... 45
The Meigs 2.000002). 64/ Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
Med Bind... 2. HOPAGIAS 8 35
State Seal... 7.2... 60/RoyalGame.......... 38
Prairie Flower .:.....65|Mule Bar............ .65
Climber (230.0000). O2iHountain.......... 1: 74
4+ Indian Queen........ 60)Old Congress......... 64
Bull Dor... 8. 60|Good Luck........... 52
Crown Ueaf..... .... 66; Blaze Away.......... 35
Matchless. 0... 65) Hair Lifter... oo. . 30
Ebigiwetha oo 0002060. o 67|'Governor ...... Sea: 60
Globe)... 70! Fox’s Choice........ 63
May Blower... 000... 10| Medallion .... 2.0... 3)
Hero 2 45|\Sweet Owen.......... 66
Old Abe... |... . 49)
: PLUG.
Nimrod: - 2 @A4
TC ee @AO
Blue Peter. (0 @38
SpreuG Hame @38
Bra Hive Center 20005). .2...0 @35
Red Hox... ....- Bee a tone, oe @A8
Big Drive: eee @50
peal of Grand Rapids.................. @46
DMEM. @46
BAO ee s @48
daek Habbitc...:. 063.000... G46
SMOWMAKG ee @46
Chocolate Cream......... @46
NWiOOdCOCK 20s @46
Knisntsor labor....................0, @46
Railvoad) ..2....0...... ec Ge a ae @A6
Bid Bug @32
Arab, 2cl2 and 4x07... @46
Black Bear @37
ee @46
Old Five Cent Times................... @38
Prune Nuggrett, 12ib...... 2.2.6... @b62
PEO ee @AG
OlGMiMe @38
PDLAIRWIBY oo 6 aes @48
GlOBy ee ee @46
Silver Com) ee @50
Buster [Dark 0.0. @36
Black Prince [Dark] _................. @36
Black Racer [Dark]................... @36
Merrett & Myers? Star................. @A6B
CHa @A6
EROlG Hast oe @A6
McAlpin’s Gold Shield................. @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ib eads....... @51
Cock of the Walk G8................._; @37
INObby Ewiste occ @46
SCOR @46
CLOsGenG @A4
Block: Ne se @35
Black Rass 5s. @40
SRM el @46
Crayne os @46
Mackinaw oe @45
ERORSG SHOGQ) ee @44
Hair Litter @36

Wom DPE ccc sc

 

McAlpin’s Green Shield...............
mee High black: 90... 1.
Sailors) Solace...
ze. less in four butt lots.
SMOKING

Old Mare 40i\Conqueror ........... 23
Arthur’s Choice..;..22|\Grayling ............. 32
Red Hox: 10)... 26iSeal Skin... 30
IMG oo cc. 2S( ROD ROY. 2)... 6.62. 26
Gold Dust..:. 2... 26'Uncle Sam........... 28
Gold: Bloek.o.) 0.0... 30/Lumberman ......... 25
Seal of Grand Rapids |Railroad Boy.........38

(cloth)............25| Mountain Rose.......18
Tramway, 3 0Z....... 40 Home Comfort.......25
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35/Old Rip............... a5
BOSS ae 15|Seal of North Caro-
Peeks Sun. .....2.... HS) oma 2 07... 4... 48
Miners and Puddlers.28 Seal of North Caro-
Morning Dew........ 25| lima, £07.......... 5. 46
Chain 2. 22:'Seal of North Caro-
Peerless ........... 2. 24 lima, 8070s. 41
Standard ......°...... 22\Seal of North Caro-
Old Tom) 1... 21) lina, 16 oz boxes....40
Tom & Jerry......... AiBig Deal 23.0... ae
Joker... .2... ek ees 25| Apple Jack...........24
traveler 22.0000... 35| King Bee, longeut.. .22
Maiden 20... 25|Milwaukee Prize....24
Pickwick Club....... 40) Raoeler .y 02... 6. 28
Nigger Head......... 26|/Windsor cut-plug....25
Holland 2.0.0... PAOLO Seo 16
German... 5. 6... 16 Holland Mixed....... 6
Solid Comfort........ 30;'Golden Age.......... 15
Red Clover. ......... 32;Mail Pouch..........25
Lone Tom. .....:,.... 30 Knights of Lator....30
National :.....0...... 26|Free Cob Pipe........ 27
TMC soe oc ee: 261

/ SHORTS.

Globe: 2... Zi Hiawatha ..2...... 5. 22
Mule Mars 000... .: 23/Old Congress......... 23
SNUFF.

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..... @ i

ee Maccoboy..o.2..05...0..-.. @ 55
Gail & Ax’ ee. @ 44
$8 RBADDEG co. e ee @ 35
Reilroad Mills Scoteh................. @ 45
IOCZDOCK (oo ce @1 30
VINEGAR.
Pure Cider..... . 8@12 White Wine...... S@12
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported .................. 25
do RUM OTICAIN. 6 00500 a: 90
EORIOW ee. @3
Burners NOo be. 1 00
do INO] 2. ee 1 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... & 00
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ib ecans......... 15@25
@ungles, Star. 2c. eel, @13%
Candles, Hotels.) 2002... @l4
Hxtract Coee, V.0................... @80
do Welpe 6. 66 A. 1 25
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ @A0
Guim Spruce. 2. oso. 30@35
LOM BOODLE boc @A4 00
Jelly, in 30:1) pails... 22.2... le. @ 4%
Peas, Green Bush 0. cs. @1 35
Peas, Split prepared................... @ 8%
MOWOUOr, KOG occ ool o ae @3 50
Powder. 361669) 2 00 @1 93

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

The furniture factories here pay as follows
for dry stock:

Basswood, loe-run. .:...........2...- @I13 00
Biren, log-run. oo... sos a... es 16 00@20 00
Birch, Nos. band 2... .. <2... .cck. @25 00
Black Ash, loperun. 2.0.2 25. tl 8... 8. _ _ @I4 00
Chervy, JOR-FUN. 6. 25. 6. coe. eo. eee. 25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. band 2................. @55 00
OWGrEy. Cul oo ecco oc ce 10 00@12 00
Maple, log-run.........2 6.65.0: eee 13 00@15 00
Maple, soft, log-run................. Li 00@14 00
Maple, Nos. land-2................... @16 00
Maple, clear, flooring................ @25 00
Maple, white, selected............... @25 00
RedOak, loe-run. .... ck cc ne cee ee @l5 00
Red Oak, Nos.] and 2.......... cages @20 00
Red Oak, No. 1,step plank.......... @25 00
W ainub lOG-PUn:. oo. see ek @a55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2................. @75 00
Wales, (OWS oo eo @25 00
Water Elm, log-run.................. @Iit 00
White Ash, log-run.................. 14 00@16 00
Whitewood, log-run................. @23 00

 

CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

  

STICK,
Straiehe: 25 1 OOxOS............ 2-2. S49
Twist, Qe 9@ 91%
Cut Loaf CO ek. .. lOY@1lL
MIXED
Noyat oni) pais. ee ce 9@ 9%
Royal, 200 ODIs... 6... @8%4
Biectre, 25 1p pals. 3.1222. 10@i9%
Bytes. 200 bbs. 9 @ 9%
French Cream, 25  pails.............. 1Z4G13
Cut lout, 251 cases... 2... 1244

FANCY—IN 5 i BOXES.

 

 

Memon Dues 2 2@13
POUR UPON s@l4
reppermintg Drops... 1H@l5
Chocginte Props). 8960 15
HM Chocolate Drops... 6 85
Gur DEODS (2000. 10
PACOMICEDVONS 3
ME Migonice Drops... 12
Hozenges, plait 11... J5
POzeneer peinted. 16
Penal os ee 15
MOUCOGR 15
Crem Bar 13@14
Molasses Bar.) iti a
Carameis Week acess 18@20
Hand Made Creams... 20
aw @NOMMS cs ij
Decorated Creams....... }
Siping Rock | ie H@l5
Burnt Almonds 2
Winterereen Herries... 15
FANCY—IN BULK.
Lozenges, plain in pails............... @I12%
Lozenges, plainin bblis................ ll @N%
Lozenges, printed in pails............. @12%
Lozenges, printed in bbls............. 114@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails.............. 2144@13
Gum Props impails......... * @7%
GUM DEOpS Mm HDIS. 2... 6@ 6%
Moss Drops. in pails. ...... 10 @10%
Mose Drops im bbs 28
Sour Drops im pails... 12
bupeniais in pails 2 24@13
mperaissim bis ll @l2
FRUITS.

Bananas, /Acpinwall 9... 00@3 50
| Oranges, Rodi Messina............._.. 3 0O@5 F)
Orameses, Naples. ...4). 5... 5U@+ 75
Hemons, Choice. 6 50@ 7-50
lemons fancy... 2 800
Biss layers, i. | 10 @L

Dates iris do 8 @) 4
ates 2d0 60... G6
Makes Sli @ 4%
bates, Miskin 2 @5-

Dates, Fard 10 box ® .........11.) :
Dates, Fard 50 b box # Ib..............
Dates, Persian 50 hb box #8 D.......... 6 @6%
Pine Apples, @ doz............
PEANUTS.
pime ted, raw Gm... 436@ 5
Choice do 62 5 @5%
Faney do 0.0 ee @ 5%
Cholee White, Vado °....... 5@ 5%
Reney HP Va do... = 54G 6
NUTS.

Aimonds: Herracona........ 18 @18%

< MO RGH Ee li @li%
Brim 8S4@ 9
Bilbeuts: Sicily 12

‘ Bareelonmy. ....... 11
Walnuts, Grenoble... 14

ee ED ON oe

ss EGNOCR 3 0

a Cel Git a
Frecans Nexas Hob... 10 @ll

ss WEISSOUER «8.
GCocoamuts, Wile. 6. 4 00@4 50

PROVISIONS.

The yrand Rapids Packing & Provision Co.
quote as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.

  

Mess Chicseo packing... 2... Ii 66
Clear, ©hiesso packing... 12 00
Bextra Homily Clear... 12 00
Clear, A. Webster packer................ 12 50
Extra Clear, heavy.....: Sg oe 12 75
BOSON @lGR
A. Webster, packer, short cut............. 42 50
Gleam baek Shoréent. 13 50
Standard Clear the best......... 14 00
DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy... 6... 6... 6%
do. BHGCHUEN <2. 6%
do. HSRt 6%
Long Clear Backs, 500 Ib cases......... a.
Short Clear Backs, 500 i cases......... 14
Long Clear Backs, 300 ib cases......... 74
Short Clear Backs, 300 Ib cases......... 73g
Bellies, extra quality, 500 Ib eases...... 6%
Bellies, extra quality, 300 Ib cases...... §34
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ib cases...... c
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Boneless Hams...... seleee. cee ie a, 10%4
Boneless shoulders. .........-.......... 2... 6%
Breakfast Bacon.......... .. Coe ee 8
Dried Beor, extra quality................... 9%
Dried Beet, Ham pieces...
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle............ 644
: LARD.
IMGRGGS Oe 6%
ou dmc ow ip Pubs 0 eet i%
50 i Round Tins, 100 eases.............. The
LARD IN TIN PAILS.
20 Ib Round Tins, 80  racks............ i
o> Pails 20 im & Gace... Ty
5 lb Balls bm a Gase, 310.8... 736
10% Pails.G@imawease......... ....._... iM
BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 tbs........ 10 50
Boneless Gxtra (0 14 50
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Ou Sausage 0 %
EAM SAVSHpe. 8 18
Mouse Sache 9 19
Beanictort Savisnee 3... lv
Blood Sausise = = 6
Bolooma, Straisht =... 6 6
Boloemn thiek = ed ccee. 6
Read ©Weese | 6
PIGS’ FEET.
iu bwke Dawnels 3 3 2a

imquacter Dupes... 2...

 

 

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Apples—New fruit commands 40e #@ bu. and
$1.50 @ bbl. for eating and 25c ® bu. and $1 #
bbl. for cooking.

Beans—Deaiers pay 75e@$1 # bu. for un-
picked and sell city picked for $1.25.

Blueberries—On their “last legs.’ Faney
fruit commands $2.50 @ bu., but over-ripe is
plenty at $1.50@S82.

Blackberries—In good demand at 10c # qt.

Butter—Michigan creamery is in moderate
demand at @20e. Sweet dairy isin active de-
mand at 18@l4e, while low grades are going
begging at 8@12e.

Cabbages—New stockis infairdemand at 69
@ide ® doz.

Cheese—Slightly firmer, full cream readily
commanding 74@8%e. :

Clover Seed—Medium, choice recleaned, $6.50
@ bu., and searce. :

Corn—Green, 10¢c #8 doz.

Cucumbers—l@2ve 8 doz.

Eggs—Unchanged as to demand, fresh stock
commanding 114e.

Green Onions—25@30e 8 doz bunches.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 184%@
lie.

Hay—Bauiled, $15@316 # ton.

Mellons—Water, $20 % 100, packages extra.
Musk, $1 2 doz.

Onions—Southern, $3.25 3% bbl. or $1.15 #2 bu.

Plums—California, $1.75 ® case.

Peaches—Michigan clingstone,
bu.

Pears—California, $3.50@385 # case.
tucky Bartlett, $7.50 @ bbl.

Pop Corn—Choice commands 4c # tb.

Potatoes—New potatoes are quite plentiful
at $1.25 ® bbl. for home grown.

Poultry—Very scarce. Fowls, i2@lic.
Spring chickens, 15@18.

Squash—Summer, 2¢ % tb. ae

Tomatoes—Firm at $2 ® bu. or $4 #2 bu.
stand. — :

Turnips—40e 8 bu.

Timothy—#2 # bu. and searce.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—se lower. The city millers pay as
follows: Lancaster, 84; Fulse, 82c; Clawson,
82e.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 55¢ in 100 bu. lots
and dle in carlots, — —o

Oats—W hite, 35c in smalllots and 30¢e in car-
lots. |

Rye—dée B bu. :

Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 # ewt.

Flour—No change. Fancy Patent, $6 2 bbl.
in sacks and $6.25 in wood. Straight, $5 2
bbl. in sacks and $5.25 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 ® bbl.

Mill Feed—Screenings, $15

ton. Ships, $14 # ton.

orn and Oats, $22 8 ton.

2.20@$2.75 B

Ken-

ton. Bran, $13
Middlings, $16 #8 ton,

 

  

 

 

 

 

Michigan Dairymen’s Association,

Organized at Grand Rapids, February 25, 1885.

President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale.

Vice-Presidents—W. H. Howe, Capac; H.C,
Stone, Saginaw City; A. P. Foltz, Davison
Station; F. A. Rockafellow, Carson _ City;
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale; Chas. E. Bel-
knap, Grand Rapids; L. F. Cox, Portage;
John Borst, Vriesiland; R. C. Nash, Hilliards;
D. M. Adams, Ashland; aon Post, Clarks-
ville.

Secretary and Treasurer—E. A. Stowe, Grand
Rapids.

Next Meeting—Third Tuesday in February,
1886,

Membership Fee—31 per year.

Official Or gan—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Seasonabie Suggestions from Mr. Sinclair.
HUDSONVILLE, Mich. Aug. 17, 1885.
Editor MICHIGAN TRADESMAN:

DEAR Str—Your offer of space in your
paper to the dairy interests of Michigan
does not seem to be used. Perhaps every
one is waiting for some one else to contrib-
ute an article. If so, some one had _ better
write.

In the production, care and manufacture
of milk into butter and cheese there area
great many different methods and the pro-
ductions vary in nearly every case. Now,
would not all interested in dairying be
benefitted by an exchange of methods and
results through the space generously offered
you, giving:

First, quality of feed and water
eows and their care;

Second, care of mlik at the farm; whether
eooled as soon as milked;

Third, handling milk at factory; amount
of salt used per 1,000 pounds of milk,
whether curds are put to press as soon as
salted or aired;

Fourth, results in grain, closeness and
flavor of cheese; also as to amount of stock
shown by the eheese when cured or rich-
ness.

given to

GEO. SINCLAIR.
— iE -<2- <P
Miscellaneous Dairy no.

C. B. Lambert is working up a creamery
project at Tiffin, Ohio.

The Watson cheese factory was recently
struck by lightning, but the damage was
slight.

O. R. Goodno, manager of the Carson
City creamery, was in the city last week
purchasing supplies and making arrange-
ments for a shipment by refrigerator car to
Washington, D. C.

— oo
A Broken File.

There is no tool so easily broken as the
file that the machinist has to work with, and
is about the first thing that snaps when a
kit of tools gets upset upon the crossbeam
ot a machine ora tool board from the bed
of an engine lathe. It cannot even be
passed from one workman to another with-
out being broken. If a file is a new one, or
still good for anything, if an apprentice has
got anything to do with it, and they are
never worth mending however great may be
their cost, unless the plaster of Paris and
lime treatment can make a perfect weld
without injuring the steel or disturbing the
form of the teeth. Steel thatis left as hard
as a file is very brittle, and soft solder can
hold as muchas a steady pull, if it has a
new surface to work from. Take a file as
soon as it is broken and wet the break with
zine dissolved in muriatie acid, and then tin
over with the soldering iron. This must be
done immediately as soon as the file is
broken, as the break begins to oxidize when
exposed to the air, and in an hour or two
will gather sufficient to make it impossible
for the parts to adhere. Heat the file as
warm as it will bear without disturbing its
temper as soon as well tinned, and press the
two pieces firmly together squeezing out
nearly all the solder, and hold in place till
the file cools. This can be done with very
little to trim off, and every portion of the
break fitting accurately in place. Bring
both pieces in line with each other, and for
a file it is as strong in one place as in an-
other, and is all that could be asked for un-
der the very best of welding treatment.

—_—-_— -4- <> --—
Canada’s Trade.

The value of the exports from the Domin-
ion of Canada for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1885, was $89,000,000, and the
value of the imports $112,000,000. Com-
pared with 1884, the exports have fallen off
$2,000,000 and the imports $4,000,000. The
aggregate trade is 7 per cent. less than it
was in 1874. The average yearly balance
of trade against Canada from the date of
confederation up to the present time has
been $20,000,000, so that it appears that
the balance against Canada for the
past year is over $3,000,000 above the aver-
age. Nevertheless the balance is less than
it was in 1883. This disparity between the
outgo and the income of products, the
Montreal Gazette declares, is not nearly so
much so as appears by the figures, ‘‘for it
must be remembered that the cost of ear-
riage from the port of exportation is added
to the value of the imports in many cases,
while the export value is rated from the
place of purchase within the country.” The
customs duty collected was $19,434,000, or
an average burden of 16 per cent. on the
amount imported.

>. _____
An Advertiser’s Novel Expedient.
From the New York Sunday Sun.

One of the largest advertisers in New
York says: We once hit upon a novel expe-
dient for ascertaining over what area our
advertisements were read. We published
a couple of half-column ‘‘ads” in which we
purposely misstated half a dozen historical
facts. In less than a week we received be-
tween 300 and 400 letters from all parts of

the country, from people wishing to know

why on earth we kept such a consummate
foo: wao snew so little about American. his-
tory. The letters kept pouring in for three

or four weeks. It was one of the best pay-
ing ‘‘ads” we ever printed. But we did not
repeat our experiment because the one I re-
fer to served its purpose. Our letters came
from sehool boys, girls, professors, clergy-
men, school teachers, and in two instances
from eminent men who have a world-wide
reputation. I was more impressed with the
value of advertising from those two adver-
tisements than I should have been by vol-
umes of theories.

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Modern Axioms.

 

Many rule but few conquer.

Hobbies are hard steeds to manage.

Men clothed with vanity are kickproof.

Tears of repentance form the rainbow of
joy.

Character is to infellect what a bit is to a
wild horse.

It is becoming to be honest—but it is be-
coming rare.

No man ean fail unless he has attempted
to sueceed.

Never yoke the past with the present for
the future to drive.

xray hairs command respect, where gray
hairs receive contempt.

Never tickle a mule’s hind leg unless the
animal is thoroughly dead.

Never ask a woman her
desire to witness her rage.

When a man despairs of success, the devil
will be on hand with words of encourage-
ment.

When Neptune desires to flirt with Moth-
er Earth, he gently waves the sea across her
bosom.

Ten men remain honest through fear of
man’s law, where one does through fear of
God's law.

It is easy enough to tell what you know
about everybody else, but hard to tell what
everybody else knows about you.
A

They Trade That Way.
From the Detroit Free Press.

‘‘Watermelons, eh?” she
glanced at a pile of fifty.

““Yes’m,” replied the grocer.

‘All green?”

“Oh, no, ma’am.”

“Tf Twas sure I could get a ripe one I
might

“Tl pick you out one, certainly. Here’s
one right here. Vl warrant that melon to
be ripe.”

“Sure?”

“T know it.”

“And yowll send it up?”

“Of course.”

“But suppose it should be green?”

“You shall have another. Here, I'll try
it. There, now, but isn’t that a ripe mel-
on?”

“*Y-e-s, I guess so.”

“And where shall 1 send it?”

“Isn't it a little dangerous to eat
ons?”

“Oh, no, ma’am.

“Ts that the
cents?”

“Ten cents!

**Thirty!
take a
quart.”

age, unless you

queried as she

 

mel-

Where did you say?”
largest you have for ten

Why it’s thirty!”
You may put it back, and Vl
a pint of tomatoes at four cents a

—_—— rr eto ---
Publicity of Credits.

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports a
most interesting experiment in that city in
the way of business co-operation for the pur-
pose of learning the credits of individuals
engaged in business. Each member of the
Credit Liabilities Association, which was
formed September 1, 1884, ‘‘has the priv-
uege of inquiring of eyery other member
the indebtedness to each of any customer or
applicant for favors, and each member is
bound to supply this information for the
use of any other member.” The associa-
tion now includes fifteen banks, or a major-
ity of the Clearing-house Association. The
first official report of the secretary says that
“the results have been satisfactory, and
encourage the inaugurators of the associa-
tion in the belief that its purposes are wise
and its plans adequate and safe.”
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LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES,

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co, quote f. o.
b. cars as follows:

 

Wppers, inch... 3s. per M ‘ .
Uppers, 144,1% and 2 ineh................
Selects, 1 inch bob e cee eel oes. tee 3 00
Selects, 144,1% and 2 inch........  ...... 38 00
Hine Common, iinch............. .....2. 30 00
SOD VaNeCn Ce oe 20 00
Fine, Common, 134, 1% and 2inch. ... 32 00
No.1 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet . 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 ero 16 Q0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., PAORT 17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in.,18 feet................ 16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........... 2... 17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet........ gee . 1600
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20fect..............3.. 17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet................ 13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet................ 14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet................ 13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet................ 14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 11 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet................. 12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet................ 13 00
Coarse Common or shipping culls, all
widths and lengths......... ....... 8 00@ 9 00
Aang GB Strips,4or6in ............:.. .. 33 00
C Stri 08, SOLO INN 27 90
No. 1 Fencing, all lengths................ 15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14and 18 feet.......... 12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 MOCG oe. 12 00
No.1 Fencing, 4 inch..................... 15 00
NO. 2 Fencing, 4 inch... ee: 12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6inch......... 20 06
Bevel Siding, 6inch, A and B............ 18 00
Bevel piding, Finck, C............2... 20, 14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No.1 Common.... 9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear.............. 20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft........ 40 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 gs ee Be 36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in. C...... Cy Sete 29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6in., No. 1,common.. 17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2common. 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4in.,A. Band Clear.. 35 00

Dressed Flooring, 4in., C..:..-........... 26 00

Dressed F looring, 4or 3 in., No.1 com’n 16 06
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.2 com’n 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.

XXX 18 in. Standard Shingles......... 3 10
ee SO 00 POO 3 00

a AOA eee oa ~ 15
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B _ e. . Shingles Seats de cs : :
NO.7 0b in. 0, %.16 in
MD: fyi gitaw ee es 1 75@ 2 0

 

 

VISITING BUYERS.
The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:

H. M. Harroun, McLain.
Cc. H. Smeed, New Richmond.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
John Glupker, Zutphen.
st O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
John Scholten, Overisel.
H. H.F reedman, Reed City.
EF. P. Hopper, Merricle & Hopper, Fremont.
A. Hardy, Burnip’s Corners.
J. H. Darling, Darling & Smith, Fremont.
Uilke DeVries, Jamestown.
A. D. Martin, Sand Lake.
R. McKinnon, Wayland.
Jas. Riley, Dorr.
H. H. Moore, Lakeview.
Jos. H. Spires, Leroy.
Corneil & Griswold, Griswold.
C. 8. Comstock, Pier son.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Fred Myer, Big Rapids.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
me H. Anderson, Edger ton.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
W. H. Schoomaker, Cannonsburg.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
L. T. Wilmarth & Co., Rodney.
W. DePree & Bro., Zeeland.
S. E. Bush, Pierson.
A. E. Landon, Nuniea.
Mr. Dickerson, Dickerson & Co., Freesoil.
Joshua Colby, Colby & Co., Rockford.
H. B. Irish, Lisbon
Mr. Bitely, Jr., w ‘th Bitely & Cain, Sparta.
Geo. Cook, Grove.
M. T. Woodruff, Carey.
Mr. Barker, Barker & Lehnen, Blanchard.
Fred B. Hine, Lowell.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsbure.
Ryerson, Hills & Co., Muskegon.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
W.J. Arnett, Morey.
R. MeKinnon, Hopkins.
R. H. Wells, Wagner & Wells, Eastmanville.
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
A. L. Burnett, A. L. Burnett & Co., Lisbon.
A. D. Martin, Ensley.
Silas Lowe, Burnip’s Corners.
S.S. Dryden, Allegan.
Hanibal Wagar, Wagar & Callahan.
Springs.
J.W. Dunning, Dunning & Co., Hesperia.
J.C. Seott, Lowell.
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesiand.
Mr. Williams, Williams & Kerry, Reed City.
Aaron Zunder, Zunder Bros. & Co., Bangor.
Mr. Spring, Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
H. Andre & Son, Jenisonville.
Mr. Hewett, Hewett & Tefft, Rockford.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
H. W. Potter, Jennisonville.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
R.G. Smith, Wayland.
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland.
R. B. Jennings, New Troy.
Mrs. a Miller, Ryerson.
Geo. S$ - Powell & Co., Sand Lake.
Henry Mishler. Freeport.
A. P. Hulbert, Lisbon.
Oo. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
Cole & Chaple, Ada.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
John Meijering, Noordeloos.
B. Gilbert & Co., Moline.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
o-oo
The well-known publishing house of
fand, McNally & Co., of Chicago, announce
that the 1885 edition of their directory and
Shipping Guide of Lumber Mills and Luin-

ber Dealers, will be ready for delivery very

Cedar

 

shortly. It will be of great importance to
lumbermen, and _ all interested in obtaining

the names and correct addresses of the own-
ers or operators of saw, shingle, planing or
stave mills, sash and door factories, and
lumber dealers. It will contain, besides the
list of mills and dealers in the United
States and Territories, the names of all
railways and express companies by which
the various cities and towns, where the
above interests are located, may be reached,
together with colored maps of each state
and territory in the United States, which
will show the line of every railroad. There
will also be given digests of the laws of
mechanics’ and log liens, laws governing
the cutting of timber and use of streams for
driving logs, with decisions of the court,
ete. It will bea very large volume, con-
taining something over seven hundred pages
of matter very valuable to lumbermen, or
those who deal with them. The price will
be the same as last year, $5.00 per copy,
sent by express prepaid. The reputation of
the great publishing house of Rand, Mc-
Nally & Co. is Sufficient guarantee that the
work will be well and thoroughly done. A
prospectus or descriptive circular may be
obtained from the publishers.
He Struck It.

From the Detroit Free Press.

She answered the ring at the door to find
a strange man on the steps.

**Any fly-sereens?” he asked.

“No; six. 7

‘“Any fly paper?”

‘‘No, sir.”

““Any powders for making lemonade?”

‘No, sir.”

“Any painting or whitewashing to do?”

“No, Sir.”

‘Want some Paris Green to kill garden
insects?”

“*No, sir:”

“Got any od clothes to sell?”

**No, sir.”

“Got any coal to put in or wood to split?”

‘No, sir.”

““Couldn’t you spare me—”

“‘What’s that, sir?”

“Oh, nevermind. My wife is barefoot,
and I was going to ask for a pair of old
shoes, but it would be of no use. Youhave
got such a dainty little foot that my wife
couldn’t get her big toe into one of your
shoes.”

When he left he had an old coat on his
ari, a quarter in cash in his pocket, and
there was a square meal stowed away be-
hind his vest.

7)

A Mt. Pleasant mercantile concern has
adopted a novel way of collecting old and
small accounts. They have put up a small
cottage and lot worth $300 to be disposed of
by chance. All persons owing them over
$10 will receive a ticket for every dollar
paid; all over $5 and under $10, a ticket for
each 50 cents paid and all under $5 a ticket
for each 25 cents paid, the holder of the
lucky ticket to receive a clear title to the
cottage and lot.

 

 

Ibaroware.

American Cutlery and its Manufacture.
From the Stove and Hardware Reporter.
American cutlery is now finding its way
all over the world, and knives, shears,
scythes, and planes of our manufacture are
to be found in the warehouses of most large
English cities. In 1872 the importation of
cutlery into the United States amounted to
$10,500,000, which was cut down in 1880 to
about $900,000 a year, besides which $700,-

 

 

| 900 worth of domestic goods were exported

that year. In the manufacture of axes the
United States have made most marvelous
advances, surpassing all other countries ex-
cept Canada, which bears an equally good
reputation for making these useful imple-
ments.

Good table knives are made of steel and iron
welded together; the part which goes into
the handle (called technically the tang in
England) and the shoulder, are of iron, and
the blade of steel. “The tang and shoulder
are forged from bar iron, and the blade from
shear or cast steel. Knife blades, razor
blades and other small articles are usually
forged into their required shape while still
attached to the bar, which serves for the
workmen to hold them by. When the bar
becomes too short it is grasped in a pair of
tongs held close by a ring which clamps
them by sliding up their conical handles.
Two men are employed in forging such
work. The principal workman, or fireman,
as he is sometimes called, uses a small ham-
mer of two to four pounds weight, while the
hammerman wields the sledge hammer,
weighing from ten to fifteen pounds. The
fireman, who attends the heating as well as
the anvil work, directs the hammerman,
whose blows merely follow those of the
small directing hammer of the fireman. In
drawing down or reducing a bar both in
length and width, the flat face of the ham-
mer is used; but when the length or breadth
alone is to be extended, only the narrow
edge of the hammeris used. The concavity
of razor blades is made by hammering the
blade on a small round-faced anvil; the notch
or nail hole, of a penknife, is struck by
means of a chisel of therequired form. Su-
perior work, such as razor blades, are
“‘smithed” after forging, that is, beaten up-
on an anvil, to condense the metal as much
as possible, and slightly ground or scorched
upon a rough stone, to finish the shaping
and remove the seale, or black oxidized sur-
face, which would interfere with the color
of the tempering.

Common knives are made entirely of iron,
and the difference of price arises not merely
from the difference in cost of the material
but from the greater facility of working. It
should also be understood that in many ar-
ticles composed of steel welded to iron the
saving of steel is not the only advantage, for
steel being more brittle than wrought iron,
it is very desirable, in all articles subject to
a transverse breaking strain. or to conecus-
sion, that every part except the cutting or
working edge should be of iron. Thus a
hatchet made entirely of steel would be less
durable than one of iron with a welded steel
cutting edge, and so of other articles.

Table forks are forged rudely into the
shape required, first as though but a single
thick prong was required. The part for the
prongs is then beaten out, and a stamping
die is brought down upon it, which forms
the prongs with a thin film of steel between

them; this is cut out by a cutting die. Then
they are softened and filed up, again har-

dened and tempered and ground to smooth
and finish. The dry grinding of forks,
needles, ete., isa very injurious trade, on
account of the particles of steel which enter
the nostrils of of the workmen, and produce
most painful irritation, followed by a pecul-
iar disease called “grinder’s asthma,” which
is said to shorten life so seriously that few
dry grinders, exposed to the steel dust,
reach forty years of age. Many remedies
have been proposed for this. A magnetic
mouthpiece was invented, but the workmen
would not wear it on account of its novelty,
its grotesque appearance, the trouble of
cleaning it, and belief that if their trade
were more healthy greater numbers would
enter if and wages be reduced. <A revoly-
ing fan, which sets in motion a current of
air, that is carried by a pipe to the outside
of the building, has beer used with greater
success, and is now in general use when it
can be applied, though its introduction was
much opposed by the workinen. ,

      

Co-Operation a Failure.
From the Pittsburg Post.

In an interview Grand Master Workman
Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, is quot-
ed as pronouncing against strikes as waste-
ful and unsatisfactory, no matter what the
outcome, and always productive of as much
harm as good. Mr. Powderly says that he
expects that in time all conflicts between la-
bor and capital will be avoided by a system
of co-operation in which every man will en-
joy the benefits of his labor. He adds that
education is the great necessity to enable
people to co-operate intelligently.

Mr. Powderly’s remarks in regard to
strikes and the need of educated working-
men are both timely and just. A strike, as
events have often proved in the past, and as
the recent trouble in Chicago and the pres-
ent troubles in the lumber towns in Michi-
gan bear testimony, is one of the worst, if
not the worst, methods of settling wage
disputes. At the same time it has been just
as frequently shown that the more intelli-
gent the class of men employed in any indus-
try the less danger there is of trouble
between workmen dr employer. But we
think that Mr. Powderly errs when he looks
to co-operation as a means of finally set-

tling the labor question.
there are several co-operative enterprises in
this State which have been fairly succesful,
while there are several now on foot whose
progress will be watched with marked in-
terest. But the fact remains that co-opera-
tion has proved a comparative if not absolute
failure in the country where it has been
most thoroughly tested.

It is now forty years since Maurice
his little |

and
yand of followers began to preach

co-operation in England. ‘‘Every man _ his
own employer” was the goal which they

hoped to reach, and earnestly and ably did
they labor to obtain the desired result. But,
notwithstanding their efforts kept up during
along term of years, co-operative work-
shops and factories have accomplished but
little. There are only twenty-three such
establishments in the British Islands, and
but one of them dates as far back as 1858,
while 224 such societies have been obliged
to wind up and go out of existence. Only
six are of date before 1870. The whole
number of employes in such societies is less
than 6,500. Nor haye any of the moral re-
sults which Maurice and his followers hoped
to secure been obtained. One of their prin-
cipal arguments was that co-operative pro-
duction wold put an end to adulteration and
other fraudulent practices whieh are the dis-
grace of English manufacturers. But ata
recent co-operative congress it was shown
that the co-operative cotton factories were
as famous for loading cottons with fraudu-
lent and weighty matters as any loom-lord
in the North of England.

But while English co-operative workshops
and factories have proved a financial and
moral failure, it is interesting to note the
success which has attended the establish-
ment of co-operative stores in Great Britain.
These concerns have doubled their number
within ten years. They do an annual busi-
ness amounting to more than $125,000,000,
and they have an invested capital of more
than $40,000,000. In one Seotch shire sey-
en-eights of the people are co-operators; in
another nearly half; in the populous shires
of Northern England about one-fourth. If
higher wages and improved conditions -have
kept our workingmen from encouraging a
system which has proved so beneficial to the
poorer-paid laborers of, Great Britain, it is
safe to assume that the same causes will op-
erate against the suecess of co-operation in
other matters. Mr. Powderly will have to
find a different method for solving the labor
problem.

 

 

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lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver-
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~ WOODENWARE.

Standard Dabs, No.) .........:... ......... 8 006
Standard Bubs; NOO2 6. 003. 7 00
Standard “Pubs: No. 3.-.. ..................- 6 00
Standard Pails, twohoop....................1 60
Standard Pails; three hoop.................. 1 85
Dowell Baws. 2 10
Dowell Bibs NOM 9500. ooo ese 8 75
Dowell Bubs, NO.2. 02.20... .2 05. 7 75
Dowell Wubs. NO. 3 050 6 75
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................- 2 00
Bupter Uadles. i 1 25
ROWEN ORANG ee. .1 00
IPotato Mashers. 020 75
Clothes Pounders. ...:).... 10... 12.62... 2 25
ClOPReS PING. 8. oe 65
Mop Stocks: 22.06 ce2 1 25
Washboards, single: .... 02... 065.0... eke. 1 75
Washboards, double: .............5..:....... 2 25

BASKETS. :
Dismond Market. 2 ........................ 40
Bushell, narrow band....................:... 1 60
Bushel, wade band. o.... 0.0... 550... 145
Clothes, Splint, INO. 1.. 2.20.0)... 3 50
Closhes; splint, NOid..........5....... 15... 3 75
Clothes; Splint; No.d.............5...:-..... 4 00
Clothes, willow, INQSE oreo cee, 5 00
Clothes: willow; No. 2)...........5..5.....6.. 6 00
Clothes; willow, No.s................... 1 200

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

 

 

Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows:
AUGERS AND BITS.
Eves), Old Style... es dis 60
H. ©. COl es dis 60
MOUGISSS) (6506s oo. dis 60
IPIONCES -2.2 005) ee eoesheyeae a 60
DMO eee: Be 60
G@ook’s -. 56.022: 62.2 e.: Oe aes eee. “dis010
Jennings’, SeMuUINE..-..-............-.. dis 25
Jennings, tmibatlON .... 2... 6c otc dis40&10
BALANCES. D
SPMIN Soe 1 dis 2
BARROWS. :
Raumoad ) 8 $ 13 00
Garden. 0.25. aces eee net 35 00
BELLS.
BONG oe ee dis $ 60&10
COW 60. dis 60
COR VIL oes ee dis 15
GONE ee dis 20
DOOR, SREZONE. - 62. es dis 5d
BOLTS.
StOUG 20 es ee eo dis$ Be
Carriage now Hst.-.. 2.26.22... c. dis
IOW oe ee dis s0e1C
Sleish Shoe 2 dis 7a
Cast Barrel Bolts. ....0..............% dis 50
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis aD
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis 50
Cast Square Spring:........ 2... 5.02... dis 5d
CaSE-Cnain: = oc. ok cco, dis 60
Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 55&10
Wrought Square...) . 5.0... 22... dis 55&10
Wrought Sunk Wlush vo eo2. os. dis 30
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob
USD: 50&10&10
IVeS: DOOR ee as dis 50&10
BRACES.
BQEDE 22 oa se: dis $ 40
BAGKUse 2 ee ee dis 50
SPOOR. 5c dis 50
Am. Balle i. oe eo dis net
BUCKETS.

Well, DIGI ee el $ : 00
Well. Swivel. oo. ee, ‘ 50
BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured....7........... dis 60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 50&10
Wrounht Boose Pin.................. dis 60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip..... ...dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5

Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver

TEP POG nooo ese ek oi ee cee ec dis 60& 5
Wroueht able... os. coc ase dis 60
Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 60
Wrought BIVHSR  ee dis 65&10
Bind: Clark's oo eco cis, . dis T0&10
Blind; Parkers. oo... cc ces ee dis 70&10
Blind, Shepard’s eecuse Pee Uae ae dis 70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x8....pergross 18 00

CAPS.
ly Ss 11Qe oS eo ee ee per m $ 65
HICKS Or ee cece eee. 60
a ee a a 35
MRISEGE scours es oe 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester newlist 60
Rim Fire, United States................ dis 60
Cenbrab lire: 3. ois occ ec ee es dis 40
CHISELS.

BOGKOERINMOR?. 6. eke oc eect ccc, dis 75
Socket Framing: .. 2... 0c... ee dis 75
Socket Corner: oo... oc aes dis vis)
Socket SUCKS. 3. oe co ck dis 75

It is true that! | Hotohers’ Tanged Firmer.:.......... dis

40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. ais a
COlG ee ee net
COMBS. c
Curry, Lawrenee’s..... ..... See: dis 33344
IUOLCHICISS (20... dis 25
COCKS.
eases, Haeking’s......... 3... 50
Bs ee 50
BOGE ee 40&10
PORMR 2 a a 60

: COPPER.
ey so evs 14 04 cut to size........ 2.2... ® f 30

x52, 14x: BO, eG 36
DRILLS

NeOEsO's Bit StOCK........ .. dis 35

Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 20

Morse’s Faper Sobmk............... . dis 30
ELEOWS.

Com. £piece,6 in... doz net $1 08

COEMMOIREGG =. 68 dis 20&10

PRGPUISE MIG) 660 dis 4&10

EXPANSIVE BITS.

Clar’s 8, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20

Ives’, 1, $18 b0; 2, $2 Bh 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25
FILES.

Ameriean File Association List...... dis 60

DISSOOINS 200 ge =... @18 60

INGw American... 8 ae dis 60

INTONOIGH Sd dis 60

ERGNGWS ceo dis 30

Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 33%

G ALY ANIZED IRON,

Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25and 26, 27 28
List 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, Juniata 45@10, Charcoal 50G10.
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Lee Con. dis 50
HAMMERS.

Maydole @ €o7s...... 1... dis 20
OS oe, dis 25
Werkes & Plumps... oe 40
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 0 @ list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. 30 ec 40&10

HANGERS,

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50
Champion, anti- -friction pee oe dis 60
Kidder, wood track...._.._........__. dis 40

HINGES.
Gate, Clans 1.2.3.0... is 60
OREO es aay Ot mete® 2 50
Serew Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14

amen lomoer ooo 5h
Serew Hock and Eye 6 net 10%
Screw Hook and Bye %.............. net 8%
Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net T%
Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net i%
Suapand Po... dis 6010

HOLLOW WARE.
Stamped ‘Pin Ware... 2. 60&10
Japanned in Ware..................... 20810
Gramte fron Ware...................... 25
HOES.
Gaub ee $11 00, dis 40
GOED ae oe 11 50, dis 40
Grunge 12 00, dis 40
KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings. ...&2 70, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. 3 50, dis 6624
Door, porcelain, plated trim-

mings aie a ee ae boca: list,10 15, dis 6624
Door, porcelain, trimmings list 11 55, dis 70
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain ea dis 70
Picture, H. L. guda& os. d 40
EPOINIA@NKG! 0 dis 50

LOC KS—DOOR.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list...dis 66%
Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s.............. dis 66%
BERIEONO@NS 0 co cs se dis 6624
INGEWaee. 6. dis 6634
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65
MILLS.
Coffee, Parkers €0.’S.......--. 2.022 4 dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S.&W.Mfe. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...... dis 40&10
Coffee, IMMECEPEISG. 4... ........ 2... dis 25
MATTOCKS.
POG PVG... ec $16 00 dis 40&10
eum BGs. 2c ccc. $15 00 dis 40&10
PEVEGGe oa c, $18 50 dis 20 & 10
NAILS.
Common, Bra and Fencing.
He tO GU. es ee # keg $2 40
Sd ane oC adv... 6. 25
Ge gm We Ady... ee. 50
AG MMO Ne ROG: 2. 75
OO OULU AMCC lo 1 50
oO PNG ROVANCe.... 2.0.62... i 3 00
Chneh mae. adv... . ce ee. he
Finishing i 10d 8d 6d 4d
Size—inches f¢ 3 24 «8 1%
Adv. # keg $i 25 £50 175 260
Steel Nails—Same price as above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern .-.. 22.0.2 ...o. 32. 1... dis 70
Stepois GOMUIMG ..... 2. 2... ce. dis 70
Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25
MAULS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50
OILERS.
Zine or tim, Chase’s Patent..............- dis 55
Aine, With brass DOttONY....:......... 2.2 dis 50
Brags OF COMPCE. ... 2.6.5. 225256 ik: dis 40
Reaper... 2.2... 22.6. per gross, $12 net
@UMStORS | 2 50
PLANES.
O@io (ool Cols, faney..................<. dis 15
SG@MOER BONER.) 9. eo FE dis 25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, famey.... ......-.. dis 15
Benen. frsuquality...2....2............-: dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and
PANS.
Biey, A@me@ oo. ea dis 50
Common, polished. .......2..0.....65 .. .dis60&10
TBWERPPEI oe oe ces ce, 8 ib 6@7
RIVETS.
Tron and ‘Pimned. ...-. 2... ks. dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 50&10

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 re
“B”’ Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27
Broken packs %e # ib extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 75
TX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........ 0 5
IO, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 2B 00
TX, 20x28, choicC Charcoal Terne......... 16 90
ROPES.
Sisal. 34 Im. and larger..............2....... 8
Manilla Be a ee a ee, Lia
SQUARES.
Steel and Fron... .....2.........2.... dis .
Wry and Bevels. ........ 5... oe ee ccc se dis 50&10
IMERORG ss sons dis 20
SHEET IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com.
INOS. lUto 14 3... ccc. $4 20 $2 80
INOS: 15 tO PG. 2. 4 20 2 80
INOS UTS 1O Sb... 5k. 4 20 2 80
INOS- 27 tO) 26). 28d... vc cee 4 20 2 80
INOS 25 60 26) 2 2c, 4 40 3 00
ING@= 2b 4 60 3 00

All Ghiveks No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

In casks of 600 tbs, ® Db.................. 6
In smaller quansities, qe Is, iMG
TINNER’S SOLDER.

Noct, Retmed: ... .. .....- <2... 1c... tke: 13 00
Market Half-and-half............. 2... 15 00
Strictly Halt-and-balt...............2.. 16

TIN PLATES. —
Cards for Chareoals, $6 75

.

IC, JOwi4, Charcoal... ....... 252-26. 6 50
IX, 10x14,Charcoal..... nce oe CRI 8 50
IC, lawi2. Charcoal. -........ ..- 35. se, 6 50
PX, Powio. Chareoal ... ..<. 2. cece cee 8 50
IC, 14020, Charcoal... 02. os 505 eo ek 6 50
EX, Veer) Charcoal... ues 8 50
IXxX, 14x20, @hareegh: -.. -. 3.22.2 5.. : 10 50
IXXX, Veet), CHarcool. ....... cose ono wees 12 50
IXXXX, 14x20, @hareoagl:. =... 0.6.0.2. 2s. 14 50
IX, 20x28, Ohascoak ........ Is 60
DC, 100 Plate Charcoal.......-...--..--. 6 50
Dx. 100Plate Charcoal.............2 025: 8 50
DxXxX, 100 Plate Charcoal... .-.... 2.2. <.3. 10 50
DEXX, 100 Plate Charcoal. ..............-% 12 50

5
Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 %5
rates.

TRAPS.
Sheek, Game... 2.2.0... 5.2... ss
Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor ton’s 8. 60
TROUGHS. oo ooo 8 os eee ea Sees 60
Si Po f Wo Mie. Cocs...... i cca 60
Mouse, GROROM 22 oe 20c 8 doz
Mouse, GOClURION.. .02os 22 $1 26 8 doz
WIRE.
Bright Market... .......3.c.c. cess dis 60&1¢
Amnealed Market. ... 2.2... 0.0 ce cece dis 70
Coppered Market... . . 2c... 5... cee cise dis 55&10
Powers ati oo oc ick dis 65
Pinned Mark@t.... 2... eke kee ew, dis 40
‘Pinned Broom. ...... ...... 0. .cceee sone ae
Minned Mattress... ... 2. 2.5.25 5c kk. 8 Ib 8%
Coppered Spring Steel............ dis £0@40810
Tinned Spring Steel. ... .-.. 5c ce crea ss dis 37)
Wie HONGO. 56 ee Bb Be
Waened BONGO 2 .ooc. 2. oes cc ea
CONNOR oe ee ck. new list net
HESSR ees es new list net
" WIRE GOODS.
Behe os ee ee .. dis T0&10
SGrOW VGN. occ oe ca dis 70&10
FROOHEG ee ae oct ccc cae dis 70&10
Gate Hooksand Eyes................ dis 70&10
WYENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........
Coe’s Genuine saei aces eee aces oo ay dis 50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, “a 65
Coe’s Patent, malleable.............. 70
MISCELLANEOUS. i
PUMPS, CIStern 2... <6 sos c cnc. ec eek dis 0
perews, Now Hs... 20... ek

 

Casters, Bed and Plate................. aissosty
Dampers, American................00.05 334%

 

 

The Tendency in Trade.

From the Chicago Current.

The American people demand cheap
goods, and seem to lay down no other pre-
requisite of trade. Business men who at-
tempt to correct the public taste must fail,
while the rogues who lead purchasers on-
ward in the progress of trickery fatten with
success. A bunch of firecrackers is a cent
cheaper each year, but a cent-and-a-half’s
worth smaller. A roman candle is longer
each year, but smaller in. diameter. This
principle prevades many lines of goods.
When the conscienceless tradesman shall
run afoul of something in the way of popu-
lar odium, he will alter his practice at once.
The people have seen so many wonders,
such as the telephone, that they have to be-
lieve a fifty-cent article can be produced at a
profit for a quarter of a dollar. There must
needs be a Prosaic Age approaching that
reason may be restored to men.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOLIMAN SNOOKS.

 

The “‘Gentlemanly Burglar” Visits the Cor-
ners.
Canr Hook Corners, Aug 15,- 1885.
Editor TRADESMAN:

DEAR Sm—Our little city can at last take
her place alongside of Grand Rapids, Detroit
and other large places in the matter of bur-
glars. The ‘“‘Gentlemanly Burglar” has ar-
rived and the town is thrown into a fer-
ment. Last night at about half past twelve,
Potter, the saw mill man, awoke from a
sound sleep and the first thing he saw was
the hole in the end of a large revolver. Pot-
ter says the hole looked about the size of a
six inch stove pipeto him. The next thing
he was conscious of was the fact that a gen-
tleman with a piece of crape over his his
face stood just behind the said revolver.
T e urglar might have been in mourning
on account of the great national loss, but he
did not so state. What he said was:

“Exeuse me for disturbing your gentle
slumbers, but I must trouble you for w hat
change you have in your pants, that I see
hanging on this chair; also for your general
eash on hand, your watch and other jew-
elry.”

Potter told the burglar that, under the
circumstances, his manner being so very
persuasive, he would depart from his usual
rule of never paying out money except on
an execution issued by a competent court on
judgment, and would comply with his, the
bnrglar’s, request.

The Gentlemanly Burglar then took pos-
session of Potter’s wealth, only stopping to
remark that he could not allow but 20 cents
apiece for five Canada quarters found in Pot-

 

 

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Lasts longer than any
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ter’s purse, and grumbling a little because a
50 cent piece had a hole punched in it.
After telling Potter that he could redeem
his watch any time for $1.75, he proceeded
to go through Mrs. Potter’s jewelry box.
Here he made arich haul, getting a locket
that Potter paid 99 cents for at Grand
Rapids, a chain valued at $2.50 even at a
forced sale like the present occasion, a sil-
ver plated thimble and Mrs. Potter’s men-
thol head ache pencil. Mrs. Potter came
near going into hystericks, but happening
to think that her bangs was put up in tea
leads, she concluded to not highstrike. She
told the gentleman that she would not have
been caught in such a dishabilitated condi-
tion if she had known he contemplated a
call that evening.

The burglar told her ‘‘not to mention it,”
then very carefully lowered the hammer to
his revolver, turned the slide of his dark
lantern and disappeared backwards through
the window

This is a eet improvement on the old
style of eihee g, and all burglars who have
any regard for their reputation, should
hasten to adopt it.

The news just came in that a citizen of
Grumbleton was also burgled last night. It
was probably done by the same gentleman.

I notice that the profession is still operat-.
ing in your city with usual success and even,
putting in extra time daytime by using in-
sect powder to throw in people’s faces. It
is encouraging to the business outlook any-

 

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how, to know that at least one business is
running on double time.

I notice in the Grand Rapids Times of the
12th the following reference to a burglary at
Kalamazoo:

A burglar entered Mr. Anderson’s house
last night, and was bagging considerable
boodle, when his daughter who had heard
him, entered the room and following, as he
fled, hit hima heavy blow with a stick of
wood over the shoulder, causing him to yell
out with pain. Heran against a hammock
and dropping most of his plunder, escaped.

Now the above opens up anew phase of
the business. I never have noticed a case
before where a regular burglar has taken
' his daughter along when he went out to
make a business call. I cannot understand
why she should have conducted herself in
such a manner, either. If I was a Knight
of the Dark Lantern, and so far forgot my-
self as to take a woman along, and she had
so little regard for my comfort as to hit me
over the shoulder with a stick of wood, and
so little sense as to yell and make me yell
and run against a hammock and drop my
‘‘boodle” and all such foolishness, I don’t
know what I should do, but I think I should
feel riled, I do really. Theitem also says
that she ‘“‘heard him” and also ‘followed
him,” so it is possible that the Gentlemanly
Burglar did not know that his daughter was
on his track.

DOLIVEIRA’S
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DEALERS IN

Foreign aud Domestic Fruits, Southern Vegetables, Etc.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc. oe orders filled at lowest market price. Corres-
pondence solicited. APPLES AND POTATOES in car lots Specialties. NO. 9 IONIA ST.

mm FATA OAS,

Wholesale & Commission---Batter & Regs a svecially

Choice Butter always on hand. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale. Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each.
97 and 99 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Oysters f J Jettentlaler

and Hish | i117 mowroz sr.
PEHEREINS & HESS,

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

 

 

 

 

 

H. LE

are out in finer styles and
lower prices than ever
before. The “LULU” as-
sortment in amber, biue,
and light green, contains
the very latest shapes, at
new prices, fully 20 per

 

Glass Lamps this year

cent lower than last year.

“LULU.”
ASSORTED GLASS LAMPS.

 

pe doz. A SIZes oo. 1.50 .75
37 doz, Es SIZe0. 6. ee 2.00 1.50
Hodoz. © Size... 6... 2.50 1.25
1g doz. D Size, with Ne. 2 Collar.3.co0 1.50
5.00

Less Io per cent. 50
4.5¢

TRIMMING FOR ABOVE,

 

1 doz. No. 1 Sun Burner...... -65 | 5.53
4 doz. No. 2, €s ; -g60 .23
“ doz. 7 in. lum. Trim. Geos -88
6.74

Packages at Cost.

 

 

This Decorated Base
Parlor Lamp is packed
with twelve assorted Por-
celain Bases and new
shape founts in a barrel,
at the following prices:

NO. 43.
Assortment Decor, Parlor Lamps

 

Containing
12 Lamps Pore. Center.......... Net 5.00
Trimmings
12 7 in. Illum. and Shade, complete. 3.50
8.50

The following package
is the cheapest assort-
ment of Glass Lamps we
can get together, and are
just the kind needed in
every store. They can be
retailed from 18 cts. to 50
cts. per Lamp complete,

and if ordered with other
packages named would

give a very complete as-
(.| sortment with very smail
investment.

NO. 46 PACKAGE
Ass’ Com. Flint Glass Lamps.

 

 

Containing

1g doz. 171 A Size Lamp....... I.co 50
1g doz. 171 BSize Lamp........ 1.40 70
1g doz. 191 A Size Lamp....... I.IO +55
4g doz..191 BSize Lamp........ 1.50 75
1g doz. 191 C Size Lamp........ 2.25 1.13
4g doz. 191 D Size...........-:- 2.75 1.38
1g doz. 155 B Size...........--- 1.75 .88
1g doz. 7oo Hand Lamps....... 80 .40
1 doz. 7oz Hand Lamps........ .80
1g doz. 85 Hand Lamps footed. .1.35 -68
7°77

Less ro per cent. “77
7.00

Burners for above.

414 doz. No. 1 Sun..........+-- 65 2.93
1 doz. No. o Sun............--- 60 .60

 

10.53

 

 

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

Package at Cost.

LAMP GOODS FOR 1880

FOR SAIB BY

DNARD & SONS

 

LIBRARY LAMPS,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our line of ‘ihesoi is now
leoenplate for 1885 at

‘prices from $1.25 to $8
.each.
appli cation.

Tiiustrated list on

Iron Library Lamps.

| French Bronze, complete, each... .. 1.75
ony and Goid, gee 2.00
man Lan ne
“Hil Gold Lipral HN
| No. "aes Complete ...........- each 2.60
| | No. Eqgyea  *S shown in the
above Hiustration......./...... 4.00
No. 138014 Globe Shape Bowl and
5-50

prisms as shown above........

 

The 2 Tub War.

 

The only Genuine, per doz 8.50
Tubular Globes (in barre ate! 60 cts.
men G7). 25... 1... 5... es -- 75
UTHETS:
No. 0 Sum! any kind... ...........<. .60
No. © Suo, any kind. .........-....- -65
Ne. 2 Sunvany kind. ............... -g9o
&
Oil Cans.

‘The Empress, }¢ Gal. ............-- 3.00
ss Se £ Gal. 3. 5... 4.00
Good Enough, 5 Gal..............< 15.00
Lamp Chimneys.
No. o Annealed Sun Crimp.......... 28
No. r fe es fe ee ss ee 30
No. 2 ue es MO oa es oe +42
INo. 2 Peader... 2 2... 5... -80
No. t Atpand..... 52. 2... 2.0 es +35
No. © Decorated C, Top.......-....- 1.00
No. 2 ss Oe oes oe wee 1.25

THE NEW SUN

Hlectric Light Fouts.

Home, Brass, with Chimney...doz 12.00
 ReGold;. © .....:. So 84.50
“ Nickle, (eS ‘¢  ¥3.50

This is the best thing
out for 1885. Will fit any
hanging fixture at one-
half the cost of those we
sold last year. Send for

 

Sample.