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A Story ofthe Michigan North Woods. “Well sir,” said old Peter, out on the porch with his pipe, came here to go fishin’?” Peter Gruse was the owner of the farm- house where I had arrived that day just be- fore supper time. He was a short, strong- built old man, with a pair of pretty daugh- ters, and little gold rings in his ears. Two things distinguished him from the farmers in the country round about: one was the rings in his ears, and the other was the large and comfortable house in which he kept his pretty daughters. The other far- mers in that region had fine large barns for their cattle and horses, but very poor houses for their daughters. Old Peter’s earrings were indirectly connected with his house. He had not always lived in North- ern Michigan. He had been on the sea, where his ears wére decorated, and he had traveled a good deal on land, where he had ornamented his mind with many ideas which were not in general use in the part of the State in which he lived. This house stood a little back from the high road, and if a traveler wished to be entertained, Peter vas generally willing to take him in, pro- vided he had left his wife and family at home. The old man himself had no ob- jection to wives and children, but his two preity daughters had. ‘hese two young women had waited on their father and myself at supper time, one continually bringing hot griddle cakes, and the other one giving me every opportunity to test the relative merits of the seven differ- ent kinds of preserves, which, in little glass plates, covered the unoccupied spaces on the table-cloth. The latter, when she found that there was no further possible way of serving us, presumed to sit down at the cor- ner of the table, and begin her supper. But in spite of this apparent humility, which was only a custom of the country, there was that in the general air of the pretty daugh- ters, which left no doubt in the mind of the intelligent observer, that they stood at the wheel in that house. There was a son of fourteen, who sat at table with us, but he did not appear to count as a member of the family. “Yes,” I answered, ‘‘f understood that there was good fishing hereabouts, and, at any rate, I should like to spend a few days among these lakes and streams.” “Well,” said Peter, ‘‘there’s trout in some of our streams, though not as many as there used to be, and there’s lakes a plenty, if you choose to walk fur enough. They’re a good deal furder off than they look. What did you bring with you to fish with?” “Nothing at all,” I answered. ‘I was told in the town that you were a great fisn- erman, and that you could let me have all the tackle I would need.” as he came “so you “Upon my word,” said old Peter, resting his pipe-hand on. his knee and looking steadfastly at me, ‘‘you’re the queerest fish- erman D’ve seed yet. Nigh every year, some two or three of ’em stop here in the fishin’ season, and there was never a man who didn’t bring his jinted pole, and his reels, and his lines, and his hooks, and his dry-good flies, and his whisky-flask with a long strap to it. Now, if you want all these things, I haven’t got ’em.” “Whatever you use yourself will suit me,” I answered. “Allright then,” saidhe. “VU best I can for youin the mornin’. But it’s plain enough to me that you’re not a game fisherman or you wouldn’t come here with- out your tools.” To this remark I made answer to the ef- fect, that though I was very fond of fishing, my pleasure in it did not depend upon the possession of all the appliances of profes- sional sport. “Perhaps you think,” said the old man, ‘from the way I spoke, that I don’t believe them fellers with the jinted poles can keteh fish, but that ain’t so. That old story about the little boy with the pin-hook who Ketched all the fish, while the gentleman with the modern improvements, who stood alongside of him, kep’ throwin’ out his beautiful flies and never got nothin’ is a pure lie. The fancy chaps, who must have ev’rythin’ jist so, gen’rally gits fish. But for all that I don’t like their way of fishin’, and IJ take no stock in it myself. Ive been fishin’, on and off, ever since I was a little boy, and l’ve caught nigh every kind there is, from the big jew-fish and cavalyoes down South, to the trout and minnies round about here. But when I ketch a fish, the first thing I do is to try to git him on the hook, and the next thing is to git him out of the water jist as soon as I kin. I don’t put in no time worryin’ him. There’s only two animals in the world that likes to worry smaller creeturs a good while afore they kill ?em; one is the cat, and the other is what they call the game fisherman. This kind of a feller never goes after no fish that don’t mind being ketched. He goes fur them kinds that loves their home in the do the water and hates most to leave it, and he makes it jist as hard for ’em-as he kin. What the game fisher likes is the smallest kind of a hook, the thinnest line, and a fish that it takes a good while to weaken. The longer the weak’nin’ business kin be spun | smal! boys in scanty shirts and trousers, and out, the more the sport. the fish think there’s a chance fur him to gitaway. That’s jist like the eat with her mouse. She lets the little creetur hop off, but the minnit he gits fur enough down, she jabs on him with her claws, and then, if there’s any game left in him, she lets him try agen. Of course the game fisher could have a strong line and a stout pole and git his fish in a good sight quicker, if he want- ed to, but that wouldn’t be sport. He couldn’t give him the butt and spin him out, and reel him in, and let him jump and run till his pluck is clean worn out. Now, Llikes to git my fish ashore with all the pluck in’em. It makes ’em taste better. Andas fur fun, ’U be bound T’ve had jist as much of that, and more too, than most of these fellers who are so dreadful anxious to have everythin’ jist right, and think they can’t go fishin’ till they’ve spent enough money to buy a suit of Sunday clothes. As a gen’ral rule they’re a solemn lot, and work pretty hard at their fun. When I work I want to be paid fur it, and when I go in fur fun I want to take it easy and comfortable. Now LI wouldn’t say so much agen these fellers,” said old Peter, as he arose and put his empty pipe on a little shelf under the porch- roof, “‘if it wasn’t for one thing, and that is, that they think that their kind of fishin’ is the only kind worth considerin’. The way they look down upon plain, Christian fishin’ is enough to rile a eo I don’t want to say nothin’ agen no man’s way of attendim’ to his own afiairs, whether it’s kitchen gardenin’, or whether its fishin’, if he says nothin’ agen my way, but when he looks down on me, and grins me, I want to haul myself up, and grin him, if I kin. I s’pose the house-cat and the cat-fisher (by which I don’t mean the man who fishes for eat-fish) was both made as they is, and they can’t help it; but that don’t give ’im no right to put on airs before other bein’s, who gits their meat with a square kill. Good- night. And sence I’ve talked so much about it, ’ve a mind to go fishin’ with you to-morrow myself.” The next morning found old Peter of the same mind, and after breakfast he proceed- ed to fit me out for a day of what he called “plain, Christian, trout-fishin’.” He gave me.a reed rod, about nine feet long, light, strong and nicely balanced. The tackle he produced was not of the fancy order, but his lines were of fine, strong linen, and _ his hooks were of good shape, clean and sharp and snooded to the lines with a neatness that indicated the hand of a man who had been where he learned to wear little gold rings in his ears. ‘‘Here are some of these feather insects,” he said, ‘“‘which you kin take along if you like.” And he handed me a paper contain- ing a few artificial flies. ‘‘They’re pretty nat’ral,” he said, ‘‘and the hooks is good. A man who came here fishin’ gave ’em to me, but I shan’t want ’em to-day. At this time of year grasshoppers is the best bait in the kind of place where we’re goin’ to fish. The stream, after it comes down from the ey runs through half a mile of medder land before it strikes into the woods agen. A grasshopper is a little creetur that’s got as much conceit as if his jinted legs was fish-poles, and he thinks he can jump over this narrer run of water whenever he pleases, but he don’t always do it, and them of him that don’t git snapped up by the trout that lie along the banks in the medder is floated along into the woods, where there’s always fish enough to come to the second table.” Having got me ready, Peter took his own particular pole, which he assured me he had used for eleven years, and hooking on his left arm a good-sized basket, which his elder pretty daughter had packed with cold meat, bread, butter, and preserves, we start- ed forth for a three-mile walk to the fishing- ground. The day was a favorable one for our purpose, the sky being sometimes over- clouded. Not far from the spot where old Peter proposed to begin our sport, a small frame-house stood by the roadside, and here the old man halted and entered the open door without knocking or giving so much as a premonitory stamp. I followed, imitating my companion in leaving my pole outside, which appeared to be the only ceremony that the etiquette of those parts required of visitors. In the room we entered, a small man in his shirt sleeves sat mending a bas- ket handle. He nodded to Peter, and Peter nodded to him. ‘We've come up a fishin’,” said the old I man. ‘‘Kin your boys give us some grass- hoppers?” “ft don’t know that they’ve got any ready ketched,” said he, ‘‘for I reckon I used what they had this mornin’, But they kin git yousome. Here, Dan, and you Sile go and ketch Mister Gruse and this young man some grasshoppers. ‘Take that mustard-box and see that you get it full.” Peter and I now took seats, and the con- versation began about a black cow, which Peter had to sell, and which the other was willing to buy if the old man would trade for sheep, which animals, however, the basket-mender did not appear just at that time to have in his possession. As I was not very much interested in this subject, I walked to the back door and watched two The idee is to let Ls ragged straw hats, who were darting about in the grass catching grasshoppers, of which insects, judging by the frequent pounces of the boys, there seemed a plentiful supply. “Got it full?” said their father, when the boys came in. “Crammed,” said Dan. — Old Peter took the little can, pressed the top firmly on, put it in his ecoat-tail pocket, and rose to go. ‘‘You’d better think about that cow, Barney,” saidhe. He said noth- ing to the boys about the box of bait; but I could notlet them catch grasshoppers for us for nothing, and I tookadime from my pocket, and gave it to Dan. Dan grinned, and Sile looked sheepishly happy, and at the sight of the piece of silver an expression of interest came over the face of the father. “Wait a minute,” said he, and he went into a little room that seemed to be a kitch- en. Returning, he brought with him a small string of trout. ‘Do you want to buy some fish?” he said. ‘These is nice fresh ones. ketched ’em this mornin’.” To offer to sell fish to a man who is just about to go out to catch them for himself, might, inmost cases, be considered an in- sult, but it was quite evident that nothing of the kind was intended by Barney. He probably thought that if I bought grasshop- pers, I might buy fish. ‘‘You kin have ’em for a quarter,” he said. It was derogatory to my pride to buy fish at such a moment, but the man looked very poor and there was a shade of anxiety on his face which touched me. Old Peter stood by, without saying a word. ‘It might be well,” I said, turning to him, ‘‘to these fish, for we may not eatch enough supper.” ‘Such things do happen,” an. “Well,” said I, ‘If we have these we will feel safe in any case.” And I took the fish and gave the man a quarter. It was not, perhaps, a professional act, but the trout were well worth the money, and I felt that I was doing a deed of charity. Old Peter and I now took our rods, and ‘crossed the road into an enclosed lot, and thence into a wide stretch of grass land, bounded by hills in front of us, and to the right, while a thick forest lay to the left. We had walked but a short distance, when Peter said: ‘VL go down into the woods, and try my luck there, and you’d better go along up stream, about a quarter of a mile to where its rocky. P’raps you ain’t used to fishin’ in the woods, and you might git your line cotched. You'll find the trout 711 bite in the rough water.” ‘*Where is the stream?” I asked. “This is it,” he said, pointing to a little brook, which was seareely too wide for me to step across, ‘‘and there’s fish right here, but they’re hard to keteh, fur they git plenty of good livin’ and are mighty sassy about their eatin’. But you kin ketch ’em up there.” Old Peter now went down toward the woods, while I waiked up the little stream. [had seen trout brooks before, but never one so diminutive as this. However, when I came nearer to the point where the stream issued from between two hi lis, I found it wider and shallower, breaking over its rocky bottom in sparkling little sades. : Fishing in such a jolly little stream, with the privileges of the beautiful situation all to myself, would have been a joy to me if I had had nevera bite. But no sueh ill luck befell me. Peter had given me the ean of grasshoppers after putting half of them into his own bait box, and these I used with much success. It was grasshopper season, and the trout were evidently on the lookout for them. I fished in the ripples under the little waterfalls; and every now and then I drew out a lively trout. Most of these were of moderate size, and some of them might have been called small. The large ones probably fancied the forest shades, where old Peter went. But all I caught were fit for the table, and I was very well satisfied with the result of my sport. About an hour after noon I began to feel hungry, and thought it time to look up the old man, who had the lunch basket. I walked down the bank of the brook, and sometime before I reached the woods, I eame to a place where it expanded toa width of about ten feet. The water here was very clear, and the motion quiet, so that I could easily see to the bottom, which did not appear to be more than a foot below the surface. Gazing into this transparent water, as I walked, I saw a large trout glide across the stream, and disappear under the grassy bank which overhung the oppo- site side. J instantly stopped. This was a much larger fish than any I had caught, and I determined to try for him. I stepped back from the bank, so as to be out of sight, and put a fine grasshopper on my hook; then I lay, face downward, on the grass, and worked myself slowly forward, until I could see the middle of the stream; then quietly raising my pole I gave my grasshopper a good swing, asif he had made a wager to jump over the stream at its wid- est part. But as he certainly would have failed in such an ambitious endeavor, espec- ially if he had been caught by a puff of buy 1 for said the old me 2aS- wind, I let him come down upon the surface of the water, a little beyond the middle of the brook. Grasshoppers do not sink when they fall into the water, and soI kept this fellow upon the surface, and gently moved him along, as if, with all the conceit taken out of him by the result of his ill-considered leap, he was ignominiously endeavoring to swim to shore. As I did this, I saw the trout come out from under the bank, move slowly toward the grasshopper and stop di- rectly under him. Trembling with anxiety and eager expectation, I endeavored to make the movements of the insect still more natural, and, as far as I was able, I threw into him a sudden perception of his danger, and a frenzied desire to get away. But, either the trout had had all the grasshoppers he wanted, or he was able, from long expe- rience, to perceive the difference between a natural exhibition of emotion and a histrionie imitation of it, for he slowly turned, ands with a few slight movements of his tail, glided back, under the bank. In vain did the grasshopper continue his frantie efforts to reach the shore; in vain did he oceasion- ally become exhausted, and sink a short distance below the surface; in vain did he do everything that he knew, to show that he appreciated what a juicy and delicious morsel he was, and how he feared that the trout might yet be tempted to seize the fish did not’come out again. Then I withdrew my line, back from the stream. I now determined to try Mr. Trout with a fly, and I took out the paper old Peter Gruse had given me. I did not know exactly what k insects were in order at this time of the year, but I was sure that yellow butterflies were not particular about just what month it was, so long as the sun shone warmly. I therefore chose that one of Peter’s flies which was made of the yellowest feathers, and, removing the snood and hook from my line, I hastily attached this fly, whieh was provided with a hook quite suitable for my desired prize. Crouching on the grass, I again approached the brook. Gaily flitting above the glassy surface of the water, in all the fancied security of tender youth and in- nocence came my yellow fly. Backy him; and moved ind of winged var and forward over the water he gracefully flew, sometimes rising a little into the air, and then settling for a moment close to the surface, to better inspect glittering im- age as it came up from below, and showing in his every movement his intense enjoy- ment of summer time and life. his Out from his dark retreat now came the trout, and settling quietly at the bottom of the brook, he appeared te regard the ven- turesome insect with a certain interest’ But he must have detected the iron barb of vice beneath the mask of blithful innocence, for after, a short deliberation, the trout turned and disappeared under the bank. As he slowly moved away he seemed to be bigger than ever. I must catch that fish! Surely he would bite at something. It was quite evident that his mind was not wholly unsusceptible to emotions emanating from an awakening appetite, and I believed that if he saw exactly what he wanted, he would not neglect an opportunity of availing him- self of it. But what did he want? I must certainly find out. Drawing myself back again, I took off the yellow fly, and put on another. This was a white one, with black blotches, like a big miller moth which had fallen into an ink-pot. It was certainly a conspicuous creature, and as I erept ward and sent it swooping over the stream I could not see how any trout, with a single insectivorous tooth in his head, could fail to rise to such an occasion. But this trout did not rise. He would not even come out from under his bank to look at the swiftly flitting creature. He probably could see it well enough from where he was. tor- But I was not co be discouraged. I put on another fly; a green one with a red tail. It did not look like any insect that I had ever seen, but I thought that the trom might know more about such things than I. He did come out to look at it, but probably considering it a product of that modern estheticism which sacrifices nat- ural beauty to mediveval crudeness of color and form, he retired without evincing any disposition to countenance this style of art. It was evident that it would be useless to put on any other flies, for thé two I had left werea good deal bedraggled, and not nearly so attractive as those I had used. Just before leaving the house that morning Peter’s son had given me a@ wooden match- box, filled with worms for bait, which, al- though I did not expect to need, I put in my pocket. As a last resort I determined to try the trout with a worm. I selected the plumpest and most comely of the lot; I put a new. hook on my line; I looped him about it in graceful coils; and cautiously approached the water, as before. Now a worm never attempts to wildly leap across a flowing brook, nor does he flit in thought- less innocence through the sunny air, and over the bright transparent stream. If he happens to fall into the water, he sinks to the bottom, and if he be of a kind not sub- ject to drowning, he generally endeavers to secrete himself under a stone, or to burrow (Continued on 7th page.j ag The Michigan Tradesman, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Siate. BE. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1885. 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, e2-officio; O. A. Ball, one year; L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two ears. Aviitention Committee—I. M. Clark, Ben W. Putnam, Joseph Houseman. 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AMONG THE TRADE, IN THE CITY. | John Killean has bought the grocery stock of Killean & Keating, on the corner of East | Bridge and Kent streets. | Cc. C. Cranehas engaged in the grocery | business at Pioneer, Missaukee county. | Cody, Ball & Co. furnished the stock. Chas E. Belknap is getting out seventeen | nine-foot logging carts for Blodgett & Byrne | at Roscommon, and a complement of river tools for a Tennessee lumbering firm. | | Jos. Jackoboise has lately sold his patent | band saws to the Grand Rapids Manufac- | turing Co., Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., | Chase Bros. Piano Co., and the Whitehall Manufacturing Co., of Whitehall. D. C. Dodge, grocer on Butterworth | avenue, gave Cody, Ball & Co. a mortgage | for $215.99 one day last week, and the | latter foreclosed the same simultaneously | with the-recording of the instrument. | L. E. Hawkins’ new brick block is up; and the roof is on. — 0 , Wavel Ty, | a : e E. P. Gifford, Michigan representative for peen making Grand Raplds his headquarters | | for several weeks past, spending a good por- | search of desirable peach shipments. He | has been exceptionally fortunate, having se- | cured some of the best offerings made so far | | this season. | |-Gan.) Peirce |of “Der Drummer.” He carried a couple of _gripsacks over about half of the State last | week, and will cover the other half this | week. /as good for a month as it was last week, Peirce & White will retire from retail trade altogether. — oO ee VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited orders with the various houses: | &.G. Pipp, Gaylord & Pipp, Pierson. Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg. | Walter Struik, Forest Grove. | Henry DekKline, Jamestown. F. C. Stone, F.C. Stone & Son, Cedar Springs. M. A. Potter, Oakfield. W.J. Arnett, Morley. John Giles, Lowell. Ryerson, Hills & Co., Muskegon. S. Cooper, Corinth. Geo. Carrington, Trent. | Cook & Sweet, Bauer. Wm. MeMullen, Wood Lake. B. M. Denison, East Paris. A. D. Ayers, Otia. Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove. C. Bergin, Lowell. Dell Wright, Berlin. W. H. Fletcher, Muskegon. F. B. Kelley, W. R. Dennis & Co., Cadillac. BE. H. Rogers, Park City. L. R. Rogers, Eastport. W.H. Pipp, Pipp Bros.; Kalkaska. | RR. MeKinnon, Hopkins. A. P. Hulbert, Lisbon. Cole & Chaple, Ada. | G.C. Baker, Labarge. | Miss L. Dane, Cedar Springs. | ©. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville. Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland. Den Herder & Tannis, Vriesland. Johnson & Seibert, Caledonia. B. Gilbert & Co., Moline. Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg. Corneil & Griswold, Griswold. Mrs, G. Miller, Ryerson. Geo. 8. Powell & Co., Sand Lake. C. S. Comstock, Pierson. Henry Mishler, Freeport. Jos. H. Spires, Leroy. Jas. Campbell, Westwood. : i J. B. Chapple, Ada. : Jay Marlatt, Berlin. | J. Omier, Wright. | M.J Howard, Englishville. | A.M. Chureh, Alpine, | ©. C. Crane, Pioneer. | ©. W. Jones, Olive Center. | A. B. Foote, Hilliards. ' Norman Harris, Big Springs. Winchester & Loveless, Wyman. Spring & Lindley, Bailey. Paine & Field, Englishville. H. W. Potter, Jennisonville. J.C. Townsend, White Cloud. J. F. Hacker, Corinth. Cc. A. Brock, Canada Corners. A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville. I. J. Quick, Allendale. H. H. Freedman, Reed City. Mr. Williams, Williams & Kerry, Reed City. M. P. Shields, Hilliards. C. G. O'Bryan, Belding. Louis L. Holmes, Belding. Mr. Andre, Andre & Son, Jennisonville. Mr. Bartz, Bartz Bros., North Dorr. O. D. Chapman, Stanwood. Ceaunecey Porter, Chauncey. Cc. H. Deming, Dutton. Mr. McWilliams, McWilliams & Co., Lowell. W.I. Woodruff, Carey. Mr. frace, Frace & Huhn, Suranac. Peter Hansen, Hansen Bros., Morley. John E. Thurkow, Morley. Geo. A. Sage, Rockford. J. B. Watson, Coopersville. J. H. Moores, Moorestown. G. P. Stark, Cascade. an O. Watson, Watson & DeVoist, Coopers- | ville. Neal MeMillan, Rockford. | Tves & McArthur, Rockford. | J.C. Benbow, Cannonsburg. | ©. E. Blakeley, Coopersville. | Blakeley Bros., Fife Lake. Dr. O. S, Holland, Ashland P, O. J.N. Wait, Hudsonville. Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mills. Henry Baar, Grand Haven. Cc. H. Adams, Otsego. John A. Miller, Muskegon. Geo. Garrington, Trent. G. C. Baker, LaBarge. M. M. Robson, Berlin. N. W. Mill, Otsego. Mr. Hessletine, Hesseltine & Son, Casnovia. Carroll & Fisher, Dorr. | FURNITURE BUYERS. Fred. S. Tucker, Peoria, Tl. | J. M. Miller, Fort Wayne, Ind. | Frank Jacobs, Jacobs & McGilvray, Alle- | gheny City, Pa. Mr. Hord, Chester, Pa. ——————_—<—- <0 | The cranberry-growing counties of Wis- | consin are estimated to produce this season about 100,000 barrels, which, at an average Sediee oes The new | arrangement went into effect last Saturday. | and lumberman, has been in the city sever- | al days, placing his lumber cut and replen-_ 2,000,000 of lumber during the season, most- | He controls the cut of the | W. H. Pipp, senior member of the firm of | was in the city last week on his way to Stur- ; gis, where he was married yesterday to Miss | The happy | ‘tion of his time at surrounding towns in| has: concluded to retire | | from the show business and join the ranks | If the jobbing business continues | CATTLE-TAILS. Their Relation to Hair Mattresses—How They are Prepared. A reporter of THe TRADESMAN recently | called at Perkins & Hess’ hide establishment and asked for Mr. Perkins. The urbane | book-keeper informed the inquirer that the | gentleman in question was ‘‘ up-stairs, sell- ing cattle-tails,” and there the reporter found : him superintending the process of counting out several thousand bovine appendages. ‘““ These ‘ switches,’ or ‘ cattle-tails,’as they are more commonly called, aceumulate on our hands faster than you would think they would,” said Mr. Perkins, ‘* but we never have any difficulty in disposing of them. | They are as staple as tallow or sugar, and | go up and down in price about as often as pork or lard. Just now, we are getting | about four cents apiece, but we have realized as high as six cents. The price, of course, | varies with the price of curled hair. We ship to Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New | York and Boston, and the jobbers to whom 'we sell dispose of them to the curled hair factories of those and other cities.” With a view to learning more concerning | the manner in which the hair is prepared | for market, the reporter accosted the buyer of the switches at his hotel, and made known his wants. “*T’ve been through every branch of the | business,” said the gentleman, ‘‘and under- stand the process as thoroughly as you do | the art of printing. Cattle-tails have to go | through several preliminary processes be- ' fore reaching a stage fit for use in mattresses. As the hair comes in the original packages it is not cut from the tails, and these, be- | sides being apparently hopelessly etnangled To ‘remove this, the tails are thrown into a huge | with burrs, contain a good deal of filth. | cireular tank, into which a stream of water | is turned; the attendant pulls a lever, and a | great conical roller turns round and round in the tank, pressing beneath it the tails, which are constantly upturned and exposed afresh to the roller’s action by a rake which follows. After afew minutes washing in | this laundry, the water flowing through and earrying away the impurities, the tails are removed and placed upon frames to dry, | whence they are taken to the combing machine. “Yo the unsophisticated observer it | seems as though all the combs made from the horns of all the cattle ever slaughtered would not suffice to comb the burrs out of their tails—and probably they would not —but here is a simple machine that proves itself a most expert and expeditious barber, for in the fraction of a minute it transforms the burriest and most tangled of tails into hirsute appendages of the utmost _respectability, smooth, straight and innocent of burrs. It is a simple cylinder, with | cross-slats, eovered with a casing, the inner | surface of which is likewise slatted. The ' burry end of the tail is inserted in a narrow , Opening, the operator keeping a grasp upon | | it, the eylinder revolves, and the burrs and ‘tangles fly out from the opposite side in a shower. “Waving been washed and combed, the “next process is shearing. Seated before a -mountain of tails of all sorts and colors, are a number of very youthful workers, each of whom, armed with a pair of sheep-shears, deftly and rapidly clips the hair from the stump, the latter being reserved for the use of the glue maker. Having passed through ‘these preliminary stages, the hair is graded | by length, color, and hardness. “Tt is now necessary to assort the hair into lengths, of which the longest is much too valuable for bedding or upholstering purposes, serving the choicer end of the ‘hair-cloth weaver, who must have un- broken hairs, of from twenty to thirty inches in length. The comparative rarity of the greater lengths causes a much higher comparative value to attach to them, which _is thereason why the wide hair-cloth com- | mands an apparently disproportionate high _ price compared with the narrow widths. _ After the grading, the operator takes a | bunch of hair of the desired grade, dips it _in water to render it tractable, and then draws it through a steel comb fixed to the table, until it is perfectly straight and /smooth and the fibers are all parallel. After being dried and submitted to a final combing or ‘dry-hackling,’ it is ready for the ‘drawers,’ the girls who assort it into lengths, each of whom places a pile of the | combed hair before her with a small weight to hold it in position, and seizing the pro- jecting ends of the hairs, a few at a time, between a small knife-blade and the thumb, ‘draws’ them from the pile and adjusts the upper ends evenly within the grasp of the left hand. This process is continued until the entire pile has been ‘drawn’ and re- arranged with one end of the hairs laid evenly. The pile is then placed in a gauge, from which the hairs above the required lenght project and are ‘drawn’ by the operator, the shorter hairs remaining within the gauge. After the longest hairs have thus been separated the next lengths are ‘drawn,’ until all available for the weavers’ use have been taken, when the shorter hairs remaining—those under twenty inches—are used for making curled hair of the grade ralled ‘drawings,’ which takes its name from having gone through the process de- seribed above. Here the hair ends its so- journ in the cleaning and sorting depart- ment, and having gone through an extended washing and combing, is now ready for the spinning-mill, where it is to complete its toilet by being ‘curled.’ ‘‘Sometimes it is necessary to give certain kinds of raw material a more effective bath than the washing I speak of, and such of $5 per barrel, will aggregate $500,000, stock goes into this tank, where it is boiled for an hour or two in a weak solution of acid. Thiseffectually disposes of any del- eterious animal matter that may be cling- ing to the hair, and renders it perfectly pure. Caitle-hair seldom requires this treatment, but hog-hair, being scraped from the animal, must have the impurities removed. “The South American hair is pretty elean, particularly the horse-hair, but we always treat cattle-hair with a solution of soda-ash, in which we let it soak for a while to cleanse it and remove the smell. ‘Reaching the spinning-mill, the hair is passed through a picking, or mixing ma- chine, by which it is properly prepared for the spinners. Upon the proper spinning of the hair much depends. When properly spun and picked, it isa perfect spiral spring, full of elasticity and life, and to these qual- ities is due its value as bedding and uphoster- ing material. Improper picking or spinning will greatly impair these qualities, and as a result the hair will soon ‘pack’? when in use. To secure a perfect spiral or curl, the hair must go endwise into the rope, and be fed smoothly and evenly—matters requiring con- siderable skill. The spining-walks in an ordinary factory are one hundred feet long, and down these walks the operators proceed backward, feeding the growing rope from a bag of hair suspended in front of them, the twist being given by a rapidly revolving spindle, to which the further end of the rope is attached. When the required length of rope has been spun, it is attached to a more rapidly revolving spindle, which twists it into the tight spiral familiar to the trade, taking up two fifths of the length in the operation. “To ‘set? the curl, the ropes, after being twined together into shorter lengths, are put mto steam-chests and boiled for a couple of hours, when they are removed and go through a final process of purification— enough, it should seem, to satisfy the scru- ples of the most conscientious Mussulman. In this final process the hair coils are placed in a tight room, where they are exposed for ten hours to an atmosphere of chlorine powerful disinfectant, which effeet- ually dispels any animal odor or impurities that may have survived the repeated beat- ings, washings, boilings and acid treatment to which the hairhas previously been sub- jected. After being subjected to the action of the chlorine of gas, the hair is hung in gas, a the open air for some time to remove the | fumes of the chemicals. It is then removed to the packing-room, where it is untwisted, | hand-picked. by girls, and finally run through ia earding machine, which cpens the mass- | es of hair evenly and without stretching or | breaking the curl. . As it comes from the | carding machine the manufacturing process | is completed, and the hair is packed in the sacks in which it reaches the consumer. “The fine white, black and gray drawings are used for the best mattresses, the medium | qualities for upholstering furniture of every description, and the short qualities for cheap mattressess, chureh eushions, carriages ete. The trade is very peculiar. In some sections the demand is for whitehair only, in others black dfawings are all the go, elsewhere gray alone wanted. Some want hard hair, others soft, so manufactur- ers make an endless variety to suit all.” << —-2--S—— - ~ is Another Paper House Contemplated. The West Michigan Oil Co. has secured the refusal of the double store now occupied Hawkins & Perry, and as soon as the latter remove to the new Hawkins block, will probably oecupy the premises with a com- plete stock of paper, twines, and everything comprised ina jobbing paper house. The company has not fully concluded to embark in the paper trade, but assert that there is strong probability of sucha move. In case ithe project is not carried into effect, the company will oceupy a suit of offices in the second floor of the Hawkins block. ————————@7 2 <.__ Miner, the hatter, has received something absolutely new in the shape of a hat—new in style, shape and general appearance— which is bound to have a large sale among the traveling men. It is a stiff hat, made of felt, with square crown, and is to be had in two colors, black and brown. The crown is made in two heights, 514 and 51¢ inches, and everyone who has seen the hat has planked down four bills and marched away with the satisfaction of having secured the most tni- que hat of the age. OYSTERS! State Agency for Wm. L. Ellis & Co.’s BMA MN ID BALTIMORE OYSTERS Onand after Sept. Ist., we will be prepared to fill all orders for this well-known brand of Oysters, canned fresh at the packing-house in Baltimore. No slack-filled or water-soaked goods handled. B. F. Emery will attend to the orders for Baltimore shipment as usual. Spec- ial Express and Freight rates to all railroad towns in Michigan. We have exclusive con- trol York River Brand. COLE & EMERY, Wholesale Fish and Oyster Depot, 37 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Ce oe = wy -&> Drugs & Medicines STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City. Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. President—Ottmar Eberbach. Secretary—Jacob Jesson. Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. Next place of meeting—At Detroit, November 3, 1885. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associati tion, OFFICERS. President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix. First Vice-Pr esident—G eo. 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—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—H. J. Brown, A. B. Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W. Fincher. Next place of meeting—At Detroit, October 13, 1885. Tuesday, Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884. OFFICERS. President—Frank J. Wurzburg. Vice-President—Wm. L. White. Seer etary—¥ rank H. Escott. Treasurer—tlenry B. Fairchild. Board of Cernsors— President, and Secretary. Board of Trustees—The President, Wm, H. Van Leeuwen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White, Win. L. White. Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum, M. B. Kimm, A. C. Bauer. Committee on Legislation—Is: aae Watts, O. H. Richmond, Jas. 8. Cowin. Committee on Trade Matters—H. B. Fairchild, John Peck, Wim. H. VanLeeuwen. Regular Mectings—F irst Thursday evening in each month. Annual Meetings—Fir st Thursday evening in November, Next Meeting—Thur sday evening, September 3, at “The Tradesman” office. Vice-President Woman’s Wiles. A salesman in one of the large dry goods stores the other day, says the Boston Trans- cript, picked up a worn out, empty pocket- book, and thought he would have a little fun vith it. He therefore placed it on the coun- ter, half concealed by the goods lying there- on. Presently a lady shopper enters. Her eyes light upon fhat wallet as by instinct, and while pricing half a score of articles she endeayers to cover it, quite artlessly, of course, with her handkerchief, then with her satchel, and again with her parasol, but the salesman, without appearing to notice her actions, each time removes it out of dan- ger and into the light. Finally she adopts new tacties, and picks it up with the remark: “Somebody’s left a pocket-book.” ‘‘Yes!” replies the clerk interrogatively, “thank you.” And he takes the leather and disappears with it for a moment. Upon his return the lady asks with a slight show of interest: “Was there much in it?” “Only $3,” replies the salesman carelessly, and with the ease of one who has been used to lying all his life. “And who will get asks the lady. “The firm,” sponse. The lady goes out. In ten or fifteen min- utes a boy comes in and asks: “Was a bocket-book with $3 in it found here this morning?” “Yes,” replies the salesman, been called for.” The boy says ‘‘Oh!”’ Salesman smiles audibly. ———_—_—__—_< > -9- 4+ 2 The Drug Market. The volume of business is satisfactory in every respect, and collections are in excel- lent shape. The staples are unusually steady, there having been no changes of importance during the week. Saleswomen Preferred. re- THE LOUNGER. My friend Meigs tells me that he proposes to take possession of his new quarters in the Watson-Heald block, on South Division street, about the middle of next week. The change in location will enable the redoubt- able jobber an opportunity to display and arrange his stock to better advantage, and will reduce the labor and expense of hand- ling and shipping toaminimum. ‘The near- ness of the new location to the principal freight depots will also be an advantage by decreasing the usual eartage distance. * ” * Another project on which Meigs has set his heart, is the inauguration of a first-class retail grocery establishment in the two cor- ner stores of the same block in which his jobbing department will be located. Arches have been cut in the wall between the two stores, and a system of shelving and counters adopted which will be superior, as regards both ornament and utility, to anything of the kind ever seen in this vicinity. The stock will include a line of fine goods not carried by any other retail store in the city, and the motto of the establishment will be ‘* Retail goods at wholesale prices.” * * * Just what effect—if any—the starting of a retail store will have on Meigs’ jobbing trade, I am anxious tolearn. Of course, such a move will cost him the loss of most of his city trade, but I understand that he does not care much for that branch of the business anyway, having not:-worked it with any great degree of success in the past. Whether the matter will affect his outside trade remains to be seen. S * * I am not much of an enthusiast, as the readers of THE TRADESMAN Will bear tes- timony, but Iam willing to put myself on record with the assertion that business has touched bottom, and that the financial ten- dency is now on the ascending scale. This is especially noticeable in the great staples, luinber, iron and wool, besides a decided firmness in a larga number of less important articles. The improvement in lumber is in- dicated by the dignified bearing of the prin- cipal operators, who exhibit none of the anxiety to sell which characterized their movements a few weeks ago. Iron is look- ing up, in both price and demand, and steel rails are on the verge of a sharp advance. Wool is firmer than it has been for months, in consequence of which the yarn manufac- turers announce an advance of 5 per cent. These facts, coupled with others equally as cogent, are sufficient to satisfy even the most skeptical that the turning point was passed weeks ago, and that before another year has elapsed, we shall be in the midst of prosper- ous times. ———_>¢ <=> Splendid Crops in the South. The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record gives nearly five pages to special reports showing that the South will, this year, make the largest crops ever produced in that sec- tion and at the lowest cost. The corn crop, which is now safe, is reported ‘‘to be the best for many years,” ‘“‘best for twenty years,” “best ever known,” ete., and it is believed that the aggregate yield will be 50,000,000 bushels more than last year. In South Caro- lina an increase of 4,000,000 bushels is count- ed on, while in Georgia the State Agricul- ural Department estimates an increase of 9,000,000 bushels over 1884 and 15,000,000 over 1883, while the reports are equally flat- tering from other States. While the cotton crop is still liable to be damaged it is believed that this year’s will be the largest erop ever produced. The average is better than ever before and the present condition of the crop more favorable than at the corresponding time in past years. In tobacco, frutts and vegetables the prospects are that the crops will be very large, while rice promises a big yield and sugar a much more profitable crop than last year. From an agricultural point of view the prospects of the South could hardly be better. In trade and manufac- tures there is already a decided change for the better, and the outlook is promising for great activity in trade this fall and win- ter. 4 —— ee ee Joking the Druggists. From the New York Sun. Towa druggists make monthly reports of liquor sales. Great numbers of invalids who’ doctor themselves seem to be under daily aleoholic treatment. For instance, a small dealer in Muscatine, where all the san- itary conditions are favorable, finds that it takes 51 feet of paper to enumerate his sales fora month. He sold as medecine 152 bar- rels of beer, eighty-nine gallons of whisky, nineteen of gin, seven of alcohol, and three of brandy. a 8 Good Words Unsolicited. J. P. Gilman, hardware, Breedsville: ‘I like the paper.”’ H. D. Werkman, grocer, Holland: ‘Must have your paper. Can’t do without it.’ Harrison & Murphy, grocers, Bangor: ‘We are highly pleased with THE TRADESMAN.” A. T. Miller & Co., druggists, Chippewa Lake: “THE TRADESMAN always contains much good and valuable information.” * W. I. Woodruff, grocer, Copley: ‘I shall continue to take your paper, as I find good points in THE TRADESMAN, useful information, ete.”’ CN ee Some of the Pontiac ladies have become so indignant at the frauds and impositions prac- ticed upon them by baking powder agents that they are canvasing the city, going from house to house to give other ladies the bene- fit of their experience. California papers complain that the Chi- nese destroy the sugar pine in certain inter- ior counties ina shameful manner. They fell the trees for making ‘‘shakes,” but if they fail to split well at the butt, are aban- doned and left to rot on the ground. OUT AROUND. News and Gossip Furnished by Our Own Correspondents. Charlevoix. Aug. 22—Work will be commenced on Hon. E. H. Green’s brick store building next week. Brown & Co.’s new brick building is nearly completed. The Bank of Charlevoix will oc- cupy the lower room. The Jronton Furnace has resumed work. Muskegon. Aug. 22—J.H. Smith has purchased the John LeClere grocery stock, on First street, and will continue the business for the present at the old stand. John Bither has purchased the Fletcher fruit bazaar. Eames & Massey, merchant tailors, have dis- solved partnership and gone out of business. Hersey. Aug. 24—The shingle mill property of Beardsley & Davis, of Cedar township, has changed hands, and will hereafter be operated by Will L. Beardsley, of Hersey, The mill has timber for two years. Hall & Manning, of Hersey, are rigging up their lumber mill at this place, and intend run- ningia planer in connection therewith. They are practical mill men and do good work. Their cut is pine, hemlock, maple, basswood and black birch. There is an excellent opening near Hersey for some mill out of timber to manufacture lumber and shingles. Luther. Aug. 24—The drop curtain for Bellamy’s Opera House arrived Saturday and was put in position. Itisaneat curtain, and when the stage is completed it will be a fine thing for Luther. Wilson, Luther & Wilson’s saw mill cut 605,- 000 feet of lumber in less than six days last week. Whereis the mill in Michigan with only two single saws that can do as well? Frank Fletcher will soon open a grocery store in the vacant store in the Sabin House. Mr. Johnson, of Chicago, has bought the stock of the defunct Luther Lance, and will commence publishing the paper about Sept. 1. Big Rapids. Aug. 24—The Comstock block, which has long been undergoing repairs, is to be veneered with brick. The interior is being arranged in neat salesrooms and offices, which undoubted- ly will be occupied as soon as completed. Mr. Hullinger, who lately sold his drug stock to Ward Falk, is en route for the Pacific States. He is accompanied by his wife, while his son, who was lately engaged in business with him, isin the employ of his successor here. Lawyer John B. Upton contemplates leaving Big Rapids to engage in his profession at Min- neapolis. Mr. Upton is an honorable man, and a successful lawyer. His family is prominent in the best society of the place. The brick work of the Mecosta county court house is completed to the second story. T. N. Colvin returned to Big Rapids on the 23d inst., being called by the sickness of his child. St. Ignace. Aug. 21—Articles appear in your valuable paper from almost every part of this great State, but very little is said or seen in your columns about St. Ignace or Mackinaw county. This will be a seasonable reminder that we are pulling through the hard times quietly, but surely. Aithough business is nothing to crow about, we have every prospect of a good fall trade. Our streets are well sprinkled with resorters, filing up our ample holel accommodations, whilst on Mackinac Island the public and pri- vate houses are crowded. Canadians come over to see us in large (and every year larger) numbers—a sure sign that we treat them kindly. Excursionstoandfrom all points are of almost daily ceceurrence. We had a big one to Marauette last Sunday, six coaches crowded, and two or three more should have been added. Fully 790 exchanged greetings with the great mining end of our line. Shelby. Aug. 22—The chief manufacturing industry of Shelby is the burning of charcoal. Just north of the village there are eleven eighty- cord kilns of the square pattern, which since January 1, have turned out 289,150 bushels of coal, and have consumed 7,228% cords of beech and maple wood. Cn an average, 12 cars of coal, of about 1,000 bushels to the ear, are ship- ped to Fruitport, where is located the blast furnace. The pay-roll for Shelby and Hart is about $5,000 per month and about 125 men are employed. D.H. Rankin, the proprietor, is a man of few words, but he thoroughly under- stands his business. Between Shelby and New Era there are ten kilns of the bee hive pattern, which, since Jan. 1 have consumed 5,109 cords of beech and ma- ple wood, producing 186,375 bushels of coal. These kilns are managed for the Spring Lake Tron Co. by Duncan L. Rankin, who in con- nection with these has in two or three months past shipped twenty-four cars of hemlock bark and the sales of his general store here averaged $1,200 per month. J. Halstead has resumed business in his own name and intends to make things hum again in his wagon works. He has the good wishes of our citizens. Walter H. Churchill, our post-master, super- |. visor and banker, and one of our oldest citi- zens, talks of spending the winter in Colorado, for the improvement of his health. Our dealers all look for a good fall trade. The New Era Lumber Co.’s mill is turning out, on an average, 45,000 feet of lumber per day. Wheeler Bros. and G. W. Marsh have a car of hand picked beans ready to be shipped. They will look for a market for them in the South. Wheeler Bros. have also shipped a car of hard wood lumber to W. F. Simmons, of Grand Rapids. Our traders are daily receiving winter clothing. Kelley & Reed have opened a livery stable, which is the second in town. Thereis a manin town whois so crooked in his dealings that when he has the money in his pocket and intends to pay a creditor, he goes into a back room and turns around three or four times, comes back, and says he has bor- rowed the money from a friend. The Pullman & Hinchman matter was closed up at the last term of court at Hart, and a div- idend of 21% cents was declared in full settle- ment. This firm began the manufacture of broom handles more than a year ago. They had got under way buta little time, when their mill blew up. They began again, but soon had stocks of to make an assignment to W. H. Churchill, owing heavily their employees and the traders of Shelby, especially the Wheeler Bros. and A. G. Avery. The fdilure was a bad one, and was settled,as stated above. Mr. Pullman is now in Arkansas. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, Be ce Ngee cane ge bergamont, white mustard | seed Declined—Carbolie acid, oil spearmint, oil | peppermint, oil pennyroyal, oil rose, pink root, serpentaria, seneka root. ACIDS Meotice, NO: 85.06 oe 9 @ 10 Acctic, ©. P. (Sp. eray. 1.040)... -. 380 @ 3d Canbolic, 662 ee, 34 @ 36 CUBIC es, 60 @ 65 Mumriatie 18 dee. 2... 6.... 62.0... 3:.@ 5 INEERIG BOGOR 6.0 or oe sels cas . tt @ 2 Oxwale 3) 20. 122 @ 4 Sulphuric 66dee.....-...-.. 00.2... 83 @ 4 Tartaric powdered................ 52 @ 55 Benzoiec, English........:.... 2 OZ 18 Benzoic, German.................. 12 @ 1 TAMING (0.00 a ee ee 12 @ 15 AMMONIA, Carbonate...........-.-.--..-- gb 1 @ 18 Muriate (Powd. 22¢)..............-- 14 Aqua iG degor af... .............. 5 @ 6 Aqua 18 deg or 4£.3..5..2...2..-..- 6 @ BALSAMS. ee eae ee esis isc cine 40@45 TE es ees cccce wees « 40 IOLU oe ee 2 00 ROW oe ee 50 BARKS. Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ i @inchona: yellow. .-......2......- 18 Elm select. ..:03.....-2:...5.....; 13 Him, ground, pure......:...:...... 14 Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15 Sassairas, Of root...............2 3 10 Wild Cherry, select................ 12 Bayberry powdered...............- 20 Hemlock powdered.............--. 18 WSHhOO 9 eee eee 30 Soap ground. | 2. ...5....7...... 12 BERRIES, Cubeb prime (Powd 8(0c).......... @ %5 GUIMIPCR oe Fc ees 126 @ 7 iPrickiv Ashi. (02.05.26. o co: 50 @ 60 EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 25 peas 25C).. 27 Licorice, powdered, pu foes 3di% Logwood, bulk (12 and2 5) ‘D doxes). 9 Logwood, Is (25 ib boxes).......... 12 Lgowood, 78 do 13 Logwood, 48 do 15 Logwood, ass’d Oo id Fluid Extracts—25 # cent. off list. FLOWERS. TATMICAR (oes see ie ce tc ee ee 10 @ il Chamomile, Roman............... 25 « Chamomile, German.............. 20 GUMS. Aloes, Barbadoes.............-..-: 60@ 75 Aloes, Cape (Powd 20c)...........- 12 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60e)....... 50 Amimomise 0 oe, 28@ 30 Arabic, powdered select.......... 65 Arabie, Ist picked................- 60 Arabic,2a picked... 3... 50 Arabic, 3d picked.................. 45 Arabic, sifted sorts................ 35 Assafoentida, prime (Powd 3de).. _ 8 IBCNZOIN oo. se cee ee 55 @60 @amphor...........2:5.....--..-.-- 23@ 27 Catechu. 1s (% 14c, 4s 16c) ...... : 13 Euphorbium powdered Boe ae eae 385@ 40 Galbanum strained................ Gamboge.......5.5.......-...2..... 90@1 00 Guriac, prime (Powd 45¢c)......... 35 Kino | Powdered, 80c].............- 20 IMIASTIG uo ce ce ee Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47ce).. 40 Opium, pure (Powd $4.90).......... 3 50 Shellac, Campbell’s................ 30 Sheljac, WHSWsN:. ...5..0.2... 5... 26 Sholac, WAV. 2. 2.2... coe ces 24 Shellac’ Dlese@heG 22.002 32.3 se. 30 PAP ACAMGN 2... 5 20.5... 5.5.25 5.. 30 @i 00 HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. HMoarhound |... .1........2.....2.0-. 25 WOpCHA ee 25 Reppermint. = .....-....)..1.:...-'--------... 25 mie ee ees 40 Spearmint 2.2... eee eee ee eee ee ee eee ee eee 24 Sweet Majoram.....0.0.5.5.:...,....--.....- 35 Maney eee eo PAG 20 WOEMWOOG =... 5..0:5.5.2.005.00.... 0. 5...% 25 IRON. Citrate and Quinine............:.- 6 49 Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ i Cierste «8... aes 80 IPROBDNRTO 28 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25e)........... @ i4 Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & 4s, 12¢).. 6 Senna, Alex, Maral ee a. @ 20 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled... 30 Senna, powder OG oye feo eo ses. o 22 Senna tmmivelli. .: 0.20.60... ..2.- 16 Wve WEsie: 1. cose ecco. 10 BevedOQuwa.......5..... 2.225: .....2. 3d HONSIOVG: ool e eo ee 30 MEONWaNe 2.6.61. ec 3D IROSO, TOG ee 2 385 LIQUORS. W.,D. & Co.’ s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25 Dr uggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 1% @2 00 Whisky, other brands............- 110 @l 50 Gin, OldvTomi:: . 0... 2... 3..-:--.- 1 35 @i 75 Gin, Holland... ...........0-.....- 200 @3 50 Branay 2.0.0 ..........5..--..-..- 8. 175 @6 50 Catawba WiIMeS...........55..25 «. 125 @2 00 IPOMb WiMeS 2 eee 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA, Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 04........ 22 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2.0Z......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25 Galeme@: |. 8... 65 OILS. Among. SWEOb ..:.-......0.0.--- 45 @ 50 Amber, Pechied......-..........-. 45 SARNIGO |. 220 cl. oe eee 1 85 Bay O27... 2. 0g... «es. 50 Wergomont. -.............:......-. 210 @astor..:. 62.6. d.. te ee 18 @ 19% @voton 6. i es. co ee 2 00 @RICDUG (2-0... se. oe. 75 OBSSID 0 os cs ees 1 00 Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... 3d Citronella. 3.... 2 2... 75 Cloves.......- He eae scene 1 20 Cod liver, N.B.... . ..2.: ® gal 1 20 Cod Liver, best......... as 1 50 Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 00 Cubebs, P. & Mo 7 50 MM OCCrOU 600. t. 0k 3s ee ae 1 60 IMO WOCG 6255.6 6.5. cee ae. oes 2 00 Goranium: @ OZ: :...-..... 2... 75 Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 3D Juniper ee 50 Jimiper bermies...:....:........... 2 00 Lavender flowers, French......... 2 OL Lavender garden do =... 1 00 Lavender spike do (22. ..:. 80 Lemon, New Crop.:.....-.-........ 1 40 Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 1 50 WOMONGEASS. 02 5...01.0 65. se. 80 Olive, Malaga........... : @ 90 Olive, ‘Sublime Italian . 2 75 Origanum, red flowers, French. . 1 25 Origanum, NO. 1........-........- 50 Pennyroval «6.0 2.50.0.. 5... 1 40 oo WHE. 5.05 occ esc. 3 15 OSG O70 .2.. 660 8 80 Rosemar y, French (Flowers $1 50) 65 Salado ala cake 67 BOVIN ee cw as 1 00 Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50 Sandal Wood, W. L:..........-.2..: 7 00 SOSSHULGS.. .o.0-. 5-3 ee cs se ea ees 5D Spearmint | 0... ee. @6 00 IVANISV) 2s oo as ects se as 450 @a 00 ar (py eal 0G). ..... 52.2.4. ses oe 10 @ 12 Winterereen |... 52. ...25...5.-.. 2 10 Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $4.00)..... 3 50 Wormsceed ©... ..2. so. e se ees 2 00 POTASSIUM. Bicromate.. .. 220. 52.2 25. ki 14 Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 40 Chlorate, eryst (Powd 28¢)......... 20 Todide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 3 00 Prussinte yellow.....-.....:....... 28 ROOTS. AUKANCD - 266 o cw. ous oes eee. 2 Alene, Cut. o. 6 cic eo eee. 25 Arrow, St. Vincent’s............ 17 Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and %s.. 33 Blood (Powd 18¢} och ccndneabecee 12 Calamus, peeled... ......... 2c. 20 Calamus, German white, peeled.. 85 Elecampane, powdered............ 20 Gentian (Powd 15c)................ 10 Ginger, African (Powd 14e)........ ll @ 12 Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 17 Golden Seal (Powd 25¢c)............ Ps Hellebore, white, powdered....... 20 Tene Rio, powdered............. 12 alap, powdered..............6s00 30 Licorice, select (Powd 15)...... .. 15 Licorice, extra select.............. 18 PID, CVUG oe es i ee ec ee 38 Rhei, from select to choice....... 100 @1 50 Rhei, powdered E.1................ 110 @i 20 Rhei, choice cut cubes............ 2 00 Rhei, choice cut fingers........... 2 26 Serpentaria. .. 2 20 cele ee 45 SOHCKA (si eo, 60 Sarsaparilla, Hondurus........... 49 Sarsaparilla, Mexiean............. 20 | Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 5 Valerian, English (Powd 30¢)...... 25 Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢e)... 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢)......... 15 Bird, mixed | in bb packuges.. 56@ 6 Canary, Smyrna a 1. @ as Caraway, Desi Duteb (Powd 20¢). 1b @ 15 Cardanion, AIOppPeG. .. 2.0.0.6 6c... 1 5u Cardamon, MAlSDAP.. .. 50.620 o le, i td @GlGny ios ee. 20 Coriander, vest English........... 16 Fennel 15 Plax, clean ........... 3%@ Flax, pure gerd (bbl 344) 4@ 4% Foenugr eek, BOWSER .. 2. 252 ce. TQ 8 Hemp, UGeEn. 2 4“4@G@ 5% Mustard, white Black 10e)........ 0 OUNCE i 75 ape: Baolsh. ooo... coos ee. 6 QF WOEM, BiOVant: o.oo c. 2c. it SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50 Nassau do do 22... 2 00 Velvet Extra do do 1 10 Extra Yellow do dQ 22... 8d Grass d GO ee 65 Hard head, for slate use........... 7a Yellow Reef, dO 2... 1 40 MISCELLANEOUS. Alcohol, grain (bb! $2.22) @ gal.. 2 30 Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 2 Anodyne Botimaivs,.......... 50 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 2 zesto ED rolig. 0s > NN ee ey. b 24@ 38% Alum, ground (Powd 9¢)...... . = 8° @ 4 Annatto, DEIMNG. oo oe. 45 Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44@ 5 Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7 Blue Soluble. 2250 5... 50 Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 75 Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00 Balm Gilead Buds.....2..........- 4¢ Beans. Tomka. 2.20.06 3s. 8. 2 60 IB@ans: Vania al 700 @9 75 Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 2 30 Blue Pill (Powd 70e).........2....- 50 Blue Vitmiol -..05 ce. 6 7 Borax, refined (Powd 12¢)..... ... 10@12 Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 00 Capsicum Pods, ATVICAN oo. 18 apsicum Pods, African pow’d.. 22 Capsicum Pods, Bombay do... 18 Carmine, Noo400.00 0.500, 4 00 Cas es 12 Calomel, American................ 75 Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5 Chalk, precipitate English........ 12 Chalk, red fingeers..............-.. 8 Chalk, white lump................. 2 Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60 Colocynth applem.................. 60 Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 50 Chloral do do eryst.. 1 79 Chiorai do Scherin’s do ... 1 90 Chloral do do crusts.. 1 75 @ilonofomm 2.) 62 iT @ 80 Cinchonidia, Po&S Wo... 2s. 238 @ 2 Cinchonidia, other brands. Bsacdeus 238 @ 28 Cloves (Powd! 28¢)...0..5..........: 18 @ 20 Cochinedl (oo... oe 40 Cocoa, Butter. 20)... 45 Copperas (by bb) Te)...25..5....... 2 Corrosive Sublimate............... 70 Corks, X and XX—4) off list...... Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 Ib box.. 15 @ressote. 2. ec. 50 @udbear, prime........2:..-....... 24 Cuttle Fish Bone..... Vel 20 Dextrine oe. 2 Dover’s Powders.................. 116 Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. Ht Hreot powdered................... 45 Ether Squibb’s Bee lovee ceca oo. 110 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... & Epsom Salts (bbl. og) ee 2@ 3 IESOt; fresh le ok ee 50 Ether, sulpburie,; U.S: Po... 60 Higike: wihte. 00 62s oe. 14 G@raing Paradise... 66.2.0. ..2 02. 25 Gelatine, Cooper’s.......2......... 90 Getatine, Brench (..3...........-.. 49 @ % Glassware, flint, 79 off, by bax 60 off Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis.... Gite. ex pmiet.. 2 |... 2 @ i Glue white. -2..9) 8; -. 16 @ 28 Glyce rine, Dae Poe a al, 16 @ 20 Hops } VAS AMOS ke 2@ 4 Weaotora | OZ cece 40 WIGUSO 8 @l1 0 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 35 @ 40 Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, poxes @1 00 Yodine, resublimed................ 4 00 HSingigss, AMOrican........5...... 1 50 JAPOMICH ee t Hond@ou: Purple. o.oo 6. 5 cs. 55 ck. 10 @ 15 head neetate.. .... 6... sk. 15 Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10e & 4s 11¢) 8 Lupuline ee eee c cara. ace. 1 00 VCOPOGIUM ©... 2... 6.5... kl 45 WMRCOe ee ee uc 50 Maadder, best. Duteh.............. RY4@ 13 Manna, a 75 WECTCUIE (0 80. een cole oa 60 Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... Boz 3 00@3 25 Musk, Canton, a. 4b. & Cocs...... 40 Moss, Teeland ua ee cn cans $8 Ib 10 MOSS) ISH oo oe 2 Mustard, English ee ee 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 cans...... 13 N utgalls’ ee eee 23 INEMeos, NOU ool. ol. 60 INV VOMHCH. oo. a eel c se 10 Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 45 Paris Green... 500 ee Ww@ 2% BRepper, Black Berry... .....0.:...: 18 IRODSIR 2 50 Piteh. True Burfoundy.....:....... % Quassi HH eo. 6@ 7 @inia, Sulph, P, & W.......- boz 2 @ ti Quinine, German Pecos cu eee 12Q;, Ked (PROGIPIbaue. 2.1... oe. §8 Ib 85 Seiglitz Mixture. ... 2... 22.05052... 28 Seryehmia, Cryse._....5.2.2......... 1 60 Silver Nitrate, eryst............... 74 @ 778 Sattvon, American. ......5.....2.. 35 Sil Glamor coos es. “i @ 2 Sal Nitre; large eryst..........:... 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... ¢ Sal Roebelie: ee. 33 Sal Soda. .o. 2 @ 2% Salem 245 Samtonmigt:: 00.20.25... 25-5... 6 50 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scoteh....... 38 Soda Ash (by kee gel.............. 4 Spermyeeti. . 6 se. 35 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s. 44@ 5 Soap, White Castile. ....2....-.-5- 14 Somp, Green dO -...) (2...:.... fi Soap, Motcled do -....5.......... 9 Soap, ao. dO. ..2.:....5...5. 2° ii Soa, Mazzint............2..5.....- 14 Spirits Nitre,3F................... 2% @ 28 Spirits Nitve, fH... cl. 30 @ 382 Sugar Milk powdered.............. 35 Sulphur BOUL el cass 34@ 4 Suvpmur, “OW. eee sce. 3@° «38% ae tae IMEC. 62.060. oso, 60 far, N. ©. Pine, % gal. cans $ doz 2 70 Tar’ do quarts in tin....... i 40 Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85 Turpentine, Venice........... BR b 25 Wax, White, 8. & F. brand........ 5d Zine, Sulphate Bee ee eaee cece. it Gs OILs. Capito! Oyloder. ee ee 75 Model Oyiimdér.......................-.....: 60 Shiela Cylinder... 2.0...) ssc el 50 Nidorado Heine. 920-5... 666) ec 30 > Peerless Machinery Desa cabs oo sh oscene 3t Challenge MACHINOFY.. 20.0. 2.5 ewe hc Backs Pine’ HMeine, -. 2250... ce ee. ce. 30 Black Diamond Machinery DO ccs ca cocecs 30 @astor Machine: O1l.. ...:.......:.. Scene ay. 6C Paramne, 20.d6@. 25... 2. eee tees Le 5% Paratime, 25 JOS... ..:...5...5.....2.22. 5. 21 Sperm, winter bleached. .......... ee 1 40 Bbl Gal Whale winter 9°. :0. 25.5.0. 2. 6... 70 75 ard: Gxtias 22: oe a. ae 55 60 Pap UNOS bee ee ek ous 45 5d Inamseed. PUle: PAW. <-4..-...- 6.2062. 43 46 Pinsec@, HOUGC cos... 2. eek. 46 49 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90 Spirits Turpentine..............-...- 42 46 VARNISHES. No. b Durp Coseh oc. 65. 0.06.6 1 10@1 20 aura (Burpee 1 60@1 70 @oach Boay. 2: 3.155: 6-5.. 1.2... tlk. 75@3 00 No. 1 Turp easniace Rec wccsteccs ves ce ‘ 00@1 10 Extra Turp DAMA 6 565... 2 eles se 1 55@1 60 Japan Pryor, No. | Turp.............. 70@ 5 PAINTS. Bbl Lb Red: VenGuan.. .. i... 2.5 cca 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ............ 244 24%4@ 3 Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 24@ 3 Vermilion, prime American... 18@16 Vermilion, English............ 58@60 Green, Peninsular..........+.. 16@17 Lead, red strictly pure. 5 64 Lead, white, strictly pure.. ecele 64 Whiting, white Spanish....... 70 Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90 White, Paris American........ 110 Whiting Paris English cliff.. 1 40 Picneer Prepared Paints..... 1 20@1 40 Swiss Villa Prepared Paints.. 1 00@1 20 HAZELTINE, Wholesalic Druggists 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, gr, g3 and g5 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemica Paints, Oils, Varnishes, aud Drugsist's flassWare MANUFACTURERS A uD, OF ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL «PREPARATION FLUID EXTRACTS AND E ELIXIRS. ce GENERAL WROLESALE AGENTS FOR Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. 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. , a, 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 can 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 acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special efforts in this direction have received from hundreds of our customers the most satisfying recom- mendations. Wing and Liquor Denariment We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice gooils for the DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit he high praise accorded us for so satis- factorily supplying the wants of our custom- tomers with PURE GOODS in this depart- ment. We CONTROL and are the ONLY AUTHORIZED AGENTS for the sale of the celebrated WETHERS BADE & G0 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- feet 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 Nragcists’ Favoriie RY8, Which continues to have so many favorites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Gils, Braudigs & 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 onthe list, such as PATENT MEDICINES, ete., we invite your correspondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. HAABLINE, PERKINS & GO ‘ ‘9 aX The Michigan Tradesman, A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. Telephone No. 95, {Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1885. BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. ADVERSE CLAIMANT. A warehouseman whose lien for storage is not disputed cannot maintain a bill of in- terpleader to protect himself against the claim of his bailor and that of a third per- son, who asserts an adverse title to the goods stored with him as against tl the bailor, but must defend himself at law. So held by the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. PEDDLERS’ LICENSE—VOID ORDINANCE. An ordinance of a town, providing that a person engaged in peddling goods from house to house ‘‘shall pay not less than one nor more than twenty-five dollars, for a fix- ed time in the discretion of the mayor,” is unreasonable and void, according to the de- cision of the Supreme Court of Iowa. The court said, in giving judgment: The ordi- nance in this case is a very peculiar one. It not only did not fix the amount of the li- cense, but did not in any proper sense limit it. The limitation of $25 has no signifi- cance, because the time for which that sum might be charged was left wholly to the mayor, and he might fix so short a time as to be equivalent toa refusal to license at all. This we think was not a proper exer- cise of the power vested in the council to regulate and license peddlers. It was more in the nature of a delegation of their whole power to the mayor. In our opinion the or- dinace cannot be sustained. EXEMPTION—MEANING OF TEAMSTER. Under a statute exempting horses, etc., ‘“by the use of which a cartman, huckster, peddler, teamster, or other laborer habitu- ally earns his living,” a livery-stable keeper was held not entitled as a teamster on the exemption of a team of horses, although he was himself accustomed to drive the team. In the sense of the statute one is a teamster who is engaged, with his own team or teams, in the business of teaming—that is to say, in the business of hauling freight for other parties for a consideration, by which he habitually supports himself and family, if he has one. While he need not perhaps drive his team in person, yet he must be personally engaged in the business of teaming habitually, and for the purpose of making a living by that business. Ifa carpenter or other mechanic; who occupies his time in labor at his trade, purchases a team or teams, and also carries on the bus- iness of teaming by the employment of oth- ers, he does not thereby become a teamster in the sense of the statute. So of the miner, farmer, doctor and minister. TEMPORARY ILLEGAL USE OF PROPERTY. The temporary illegal use of property merely suspends a policy of insurance there- on during the continuance of such illegal use, and if before aloss occurs the illegal use has ceased, in an action on the policy the plaintiff is entitled to recover, according to the decision of the Massachusetts Su- preme Judicial Court in the case of Hinkley vs. Germania Fire Insurance Company. The property covered by the policy in the case . consisted of billiard tables, bowling alleys, and their furniture and fixtures. It appear- ed that the prpperty described in the policy was owned by Warren R. Spurr and Ed- ward W. Spurr until Febuary 28, 1882, when they agreed to sell the same to Her- bert A. and Edwin R. Hinckley, at which time they received from Herbert A. Hinck- ley, a brother of the plaintiff, a written in- strument called a furniture lease of the property. The plaintiff ran the bowling alleys and pool tables for hire, and had no license after May 1, 1883, when a previous license running in the name of Herbert A. and Edwin R. Hinekley expired. The prop- erty was destroyed by fire August 6, 1883. The Superior Court ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, and directed a verdict for defendant. The policy declared upon wasin the Massachusetts standard form prescribed by the public statutes, and provided that ‘‘the policy shall be void if the insured shall make any attempt to defraud the company, either before or after the loss, or if gunpowder or other articles subject to legal restriction shall be kept in quantities ormanner different from those allowed or prescribed by law, or if camphene, benzine, naphtha, or other chemical oils or burning fluids, shall be kept or used by the insured on the premises insured, except that what is known as refined petroleum, kerosene or coal oil may be used for | lighting.” The Supreme Court, in gr: anting a new trial, said: Without at present going beyond what called for by the circumstarices of the present case, we are of the opinion that, as- suming the temporary use of the property insured without a license to come within the prohibition of the policy in the clause above quoted as to gunpowder or other ar- ticles subject to legal restriction, yet that clause is not to receive such a construction as to prevent the policy from reviving after such temporary use has ceased. Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 Androscoggin, 8-4..21 Pepperell, 7-4...... 16% Pepperell, 8-4...... 20 Pepperell, 9-4...... 22% Caledonia, XX, 0z..11 Caledonia, X, 0z...10 Economy, OZ......-- 10 Park Millis, No. 50..10 Park Mills, No. 60..11 Park Mills, No. 70..12 Park Milis, No. 80..13 Ballou, 4-4.........- 6% Ballou, 5-4.........- 6 eBoott, O. 4-4........ 8% Boott, HE. 5-5........ q Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 9% Boott, R. 3-4 Seek. 5% Blackstone, AA 4-4, 7 Chapman, X, 4-4....6 Conway, 4-4.. 0 Cabot, 4-4.......-- . 6% Cabot, Ges oc 6 Canoe,’ 3-4........-- 4 Domestic, 36....... 14 Dwight Anchor, 4-4. 9 Davol, 4-4 9 Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 8% Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 7% Fruit of the Loom, Albion, 2rey.......- Allen’s checks...... es Ailen’s fancy....... 5% Allen’s pink......... 6% Allen’spurple....... 6% American, sg 2G BK Arnoldfaney........ Berlinsolid......... 5% Cocheco fancy...... 6 Cocheco robes....... 64% Conestoga fancy....6 Eddystone ..... .--- 6 Eagle fancy........- 5 Garner pink......... 6% Appleton A, 4-4.... 7% Boott M, 4 i . 6% Boston F, 4 f 7M Continental C,4-3.. 6% Continental D, 40in 8% Conestoga W, 4-4. 6% Conestoga D, 7-8... 5% Conestoga G, 30-in. 6 Dwight st... 54 Dwight ¥,7-8......- 534 Dwight Z. 4-4... oa Dwigbt Star, 1A. f Ewight Star, 40- -in. Enterprise EE, 36. 5 Great Falls E, 4-4.. 2 Farmers’ A, 4-4 oe Indian Oreh ard £4 mm Amoskeag ........- TH) Amoskeag, Per sai | Bigaes.- «<8. 10% Bates... ee 714 Berkshire .......... 6% Glasgow checks.... 7 Glasgow checks, f’ y Ty, Glasgow checks, royal styles...... 8 Gloucester, new standard ......... 7% Plunket 22. 22... i Tancaster .......... Langdale ........... ( oi Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 Androscoggin, 8-4. .23 Pepperell, 7-4...... 20 Pepperell, 8-4...... 22% Pepperell, 9-4...... 25 Atlantic H, 4-4..... 7 Atlantic D, 4-4..... oe Atlantic P, 4-4..... Atlantic LL, 4-4.... 2 Adriatic, 36......... i% Augusta, 4-4........ 6% Boott M, 4-4........ 634 Boott FF, 4-4....... 7% Graniteville, 4-4.... 534 Indian Head, 4-4... 7 Indiana Head 45-in.12% Cordis AAA, 32.....14 Cordis ACA, 82..... 15 Cordis No. 1, 32..... 15 Fire clay, per bbl...... Cannell, car lots....... Ohio Lump, car lots... Portland Cement...... WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Ae eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerereereeeeeeeeeeee_5uoereeeeeerr WIDE BROWN COTTONS. Pepperell, 10-4...... 25 Spree, 11-4...... 27% Pequot, 7-4......... 18 Pequot, 8-4 eee 21 Pequot, 9-4.........24 CHECKS. Park Mills, No. 90..14 Park Mills, No. 100. 15 Prodigy, OZ......... il Otis Apron......... 10% Otis Furniture..... 1 Work, 1 0Z........:.. York, AA, extra 0z. id OSNABURG. Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... A Jewell briwn....... 9%|Augusta plaid...... 7 Kentucky brown. “es Toledo plaid........ 7 Lewiston brown... 914|Manchester plaid.. 7 Lane brown........ - 2% New Tenn. plaid...11 Louisiana plaid.. Utility plaid........ 6% BLEACHED COTTONS Avondale, 36....... 8\y Lats G. Boke. 5% Art cambries, 36...11%)Hill, 4-4............. ee Androscoggin, 4-4.. 8% W417, 9-8... os. eo 6% Androscoggin, 5-4. e Hope, 4-4........... 6% King Phillip cam- brie, 4-4 11 Linwood, 44....... 7% Lonsdale, 44. ...... 7 Lonsdale cambric. 10% Langdon, GB, 4-4.. Langdon, 45........ 1 Masonville, 4-4 Maxwell. 4-4........ 9% New York Mill, 44. ae New Jersey, 4- 1. Pocasset, P. M. CG. iMG Pride of the West..11 Pocahontas, 4-4 Slaterville, 7-8.. Victoria, AA.. Woodbury, 4-4. Whitinsville, 4 +3 Ne 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% Gilded Age......... 8% SILESIA Grows. .--5 = - by nanos ille TS...... 8 No: 10. ...--. 5 “e Masonville 8. 10% eins... ee Lonsdale ... . 9% Anchor ..-...--...- rH Lonsdale A 16 Centennial......... Nictory O. Blackburn ......... 8 {Victory J.. MAVOl.. <5. - = 14 |Victory D. Tendon... ...:..-.. hg Victory K. 2% Paconia ...........- Phoenix A. 19% Red Cross........-- i0 Phoenix B.. .-- 10% Social Imperial....16 |Phoenix << 5 PRINTS. Albion, solid........ By Gloucester .......... 6 Gloucestermourn’g.6 Hamilton fancy....6 Hartel fancy.. ..6 Merrimac D... Manchester ..... Oriental fancy... Oriental robes.. Pacific robes.. 2-6 Riehmond..... . 6 Steel River.......... 5% Simpson’s........... 6 Washington fancy.. Washington blues. 7% FINE BROWN COTTONS. Indian Orchard, 40. 8 Indian Orchard, 36. a Laconia B, 7-4...... Lyman B, 40-in..... 100 Mass. BB, At ses 5% Nasbua H, 40-in.... 8% Nasbua R, 4-4...... 74 Nashua O, 7-8....... 6% Newmarket N...... 6% Pepperell E, 39-in.. 7 Pepperell R, 4-4.... 7% Pepperell O, 7-8.... 6% Pepperell N, 3-4.... 64% Pocasset C, 4-4..... 634 Paramne Ho 2... 222: 7% Saranac Meee ee 9 DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. Renfrew, dress styl i% Johnson Manfg Co, Bookfold ......... 12% z N Johnson Manfg Co, dress styles...... 2 Slatervilie, dress BUVACR. ooo y White Mfg Co, stap 7% White Mfg Co, fane 8 White Mant’g Co, —t ee - we WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. Hariston:.......-. 8 Gordon... ......... 1% Greylock, dress BUVICS G22... sk. 12% Pepperell. 14. 2746 Pepper ell, di-4..... 52% Pequot, 7-4.........2 21 Pequot, 8-4........: 24 Pequot, 9-4......... 27% HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. Atlantie A, 4-4..... 714 |\Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 7% (Lawrence Y,30.... 7 \Lawrence LU, 4-4... 5% 54iNewmarket N...... 6% Mystic River, 44... 54 Pequot A, 4-4....... 74 Piedmont, 36-20. .5 Stark AA, AA ..ee Tremont CC, 4-4.... 5% Utica, 4-4........... 9 Wachusett, 4-4..... 7% Wachusett, 30-in... 6% ores GS. Amoskeag, ACA.. Falls, XXXX....... 18% Amoskeag ‘4-4. 19 Falis, LO. ae 15% Amoskeag, A...... 18: alls, BE. .........: Wy Amoskeag, B...... 12 |Falis, BBC, 36...... 19% Amoskeag, C...... uu Falls, awning......19 Amoskeag, D...... 16%|Hamilton, BT, 32..12 Amoskeag, E...... 10 |Hamilton, D....... 9% Amoskeag, F....... 94%|Hamilton, H....... 9% Premium A, aon ..17 |Hamilton faney.. 10 Premium Se ..16 |Methuen AA....... 18% Extra4-4.. Saco 16 |Methuen ASA. 18 EORGTAIG.. .2 22. ie Omega A, 7-8.. 1 Gold Medal Af jOmega A, 4-4.. 13 A GS oo iy iOmega AGA, 14 GUE ee ere 14 Omega ACA, AA AG RUG 73. 2 14 |\Omega SH, 78. 4 BGR. eae 16 |Omega SE, — 8 AAS ee 19 |Omega M. 7-8 Omega M, 4-4.. d Shetucket SS&SSW n% Sketucket, 8 & SW.12 Cordis No. 2 oe 14 |Shetucket, SFS_...12 Cordis No. 3........ 13 |Stoekbridge A..... 7 Cordis No. 4........ 114%|Stockbridge frncy. 8 GLAZED CAMBRICS. Garmer 2 oo. 5 |empire ......-.5-.- Hookset............ 5 |Washington........ 4% Red Cross.......-.: D> \Hawards......:..-.. 5 Forest Grove....... 8S. S. & Sons........ a GRAIN BAGS aon ey 18 00) Old Ironsides Soon 15 Stark A... 3... .22%|Wheatland ......... 21 DENIMS. BOstOn 6. 5-5. 6% |Otis CO 10% Everett blue....... 134 | Warren AA 2): 12% Everett brown..... 13%4|Warren 8) Ea 11% Otis AXA... 2... 12%/|Warren CC......... 10% Otis BE... .... 1%!\York fancy........ 138% PAPER CAMBRICS. Manville...........- G 8.8: & Sons. ........ 6 Masgnville......... 6 \Garner ............ 6 WIGANS. Red Cross.......... eee Mis... Berlin 5. BPGSOBO 2G oo be ws ss 8 Garner 2... oes ee. 7M SPOOL COTTON. Brooks.............50 {Eagle and Phoenix Clark’s O. N. F.....55 | Miils ball sewing. 30 J.&P. Coats.......55 jGreeh & Daniels... .25 Willimantic 6 cord.55 |Merricks........... 40 Willimantic 38 cord.40 (Stafford ............ 25 Charleston ball sew Hall & Manning....25 ing thread.. 00 |Holyoke...2....°<.. 25 * CORSET JEANS. AVINOTY... 352555. 4|Kearsage Be ee oe 8% Androscoggin sat.. 84|/Naumkeagsatteen. 84 Canoe River........ 6 |Pepperell bleached 8i4 Clarendon. ........ 6144|Pepperell sat....... 9% Hallowell Imp..... 6% ‘Rockport........... i Ind. Orch. Imp..... 7 |Lawrencesat....... 8% Laconia ............ 7% \Conegosat.......... q COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS. A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Ohio White Lime, per bbl Ohio White Lime, car lots............. _ 85 Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 30 Akron Cement per bbl..............-. : 30 Budalo Cement, per, DI os ess cs cece 1 80 Cerise 7 3 8 sae 1 05@1 10 Plastering hair, per bu................ 25@ 30 BiNCCO, POT DVL... os 6c sds des anes 1 75 Land plaster, per ton...,..........-... 4 a Land plaster, car lots..............-... Fire brick, per M....55.5.... 62-2655. $25 @' 35 seater eres ereree COAL. Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots..€6 00@6 25 Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots.. ae bein d a cseeee ee @6 00 toca sasibre ee. [i Biossburg or Cumberland, car lots.. : 50@5 00 3 50@4 See Our Wholesale Quotations else- where in this issue and write for Special Prices in Car Lots. We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we handle. A.B. KNOWLSON, 3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich. SW. VENABLE & CO, PETERSBURG, VA., MANUFACTURERS OF AND OTHER FAVORITE BRANDS OF 3 Plug Tobacco. NIMROD es. 44 | SPREAD HAGUE: 2 .........)..:...2.-.. 225.5. 38 Bos Os ede 40; BIG BEVE CENTER. .:......:-..............- 35 BUH PHTER. ....:.22..25.55.-... 20s 3 38 | In lots of 72 pounds or over two cents less BROW NS ¥ hed) PAN ya\ aper ag ‘ | \ ‘ ! 4 ‘ Tw a ine Holder | Cae ; ‘oS ; t \ (COMBINED.) f t | Patented April 29th, 1888. CAPACITY 2,500 BAGS. Saves time, bags and valuable counter room. Is neat and orna- mental, constructed of malleable iron, neatly Japanned, with steel wire needles, and will never get out ofrepair. Weighs about 6 lbs. and occupies 18 inches square of space. Can be adjusted to any height of ceiling. Is suspended from ceiling directly over counter within easy distance of salesman. For further information address GHO. R. BROWN, PALMYRA, N. Y. SOLD BY Franklin MacVeagh & Co., lvtago. Ti Arthur Meigs & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. SPRING & COMPANY, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Staple and Fancy DRY GOO CARPETS, S, MATT NGS, OIE, CLO reas mre. Ee EO:.., 6 and 8 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, ea Michigan. CURTISS, DUNTON & CO. WW ELOmE Ss ATIsE: PAPER, OILS, CORDACE, WODDENWARE These Oil Cana i in Stock all Sizes, Plain and with Wood J acket. The Diamond Oil Can, The Best Glass Can with Tin Jacket in the Market. CURTISS, DUNTON c& CO. 51 AND 53 LYON STREET, - - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. D. W. Archer’s Trophy Gorn, D. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn, D.W, Archer’s Early Golden Drop Gorn NO. 2. AND 3 CANS. YOUNG, TENDER AND SWEET, NATURAL FLAVOR RETAINED. GUARANTEED PURITY. $1,000 IN GOLD. NOT SWEETENED WITH SUGAR. NO CHEMICALS USED. NOT BLEACHED WHITE. : NO WATER IN CANS. The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only. Respectfully, THE ARCHER PACKING (O:, Chillicothe, Ils. . THE LEADING BRANDS OF Offered in this Market are as follows: PLUG TOBACCO. RED FOX So BIG DRIVE - PATROL oe SS UR JACK RABBIT SILVER COIN Sf ee Ul PANIC - - -— = 2 2 BLACK PRINCH, “DARK a. =} BIG STUMP - - Oe APPLE JACK ee 2c less in orders for 100 pounds of any one brand. FINE CUT. THE MEIGS FINE CUT, DARK, a aan STUNNER, DARK of RED BIRD, BRIGHT a 2 5 OPERA ee aaiaenl 4 5 FRUIT - : O SO SWEET oe ea 2c less in 6 pail lots. SMORING. ARTHUR'S CHOICE, LONG CUT, BRIGHT RED FOX, LONG CUT, FOIL _ = 3 GIPSEY QUEEN, GRANULATED -. - OLD COMFORT, IN CLOTH - - SEAL OF GRAND RAPIDS, IN CLOTH DIME SMOKER, IN CLOTH - - - - 2c less in 100 pound lots. These brands are sold only by Arthur Meigs & Co. Wholesale Grocers, Who warrant the same to be unequalled. We guar- antee every pound to be perfect and all right in every particular. We cordially invite you, when in the city, to visit our place of business, 55 and 57 Canalst. IT MAY SAVE YOU MONEY. The Michigan Tradesman To Our Agents and the Public. NEw York, July ist, 1885. 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We make this statement that the public may not be deceived, and with the feeling that the General’s countrymen wish to place their subscriptions where they will know that he is receiving the full benefit of them. Yours respectfully, CHAS. L. WEBSTER & CO., Publishers. H. G. ALLEN Pus. Co., State Agts., Grand Rapids, Mich. ——_—_—-9-<»____— A Snuff Cure. Mr. Albert Sharpe writes to the London Daily News that, as one who has suffered many years very severely with summer ca- tarrh and hay asthma, he determined to try the experiment of taking a pinch of strong Scoteh snuff whenever the sneezing was violent. This seemed to have the effect of relieving the paroxysms, and he felt con vinced that by taking snuff before the at- tack made its appearance in the spring, it would help to stay its severity. He passed through the first season with scarcely any symptoms of sneezing and without a sign of asthma, and persevering with snuff-taking again, as the next time came around, it had a similar effect. Now for more than six years he has not had an attack of either sneezing or hay asthma. —————> + s+-____——- Good Advice. From Texas Siftings. Mose Schaumburg has a new clerk named Jake Silverstone, who is pretty good in dragging in country customers and selling them goods before they know it, but he has abad memory. Yesterday Mose said, im- patiently: “Silverstone, has you checked off dot in- voice of schentlemanly undervear?” “Please ’scuse me, Mister Schaumburg, but it vash escaped my memory already some more.” ‘So it vas escaped your memory some more, already, don’t it. I dell’s you vat, Silverstone, ven you vas such a tam stupid schackass, vy don’t you make anote of dose dings, choost like I do. TIME TABLES, Michigan Central. DEPART. +Detroit MAPYesS..... 2.2.1.6. ce oes 6:00 am Pda: URPTOSE. 2. os oe os eee 12:45 9m *Atiantic HXpress......-: 2.2.2... 6056 9:20 pm War Preis. 25 oo a. ee. 6:50 am ARRIVE. *Pacitic WXPTess. oo... i oe ot ws ss 6:00 am Pi a oe 3:50 p m *Grand Rapids Express............... 10:50 p m Was Preignt. 2... 3 4. 3: 25. se. es 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 3:5 p. m. next day. A train leaves Detroit at 4p. m. daily except Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv- ing at Grand Rapids at 10:50 p.m. J.1. SCHULTZ, Gen’! Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. weaves. Arrives, MANS. cess ee 9:15am 4:25pm +Day Express.............. 12:35pm 10:45 p m *Night Express............ 8:35pm 4:45am *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through parior 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........ Soe eee 4:15pm 4:0hpm TUXPTOSS ows ce ee 8:05am 11:15am All trains arrive and depart from Union De- ot. 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. AORPPOES. 5... se 7:15pm 7:30 a m MGI. ot ce oe 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 coaches can be secured at Union Ticket office, 67._Monre street and depot. J. W. McKENNEY, Gen’! Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express....... 6:17am 6:25am +Through Mail............. 10:10am 10:20am +Evening Express......... 3:20pm 3:35pm *Limited Express.......... 6:27 pm 6:30pm +Mixed, with coach........ 10:30 am GOING WEST. +Morning Express......... 1:05pm 1:10pm +Through Mail............ 5:19pm 5:15pm +Steamboat Express....... 10:40pm 10:45pm AMARC se 7:l0am *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 a. m. the following morning. Parlor Cars on Mail Trains, both East and West. Train leaving at 10:45 p. m. will make con- nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except Sunday. The mail has a Parlor Car to Detroit. The Night Express has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand Rapids. D. PorreER, City Pass. Agent. Geo. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager, Chicago. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. . Arrives. Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex 8:45pm Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 7:00am 10:25am Ft. Wayne& Mackinac Ex 3:55pm 5:00pm G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:15am Mackinae & Cincinnati Ex. 3:6:0pm 6:00pm Mackinac& Ft.WayreEx..10:2:5am 11:45pm Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm 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 Mackinae City. Train leaving at 10:25 a.m. has tp ace Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse ity. 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. Leaves. 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’clock, arriving at Grand Haven in time for morning@rain east. Grand River Steamer. The Steamer Barrett leaves her dock for Grand Haven, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- days, returning on alternate days. SUDD cw CO., JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE And Full Line Summer Goods. 102 CANAL STREET. G. §, YALE & BRO,, —Manufacturers ot— FLAVORING EXTRACTS | BAKING POWDERS, RLOoiINGsSs, HTe., 40 and 42 South Division, St. GRAND RABIDS, - MICHIGAN Oranges, Bananas, Figs, Dates, Panam & Brooks, Wholesale Mannfacturers of RE_ CANDY! AND DEALERS IN NUTS, eG TD’ Cc. Lemons, 4 WM. SHARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, Asents for AIMBOY CHEmSE. 37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. SF A DAMS & CO.’S Fine Cat Chewing Tobacco is the very hest dark goods on the Market. id Granda Rapids, & CISTI il, AgIS., Mich, mae S Tem & FO x, MANUFACTURERS AGENTS FOR Send for «& Catalogue fii and rices. , INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U. S. A. M ANU FACTURERS OF ENGINE WORKS pie oe SAW AND GRIST MILI MACHT {STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS. } Cary Engines and Boilers in Stock fi for immediate delivery. maak A oF dtm usin NERY, Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, _ Saws, Belting and Oils. Write for Prices. 130 OAKES STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. RINDGEH, 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. of Women’s, Misses’ and Childs shoes is increasing. The demand for our own make Send in your orders and they will be promptly attended to. 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. JENNINGS & SMITE PROPRIETORS OF THE Arctic Manufacturing Co., 20 Lyon St, Grand Rapids. ASK YOUR JOBBER FOR Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts, ee Arctic Baking Powder. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGIN BS From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft- Contracts made for ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Complete Outfits. LS A FIELD luers FEL | ans WY. CC, DWenis 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. b. AUYS & UD, No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids. () WHS ff a i M4 ~ AND-~ ily | i Send for new Price - List for Fall Trade. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED EDMUND B, DIKEMAN, hho GREAT WATCH MAKER, — JW HOR, 44 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. VOIGT MILEING G0, Proprietors of CRESCENT FLOURING MILLS, Manufacturers of the Following Pop- ular Brands of Flour: “ CRESCENT,” . “WHITE ROSE,” “MORNING GLORY,” “ROYAL PATENT,” and “ALL WHEAT,” Flour. This Baking Powder makes the WHITEST, LIGHTEST and most HEALTHFUL Biscuits. Cakes, Bread, ete. TRY IT and be convineed. Prepared only by the Arctic Manufacturing Co.,, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. _ DOLIVEIRN'S Parisian Sal ‘rozyodde SOryyBoy oy (ed ‘VUBLEBIT JSOUL OUT, Bg 4soq pur: 4 §3 ROAST MEAT, STEAKS. C fS5, CURRIES, GRAVES, *APLUTOLA puR Spldvy puvay Joy syuoSy ofog “AWWad 8 SNDIMVH “SuUIJSTXO MOU aBindod puB 9o1qQB UB SB [VALLE INOUIIM PUB *p[IOAL O44 UL 90 St 41 Ifin Need of Anything in our Line, it will pay you to get our Prices. PATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF Barlow’s Patent Mawtold Shipping Books, Send for Samples and Circular. BARLOW BROTHERS, Grand Rapids, Michigan. FUSE, CAPS, AUGURS — SOLVEVddY DNULLSVTE oo Es wv QO C ee te D The Great Stump and Roek ANNIHILATOR |! 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 Pro Street, Cleveland, Ohio. — = L. 8. HILL & Co., AGTS. GUNS, AMMUNITION & FISHING TACKLE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Wo eS Groceries. Identified. They saw that the man was a stranger When he came to the bar that day; But he called for a schooner of lager In a lofty and lordly way. And the crowd round the fish and the crackers Looked over their shoulders to see The man with the manner s0 haughty, While wondering whom he might be. But the bartender murmured softly “JT think he must be a tar From the way that he’s navigating That schooner across the bar.” —_———_—>_-___—_ Collecting Autographs from Hotel Reg- isters. “What do you suppose that man want- ed?” asked a local hotel clerk of a reporter the other day. A neatly dressed and shrewd-looking young man had just turned away and was lighting a cigar. ‘You might guess your teeth loose before guessing what he wants to buy,” continued the hotel clerk. ‘‘He has just made me an offer for the old register of this house. - He claims to be traveling for a Northern firm that is collecting hotel registers. The older they are the more they are worth. Hotel registers are the greatest autograph albums in the world. There is not a man who travels whose autograph is not scattered all over this country. All prominent men travel. The signatures of hundreds of these have a commercial value, even when not attached to a note or check. The auto- graphs of statesmen generally sell the high- est, those of ex-Presidents bringing the most. A few days ago a rare collection of curious manuscripts, letters, and autographs, were under the hammer in New York. A dozen autographs were knocked down at from $5 to $20 apiece. : ‘That would-be purchaser was telling me that in a few months it will be the proper thing to mount the autographs of ex- Presidents, literary men, generals, and all men of note in some unique style, and give them a place beside the plaque. The firm is now buying up all the registers that it ean get hold of. Some bright men go over each page carefully, and cut out the signa- tures of all the most prominentmen. They have quite a long list, and whenever one of the names is found it is clipped out and at- tached to a little slip on which are noted the date and city. The register, of course, in- dicates each. He says that right now Grant’s signatures are in demand. He nev- er stopped at hotels much, however. There were generally people in all of the cities through which he passed who wanted to en- tertain him, and I never knew him to de- cline. “The registers are really no use to us, and most hotel men, I believe, are willing to dispose of them at a low figure,” resumed the clerk. ‘‘One of this size, which is the standard, will hold 5,000 names. It is sel- dom that a register in the large hotels or big cities does not contain half a dozen good names. I know that from personal obser- vation. In some seasons there are 100 good names. 2. Zante Currants. The orignal Zante Currants of commerce came from the Island of Zante, one of the Ionian group in the Mediterranean Sea. Zante, the capital of the island, has a popu- | lation of about 25,000. Its environs are pleasant and picturesque; its spacious har- | bor affording excellant facilities for the rel- atively extensive commerce which the snug little port enjoys. The most important pro- duct of the island is the currant, which is the fruit of a dwarf species of the vine original- ly brought from Corinth. — Very little suc- cess has been met in attempts to transplant the vine and for more than a century Zante has found the world its supply of the piquant little berries. It is estimated that the island now exports 130,000 tons of currants annu- ally. Of this quantity America consumes 15,000 tons, which would seem hardly a fair allow- | ance for us, considering our natural procliv- ities for pie. the fruit a year; France 30,000 tons, and Great Britain 60,000. The export is valued | at $13,000,000. The fruit is gathered early | in August and exposed for from twelve to fifteen days to the hotsun. Each bunch is clipped and carefully placed on the sloping drying grounds so as to receive the full ef- | fect of the sun’s rays. fruit appears perfectly free from all mois- ture, but the drying continues until the ber- ries are scorched and shriveled almost be- yond recognition. When the planter is sat- isfied with the success of the drying process the fruit is placed in bags and conveyed by pack train to some depot where it is pressed into barrels or boxes, headed up, and deliv- ered to the exporters who distribute the product to the expectant traders of the world. - —_— -e Statisticians say that American’s average a daily addition to the public fortune of sev- en cents, which means that the United States each day is worth $4,000,000 more than it was the day before. A German manufactory is producing glu- cose from old linen rags, but a strong out- cry has been raised against it, and the gov- ernment is likely to interfere. The article produced is said to be chemically identical with grape sugar. The Arabs grind their coffee as fine as fiour, and boil it in a copper saucepan with- out alid. They would not on any account boil it in a covered vessel, as any lid or cov- er would prevent the deleterous qualities from escaping and make the coffee bitter. The | Europe takes 25,000 tons of In a few days the | The Grocery Market. Business and collections continue to im- prove, though neither are the cause of ap- prehension on the part of either jobber or retailer. Sugars have climbed a sixpence higher, and raisins continue to advance, in consequence of a prospective shut-off on the Spanish source of supply. Domestic Hol- land herring have also advanced. Gtmpow- der has taken a considerable drop, probably owing to the fact that the manufacturers be- longing to the combination have determined to starve out several smaller producers who refuse to join the pool. ——___>_@-_<——____——_ Lake City Out of the Woods. Fram the Cadillae News. The Cadillac & Northeastern will have its cars running into the city within two weeks, and in the meantime a depot will be erected, on Lake street. This will give a regular freight and passenger route to Lake City. Mr. Cummer also says there is a prospect of extending the road twenty- five miles further out into a section as yet untouched, which will open up a still better trade for this city. _—< -2- <> The Cape Cod Cranberry Crop. Advices from Cape Cod state that the cranbery bogs at the lower end of the Cape still continue to show up favorably. The berries are well set and growing finely, in- dicating good prospects. The berry worm has made inroads in few localities, but, as a general thing, the fruit is not badly eaten. Harvesting will begin about September 10 for early blacks, and the 25th for later vari- eties. rt Tay for the Ould Blind Woman. Fromthe New York Sun. Grocer—Half a pound of tea? Which will you have—black or green? Servant—Shure, aythur will do. | an ould woman that’s a nearly blind. | Tts for Michivan Dairymen’s Association. i Organized at Grand Rapids, February 25, 1885. President—Milan Wiggins. Bloomingdale. Vice-Presidents—W. H. Howe, Capac; F. 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, Vriesland; R. C. Nash, Hilliards; D. M. Adams, Ashland; Jos. Post, Clarks- ville. Secretary and Treasurer—E,. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. ; Next Meeting—Third Tuesday in February, 1886. Membership Fee—#1 per year. Official Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. MISCELLANEOUS. ~—— | | Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted in this column at the rate of 25 cents per weck, | each and every insertion. One cent for each | additional word. Advance payment. —————— Pena Serene ee ee = | NOR SALE—Eight hundred dollars will buy | a good stock of groceries, 4% acre of land, | and one two-story building in a lively business | town. Address, Postmaster, Eckford, Calhoun | County, Mich. 104* | RUG STORE FOR SALE—Stock will in- \ voice $1,800. Will sell for $1,200 cash. ; Good town, good trade, and satisfactory rea- sons for wishing to seil. Address “*C,” oe 102* | MAN Oifice. | XX7ANTED—Situation by an experienced drug clerk. Address D, Box 1632, Mus- | kegon, Mich. 101* 7 7 | G gee ener? Young man, wants a situation in drug store. | jections to small cities. Good references. | dress “Pp.” care THE TRADESMAN. 19 ANTED—To exchange for general mer- \ chandise, 2,000 acres of timbered lands. | The timber on said lands is hemlock, beech and | maple, ork and yellow birch, 1% 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 experienced, No ob- Ad- 1* {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. pee 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. Address, ‘‘Patent,”’ care ‘The Tradesman.”’ 94tt 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@$7.50 at both | markets. New York and Boston tanners pay | $8.50. | Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.59 per pound | for clean washed roots. | Rubber Goods—Local 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 | prices as follows: trade selling | Fresh Beef, sides...............-+-+++. 6 GT ' Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 7 @8 | Dressed MOGs... ss... ens s 6 @ 6% | Matton, CATCBSSES.....-..-....:-...... 54@ 6 WBN es se aos So ewes oe ae ae 8 @ I ePork SAUSARe =... 265 oo tee T4@ 8 HROlOP UA 626s ie cae 8 @9 MOWISS: 6h ee et ee 12 @14 Spring Chickens..............-- eis @is HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock: Basswood, log-run. ...........2....3. @13 00 Birch, log-run.:.......:....: Se 16 00@20 00 Birch, Nos. land 2.........-.-...-... @25 00 Black Ach lOp-Tun.. 7.655, ..5..--.- @l14 00 Cherry, 10e-run.........-...-- 5 , 25 00@35 00 Cherry, Nos: 1 and 2.........-......- 55 00 Cnermy. Cul. io see sess ee 10 00@12 00 Maple, log-run..... Ps oa 13 00@15 00 Maple, soft, log-run................. 11 00@14 00 i Maple; NOS: 1and 7... 6. se et @16 00 | Maple, clear, flooring................ @25 00 | Maple, white, selected............... @25 00 1 REG Oak, lOR-TUN. 2.6.6.5 6.-252 0. s- @15 00 | Red Oak, Nos.1] and 2........... ee @20 00 | Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.......... @25 00 W alnvt 108-TUnN 0. ol... @a55 00 Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2.; ..:.3.....:..4 @75 00 Valitse; Guise ese se ee @25 00 Water Elm, log-run.................. @11 00 White Ash, log-in. .7.. 2... <2 00. ss. 14 00@16 00 Whitewood, log-run................- @23 00 HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. | Perkins & Hess quote as folLows: HIDES. Green ....8@ ih 6 @ 6%/|Calf skins, green Part cured... 7 @ 7%|_ or cured.... @10 Fulleured.... 84@ 8%/|Deacon skins, Dry hides and 48 piece..... 20 @50 HIMS 5 ..5...: 8 @I12 SHEEP PELTS. BUCOTUNGA. ooo ge ss eee se 10 @25 TAAIND BING 5s soos ee oes see 20 @40 Old wool, estimated washed # fb...... @20 PAUOW 5.50555 ye es a ae See ae 4Y@ 43% wool. Fine washed # 20@25|Unwashed........ 2-3 Coarse washed.. .16@18 * WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. PAPE BBD DLL LLIB OOOO LL OL LL These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. Advanced—London layers raisins, domestic Holland Herring. Declined—Gunpowder. AXLE GREASE. ravers, .. 2... <5: 2 80|Paragon ........... 1 80 Diamond.......2... 1 75|Paragan 25 b pails.1 20 INMOGOC. .2 25.2. recs. 1 65 BAKING POWDER. Arctie% beans.... 45| Arctic 1 cans....2 40 Arctic 4Icans...._ 75|Arctic 51 cans. ...12 00 Arctic 4 bcans. . 1 40) BLUING. Dry. NO. 2 .-....... 2: --.---.-- se -- doz. 25 Wry. NO. 8. eee ae doz. 45 Liquid, 4 OZ,.......-0. eee cece ce eeee doz. 35 Liquid, 8 OZ. ...... 6. cee eee e eee eee ee doz. 65 Avetic 4 OZ:. & .2..-. 21s. ss ews e et oe #2 gross 4 00 PATCHIGS OZ. 26.052. 5 oe ee eee ene ee see 8 00 TATCHIGNG OZ... 2... 525 5- oe oe ae et eee 12 00 Arctic No. 1 pepper DOX......-... essen eee 2 00 Arctic No.2 8 nee ee eens ee eee ee ee 3 00 Arctic No. 3 ae Bose as fe cee . 4 50 BROOMS. No. 1Carpet........ 2 50|N O. 2 Baumhe 2... 175 No. 2Carpet........ 2 25|Fancy Whisk....... 100 No. 1 Parlor Gem..2 75|CommonWhisk.... 75 INO. PEUr 2... 2 00 : CANNED FISH. Clams, | standards...........+.--+eeee- 1 40 Clains, 2 ib standards.........--..----+-++- 2 65 Clam Chowder, 3 1...........----+ eee -eee 2 20 Cove Oysters, 1 fb standards.............. 1 10 Cove Oysters, 2 Ib BCANGALGS. 00.0... 05. 2 00 Cove Oysters, 1 i slack filled............. 75 Cove Oysters, 2 tb slack filled.............. 1 05 Lobsters, 1 Ih picnic. ...........----.2-06-- 175 Lobsters, 1 ID star.......-...--.5---- cece eee 2 00 Wobsteta 2 Ip Skul...) ...-5-.55..-.---- 3. - 3 00 Mackerel, if fresh standards............ 1 00 Mackerel, 5 ib fresh standards............ 6 50 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 b..........- 3 25 Mackerel,3 bin Mustard.........---+---++- 3 20 Mackerel, 3 i broiled............---...-+6- 3 25 Salmon, 1 ib Columbia river..........-.-.- 1 40 Salmon, 2 ib Columbia river............--- 2 60 Salmon. 1% Sacram€nto...............+5: 1 25 Sardines, domestic 148........-- +--+ eee e eee 6 Sardines, domestic 48...........----+-+: 11 Sardines, Mustard 148........-..------00+- 10 Sardines, imported \48...........--....++ 13 Mrout. oD DEOOK...:<............-.-.---- 2 75 CANNED FRUITS. Apples, 3 tb standards .............-+++--+- 90 Apples, gallons, standards..............-. 2 40 Blackberries. standardS...........0-02-+6- 1 05 Cherries, red standard..........2.......-- 80 WamisOWS 2). G6 5. eee. 1 00 Egg Plums, standards .............+.+-+- 1 40 Green Gages. standards 2 tb........-..---5 1 40 Peaches, Extra Yellow ...........-2+.-2.--2 40 Peaches, standards...........-..---- 1 T5@1 95 Reqenes. SECONGS........-......-.-.--- ---- 1 50 Pineapples, Hrie............-..---. «+--+. 2 20 Pineapples, standards...........----.+++-- 170 QUINGES .. 2.0... eee ee eee eee cet eee ee 1 45 Raspberries, Black, Hamburg............ 1% CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA. Apricots, Lusk’s...2 40|/Pears.............-. 3 C0 Egg Plums......... 2 50iQuimees............- 2 90 Grapes). :....5...-- 2 50|\Peaches ........... 3 00 Green Gages....... 2 50 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay..........-....+.--- 3 25 Beans, Lima, standard............-..-..-. 75 Beans, Stringless, Erie.............-.-.+-- 95 Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 1 60 Gorn, Prophy.......-....-...-...-:.-.---.-. 1 05 Peas. Breneh.----.. 6.222... 5- 5... -.- I to Peas, Marrofat, standard...............--- ig Reus, Beaver .......:.......-....---------- 90 Peas, early small, sifted...............-.-- 1 80 Pumpkin, 3 t Golden............-.--..--+. 83Q@YS Succotash, standard...............- Sets 90 Momatoes, Trophy. ..................-.-... 1 QU CHOCOLATE. BOSTON) 65. ...0 66 36|German Sweet.......25 WaIGIS (000s. 12.--- 38) Vienna Sweet ....... 23 RUMOR. ce 35| COFFEE. Green Rio...... 9@13 |Roasted Mar...17@18 GreenJava..... 1i@2%7 |Roasted Mocha.28@30 Green Mocha. . .23@25 Roasted Rio....1l0@15 Roasted Mex...17@20 Ground Rio.... 9@16 | Roasted Java ..28@30 |Package Goods @12% . CORDAGE. 72 foot gute ....- 125 |%2foot Cotton....2 25 60 foot Jute..... 100 |60 foot Cotton....2 00 40 Foot Cotton....1 50 [50 foot Cotton....1 75 FISH. Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.............. 65 @od Whole. 4@5 (og BOnciesS...5.)0 23.162 3.e se 5@6 PIA = 66s cs 8 1 Herring % WDIS...:........2,...-.-..-..-.. 2 50 Herring, Holland, domestic... ..... ....- 70 Se : TMMOrted. .-.- 25... .-. 1 10 Herring, Scaled...................-...-..-- 22@24 Mackerel, shore, No. 2, % bblis............ 5 00 © “ So 2 ID KIth 8. 80 ee Oe ie ° No.3. % bbis..:...- ee. 3 50 e fe 12 i Kilts. 2)... 62 ft CoA 5d Shad. 26 Obl 2 50 rout, 34 DDIS.. 6.5.62... we 3 50 fo 12D KGS ete. 60 Oe OQ es es. 5d White. No. 1.44 bbls.......:.-.....-2...-... 5 0U White, No. 1.12 i Kits..................-.. 80 White, NO. 1: 10% kits... .-.... 10... 7 White, Hamily, 4% bbis.....-..............- 2 65 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Lemon. Vanilla. Jennings) 207...) -........2...- # doz.100 1 40 o AOD eo ee ese os 150 250 a COZ. ot. 250 400 te BO 6 oc... 3850 500 No. 2 Paper... 20... 20. 125 150 fs INO ee. 1% 300 ss woinh LOUNG...--.5.. 05... 450 7 50 es 1 ee eke l cece es 9 00 15 00 “ INO. 8 63.0650 oe: 300 425 se INO. 10:0 20 ee... 425 600 FRUITS Cherries, dried, pitted................. @I16 Citron es. 28@33 GUNENNGS ee, 434, @5 Reaches: GrieG@ 2..5..0.5........<00.... 2@18 Prunes, Turkey, new.................-. QA Prunes, French, 50 ib boxes........... 10@13 Raisins. Valencias.....:.2.......:..... 9@9% Raisins, Layer Valencias.......... @12% Raisins, Ondsaras.-...0-.......20.5:--: @13 Raisins. Sultanas:......-........ 2525. 1%~@ 8% Raisins, Loose Muscatels............. @3 00 Raisins, London Layers............... @3 60 Maisins: Dehesias.........2....2....:.. @A 25 b Raisins, California Layers............ @3 10 KEROSENE OIL. Water White...... 104% | Legal Test....... . 8% MATCHES. Grand Haven, No. 9, square...............- 1 50 Grand Haven, No. 8, square..............4- 1 50 Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 2 2a Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor.............. 35 Grand Haven, No. 7, round................ 2 25 Oshkosh, No: 2:....:.:....2:.. So ec uses « 110 Oshkosh, NO. &.....-..:...2..... eee 1 60 Swedish 60.000 .0600 3 2. eee 75 Richardson’s No. 2 s8quare..............-06- 2 70 Richardson’s No. 6 QO, 2.2.3. 2 70 Richardson’s No. 8 G0 eee. yb Richardson’s No. 9 QO) 2 5d Richardson's No. 19, do: .....0...:.52..2. 1% MOLASSES. Black Strap... 2.00.52. ee as H@16 IPOVCO MICO. 3 es ee 28@30 New Onleans: 000-1... 65... 5... ee. 38@42 New Orleans, Choice... 50.25...) 3 ol. 48@50 New Orleans, fancy...... .4....... -....- 52@55 % bbls. 3e extra. OATMEAL. Steel cut: .2..0 2.53: 5 25|Quaker, 48 tbs...... 2 35 Steel Cut, % bbis...3 00 Quaker, 60 tbs...... 2 50 Rolled Oats........ 3 60|Quaker bbls........ 6 00 PICKLES. Choicein barrels med..............---- @A 75 Choice in 4% GO oes @3 15 PIPES. Imported Clay 3 gross................- 2 25@3 00 Importeée Clay, No. 216,38 gross..... .. @2 25 Imported Clay, No. 216, 24% gross...... @1 85 American Dee ee cae. s @ 90 : RIC... Good Carolina...... 6 Java... 662. 64@6% Prime Carolina..... 644i Patna 23. 22 6:2... 6 Choice Carolina..... 7 |Rangoon....... 54@6% Good Louisiana..... 5% | Broken...........:.- 3% SALERATUS. DeLand’s pure...... 54%4|Dwight’s ............ 54 Churen’s 223... .2-. 54|Sea Foam........... 5% Taylor’s G. M....... 544|Cap Sheaf........... 5M SALT. 60 Pocket, F F Dairy..............-... 2 25 OP POGKOL.. 50. oo eg ech chat cece ceeds 2 2 1003 I pockets............ 2. ce eeeeeeeee 2 45 Saginaw or Manistee..............-.+- 1 06 Diamond ©... 25. as cage nts ca de 1 60 Standard Coarse...........-sseceeeee ‘ 1 55 Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 80 Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 2 80 Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... 80 American, dairy, % bu. bags.......... 25 Mock, DUSHCIS..2 20. 2. cies cee ee ce 28 SAUCES. Parisian, % pints...........-....------ @2 00 Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ 7 Pepper Sauce, green..........6. esse eee @ 90 Pepper Sauce, red large ring........- @1 35 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @1 70 Catsup, Tomato, pints........... eocets @1 00 Catsup, Tomato, quarts .............. @1 35 Horseradish, % pints.................. @1 00 Horseradish, pints..................... @1 30 Halford Sauce, pints.................. @3 50 Halford Sauce, 4% pints.......... eee. @2 20 SOAP. Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne....... @4 60 st = SS MONGSY ...2.5.6.5.- @3 35 SPICES. Ground. Whole. Pepper..:.:.....\:; 16@25|Pepper ........... @i9 Alispice ........-. 12@15|Alispice.......... 8@10 Cinnamon........ 18@30|Cassha ..........-. @10 Cloves ........... 15@25 Nutmegs ........ 60@65 Gineer .. 22.5... 16@20\Cloves ...... <2 Gs Mustard. ......5.. 15@30) Cayenne ......... 25@35| STARCH. Kingsford’s, 1 ib pkgs., pure............ @6% se 6 1D DKES:, PUNE .2......... @6% s 1b pkgs., Silver Gloss.... @8& io 6 b pkegs., . 22, GBs sf 1 t& pkgs., Corn Starch.... @8 (Bulk) Ontario. ...:-..... @5 SUGARS. @ut oat.) 5) o.oo @i% @uhes 3... cose... eee @ IPOWACECQ oe G@G i%4 Granulated, Standard................. @B6 94 Granulated, Off). .0.. 2.02.6... eck. @6 88 ComeechiOnery A... 60.66.21 eee. @6 56 Standen A ee @ 6% extra ©; WHC. ..............5.5;-..-.- @ b4 Ixus © os ee @ 6 WUIN@ © a ce @ 5% Vellow ©... 00... .- eee G OSL ou gues. @ 5% Dar @ eo cl 5 @5%4 SYRUPS. Corn, Barrels. :.........5......-.:....- 30@32 Gorm: Se Dbises oo ee 32@34 Cor, (0 gallon kegs... 2. 6... 2.2... @ 35 Gorn, > gallon kegs. .....:.............. @1 75 Corn; 4% sallonkess................--- @1 69 IPUNG SUBAPe6 es aces bbl 28@ 35 Pure Sugar Drips.....-........-.. % bbl 380@ 38 Pure Sugar Drips........... 5 gal kegs @1 96 Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... ¥ bbl @ 8 Pure Loaf Sugar. ........ .dgalkegs @l 8 TEAS. SOPANOLGIMARY 6. eke 22@25 Japan fair to fO0d.................-......: 30G: AM NS ee 40@5 eam GQUBE 66s)... 6. es... 8k. 15@2 Wome; EnvSOM..-2 0. oe 80@50 GunPowder.....<......--..-. 385@50 @olons (5.2.3... se 838@55@60 CONGO 25@30 TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PAILS. Dark AmericanEHagle67\Sweet Rose.......... 45 The Meigs... ........ 64| Meigs & Co.’s Stunnerss Red Bird) 220.5... DOPAtIES oo oe. 35 piste Seal... 2... ..- 60)Royal Game........ 38 Prairie Flower ......65|Mule Ear............. 35 Climber: 236520. .5:: 52 Roumtain............. 74 Indian Queen........ 60)Old Congress......... 64 Bull for... 60|Good Luck...........52 Crown Leaf..... .... 66'Blaze Away.......... 33 Matehless...2.......- 60) Hair Patter... .... 2. 30 Ebianwatna 2. os. 5: GUGovernor ..........-. 69 Globes. 6 2.6... W0iRox's Choice........ 63 May Plower.......-.. {Oi Medallion’. .....0....- 35 lero 2) 000.22: ..: 45|\Sweet Owen.......... 66 Old Abe. . 49 PLUG. Oporto se. aes @i0 MGESSINEEG ) 220. @b2 Tie Binge oe @A6 @hersy Bounce)... ....:-.... sk: @44 WUStCE 8. se. @A0 INTnOd! ee. @44 OO : @A40 Bie Peter... 2. 22).0 252. 3.545. @38 Spreag Baele: | ......-----.-- @38 Bic Rive Center..............-..--..-. @35 Red (ROM eet. ee ee @48 PIO EVO: oe cece se ey ee @50 Seal of Grand Rapids.................. @46 PUERANT os ec ee. @46 Patrol ..... a, eae ae dea : @A48 Wake ADO ee cas cs tee wees @46 SmOwlakeG (3.0 0. ee @46 @hoeolate Cream: .....5.....:.-....2.-. @46 Woodcoek —:.......................... @46 Kanionts of Labor...............:...-.- @46 TORO ee ee ee @A6 Bio Bue ke. ee @32 Arab, 2x02 and 4x02. ..-.. 8... 5... @46 Blgek Bear 806. @37 Kanes @46 Old Five Cent Rimes... ...............-. @38 Prone Nusgett, 1216 .............-....- @62 MPOPROE 608 66 ee ee @A6 Old Wime 2.5 a. @3 ATAIMNIWaAY. 0... 5... soe. oe. @A8 GlOBY, oe ee @46 Silver Goi. 2....0....-.225........:-- @50 Buster [Dark]... .°.-...:-......-..-.-- @36 Black Prinee [Dark]..............-..-. @36 Black Racer [Dark]. ...-:.........-.. @36 Leggett & Myers’ Star................. @46 Oligo - @46 Hold Hast 2.200200 522 2222s @46 McAlpin’s Gold Shield................. @46 Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 } cads....... @d51 Cock of the Walk 6S. .°................ @37 Nobby Rwist.....-....-........--...... @46 INGORE eee G46 @RresGeMnt 2 6.6 o ss ek @44 Bisck Mo. @35 bigck ASS) 9 @A0 Spring os @46 Grayine fo se @46 MACIIMNAW 6.6. 25202. @45 FIOESG SHOE... . 6.0.2 @A4 lens FAbber ol ee. @35 DD and DP. DIaeK .. 22... oote se. @36 McAlpin’s Green Shield............... @Ab Ace: High, Diaelc......-..5.......-.... @35 Salons SOlNGE 2... 22..--............. @46 2c. less in four butt lots. . SMOKING Ol Tar: 225.00. osc. 40\Conqueror ........... 23 Arthur’s Choice..... 221 Grave co. 32 Red Box. 2.000202... 26|seal SRN) ooo... 60... 30 NEG ss fe 28)ROD HOW.. .5...05.5.. 26 Gold Dust..........-- 26\Uncle Sam........... 28 Gold Block........... 30; Lumberman ......... 25 Seal of Grand Rapids [Railroad Boy......... 38 (cloth) 202302606. .25| Mountain IROSe......- 18 Tramway, 3 OZ....... 40) Home Comfort....... 25 Ruby, cut Cavendish 35 Old Rip............... dD ROSS 92... we 15|Seal of North Caro- Pecks Sun... 4... 2. AS) ime, 207... 48 Miners and Puddlers.28 Seal of North Caro- Morning Dew........ 25| lina, 40Z............ 46 Chains 2.60. ses. 22 Seal of North Caro- Peerless ...........:: a ee 41 Standard ...........-. 22|Seal of North @aro- Goer 21| lina, 16 oz boxes....40 Pom & JOrry.....-:.. 2 Bip Dears... 550.6... 20 Toner 2 ns, 95 Apple Jack........... 24 Praveler ooo... 00..5 3. 35|King Bee, longeut.. .22 Maiden...) 05202155 25|Milwaukee Prize....24 Pickwick Club..... * AQ Rattler 0.05 oo... 28 Nigger Head......... 26; Windsor cut plug....25 Proliand:.) 02)... 2... PAIACTO. 206. oo0. ek oe 16 German: |. .5.......- 16, Holland Mixed....... 16 Solid Comfort... ... .30'Golden ASO. fl... 7d Red Glover. .........32)Mail Pouch.......... 25 Hong Pom...) 2-2... 30; Knights of Lakor....30 National :...:...- ....26|Free Cob Pipe........ 2 ime 2 261 SHORTS. Globe 21|Hiawatha......... eee Muie Har. ........--.. 23'Old Congress......... 23 SNUFF. Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..... @ sc MSGCEODON.. <.2....555...2.- @ 5d Gail & Ax’ Oe eee @ 44 a Map WGCn. 260... oe. @ 35 Railroad Mills Scotch................. @ 45 Powmmeck (2.05 oe oe @i 30 VINEGAR. Pure Cider..... . 8@12 White Wine...... 8@12 MISCELLANEOUS. Bath Brick imported .......... Dees 95 qo = American. .2....:.5........ 90 IBREIOY = oo ae @3 Burners, NO.E 20.2... 2.6... .- 5... 1 00 oO One ee ek 1°50 Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... 8 00 Cream Tartar 5 and 10 fb cans......... 15@25 Candles, Stam... ..-<..-..<..-..-.....--. @13% @Gandles: Hotel... 2.6... i. @l4 Hntrach Cotee, Vv. ©... 5... so. @80 do HENS 2262 es 1 25 Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @30 Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ @AO Gum: Spruce... 3.5.22. c 8 es. 30@35 Hlonuuy, @ DDL... ...2.0.... 2-6 2- 5. @4 00 Selby. i380 1. pals. ..... 2... 15... 22... @ 4% Peas, Green Bush...............-.-4- =. @1 35 Peas, Split prepared..................; @ 3% Powder, Kee... 8... 2.865... ee @3 00 Powder, % Kem. .............0.5.-..-.- @l1 75 OYSTERS AND FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 5 OYSTERS. mh J.D: Selecta... 3. ec - 35 WiANGGEOS (0.60.22 .5 cease ee Vaca FRESH FISH. Mackinaw. CROUl. - 2.2.6. .5..60 3 120 ace ene 6 Whitehelh 9.22. eaiae ees a. 6 nO PRASS os es ee oe acc cee 8 Cad ch ee. 12 Gite HIB iers oo oe es see ceca Ces cape « 5 Roek Bans. <2... 56 oe cca. et 5 WOON ooo Soe oa oo ent oes oe ceca 4 Tig Bil Puke oo a ee 5 Wall-eyed Pike.... 2... 5.1... se eens sees es 6 Smoked White Fish...............-.00520 ese 10 Srniciked EPOUL. .. 22. sok ss cee Se ees acieee esse 10 Smoked SHurmeON........ cece cc cces coupe as 10 CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Siraignt, 2ijp BOOS... ........5. 2-20 ss 84a9 Twist, OO se ce oss . 9@9% Cut Loaf G0 ee cs. 10%@11 MIXED : Moyal, 2) 10 pails... 6.5... .-. 2. cece 9@ 9% OVA, ZOU OIG ooo kw hae cake sce se @8% IPPCbra 20 PANS... 6... eo ccs nce ae ee 10@10% Hretras Aer in OBIS 86. ee ee 9@9% French Cream, 25 tb pails.............. 124@18 Gut loxt, 25 eases... 2... se 2a... 2s. 124% Broken, 25 Thipails...... 2.6.5. c2 si. ee W@i0% Broken. 40 Wy Dbis.... 0... . 9@ Yve FANCY—IN 5 Ib BOXES. Memon Props. 22.20.2025. 12@138 Sour Drops. .............- Siege eae 1L@14 Pepperminw Drops... -. 2. ...02 25522. 14@15 Chocolate Drops... <...-.. .. ccc 5 eee 15 eM Chocolate Brops...........2.2.....2.... 20 Gum Drops 2... 10 ieorice Drone... kk. oc AH Eicorice Pragps. =—s_—««. 12 WOZCM POR, WEE 8 so oe oo oe boc ws 2 15 Bozenmes, primted............ 2.20... 16 WOR IS 208 ee 15 IMOGRCOCR 2 oc. ce. oc ee 15 Cream Bar: .2..... Reo eee 13@4 IMOGISRGOS Bar... 68. fe oe. 13 OCOERMGIN ee ee, 18@20 Hand Made Creams .....--.... 0... 20 He bswine- @esimSe 6 ee i7 DECOLAECR CLEA. oo 5. c 66. ook cue ek 20 Sein ROCK 2. oe H@15 BuEeme Almonds... 3:00.02... 22 Wintergzeen Berries........... ......... 3d FANCY—IN BULK. Lozenges, plain in pails............... @12% Lozenges, plainin bbis................ ll @ll% Lozenges, printed in pails............ . @RY Lozenges, printed in bbls...... ee 1Y4@12 Chocolate Drops, in pails.............. WY4G@13 Gum Drops Mm opails.... ........5..1..e- 7 @i% Gum Drops, in bbIS.... 2... 2.5... oee en 6@ 6% Moss Drops, in pails..................- 10 @10% Moss DEOQDS My DDIS. .:. 2.2.0.0... 2s. 9 Sour Props, im pars.....2.0. 2.50055. 6 12 IRDORIBIS, TN PRIS... 2... 8. c 1224%@138 Imperais mm bbs. 2 a FRUITS. : Bananas. Aspinwall... ................. 1 50@3 50 Oranges, Rodi Messina................ 5 00@5 50 Oranges, Napids...<...................4 50@4 15 Bemons, Choiee....................-.- 6 56@ 7% 60 WGMmOnS, FANCY. ooo... Ss, 7 5 Bios Inwers, qe... -. 6. 222 ok, 0 @ll ates, fratis dO -... 2.2)... 2a... 62 @D 4 ted. 4 OO dO... 22. ots. @ 6 bes, SME... 2. 62. ee. @ 4% Dates skin @5- Dates, Fard 10 ib box @ b............. Dates, Fard 50 ib box $ Ib.............. Dates, Persian 50 tb box # tb.......... 6 @6% Pine Apples, ® doz.................. : PEANUTS. Prime Hed, raw Ip. ... 2... 25... ese. 4 @4% Choice do dO. 5,.... Sug ene. 444@ 5 Fancy do GQ 3... 2.22: 2. @ 5% Choree White; Va.d0:.... 20.0000. k.. 5@ 5% Hancy Hoe.. Va dO... .:.. 22... 2... 54@ 6 NUTS. Almonds, Werragoua.................. 18 @18% £* HORER 226s lj @1i% Praag oe e.. c Ge WOES, SICH. -<. <0 4c... ok ek 12 @12% te iBaceelona 20 ll @12— Walnuts, Grenoble. ..22.0............- 14 @14% ce Marne i s Brennen... 0... 52 soos. css . CahfOrnia.:.......-- eas Peeans, Texas, EOP... ce. 10 @li ss IMISSOUED 020.2 55.2202. 5. oe ce Cocoamuts, @ 100)... 2... :..2 2.8... 4 00@4 50 PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co quote as foilows: PORK IN BARRELS. Mess, Ghieaco packing... .................-. 10 00 Clear, Chicaeo packing. .............-.....- 11 00 ibxpra Hamily Cloge.. 2... 55.30... 6. ena cee 11 00 Clear A. Webster paciker................-. ixtra Clear, R€avy...:.....:.-.. <2... 2625: s- OStOn Clear. 92... 22.) 20... 5.2 A. Webster, packer, short cut............. 10 75 Clear back. Short €ub...-..: ....<<2. 2 cca. 12 50 Standard Clear, the best. .........:..2:...- 12 % DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. Shore Clearg, Beavy.........-.....-...-. 6% do. WICC. |... 265 cs, 6% do. Heme...) 2c... 5: . ce 6% Long Clear Backs, 500 Ib cases......... 7 Short Clear Backs, 500 Ib cases......... 7% Long Clear Backs, 300 Ib cases......... 1% Short Clear Backs, 300 fb cases......... 73 Bellies, extra quality, 500 Ib cases...... 644 Bellies, extra quality, 300 Ib cases...... 34 Bellies, extra quality, 200 Ib cases...... 7 SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN, Boneless Hams 0... 6... 10% Boneless Showlders................-.-....-<- 6 Breaikctase Bacon... ..- .. 2... 25.2. 5... 8: 8 Dried Beef, extra -quality....¢...........--. 9% Dried Beet, Ham pieces..................-.- Shoulders cured in sweet pickle............ 6 LARD. PNIGKGGS (eos a oc oe ae ess 634 $0 and 51) ib Tubs ...._.. a 50 ib Round Tins, i00 cases t LARD IN TIN PAILS. 20 Th Round Tins. 80 ib raecks............ 71g oD Pats, 20 im & Case. .c_...<.....-.-- 7% Wh Pons. Gtk a CASO. -......-..--...2..- i” 10 i Pails, 6in a case..... 736 BEEF IN BARREL Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 Ibs........ 10 25 IBOnCICRS. GXELA....- 04... 2.2. 20556. ee i4 50 SAUSAGE—FPRESH AND SMOKED. ROBE SHUBSOO eis. nase ?-—__-_——- New Uses for Paper. « The variety of uses which have been found for paper during the past few years is something marvelous. There appears to be no limit to the advancement in this direc- tion. Inventive genius is constantly devis- ing improved manufacturing processes which utilize paper in some of its forms, and adapt it to new uses. In Germany, a pro- cess was recently patented for making paper bricks and planks. Paper smoke-stacks for stationary engines and locomotives are also said to be coming into use in that country. In England, a manufacturer has succeeded in making shoes, slippers, sandals, etc., of paper, which he claims will wear nearly or quite as wellas leather, besides beipg much cheaper. Paper napkins long since ceased to be a novelty, and in Japan paper hand- kerchiefs are used extensively. A New Jersey firm is now manufacturing paper counterpanes and pillow coverings which are said to be of excellent quality. An Ohio man has just patented a paper window shutter, which he warrants to withstand the action of rain, sun, and frost, and not to rattle in the wind. Paper carpets, mattings, ete., are manufactured quite extensively in this country, as are also a large variety of small ornamental and useful articles, too numerous to mention in detail. Paper car wheels have been used for years, with good results. A western man, some two years ago, patented a process for making lumber from straw, which he reduced toa pulp, very much as in the first stages of paper- making. Paper lap-boards for seamstresses are coming into quite general use, as are also paper plates for picnicing and other purposes. Pails, wash-basins, and other household utensils made of paper are fa- miliar to almost every housekeeper. In- deed, to enumerate all the articles of utility and ornament which are made wholly or in part from paper, would fill every page of this journal. We have had the stone age, the copper age, and the iron age. Are we not approaching the paper age? ee Substitutes for Gutta Percha. In view of the rapidly extending use of india rubber and the danger that the supply will eventually run short, many efforts have been made to discover a substitute for it. A Frenchman, M. Heckel, claims to have been suecessful in this quest. He has found that upon evaporating the juice or milk of the tree known to botany as Birty- rospermum Parkii, a product is obtained which closely resembles gutta percha. This tree grows abundantly in equitorial Africa, in latitudes between Upper Senegal and the Nile, and in the forests bordering the Niger. The fruit of the tree is much prized by the Africans, and yields an oleaginous sub- stance which they call Karite. M. Heckel has sent seeds of this tree to England, with the suggestion that an attempt be made to introduce it into India, where he thinks it may successfully be cultivated. M. Heckel is of opinion that there are several varieties of trees native to India which will furnish a product that may be used as a substitute for gutta percha. A recently invented compound known as gelatinized fiber is coming into quite gen- eral use, in the United States, as a substi- tute for hard rubber. As an electrical in- sulator, and for many other purposes, it meets with much favor, and is said to be fully equal for many purposes, to the more costly gutta percha. ANDREW WIERENGO WHOLESALE GROCER, FULL LINE OF SHOW CASES KEPT IN STQCK. WIERENGO BLOCK, PINE STREET, - MUSEEGON, MICH. FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDG: Wholesale Grocers, AGENTS EFOxrt KNIGHT OF LABOR PLUG, The Best and Most Attractive Goods on the Market. Send for Sample Butt. See Quotations in Price-Current. THE GRAND RAPIDS ROLLER MILLIS MANUFACTURE A NEW IMPROVED PATENT ROLLER FLOUR. The Favorite Brands are “SNOW-FLAKE,” AND “LILY WHITE PATENT,” AND FANCY PATENT “ROLLER CHAMPION.” Prices are low. Extra quality guaranteed. Write for quotations. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO, EAST END BRIDGE ST. BRIDGE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CLARK, JEWELL & CO, VW ELOLEISAIE: roceries and Provisions, 83, 85 and 87 PEARL STREET and (14, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = = - MICHIGAN. — WITH — DOUBLE THICK | BALL, Ordinary Rubber Boots always wear out first on the ball. The CANDEE Boots are double thick on the ball, and give DOUBLE WEAR. Most economicalrub- ber Boot in the market. Lasts longer than any other boot, and the PRICE NO HIGHER Call and ex- amine the goods. mek Bin Manufacturers of LEATHER AND RUBBER BELTING, and all kinds of RUBBER GOODS, Fire Department and mill supplies. Jobbers of “Candee” Rubber Boots, Shoes ‘and Arctics, Heavy and Light Rubber Clothing. Salesroom No. 13 Canal street. Factory, 26 and 28 Pearl St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. READ! READ! READ HAZELTINE, PERKINS & CO. have Sole Control of our Celebrated Pioneer Prepared = Paunt! The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE. Read it. When our Pioneer Prepared Paint is put on any building, andif 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 Hazeltine, Perk d OO. GRAND RAP{IDS, MICH, THE NEW CIGAR. WARREN'S SPECKLED HAVANA They are a novelty in the Cigar line. Every one of them is naturally speck- led. The greatest sellers ever put on the market. We solicit a trial order from every first-class dealer in the State. Fully guaranteed. FOR SALE BY Kemink, Jones & Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. O.W.BLAIN & CO., Produce Commission Merchants, ——DEALERS IN—— < Foreige and Domestic Fruits, Southern Vegetables, Etc We handle on Commission BERRIES, Ete. All orders filled at lowest market price. Corres- pondence solicited. APPLES AND POTATOES in car lots Specialties. NO. 9 IONIA ST. me. FATOAS, Wholesale & Commission--Butter & Boos a Specialty. 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 AQ DESIGNS BUCK’S COTTAGE and OTHER DESIGNS. It shows a great variety of cheap and medium priced Cot- tages, besides a number of useful hints and suggestions on GS ee ean TF areatmement obie plane, sanitary questions, etc. Bound in paper, price, 50 cents. Address Fred. A. Hodgson, Publisher, 294 Broadway, N. Y. 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. and Bish! i117 monroe st. PHREINS 2& HESS, DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE, “ Glass Lamps this year are out in finer styles and lower prices than ever before. The “LULU” as- sortment in amber, blue, and light green, contains the very latest shapes, at new prices, fully 20 per cent lower than last year.