The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-07-30

Twelve Hundred Troops Now ..Encamp.d
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Twelve Hundred Troops Now .Eno.mp.d
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BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, July 80.
The rife range at Camp Douglas has
never put Oh more gay attire and has
never been visited by more notable per-
sons than it has this year. The range
10 m OF the finest in the country ma
urally. and has been made as nearly
perfect a. it can be. There are now
nearly 1900 troops encamped there, in
Guiding the regulars from Fort Smell.
ing. The strictest military discipline
il enforced, and to the old soldier it ia
. wonderful reminder OF the earlv
eos. and it is afavorite resort for the
veterans to go and live over again the
stirring times they experienced 80
wears ago.
Not Anxious for Holmes.
TORONTO, Ont, July 3O.-Thouph
Acting Attorney General Hardy has
not yet given his decision, it is learned
on most reliable authority that Toronto
will not ask for the extradition of
Holmes until all legal have
been exhausted in the United States.
The attorney general is under the i'm.
impression that the police authorities
here have been a little too sanguine in
their belief that they have strong
seNQDt rh evidence to hang Holmes.
INDUCEMENTS" TO RETAILERS.
Goods md Valuable Articles Given Fs,
the Price Of the Goods.
Something will have to be done to
discourage Inducements to retailers,
declared a wholesale grocer. "A good
pure food law could do some good.
These inducements nov the cupidity
Of the retailer, and the suffers
by having imposed upon him inferior
or adulterated goods"
"What do you mean by induce.
rents?"
The grocer handed to the inquirer a
handsomely illustrated card on which
were the words:
Free with 500 pieces of Jolloppy's
CHATS not the name) chewing gum, the
handsome full gilt clock here pictured
at q cost to the retailer of $3-that is,
You get IS worth Of gum at retail and
q $3 clock all for S."
IF the manufacturer stopped at
chewing gum, the decentralization to
the trade would be slight. but this get
something for nothing idea is stimulat-
ed an along the line. 1t is bad enough
q Various lines of tobacco, but in the
lie OF ground spices and coffee it is
absolutely pernicious. It's a lucky con-
sumner that gets any genuine ground
spices now, or any goods that may be
cheapened by mixing. Mustard is mixed
with sawdust and made hot in the
mouth by the addition of cayenne pep
per. So it is with other things.
Here's a catalogue of a %manufactur-
q who unblushingly labels his book
absolutely pure spices. There are about
$50 different articles named in it as
prizes to grocers who buy these spices
in greater or less quantity. Among the
Inducements are musical boxes, fire.
arms, furniture Of all kinds. stoves,
sewing machines, store fixtures, show
cases, clocks. cyclopedias, bicycles, baby
carriages, lawn mowers, mackintoshes,
crockery. rugs, silvarware, watches and
clocks, gold headed canes, umbrellas,
and SO on up to delivery wagons and
two seated carriages. Here's the in
ducement in the last named:
with 750 pounds ground spices, alb
solutely pure, any assortment of all
eDiC0. mustard. ginger manner cinna.
mon, cloves, ETC., at rs cents q pound,
We give n of these carriages free. In
other words, $50 pounds Of spices and
the carriage all for $l87. So
1.-THE drug trade is afflicted with this
same sort Of thing and perhaps to as
great an extent as the grocery trade.
There ought to be some way Of heading
1t of. "-Indianapolis News.
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