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

SVVE SSoSI~S
Tweiv" Hundred Troops Now Enoampsd
There.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, july 80.
The rifle range at Camp Douglas has
never put On more gay attire and has
never been visited by more notable per-
sons han it has this year. The n
Is one OF the finest in the country ma.
uraliy. and has been made as nearly
perfect as it car be. There are now
nearly l,2OO troops encamped there, in.
ciudlng the regulars from Fort Smell.
ing. The strictest military discipline
Is enforced, and to the old soldier it ia
. wonderful reminder Of the early
DOS, and it is a favorite resort for the
veterans to go and live over again the
stirring times they experienced 30
wears ago.
Not Anxiou. for Holmes.
TORONTO, Ont, July 3O.-Thoueh
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
enough evidence to hang Holmes.
ENDORSEMENTS" TO RETAILERS. :
Goods aud Valuable Articles Given Fsl
the Pricc 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 move the cupidity
OF the retailer, and the consumer suffers
by having imposed upon him inferior
or adulterated goods"
What do you mean by induce.
uents?"
The grocer handed to the inquirer a
handsomely illustrated card on which
were the words:
Free with 500 pieces Of J%olloppy'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 % clock all for S."
IF the manufacturer stopped at
chewing gum, the Generalization to
the trade would be slight. but this get
something for nothing idea is stimulat-
ed all along the line. 1t is bad enough
in various lines of tobacco, but in the
line 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-
or 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 $50 pounds ground spices, alb
solutely pure, any assortment of all
spice, mustard, ginger, pepper, CHINA
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 $1S7. 5O.'
"The drug trade is afflicted with this
same sort Of thing and perhaps to as
great an extent al the grocery trade.
There ought to be some way Of heading
II of. "-Indianapolis News.