The herald., 1896-10-10
Local, Eastern AMI Foreign
Commercial Dealings
WALL STREET SPECULATION
Better System Of Deciding About Credits
Desired
Good outlook for Raisins-Benk Checks
In Doing Business-Fruit as a Health
Giving Diet-Local Markets
Steady

Certain noteworthy failures of late have
once more impressed upon the banking
community the desirability of some organ
ization whereby the nature and value of
credita may be more clearly known. I'm
this end has often been discussed. but
no progress has yet been made toward an
aaecompiished result; 1t Is easily conceived
such q consummation. Let us suppose
that the banks form an association for
their mutual protection in the matter Of
to be- an Woud
lne present clearing house associations.
II would be necessary for It to be In charge
of OF it trained 9fticial. and its SUCCESS could
pound themselves to report each loan made
by them. BY so reporting they would
enable the association to keep a record Of
nrm or corporation asking. credit. this in
FORMATION TO be impaired in confidence
to the members of the association.
The above remarks are pertinent. be-
cause the greatest need of the business
world today is a better knowledge of cred
its. Not more silver. nor more gold is the
garding whom it Is safe and whom 1t Is not
safe to trust. If credit is improved. the
business troubles of the world will right
not all the free coinage acts that can be
framed will bring prosperity. The part
which money. plays in the transactions of
DuoliC55 Is lIlSlBnlilcdHL COIupHToV Will
that played by credit The relative i'm
portance of the two Instruments is we'll
expressed by remark recently dropped
Could better afford 1ss to lose his money one than than
his credit."-United States Investor.
The outlook for raisins this year is gen.
era era o be eT ans nan @
for better prices than have prevailed for
number Of years, and the most hopeful
say they can nov begin to see future when
the commission system will be abolished.
The growers generally have come to the
decision to hold out determinedly for cash.
and most Of them are adhering to this de-
cision.--St. Louis Grocer.
The business of the United States which
was done by means of bank drafts and
checks in the single week ending Septem-
Der 10 was. in round numbers $500, 900 900.
In some single weeks this business amounts
to 81, l,0O0, 100000. In all these transactions
ISlch Sy not maae mers SO tSan Sast fso
In actual money passed from hand to hand
II this business had been done for cash:
silver In the United States to have made
the payments; but since but little money
was actually used, 1t shows that money
tions of commerce. and that it is only in
the small change of business that money
is handled over the counter.-Michigan
Tradesman.
Why for ages have people eaten apple
sauce with their roast goose and sucking
pig? Simply because the. acids and pep
tones in the fruit assist in dlges ting the
fats SO abundant in this kind of food.
For the same reason at the end Of heavy
dinner we eat our cooked fruits. and when
we want their digestive action even more
developed we take them. after dinner Il, IN
theiS natural uncoolsed state as desert. In
the past ages instinct has taught men to
do this; today. science tells them why they
did it, and this same science tells US that
fruit should be eaten as an aid to diges-
ton of other foods much more than IT Is
now. Cultivated fruits. such as apples
pears, cherries, Strawberries, grapes. etc..
contain on analysis very similar proper
tions of the same ingredients, which are
about / per cent of malic and other acids,
and / per cent of flesh-forming albumin
oids, with over 80 pc rotnt of water. Dtges-
tion depends upon the action Of pepsin In
the stomach. Fats are digested by these
acids and the bile from the liver. Now,
assist the acids of the stomach. Only
lately even royalty has been takinSg lemon lemon
Juice has been prescribed largely by ply
lcians to help weak digestion. simply be-