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& J ®) @ 0D v — Sultan of Borneo dreaded the Spaniards much, they feared Captain Kettle far more, and by the time the steamer had closed up with the island of Cuba they had conclinied to follow out their skip- per's orders, as being the least of the two evils which lay before them. Carnforth’s way of looking at the mat- ter was peculiar, He had all a healthy man’s appetite for adventure, and all a prosperous distaste for being man's wrecked. He had a strong personal Uking or the truculent little skipper, and, other being equal, would have cheer- iped him; but, on the other hand, uld not avold seeing that it was to his own Interests that the crew should get their way and keep the steamer out ot dangerous waters. And so, when finally he decided to stand by non-interferent, he prided himself a good deal on his forbear- and sald so to Kettle in as many e, words. That worthy mariner quite agreed with him. “It's the very best thing you could do, sir.” he answered. “It would hive annoyed me terribly to have had to shoot you out of mischief's way because you've been kind enoush to say you llke my poetry and be- cause I've come to see, sir, you're & gentieman.”™ They came to this arrangement on the morning of the day they opened out the secluded bay in the southern Cuban shore, where the contraband of war was to be run. Kettle calculated his whereabouts with niceness, and, after the midday observation, lay the steamer to for a couple of hours, and himself supervised his engineers while they gave a good overhaul to the ma- chinery. Then he gave her steam again and made his landfall four hours after the sunset. They saw the coast first as a black line ning across the dim gray of the night. It rose as they neared It, and showed a crest fringed with trees a foot steeped in white mist, out of which came the faint bellow of surf. Captain. Kettle, after a cast or two, picked up his marks and steamed in comfidently, with his sidelights dowsed ar three red lanterns in a triangle at his foremast head. He was pleasantly surprisél with the feeling easiness of it all t when the steamer had got well into the bight of the bay and all the 1 2 the bridge were peering at search of answering blaze of radiance suddenly on to her from astern and ddenly eclipsed, leaving them ent blinded by its dazzle. es in e 1080060 S550555¢ OWERFUL forces are now being in battle abray prepara- tory to the struggle that is to ensue ver the effort to pass a pure.foed the next session of Con- lently, but effectively, are the battle being formed and the devised plans placed In execu- will be one of the Dbitterest nal contests ever waged in his- one of the most universal con- Billions of dollars of capital and < and the welfare of eighty millions the opposing interests at awn at of people are stake. The battle is over the right of manu- facturers to place adulterations in foods. Investigation and reports from health of- ficers have proved that these adultera- tions eare often extremely injurious to and many deaths have been caused by them. The people, who have chosen & Congress to represent them at the nation’s capital, want that Congress to pass a law prohibiting the sale of foods made injurious from adulteration, decomposition or other cause of deteriora- tion. The manufacturers of adulterated foods want the natlonal Congress to de- feat any such measure that may be pro- posed, because they are now realizing $1,175,000,000 apnually from the sale of these adulterations—this according to the reported estimates of the Secretary of Agriculture. The men engaged in the making of gpurious foods represent a greater wealth than do the combined railroad and steam-— ship interests of America. Few people realize the enormous influence they con- trol. They treble the profits they would make from honest foods through the system they have of chemical treatments and coloring, which enable them to make factory refuse into apparently pure foods; to renovate and rehash old, decayed goods into something eptirely different from the original and sell them as tresh, whole- some products; to transform conglomerate gruit pulp into jellies and jams bearing the jabels of fruits of which they may not contain 2 particle; to chemically treat meats, tinned goods, of all kinds, soda fountain beverages, drugs, coffees, teas, spices, wines, whiskies, beers and every- thing else we eat or drink so as to avold the expense of the legitimate process of manufacture or of the purchase of gen- uine products and to give the consumer fraudulent substitutes instead. Through the use of these chemicals and colorings they are enabled to make fabu- Jous fortunes from products which other- wise would go to waste. The refuse of the factories, which they would have to haul away to the garbage plants and pay 10 have destroyed under other conditions, are mow made into tempting looking food products and named for fruits and meats P ich actually form no part of thelr con- tents. Costly plants have been installed for the purpose of making foods from this refuse. The manufacturers contend that it would work a great commercial hard- ship on them to force them to discontinue the practice after they have been at it so long and after they have gone to such great expense to bring about this “com- merclal economy."” The people contend that the manufac- turer has mo right to sell this factory refuse for pure food products, especially when they have no means of detecting it. sprouted from a glowing center away between the heads of the bay. and they watched it sweep past them over the surface of the water and then swept back agaln. Finally, after a little more dalliance it settled on the steamer and lit her and the ring of water on which she swam, like a ship in a lantern picture. = Carnforsh swore aloud and Captain Kettle 1it 4 fresh cigar. Those of the mongrel crew who were on the deck went below to pack their bags. “Well, sir,” sald Kettle cheerfully, “here we are. That's a Spanish gun- boat with searchlight, all complete”— he screwed up his eyes and gazed astern meditatively. “She's got the heels of us, too; by about five knots I should say. Just look at the flames coming out of her funnels. Aren’t they just giving her ginger down in the stokehold? Shooting will begin direct- ly, and the other blackguards ashore have apparently forgotten all about us. There isn’t a.light anywhere.” “What are you golng to do?” asked Carnforth. “Follow out Mr. Gedge's instructions, sir, and put this cargo on the beach. Whether the old Sultan goes there, too, remains to be seen. “That gunboat will cut you off in a quarter of an hour if you keep on this course. “With the extra five knots she can do as she likes with us, so I sha'n't shift my helm. It would only look suspicious.” “Good Lord!” said Carnforth, “as it our being here at all isn’t suspiclon itself.” But Kettle did not answer. He had, to use his own expression, “got his wits, working under forced draft,” and he could not afford time for idle specula- tion and chatter. It was the want of the answering signal ashore which up- set him. Had that showed against the black background of hills he would have known what to do. Meanwhile the Spanish warship was closing up with him hand over fist, and decision was necessary. Anyway the choice was a poor one. If he sur- rendered he would be searched, and with that damning cargo of rifles and machine guns and ammunition under his hatches, it was not at all improb- able that his captors might string. him up out of hand. They would have right on their side for doing so. The insurrectionists were not “recog- nized belligerents”; he would stand as a filibuster confessed; and as such would be due to suffer under that rough and ready martial law which cannot The consumer claims that when he pays his money for currant jelly he has a right to get currant jelly and not the inspis- sated juice of old peels, cast off cores, rotten apples and calves-feet. When he buys tinned peas he thinks it wrong that they should be colored with copper so as to be made injurious to health: he does not want boot-leg and chicory for coffea and he desires a like protection in the purchase of meats, drugs, teas, spices, -wines, beers, and the other ar- ticles of food and drink. He claims that the food manufacturer can make an ample profit by the manufacture of pure foods undefiled by poisonous chemicals and colorings and substitutes, and with- out the necessity of using cast-off matter in their composition. Raw products are cheaper In America than in nearly any other country and manufactured pro- ducts are higher in America than in near- Iy any other country. Therefore it does seem that the manufacturer ought to be content with the profits he would make without resorting to such base decep- tions. Every civilized nation in the world, excepting America, has a pure food law. It is the great injury to life and health caused by these chemically preserved and colored foods that make the people so anxious for a law prohibiting their use. They are the chief cause of nervousness, having the same effect on the nervous system as oplates and other poisons; they produce bowel trouble in children and often cause their death; they cause indi- gestion and kidney troubles and frequent derangement of the liver. Equally injuri- ous are decomposed and tainted foods which are permitted on sale in many towns and cities. Tons of these and chemically treated foods have been de- stroyed in Chicago since the beginning of the pure food crusade by the new Health Commissioner, Charles J. Whalen. Health Officer Darlington of New York has de- stroyed as great amounts there. Decom- posed and improperly kept foods are more apt to produce quick deatk from ptomalne poisoning. A law ought to pro- hibit their sale; and a dealer who sells them should be convicted as any other criminal. Careful inspection ought to be made to prevent toad stools being sold for mushrooms and to guard other like dangers. There is scarcely any restraint to the sale of any kind of foods in the United States now, save that imposed by the State and city laws, and they are as varied as they are numerous, making a maze of confusion that is bewildering to the dealer, the manufacturer and the public. Sudden deaths are often caused by the different kinds of impure foods, but per- baps the greatest harm is done by those containing just enough -adulterants to avold immediate {ll consequences. These are the kind that undermine the health of the child and adult and cause slow death, which is generally attributed to some other cause. How many deaths of this kind occur can only be surmised, but it would doubtless be appalling if the truth were known. Among the recent deaths from impure foods are the following, compiled from reports recelved at the office of “What to Eat,” in Chicago: Thomas Daugherty, Vinita, L T., extract, THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. spare time to feed and jail prisoners. On the other hand, if he refused to heave to the result would be equally simple; the warship would sink him with her guns inside a dozen minutes; and, reckless daredevil though he might be, Kettle knew quite weil there was no ‘chance of avolding this. With another crew :he might have been tempted to lay “his old steamer alongside the other and try to carry her by boarding and sheer hand-fo- hand fighting; but, excepting for those on watch in the stokehold, his present set of men were all below packing their belongings into portable shape, and he knew quite well that nbthing would please them better than to sée him dis- comfited. Carnforth was neutral; he had only his three mates and the engi- neer officers to depend upon in all the available world, and he recognized, be- tween deep drafts at his cigar, that he was In a very tigh®. place. Still the dark shore ahead remained unbeaconed, and the Spaniard was rac- ing up astern, lit for battle, with her crew at quarters and guns run out and loaded. She leaped nearer by fathoms to the second, till Kettle could hear the panting of her engines as she chased him down. His teeth chewed on the cigar butt and dark rings grew under his eyes. He could have raged aloud at his impotence. The war steamer ranged up along: side, slowed to some forty revolutions so as to keep her place and an officer on the top of her charthouse hailed in Spanish. “Gunboat, ahoy,” Kettle bawled back; “you must speak English or I can’t be civil to you.” “What skip is that?” “Sultan of Borneo, Kettle master. Out of Shields.” - “Where for?” “The Havana.” Promptly the query came back: what are you doing in here?” Carnforth whispered a suggestion. “Fresh water run out; condenser water given all hands dysentery; put in here to fill up tanks. “I thank you, sir,” sald Kettle in the same undertone. “I'm no hand at lying myself, or I might have thought of that before.” And he shouted the excuse across to the spokesman on the chart- house roof. To his surprise they seemed to give weight to it. There was a short consulta- tion, and fhe steamers slipped along over the smooth black waters of the bay on parallel courses. “Have you got dysentery bad aboard came the next ayestion. hen P N. J, died from same cuuse. Two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Franzor, Landisville, N. J, died from same cause. § ¢ oo “Miss Tona Dunlap, Aledo, 1., died from eating poisoned candy. Twin -babies, died at Providence, R. L, from chronic formaldehyde poisoning, the poison being con= tained in milk which/it was used to preserve. Deaths reported to the Providence Department of Health. Herbert A. Wilcox, Alma, Mich., died from typhoid fever contracted direetly after eating icecream at a dinner, after which a score or more persons were affiicted with the same aflment. Althea B. Soule, Alma, Mich., died from typhoid fever supposedly su- perinduced by same cause. Two-year-old child of Frank Kolb, a City, lowa, died from consuming an overdose of butter color. George Russberg, Greenburg, Ky., died from effects of whisky containing wood alcohol. S. S. Glover, Cherokee Natiom, I T. died from consuming wood alcobol in lemon extract. Child died in Wimbledon, N. D., from eating candy colored with coal tar dics. Charles Chapman, Holt, Mich., died from typhold fever contracted after eating icecream. Hagel Garland, Howell, Mich., digd from typhoid fever contracted after eating icecream. Both cases reported to Michigun State Health Officer. John Galvin Tucker, Martling, Als., died from eating icecream probably containing poisonous flavoring. Death of baby from coal tax dye poisoning, reported by Food Com- missioner Ladd of Northa Dakota. Public Opinion, in an article entitled “America’s Food Poisoners,” states: In a Chicago paper am editorial comments on the death of a man in a small town in Illinois frem consuming lemon extract contain- ing wood alecohol. The poison in this case might mever have been discovered, but the suspicions of the attending physicians were aroused by the fact that the man was tacked with blindness before death. As this is a’symptom of wood alco- hol poisoning an examination was made which revealed the true eause of the mortality. The whele country was excited when the newspaper reports told of bow wood alcohol caused the death of many persois om New York’s West side, the polson being comsumed im whisky. Dr. W. D. Bigelow, chief of the Division of Foods, United States Bureau of Chemistry, relates an in- cident of hundreds of deaths being enused by beer being manufactured from glucose, in the manufacture of which sulphuric acid made from arsenic-bearing mineral, had been ously ill from food poisoms com- tained in the “What to Eat” reports are the following: One and twenty convicts med at the South Carolina State Penitentiary, Columbus, S. Coy from eating cabbage cooked with sodn to make it tender. . Thirty-eight guests at a dinner Once foore Carnforth prompted, and Kettle repeated his words: “Look at my decks,” sald he. “All my crew are below. I've hardly a man to stand by me.” There was more consultation among the gunboat’s officers, and then came the fa- tal inquiry: *‘What's your cargo, cap- tain?” s “Oh, coals,” sald Kettle resignedly. “What? You're bringing Tyne coal to the Havana?” “Just coals,” said Captain Kettle with a bitter laugh. The tone of the Spaniard changed. “Heave to at once,” he ordered, “while I send a boat to search you. Refuse, and I'll blow you out of the water.” On the Sultan or Borneo's upper bridge Carnforth swore. “Eh-ho, skipper,” he sald, “the game's up, and there's no way out of it. You won't be a fool, will you, and’ sacrifice the ship and the whole lot of us? Come, I say, man, ring off your engines or that fellow will shoot, and we shall all be murdered uselessly. I tell you, the game's up. “By James!” sald Kettle, “is it? Look there,” and he pointed with outstretched arm to the hills. on the shore ahead. “Three , fires!” he cried. “Two above one in a triangle, burning like Elswick fur- naces among the trees. They're ready for us/over yonder, Mr. Carnforth, and that's their welcome. Do you think I'm going to let my cargo be stopped after getting it this far?” He turned to the Danish quartermaster at the wheel, with his savage face close to the man’s ear. “Starboard,” he said. you bung-eyed Dutchman. as far as she’ll go.” The wheel engines clattered briskly in the house underneath, and the Sul- tan of Borneo's head swung off quick- 1y to port. For elght seconds the offi- cer commanding the gunboat did not see what was happening, and that eight seconds was fatal to his vessel ‘When the inspiration came he bubbled with orders, he starboarded his own helm, he rang “full speed ahead” to his engines, and ordered every rifle and machine gun on his ship to sweep the British steamer’s bridge. But the space of time was too small. The gunboat could not turn with enough quickness; on so short a notice the engines could not get her into her stride again; and the shooting, though well intentioned and prodigious in quantity, was poor in aim. The bullets whisped through the air and pelted on the plating like a hailstorm, and one of them flicked out the brains of the Danish quarter- master on the bridge, but Kettle took the wheel from his hands, and a mo- “Hard over, Starboard ment later the Sultan of Borneo's stem crashed Into the gunboat’s unprotected side just abaft the sponson of her star- board”quarter gun. The stgamers thrilled like kicked biscuit boxes and a noise went up into the hot night sky as of boller- makers, all heading up their rivets at once. On both ships the propellers stop) as if by instinct, and then in answer to the telegraph, the grimy collier backed astern. But the war steamer did not move. Her machinery was broken down. She had already got a heavy list toward her wounded side, and every second the list was increas- ing as the sea water poured in through the shattered plates. Her crew was buzzing with disorder. It was evident that the vessel had but a short time longer to swim. and their lives were sweet to them. They had no thought of vengeance. Their weapons lay de- serted on the sloping decks. The grimy crews from the stokeholds poured up from below and one and all they clus- tered about the boats with frenzied haste to see them floating in the water. There was no more tg be feared at their hands for the present. Carnforth clapped Kettle on the shoulder in involuntary admiration. “By George,” he cried, “what a daring little scoundrel you are! Look here, I'm on your side now if I can be of any help. Can you give me a job?” “I'm afraid, sir,” sald Captain Kettle, “that the old Sultan’'s work is about done. She's settling down by the head already. Didn’'t you see those rats of men scuttling up from forrard directly after we'd rammed the don? 1 guess that was a bit of a surprise packet for them, anyway. They thought they'd get down there to be clear of the shoot- ing and they found themselves in the most ticklish par. of the ship.” “There's humor in the situation,” said Carnforth. “But that will keep. For the present it strikes me that his old steamboat is swamping fast.” “She’'s done that,” Kettle admitted. “She’ll have a lot of plates started for- rard, I guess. But I think she’s come out of it very creditably, sir. I didn't spare her, and she's not exactly built for a ram.” “I suppose it's a case of putting her on the beach.” “There's nothing else for it,” said hettle with a sigh. “I should like to have carried those blessed coals into Havana if it could have been done, just to show people ours was a bona nde contract, as Mr. Gedge sald, in spite of its fishy look. But this old steamboat has done her whack, and that's the square truth. It will take her all she can manage to reach shore with dry decks. Look, she's in now nearly to her forecastle head. Lucky the share’s not steep-to here, or else—" From beneath there came a bump and at Crown Point, Ind., afflicted with ptomaine poisoning after eating __cottage. andtomato jelly. “Among ere: Mrs. W. L. All- man, mother of the Auditor of Lake County, " 3 Miss Aungusta _Kopelka, sister of former State Senator Johannes Kopelka; Mrs. w wife of a leading 3 Mrs. W. C._ McMahon, wife of the Ceounty Judge; Mrs. William Upham, Mrs, C. M. Judson, Mrs, W. H. Hayward and Mrs. J. C. Scrabel of Washington, Pa., the guest of homor at the dinmer. Three children, 6S Myrtle street, Chicage, taken {1l after eating sausage for breakfast. Case re- ported by Dr..N. H. Credo, 924 ‘West Fullerton street, Chicago. Mrs. Blackman and three chil- dren, Charles, Walter and Lillie Blackman; Thomas Howell, Hor- McKenzle ey, Nashville, Tenn., made 11l from eating fce- cream said to conmtain ptomaine poisoning. Ten cases of scarlet fever at Cleveland, O., caused by milk pur- chased from a milk peddler, at whose house the fever had beem raging for two months. Health Officer Freidrich ordered the house renovated, the clothing disinfected and milk cans boiled. F, T. W. Small, wife and child and four others poisoned at Cincimmati from some unknown impurity com- tnined in a meal eaten at a board- ing-house. Twelve persons poisoned at the Alhambra Flats, Detroit, after eat- ing products cooked from a cam of baking powder in which was aft- erward fou emough arsenic to kill 100 persons. ' Miss Lottie Blair, Macomb, I, made dangerously ill from cating _eandy colored with aniline dye. Members of Dr. Wiley’s Polson Squad severely with la grippe from consuming an extra large amount of borax im their food. Lady student in the laboratory of Professor Ladd, Food Commis- siomer of North Dakota, made ill from eating candy poisomed with coal tar dye used In its coloring. Forty persons became dangerous- 1y 11l after eating icecream at a dinner at Alma, Mich. Child at Jamestown, N. D., made 1ll from eating candy colored with coal tar dye. Death prevented by physician’s timely treatment. Case reported by North Dakota Food Attorney Jay D. Miller of Ge- neva, T, relates an occurremce . wherein a Food Commissioner, recently witnessed a serious case of illness of a man from the poison- ous effects of coal tar dye. Following 1s a case of lllness Teported in an editorial jn the Manufacturer and Merchant of Kansas City, that will show the effect of formalin poisoning: > “The past month a phydda: was called SO to dttend a child, who, the father report- ed, showed symptoms that seemed to pre- sage some contaglous disease. The child's eyes were swollen half shut, the cheeks highly flushed and a red rash covered the arms and face. The vphysiclan pro- nounced it a case of formalln poisening, due to eating canned goods in which thls poisonous preservative had been used. The child was naturally delicate and in stead of affecting the stomach, as is us- ually the case, it caused the outbreak as detalled above.” These cases which by chance bob up on the surface waters of publicity to be noted from but one source of observation, namely, in the office of the maxgazine “What to Eat,” are, of course, but a bagatelle compared to the hundreds of other fatalities and serious injuries caused by the consumption of impure foods. But they are emough to refute the claims of many manufacturers that foods as they are now sold on the market are harmless. In connection with the deaths and injuries from impure foods mentioned in the long list only a very few arrests were made and they were only in cases of widows and other small retallers, who were barely able to make a living out of their little shops. The blg manufacturer who placed pois- onous aniline dyes in the foods that killed little bables and others was never mo- lested. The fact that there Is no national pure food law seems to grant the au- thorities an excuse for not punishing the big poisoners. Evidently such conditions as these are wrong and they should be rectified or our country will become ridiculed be- cause of its inconsistency. If a person should pour poison in another’s cistern or otherwise poison a nelghbor’s drink- ing water supply he would be arrested and convicted: but if a food manufact- urer pours poison in the food he sells to the people he is upheld by the execu- tors of the law and he may generally be regarded as a shrewd business man. The law ought to be of such nature that no person should be allowed to kill or injure another for commercial gain any more than he would be allowed to do so for revenge or malice. Of course, it is envy of civilization: it is right to extend every facility to-co men to help them to make vast fortunes as quickly as possible, for it is America’s millionaires making America so famed among tions; but it is not right that our should have to sacrifice thelr lives health to enable them to make great fortunes more quickly: it is right that we should have to eat and Just commerclally great: it is not right that we should see our little children’s health undermined andysee them grow up ner- vous wrecks affticted with indigestion and stomach troubles just to enable manufac- turers to realize treble profits on thelr get rich in a hurry; but. proved that they have not and as W. J. } By PAUL PIERCE, Superintendent of Foods at the St. Louis World’s Fair f——#—:/— ! a rattle, and the steamer for a moment halted in her progress, and a white crested wave surged past her rusty flanks. Then she lifted again and swooped further in, with her propeller still squattering astern: and then once more she thundered down again into the sand: and so lifting and striking nade her way through the surf. More than one of the hands was swept from her decks, and reached the shore by swimming; but as the ebb made, the hungry seas left her stranded dry under the morning’s light, and a crowd of Insurrectionists waded out and climbed on board by ropes which were thrown to them. They were men of every tint, from the gray-black of the pure negro to the swallow lemen tint of the blue- blooded Spaniard. They were streaked with wounds, thin as skeletons, and clad more with nakedness than with rags; and so wolfish did they look that even Kettle, callous Ilittle ruffian though he was, regretted bringing arms for such a crew to wreak ven- geance on their neighbors. But they gave him small time for sentiment of this brand. They clus- teyed around him with leaping hands. till the morning sea fow! fled affrighted from the beach. EI Senor Capitan In- glese was the savior of Cuba, and let every one remember it. Alone, with his unarmed vessel, he had sunk a war- ship of their hated enemies; and they prayed him (in their florid confbliment) to stay on the island and rule over them as king. But the little sailor took them liter- ally. “What's this?’ he said; want me to be your blooming King?” “El rey!"” they shouted. “El rey de los Cubanos!” “By James,” said Kettle, 11 do it T was never asked to be a King be- fore, and the chance may never come again., Besides, I'm out of a berth just now, and England will be too hot.to hold me yet a while. Yes, I'll stay and boss you, and if you can act half as ugly as you look we'll give the dons a lively time. Only remember, there’s no tomfoolery about me. If I'm king of this show I'm golng to carry a full king’s ticket, and if there’s any man tries to meddle without being invited that man will go to his own funeral before he can think twice. And now we'll just begin business at once. Off with those hatches and break out that cargo. I've been at some pains to run these guns out here, so be careful in carrying them up the beach. Jump lively now, you black-faced scum.” Carnforth listened with staring eyes. What sort of broil was this truculent little scamp going to mix in next? He knew enough of Spanish character to understand clearly that the offer of the crown was merely an empty civility; he understood enough of Kettle to be sure he had not taken it as such and would assert his rights to the bitter end. And when he thought of what that end must inevitably be he sighed over Owen Kettle's fate, times considered respectable.” In describing the crime ol’ldfllunling focds Mr. Bryan further says: “I have been deeply Interested in the presentation of this subject by Profes- sor Ross of our Nebraska State Univers- fty. In an address on ‘The Character of Modern Sin,’ he takes occasion to peint out that while our educated and well-to- _do people avoid the old-fashioned sins, such as burglary, assault and battery and murder upon the highway, they are gulity of modern sins that are no less in- jurious to their character, but sins which are ccmmitted without coming into close contact with their victims. “Professor Ross spoke of an instance in Chicago where the Board of Health sent out a prescription to be filled at a hundred drug stores. In a third of the cases the prescription filled contained not a single thing that was called for in the prescription. In about a third of the cases it contained a part of that which was called for and only in a third of the cases was it filled properly. “It is necessary to pass laws to pre- vent swindling and the Injury of people by the adulteration of food.” Profit, more profit and nothing else but profit is seemingly the incentive that in- duces the manufacturer of adulterated foods, drinks and drugs to go from bad to worse in his nefarious practices. Be- with slight preservatives such as t and borax, the manufacturing es- tablishment mow boasts a chemical lab- oratory that is a labyrinth more intri- cate than an apothecary’s shop. It has become so that fortunes are made out of the manufacture of the adulterants alone and we have greater cause for alarm when we learn that even the adulterants are being adulterated. People contending for the right to eat pure food want a law passed that will prohibit the use of adulterants altogeth- er and force manufacturers to so label w9 e R\