The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-04

late at night to get. through the nee
essarv rontine business, but cutting
them down seems. to be considered
inevitable under the arbitrary actor
of members of committees. .-.
oUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New York March 3, 1874.
ApULTERATIoSs
There is trouble in the minds o
people, for adulteration in its worst
form has been discovered. The faith
er of The family, as he poured thu
rich syrup over his buckwbeats a
breakfast, and gave Of the same tc
the wife of his bosom and the child
of his heart, little dreamed that he
was giving them poison and a most
disgusting poison at that For be
hold YOU, it has been discovered tha:
the elegant, beautiful, delicious-look
ing syrup, known as the Golden
Drip,"is is made of what? Why, rags,
and muriatic ac.d! The rags of com.
merce, the common rags from the pa
per mills, are taken by the skillful chem
list and treated with muriatic acid, and
from the result this golden drip syr-
up is made. Imagine the horror which
attended this discovery. Rags from
Turkey, from the backs of the lepro-
sy-stricken people of the Bosphorous
rags from the backs of the filthy
lazzaroni of Italy, and rags even
from the mummies Of Egypt, swell
tered through chemical process, and
coming on our tables as Golden Drip!
Hall the stomachs in New York
turned as they saw the syrup cup
on their tables, and in the restaurant S
the orders, buckwheats and syrup
were lessened a half.
The fact is adulterations and frauds
enters more or less into everything
that is used in the great aities, par
ticularly in this. Our butter is lard
ed, our genuine Havana cigars are
made of the vilest Connecticut tobac-
co, our bread is alumed, our coffee is
chicoried, our milk is watered and
cbalked, and when we die. the plate
on our coffin is plated. This world
is given to shams-let us hope the
next world will be genuine 1t is
that thought that sustains me, aa.
THE wHIsKEY BUSINESS .i.as
With the revival of the religious
interest in the city, comes naturally,
a revival OF the feeling in favor of
temperance. The drinking saloons
continue to multiply, and they are
now reported by the Excise Commis.
sioners at 1922, being nearly one
for l36 of the population. There is
no street, no square, without them.
In the upper part of the city
they are fitted up in the most
costly style, to attract the attention
of the wealthy guzzlers, whose pat
ronage they desire, while in the low
or part of the city the saloons are
stripped of everything except what
lis absolutely necessary to handle the
liquid damnation. Down in Water
street, and in fact all the streets on
the lower end of the Island, there
will be a dozen bucket-shops in every
square. Bucket-shops are stores
where the bulk of the tradeis by the
pint, quart, orhalf gallon. You will
see in any one of them long process
sions of little boys and girls, half
clad, barefooted, and with scarcely
clothing enough on them to hide their
nakedness, and half starved, going
up 10 the counters with buckets for
liquor, for their drunken fathers and
mothers. The temperance move.
ment now being inaugurated propo-
ses to deal with the poor. l-....'. .
The temperance organization will
appoint Committees, who will labor
with poor men who are addicted to
the use of liquor They intend to
take these men by the hand, 10 fur
nish warm and well lighted rooms
TO which they may resort, and where
they will be furnished coffee, tea, and
plenty of good reading matter. 1t is
expected that each man once weaned
from the use Of liquors will see such
difference in the way of living, that
he will become an apostle oftemper-
ance amCng his fellows They ext
pect in this way to organize a work
ing temperance army, taken from
the liquor shops, and compel the clio.
sing of the bars by withdrawing their
trade Tine movement has been in.
augurated, and success has attended
it. The workers have discovered that
the laboring man, livingin a close,
cheerless, cold room, goes 10 the bar
room because it is light and warm,
and of course once there he drinks.
The reformers give him lighter,
better, warmer cosier place of resort,
and be is glad to avail himself of il.
And he brings his wife and children,
and they have a good time. Music
Is furnished, pipes, tobacco, coffee
and tea, free TO all, with a sandwich
or such matter to eat. The niCve-
ment is telling, and has made a posi-
tive impression. Let it go on. i'''''s
t THE GRAIN TRADE
continues to excite .atteations The
fact is the facilities for handling grain
at this point, are ludicrously def
cient, and the cost is absurdly great,
which cost is borne of course bv the
producer in the interior. But addi-
Itional terminal facilities, will not re-
lieye the overburdened farmer. The
country wants cheaper freights, and
cheaper feeights can only be had BY
increasing the efficiency Of the canal
system. Let me impress it upon
every farmer who reads these lines
that to him the canal is his only pro
lection against the rapacity Of the