The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-27
GRANGE pEPARTMENr.
Under the Supervision OF tho Executiy
Committee Of Pomona Grange.
Public Caution-TO the Changers Of
the United States.

Alta special meeting of the "hassa-
chusetts" Grange, P. of Fl. No. 3S, held
at their headquarters in Boston, June
90, 1878, it was unanimously voted that
the Master of the Massachusetts State
Grange be requested to send the follow
ing cautionary circular to the local
Oranges of Massachusetts and to the
State Oranges of the United States:
BRoTHERs-We think it our duty to
caution Grangers against the increasing
sale of poisonous articles in our market.
Arsenic is now sold at wholesale at
about five cents pound.
There has been imported into this
country in q single year, two millions
three hundred and twenty-seven thous-
and seven hundred and forty pounds.
A single pound contains fatal dose for
about twenty-eight hundred adult per-
sons. What becomes oft
We answer q considerable portion goes
into our wall papers, figured and plain,
glazed and unglazed; the cheapest as
we'll as the more expensive. 1t is found
in white, blue, red, yellow, green and
other colors. The pale colors frequently
contain more than the most brilliant.
The editor of a leading Boston paper
has recently stated that about eighty-fve
per cent. Of all wall papers now manu-
factured contain arsenic, and advises his
readers to abandon their use, and paint
their walls. The Boston Journal of
Chemistry states that the manufacture Of
these papers is increasing. Arsenic is
also used in tickets, paper curtains, covers
of boxes, papers containing confection-
cry, and other papers.
Arsenic and other poisons are also now
used in the coloring matter of ladies'
dresses; gentlemen's under clothing,
socks, hat Innings, Innings of boots and
shoes. They are found in woolens, silks,
cottons and leather.
Professor Nichols, of the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology, found eight
grains of arsenic in each square foot of
dress.
Another of our chemists found ten
grains of arsenic in a single artificial
flower.
A child recently died in Troy, N. Y,
by taking arsenic from veil thrown over
its crib to keep off flies.
The Boston Journal Of Chemistry states
that they are now putting arsenic into
toilet powders used in nurseries and by
ladies, it being cheaper than starch, of
which they were formerly made.
Many favoring oils and syrups contain
poisons. 1t is well to avoid them as far
as possible.
Tea, coffee, cocoa and chocolate are all
| liable to be adulterated and TO some eX-
tent with dangerous articles.
1t is well to buy only of the best and
most experienced dealers.
Drugs are largely adulterated. 1t is
we'll to buy only of the most experienced
and reliable druggists. Sewing silks and
threads are made heavy with lead, and
poison those who use them.
Thousands of barrels Of "terra alba" or
white earth, are every year mixed in va
rious forms with our sugars and other
white substances. It's use tends to pro-
ducc stone, kidney complaints, and vari-
GUS diseases of the stomach. A large
part of our cream of tartar used in cook
ing contains fifty per cent. or more of
'terra alba"
1t is also used extensively in confec-
ticnery.
Mills in various parts of the country
arc now grinding white stone into fine
powder. 1t is stated that they grind at
some of these mills three grades, soda
grade, sugar grade and -four grade.
We think it would be paying invest
ment for the Grangers of each State to
employ competent chemist to detect
aud publish adulterations, and then with
draw all patronage from those who man
ufacture or sell such articles.
We think there is quite as much need
of organizations in all our States to en-
force laws for the protection of public
health, as there is for organizations to
catch and punish horse thieves.
In conclusion we can congratulate the
Oranges that farmers are exempted from
some of the dangers to which other
classes are subject.
We make our own vinegar. 1t is
stated in the Scientific American that
probably half the vinegar now sold in
our cities is frank poison"
We make our own pickles. A Massa-
chusetts chemist, who analyzed twelve
packages of pickles put up by twelve diff
ferent wholesale dealers, found copper in
ten of them.
We have pure milk and genuine cream,
and not the manufactured material which
so largely supplies our cities and popu-
lous towns.
1t was estimated by medical commits
sion of the Boston Board Of Health, in
1874, that nearly $50O,000 was paid in
that city, in that year, for what purported
to be but was not milk.
In similar period of time there were
i4S7 deaths of "Cholera 1nfautum" in
Suffolk county, while in the same popu-
lation outside the city there were less
than LOO.
And lastly, we are not compelled to
eat oleomargine cheese, or any part OF
the ninety million pounds Of oleomarga-
rine butter, which it is estimated will be
made in this country this year, in which,
as we are told by the Chicago Liue Stock
Journal, Professor Church has found
horse fat, fat from bones, and fat such as
is principally used for the making of
candles, and in the preparation of which,
as has been recently widely published,
upon what seems to be reliable authority,
not sufficient heat is used to kill the para
sites which enter and breed in human
bodies.
BENZ. P. WARE,
Master of State Grange of Mass.
The above paper was prepared by
Brother George T. Angel, Chaplain of
the Massachusetts," Grange, of Boston,
and who is also director of the American
Social Science Association, and President
Of the Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals.-1fassa-
chu,ett, Plougtman.
- Monticello, the Virginia country
seat of Thomas Jefferson, will be sold at
sheriff7s sale on the Goth inst.
DR.. Warren, of Boston, says that IN
thot city "510 hahies are sacrificed eyery