The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-27
GRANGE pRpARxnRmg.
Under the Supervision OF tho Execut,v
Committee OF Pomona Grange.
Public Caution-To the Grangers OF
the United States.

Alta special meeting of the "Afassa-
chusetts" Grange, p. of II. No. 3s, held
at their headquarters in Boston, June
rs, 1878, 1t was unanimously voted that
the Master of the Massachusetts State
Grange be requested 10 send the follow.
| ing cautionary circular to tho local
Graoges 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 ut Wholesale at
| about five cents pound.
There has been imported into this
country in single year, two millions
three hundred and twenty-seven thous-
and seven hundred end forty two pounds.
about twenty-cight hundred adult per-
sons. What becomes of it7
We answer, considerable portion goes
into our wall papers, figured and plain,
glazed and unglazed; the cheapest as
well as the more expensive. 1t is found
in white, blue, red, yellow, green and
other coloro. The pale coors frequently
contain more than the most brilliant.
The editor of leading Boston paper
J has recently stated that about eighty-five
! 'tsr cent. OF all wall papers now manu-
factured contain arsenic, aud advises his
| readers to abandon their use, and paint
their walls. The Boston Journa! of
chemistry states that the manufacture of
these papers is increasing. Aruenic 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'o under clothing,
socks, hat Innings, Innings of boots and
cottons aud leather. .'.''
Professor Nichols, of the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology, found eight
grains of arsenic in each square foot of q
dress 80
Another of our chemists found ten
grains Of araenic in single artificial
| Hover.
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 tian starch, Of
which they were formerly made
Many favoring oils and syrups contain
poisons. 1t is well to avoid them as far
SO possible.
Tea, coffee, cocoa and chocolate are all
liable to be adulterated and to some ex-
tent with dangerous articles.
1t lie we'll to buy only of the best and
most experienced dealers.
Drugs are largely adulterated. 1t is
yell to buy only of the most experienced
and reliable druggists. Sowing 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
rlous forms with our sugars and other
white substances. Its use tends to pro-
duce stone, kidney complaints, and vari-
| GUS diseases Of the stomach. A largo
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-
tionery. -,
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 flour grade.
| We think il would be payin,, lvest-
mcnt for the Grangers of each State to
employ q competent chemist to detect
and publish adulterations, and then with
draw all patronage from those who man.
ufacture or sell such articles.
We think there in 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. i.
| We make cur own vinegar It 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 w.lve diff
ferent wholesale dealers, found copper in
ten Of them. ,Y.sat
We have pure milk and genuine cream,
and not the mann factnr red .. Material yi.;ci:
SO largely supplies our cities and popu-
| lous towns. f',aas SO W.
I 1t was estimated by o medical commits
sion of the Boston Board Of Health, in
1874, that nearly 100000 was paid in
that city, in thatyear, for what purported
to be but was not milk. M -nti1ii
In similar period of time there were
E487 deaths of "Cholera Infantum" in
Suffolk county, while in the same popu-
lation outside tho city there we're Tess
than 100. ''l0A,
| And lastly. we are not compelled to
eat ole0margine cheece, or any part of
the ninety million pounds of oleomarga-
rine butter, which it is estir'ated will be
made in this country this y.nr, in which,
as We are told by the Chicago Lire 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 tho n. n.e.,aratinn nP uehinh
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.
i BENZ. P. WARE,
| Master of State Grange of Mass.
| The above paper was prepared by
Brother George L. Angel, Chaplain of
the Massachusetts" Grange, of Boston,
and who is also director of The American
Social Science Association, and President
Of tho Massachusetts, Society for the Pre-
ven.,o ,on of Cruelty to Animals.-M Mcssa-
cJsusettS Plo't9hotln.
/ - Monticello, tho Virginia country
seat of Thomas Jefferson, will be sold ut
sheriff7s sale ON the Goth inst
;, l. - DR.. Warren, of Boston, says shat in
that city 300 babies are sacrificed every
year, by reason Of their arms net being
! clothed"
- The spotte,' Tail Indians are greatly
\ as Il