Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-09-16
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and the water Goblet.
| An ancient and irreproachable au-
tthority has put upon record the start
Ting assurance that ..there is death in
the pot;" but the latest information
appears to be that there is death also
in all the other kitchen utensils and in
every separate piece of the dinner SER
Twice Death not only bubbles in the
fpot. buthe sings softly in the tea kettle,
and Kisses in the coffee urn. He is
home on the great dish that holds the
roasted joint. The silver water pitcher
is his dwelling place-and he is in the
very middle ofevery piece of ice that
cools your water. Indeed, the dis
closures of science; upon the subject of
poison in ordinary articles.of food and
drinka are such ass.to, hofrifY q thirsty
man WithSa good appetite and to con-
vince him that the festive board has
more Perils than any ordinary battle
field. If one follows up closely the
studies and inquiries sgf saearned
upoh the subject as food addheratioh
he must be very brave man if he does
not end by starving himself to death
for fear Of swallowing a, fatal DOSE
He must necessarily. be convinced
that the only safety in life is in eating
very little and drinking nothing at all. /,
DR.. Cyrus Edison, Of the sanitary ser
vice. has presented this subject with
some additional details in recent ar
tiole in -thei Forum. . Man.: it appears
owes to the honesty of his butcher the
fact that he does not die daily from the
use of bad meat; for the quantity of
cattle that has persisted from disease !
and of hogs of the same sort that get
into the market, only the butcher who
is tempted to buy them knows. But if
the butcher stands between you and
fate when he gets you a nice roast of
lamb, who shall save you from the in
sidious sulphate of copper that is in
your green peas, or who shall give q
hasty antidote for the turmeric of the
deadly Marsh's yellow that is in your
mustard? If apprehensive of so many
possibilities of the butcher you take
to canned food, you have before you
the possibility that the meat was
already bad before it, was putt or
that the tin of the can is template,
made with lead, and that this lead is
in the food. If you live to reach the
dessert you may have sweetmeats
made of dried apples and glucose and
co1ored beautifully with arsenical fuch-
sine, or you may have ice cream with
decomposing cream, or poisoned with
false favoring extracts; and you may
wind up with cup of coffee, the beans
of which had been "painted'' with
Prussian blue, or an arsenical solution
Of copper. or with chromate of lead. 1
AS for the sparkling goblet of ice
water, OF. which you have been taking a
little every now and then, there was
one deadly poison in the water and
another in the ice.
And yet we live. We eat three meals
q day, the greater number of us, and
60 about our daily concerns not only
needless of all these perils, but totally |
Indifferent and incredulous even when
our attention is called to them. This !
is because if we do escape poisoning,
we dosnot intend to be scared to death. |
Public indifference to warnings of this |
nature follows almost inevitably upon
an erroneous process of reasoning.
We assume that if these stories are |
true, the facts should produce a con-
slant death roll. They do not do this,
and sosswe+ reason chat the stories |
are not true. The fact is that our |
comparative immunity represents the I
energy, intelligence and success of the
authorities whose duty it is to protect
us; the general honesty of dealers in
edible articles whose intention it. is to |
sell pure food substances; and more
important, perhaps, than all, THE point |
that we are the victims Of slow pro-
cess of poisoning that does not immc-
diately kill us. 1t may account for one
or a dozen of the forty troubles We
have with our health; it, is the fertile
parent of the chronic dyspepsia, that
makes life burden. and is related to
all our COLES and to half our other
aches and pains. ALI poison in food is
certainly effective for evil, even though
not ,evidently fatal, and the moral is:
Deal'with rgrocers and butchers upon
whom you know you can depend, use
as little ice as possible, and oppose as
a citizen all schemes for crippling the,
sanitary service.-N. Y: Mail end En-
press. .,,...,...
The late. Charles Marsh of the
Boston firm, of Jordan, Marsh e. Co.,
had policies for life insurance to the
amount of 100000.
IsN'T it paradoxical that I 90 O'Clock Is
past one, while l 80 O'Clock is only half
past!-Ier0 SJtings