The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-03-12

earth. is very largely used. in some
qualities it forming from 30 to 20 per
cent, OF the manufactured article.
The argument that the sub stances
named are used in quantities SO
small that poisoning cannot result
from their use, is founded upon ~
norance. Some of the poisons nam
ed are known as cumulative. from
the fact that they accumulate in the
system, and that, no matter how
small the quantity taken in at each
time, each addition remains he CON
stantly growing mass working slowly
and silently, producing even more
deadly effects than large doses ACCT
IDENTIFY taken, whore result ma he
neutralized or effected by anti6"tes.
A distinguished physi. ian lately
made deliberate statement a AN
annual meeting Of the society OF
which he is member, that there Was
no question but hundreds Of children
were slain every year by cheap con
fectionery, without the resi- cause OF
their death being known.
AS We have just stated, the article
which is most used by dishonest con
fectioRers is what is kMewn to the
trade IS terra alba. tis principally
brought from Ireland. and was
brought into use fifteen or twenty
wears ago. Its first extensive use
was during the war, when cream of
tartar, bicarbonaLe of soda, pepper.
gromnd rice and other articles of do
mestc use rose to double their Ordi
nary price. IerrG alba was then
worth about ten or fifteen dollars 81
ton. The demand has brought it up
to about double those figures. This
compoInd IS nothing more nor les
than actual dirt. In color it rescmb
les dark -four or ground chalk, and rs
aiust as injurious as so much clay o.
a'drt. 1t enters mostly into the cosn
i position OF "mixed' candies. though
athis does not imply that all canta es
4 of this sort are adulterated with ut,
i for some of the choicest candies in
|reliable confectioners' are called mix
ed, and are the most expensive.
! Many readers who have bought
1.-THE common fruit or nut-candy, will
remem Der that in letting the roand
lpieces containing the fruit melt in
the r mouths. the result was a thick
tastless paste without taste or favor.
] This was the white earth" which
was on the outside The cheaper
4 chocolate creams, of which children
4 are so fond, are made of terra 0lbo
and glycerine mixed together, the
! glycerine keeping the earth soft end
pasty. making it adhere so that il
will not tall apart, and then the balls
are rolled in tallow, with sutficien:
grease to allow enc Pound of chaeo-
late to go as far as FIVE or six pounds
would it properly made.
The worst effects OF the use of Ser
ra Glba are, that the terrible disc asses
of stone and gravel arc caused by
the is1troduction Of earth into the
sy stem, and the large increase of pa.
tients suffering from these diseases,
is attributed by high medical author
tiles to the introduction of this ter.
rible ingredient inte the CONNECTION
cry and similar articles consumed in
this country.
Glucose. or ''grape sugar" is the
name of another dangerous article
extensively used in the adulteration
of candies. 1t is not, as it's name
would imply, made from grapes but
from potatoes. end its effect is to
produce paralysis ofvarioas portions
of the system, especially the kidneys,