The Arizona sentinel., 1891-10-10
A EsEE.EEON a YEAR.
uaeS tO sell AEEgra eEad ArU- raoE.f& Baking Powders.

lecturers of an ammonia baking powder boasts that it's yearly profits are over a million dollars While perhaps, none of the makers of alum powders individually can show so large earnings yet their profits are enormous.
 A business so profitable, will al- ways attract to itself those whose greed will cause them to utterly disregard the effect their traffic may have upon the health or life of others.
 Alum baking powders are intro duced largely by gifts, prizes and lottery schemes. A piece of glass ware or china, 8 child's wagon, sled, pewter spoon or some other article of attractive appearance, but of small intrinsic value or cost is given with each purchase or a number is attached to the can which entities the customer to a similarly numbered article or to a prize of some kind. It is in some such way as this that the trade in alum and ammonia baking pow ders, which has now attained such giant proportions and their con sumption by the public which has reached an extent which is. truly alarming.
 The highest authorities of all countries condemn the use of alum in bread without reserve. In America the most distinguished physicians, chemists any hygien- ists have declared that the traffic in alum baking powders should bo suppressed by law. In England and France where the subject of pure food, and it's effect upon the system, has been more fully con- sidered and made the subject Of extended experiments by the scien tists. so serious a matter is the use of alum in bread or other food con sidered to be, that most stringent laws have been enacted to prevent it. These laws are rigidly en- forced, and the sale of alum bak- ing powders would not be permitted for an hour. Any one who at tempted to make them for use in food, or attempted to use them for raising bread, biscuit or cake would suffer severe penalties.
 The i'll effects upon the system of food raised by alum baking powders ale the more dangerous because of their insidious charac- ter. It would be less dangerous to the community were it fatal at once. for then such food would be avoided; but their deleterious &C., tion because imperceptible at first Is no less certain.
 The puckering effect which alum has when taken in the mouth is familiar to everyone. Physi~ clans say this same effect is pro duced by it upon the delicate coats of the stomach and intestines.
 What housewife would take home to her family Q can of alum or ammonia baking powder if she knew it. Such powders not only undermine the system, but it is pointed out that ammonia taken into the system in even inGnetisi- nal doses day after day, imparts to the complexion a sallow and blotched appearance.
 It is safe to discard all baking powders sold with q prize or gift
 What misnomer are the words Absolutely pure" as applied to baking powders. Two of the larg- est selling brands, one made from alum, the other containing am monia and both of these drugged baSing powders have stamped up on their labels and circulars these words absolutely pure, as matter of fact they are Absolutely Poor," as shown by official examinations.
 ". H. Dixon, Agent of the Southern Pacific Company at Yuma, who has been spending the summer in California, returned here few days ago.
 Onyx specimens polished at the Territorial prison are sold at the postoffice.