The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-27

the science Of chemistry grew out % the
search Tor two things, the elixir OF life
and the philosophers stone. AND IN the
same breath be admits that these two
secrets Will never Sc revealed 70 living
man Yet that other compounds almost
as wondsfful in their way may be found
he thinks it would be dogmatic AMI rash
TO deny. The poisonous principle that err
ters into hemloCk known as conlue. has
been made syRtheticaMy. and the Consti-
tutional differences from nicotine axe so
slight that the transformatOry process
from conine to nicotine alone remains to
be mastered In coal tar NJ. Berthelot
finds the compound from which the nico-
tine OF commerce is to be made. Think OF
II. yr smokers Yet something may hap
pen at any moment in any Of the great
chemical laboratories Of the world which
will have tendency TO revoluuoniZe
thought on the subject
No bne who ever ate ice cream but Is
familiar with tho flavor Of vanilla. which
has all along been the product II the tom
ka bean Artificial vanilla IS produced,
ana threatens the existence ~ the como
mercial article In fact. confectioners IN
various PLACES are using the chemical
product and the tonka bean Industry II
threatened Listen 20 Berfhelot, All the
essential oils viii eventually boz made Ill
rect Vsnilltn Ohe chemical substitute
constitution 70 the aromatic. tl4e d-si1uc-
tive principle 81 cloves and ailspn'e. Ar
tincial cloves ard allspice viii probably
come next. Flower perfumes. too have
been fully anslyZed. and IN time VIII %
largely synthes.Zed one or them. mead
olv-sweet Is being largely compounded
and sold. There are. consequently. 20
virtues in the natural tobacco which aye
likely 70 be missed in the artificial III
fact the contrary state of affairs ~ more
probable" Here faith 10 move mountains
Is exemplided. but the promise, VIII have
10 be fulfilled before tobacco growers need
to shHdder.
Cheering Beverages Chemically Made
AIluslon has been rnBde 20 theobromine
a. the essential synthesiziHg principle Of
cocoa We'll, IL is more than that II Is
at the basis OF tea and coiee- ! ne syn
thatic process Of deve iopment shows that
from carbon and oxygen c4rbonic QXfit
is produced; from carHGuic oKlhe anu
chloride comes car}onyl chloride, from
carhonvt en- foride and ammonia urea ~
r,roaure-f ana whence Also uric aEid, uric
acid makes xanthlne. this gives theooro-
mine. and il 10 turn gives out tneine or
eane3re So hrre Is a chance FOR the three
great ro74-lnf oxicauts OF the age. the cups
,n.r cheer but which do not inebriate-
tea coffee. cocoa. With the madder root
stst az STINT. the indigo piaSt waverlnE ~
t}fs balance. cocoa trees in danger or a
i.,s.i,vard evolutlon 20 the original wilder
ness. and tea ana coffee plantations pros
uerfiyclv tBmDlihE over each other to-
ward the horizon 81 commercial eNtlnc-
ton one Is ready for anything. even the
rasrlnr az his tobacco dreams into cloud
land Bat Il is not get
There IL much more occasion TOT alarm
10 the growers % sugar cane and yet
Vrog COLBY. In reviewing this situation.
vas not convinced that the industry was
n immediate danger from the syntne-
s.z@a product Here as eisess here - The
Aornalr OF research. the issue rests solely
,irsen an economic basis When the SYM
thstic production o. SUGAR mas reached
= erage Of ssnJIsguted ability 20 compete
VIII the market rrice Of the grown pro-