Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-23

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BARE AND NAN BURHED.
Lewistown Free Press, May 16.-
Tuesday Of last week the barn on the
farm belonging to Frank Fields
heirs near Newton Hamilton caught
fire and was burned'to the ground
Also Ill the surrounding out-build-
ings and there being high wind the
fire was carried to the adjacent ridge
which was soon Q macs of flames and
had it not been for the prompt 90.
ton of our citizens and little shower
of rain quite likely the buildings on
the camp ground and q number Of
other barns and dwellings, would
have shared the same fate. Harry
Browand the tenant on Fields farm
in trying to get some stock out of the
barn was 80 badly burned that he
died last Saturday. Funeral ser.
vices were held in the NJ. E. Church,
last Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 and
were conducted by Rev. N E. Cleav-
or after which his remains were in
te1red IN the Presbyterian cemetery.
He leaves . wife and family Of chill.
dren to mourn his departure. The
bereaved family have the sympathy
of the entire community in their sad
bereavement.
There are honest business men,
but there is not q phase of life 30 dis
honest as business life and the ex-
posures in the coloring of butter and
the exposures in dealing in oleo are
only specimen bricks of the general
frauds that are going on. In the
Philadelphia Times of May 81, Me-
gargee in bis ''Seen and Heard in
Many Places" makes mention of the
adulteration of food and drink ma.
terial thus
At one time when the sugar duty
depended upon the color of the arti-
Gle, being lowest upon the raw, dark
brown and highest upon pure white,
the officials noticed sudden falling
off in the imports of the latter, and
an immense increase of the former.
To the eye and judged by ordinary
standards, the stuff seemed the poor
est and impurest raw sugar imported.
The chemists in q short time demon
strated that the raw sugar had been
refined in the West Indies, and then,
to make the tariff light, bad been
mixed with fine clay until it looked
like mud. It only needed to be dis
solved in water, filtered, boiled down
and then it was as pure and white q
sugar as can be produced.
In examining what was sold all
through New England 90 powdered
cinnamon, Massachusetts, chemists
we're amazed to find that it did not
contain particle of that bark, and
they could not discover trace of the
substance with which powdered Gin.
namon is usually adulterated. Final
ly in the red powder they found
something green, which turned out
to be fragment of an internal rev.
enue stamp such as is used for tobac.
co. This gave the clue and enabled
them to show that the mysterious
stuff was old cigar boxes, dried and
ground up and favored with a few
dsops of essential oil. The author
tiles not only published the discovery
forthwith, but attacked the brand so
vigorously that in the next month all
that there was in the market had
been copfscated or destroyed.
In Boston a man has o machine
which takes the favcrite food of that
city. splits each bean into two grains,
channels and finishes these so much
like coffee that when roasted they de-
ceive the average grocer. In Chica-
60 another commercial crook has O
machine which makes O roast coffee
bean out of coarse and damaged
wheat -four. The dies which cut out
the grains are so well contrived that
that out of two hundred no two are
alike.