FrfTk Tk £2 THEY BUILD OR O U JLr & DESTROY AMAZING BUT RARELY SUSPECTED TRUTHS ABOUT THE THINGS YOU EAT c£n b ) y By ALFRED W. McCANN CHAPTER 91 Sulphurous Add and Its Salts, To gether with the Sulphuric Acid, IVhich is Formed by the Oxidation of Sulphurous Acid, are Now in Common Use in Many Food Prod ucts in the United States, die Most Common of Which are Dried Fruits and Molasses. Sulphurous acid is one of the sub stances found in every bakeshop and candy factory in the United States, with very few exceptions. Anhydrous sodium sulphite is used by butchers all over the country. I have traced tons of it into interstate commerce and hav« exposed and caused the arrest of butchers who secretly employed it to give a fiery red color to their stale meats, particularly to hamburger steaks, made from trimmings. In some communities, such as Mas sachusetts and New Jersey, its use i« openly countenanced by the authori ties. In other communities, such as New York City, its use in hamburger steak or other meat products consti tutes a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of SSOO or imprisonment. The enormous extent to which sul phurous acid and its salts are em ployed is not dreamed of by the com mon people. Evaporated apples, mush rooms, and maraschino cherries, figs, pears, English walnuts, almonds, are bleached with sulphur fumes. New Orleans and Porto Rico mo lasses, no longer worthy of the name they bear, are treated with sulphurous acid. Oats, in the form of oatmeal in tended for breakfast porridge, or in the form of whole oats intended fpr horse feed, are bleached with sul phurous acid. The breakfast food abuse is rare, but all the other abuses are daily occurrences. White sweet wines contain enor mous quantities of sulphurous acid, added for its preservative and bleach ing effect. Lime Juice is frequently preserved ■with sulphurous acid. Crystallized ginger root and candled fruit peels are treated with sulphurous acid. Glucose, manufactured for export, haa contained sulphites for years. In the old days the Juice of the sugar cane was clarified and evapo rated in open kettles set directly over the fire. To-day a few farmers make for their own use old-fashioned, open kettle molasses or sorghum; but such products, the art of making which is now almost forgotten, are no longer to bo purchased by the people. I frequently get samples of honest molasses or delicious old-fashioned sorghum from friends who attempt to follow my unpleasant excursions in the highways and byways of sophisti cation. In consequence my own family Is treated to table luxuries that few Americans now know anything about, although our grandmothers were fa miliar with them To-day the stuff called molasses is clarified by the use of sulphurous acid, which is subsequently neutralized by the addition of an alkali. In the proc- JAPS COMPLETELY EQUIP RUSSIANS Soldiers Get Uniforms, Guns, Ammunition and Cannon From Flowery Kingdom Paris, Aug. 5. (Correspondence of The Associated Press). The extent to which Japan is clothing, shoeing, arming and munitioning the Russian army was forcibly presented to a mili tary observer who has Just returned from a trip along the Russian rront. "I was astonished," he said, "to find greats numbers of Russian soldiers clothed from head to foot in uniforms made in Japan, not only the tunic and trousers, but the leggings. They carried on their shoulders Japanese guns. Their cartridge belts were filled with cartridges made In Japan. Their leather belts and buckles were from Japan. And the stout hob-nailed shoes they wear are from hides gathered in Korea and made into shoes in Japan. So that, there you see a Russian sol dier In Japanese clothes. Japanese shoes, with Japanese gun, Japanese am munition and Japanese accoutrement. "It is strange, he went on, "that Bussia went to war with Japan over Korea, and now Korea, the source of all the trouble, is supplying Russia with the shoes in which her soldiers are marching to victory. Korea is a great grazing country and is proving a vast reservoir of raw hides which the Jap anese are rapidly turning into boots, shoes, saddles and leather furnishings."' "How did these supplies get from Japan to the Russian front?" the ob server was asked. Shipments Unmolested "It was noted." said he, "that about the only vital point where the Germans had not been able to send their subma rines was In the waters of the East China Sea, the straits of Korea, and the Sea of Japan. These are the waters separating Japan from Russia and the Asiatic Mainland, and the routes over them, commercial and military are open and without menace. "What sort of arms and munitions ts> Russia getting from Japan?" was ask ed. "All sorts," was the reply, "from the service rifle and small field pieces up to the big twelve-inch eruns. The Jap anese twelve-Inch is a terrible weapon, and thev are content not to make anv of the fourteen-inch and slxteen-lnca guns, as thev consider from a military standpoint that the immobility of the monster gun offsets its advantages where the twelve-inch is a mobile gun and very deadly." It Is said that French and Japanese officers are now furnishing the expert direction of the Russian artillery fire, which has made it so effective. "Did you see any of these officers?' l was asked. "No. and the report is not correct." said the observer. "The Russian ar tillery officers are directing their own fire, and are getting splendid results. The only Japanese and French officers are those temporarily assigned to ex plain the workings of a new piece. Just as an expert is sent along to explain any complicated piece of machinery Japanese experts accompanied the big twelve-inch Japanese guns, not to ma neuver them in action, but to explam Special Prices on Guaranteed TIRES These are the Blackstone Perfect Traction Tread Tires, a {Treat many of which have l>ecn sold by us in this city and used for a year without a single one coming back for adjustment. 30x3 $8.89 34x4 $17.48 30x354 $10.98 36x4 $18.98 32x3VS $12.24 34x454 $24.48 31x4 $15.98 35x454 $24.98 32x4 $16.49 36x454 $25.40 33x4 $16.98 37x5 $31.98 ALFRED H. SHAFFER WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES 100 SOUTH CAMERON STREET L SATURDAY EVENING, ess the fine flavor and aroma are greatly destroyed by the sulphurous taste and odor which remain In the product to affect Injuriously the health of the unsuspecting consumer. Ir. some sugar factories the sul phurous acid Is introduced into the molasses as tho fumes of burning sul phur. In others it is introduced in the form of acid sulphite of lime. Part of this sulphurous acid is even tually oxidized to sulphuric acid, a deadly poison. In all commercially "reiined molasses" sulphurous and sul phuric acid are to be found except only that small quantity of the old fashioned black product that now finds its way from Barbadoes to the United States Even Barbadoes molasses has receutly surrendered to the sulphur kings, and in 1915 I found for the first time some of it on the market in New York city containing sulphur dioxide. Commercial molasses, of the only kind that children are now familiar with, contains ilttle of the flavor of the old-l'ashioned, open-kettle syrup. Mo lasses used to contain more of tho sugar of the cane. Modern methods of efficiency continue to rob it more and more of the wholesome and natural sugars which one time made it what it was—an innocent and wholesome de light that has now become a departed Joy. One method of refinement consists In suspending in water acid sulphite of sodium which is brought into contact with zinc dust. The solution which re sults from this process is then mixed with the crude molasses, which is thus bleached or refined with a correspond ing loss of frasrance and flavor, both of which escape in the effervescence which follows the mixture. Even oxalic acid has been employed In the refinement of molasses and chloride of tin has been detected as a bleaching agent. Of 18 samples of molasses examined by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture in 1912, 14 were found to contain a poisonous metal—zinc—in troduced into the molasses probably in the form of zinc chloride used as a flux for soldering the tin cans in which the molasses wa3 put. O: 20 samples analyzed, 18 con tained salts of tin. The mineral salts natural to sugar cane as it comes from the field amount In quantity from .5 to 1 per cent. The raw cane juice, as expressed from the cane prior to the manufac ture of sugar and the now byproduct molasses contains from .4 to .8 per cent. <sf mineral salts. So unnatural is the quantity of chemical neutralizes and refining agencies employed that in the finished molasses the ash content, bearing no resemblance at all to the original salts of the cane, runs up to a total of from 8 to 10 per cent., consisting largely of scale, calcium, sulphate and sulphites. Sugar made from the pure juice of the cane is known as "first sugar." The molasses drained from this "first sugar" is known as "first molasses." "First molasses' is now a curiosity, samples of which are to be found oc casionally in museums. The people know little about it. how it was to be maneuvered. That is the extent of their help, and the Rus sians get full credit for what they have accomplished in operating their artillery. Iso, the Japanese have done remarkably in arming, clothing and munitioning the Russians, but they have not had a chance to do the fight ing." Elks Object to Colored Body Using Their Name Special to the Telegraph Philadelphia, Aug. 19. —Objecting to the use of the name, "The Improved Benevolent and Protective Order o£ Elks of the World," by an organization composed of colored persons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of Ameria, generally known as the "Order of Elks." yesterday filed an equity suit in the United States District Court. An injunction is requested to restrain the defendant from appropriating that portion of the title "Order of Elks," and to restrain its members from wearing or displaying Elks badges, emblems or insignia. A hearing will be held by Judge Dickinson on next Friday. In the bill of complaint It is as serted that the "Elks of the World" I have no connection whatever with the regular order. This action was authorized by the Grand Lodge in session at Baltimore, July 14. A resolution was presented by Thomas Gray of Williamsport call ing attention to infringements on Elks' rights in Pennsylvania and other States. Danish Treaty May Not Be Ratified at This Congress Washington. Aug. 19.—Some fea tures of the treaty for purchase of the Danish West Indies have met op | position which may so prolong dis | cussion in the Senate as to prevent ratification at this session of Congress. Secretary Lansing was questioned by the Foreign Relations Committee yes terday about business concessions in the islands granted by Denmark and guaranteed by the United States under the treaty, and after adjournment of the meeting it was said the committee had not finished its Investigation of that subject. The Secretary will ap- P«ar again within a few days. Some members also want further informa tion about the purchase price of $25,- 000,000, which they believe is too high. Says 'Angleworm' Diplomacy Will Leave U. S. at Mercy of Great Trade Fight After War | Washington. D. C.. Aug. 19.—"Angle -1 worm" diplomacy, which has already in volved the United States in two con flicts with Mexico within the past three years, will leave the American people completely at the mercy of the great trade war which win follow the close [Type 17 ... (HANDLER SIX $1295 Mark JUpy^inlPrice The Truth Made Men Stop and Think A RECENT statement by the President of the of intelligent manufacturing and four years on tHe Chandler MotorCar Company on "motor road in the service of thousands of Chandler drivers. I j car values and motor car prices' 1 occasioned Bear in mind that the Chandler is still featured more searching thought on the part of pros- by Bosch Magneto ignition—which others pective motor car purchasers than any other leave off, even the marked up cars, because it costs announcement that has been made by the Auto- so much more; still featured oy its solid cast I mobile Industry this year. It came as a revelation num motor base extending from frame to frame—• to many who had considered themselves well where others use cast iron.; still featured by the informed. sturdiest, simplest chassis;! still featured by ball That statement led to the purchase of Chandler bearings in rear wheels, differential, transmission Type 17 Sixes within the past three weeks by hun- and elsewhere, which helps, make, it .the lightest. j dreds of men who had been attracted, by extrav- running car on the road* agant advertising or otherwise, to some one of the Bear in mind that in thisTypel7 Chandler you' several _i 'marked up" cars .in the medium priced get the exclusive Chandler full floating rear axle I field. with its silent spiral bevel gear differential. * And. If you read this statement by the President of 'hat you get the highest standard of the Chandler Company as you probably did, you 1;h; and stard ' double j know what we mean by marked up, You . « brakes f w hi C h stop the car at the io °L reCe K t mon(hs rl su, f stant of command and hold it safe on any grade., !! SBO to S2OO have been quietly tacked on to the . . . . ' I selling prices of these Chandler competitors. Bear in mind that you get all of these highest . . . grade, high priced features and scores or others ! The explanation of the marked up prices has which, together with Chandler workmanship, go been the abnormal conditions, said to exist and ma k e U p a car the superior quality of which really existing in.l a i degree,,in.the motor-car cannot be questioned in comparison with the material market. quality of any one of the many c marked, up" cars. But you know,'too, .that the Chandler car has And remember, too, that in the Type 17.Chand not been marked up. ler you are offered the beautiful tonneau cowl And so you can still buy this great car —greatest bodies which preceded the mid-summer new of all the Sixes-at the same price established eigh- models -of other makes by seven months time, teen months ago, long before the war had made In the Chandler you get mechapical excellence, i any effect on the material markets. And bear this luxury of body design, trim and nnishiat themin fin mind, that every change made in the Chandler imum of purchase price. car in all these past months has been a refinement If we asked you to pay SIOO more ors2oo , more and an improvement. Every addition to it has repre- that wouldn't make tne car a bit better. sented increased manufacturing cost.. IVot a considering your. purchase^of^ajtnewiLcaii. thing has been cut out of the car . think for yourself. Bear in mind that today, while others are asking Measure what Chandler offers you'along-side of you to add eighty, a hundred, a hundred and fifty what any other car in the medium priced field or two hundred dollars to your check, $1295 plus offers you, regardless of price, and we think we freight buys you this big luxurious highly refined know what your decision will be.*i Measure it Chandler —this Chandler with the marvelous along side of what any other car offers, keepingthe motor, the exclusive Chandler motor which has marked up price in mind y and _we know^what^your, been developed and perfected through.four years decision will be. • Chandler Seven-Passenger Touring Car $1295 Chandler Seven-Passenger Springfield Convertible Sedan, $1895 Chandler Four-Passenger Roadster . . $1295 Chandler Limousine w $2595 Chandler Four-Passenger Convertible Coupe (Deliveries in October) $1895 ALL PRICES F. O. B. CLEVELAND, OHIO Come Now for ANDREW REDMOND, Central Pennsylvania || THIRD AND BOYD STS. HARRISBURG, PA. CHANDLER MOTOR CAR COMPANY,^CLEVELAND^OHIO rnr, ■■■ ■ Binwn—rwifnißTrimiiiaf«i«aH^ of the present struggle In Europe, ac cording to Congressman Ebenezer J.. Hill, of Connecticut in a vigorous speech on the floor of the House. j Peace, Mr. Hill said is not a political, asset, and he pointed out that the pres- | ent leader of the Democratic Party is, now claiming credit for a peace that, was really maintained by Congress itself. WEST SHORE NEWS | Social and Personal News of Towns Along West Shore Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Deckard of Marys ville attended the Sunday school pic nic of the Liverpool churches on Thursday. Mrs. Hain of Liverpool is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. W. N. Shu maker at Marysville. Mrs. Charles Cleve*-.stein and daugh ter, Margaret, of Philadelphia, were guests of Marysville friends. Miss Hazel Michaels has returned to her Landaster home after visiting rela tives at Marysville. Miss Charlotte Zentemeyer has re turned to her home at Harrisburg af ter being the guest of her uncle, Pierce Dick at Marysville. L. M. Bernheisel, of Chicago, and Mrs. O. F. Beard, of Green Park, visited this week with Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Smith. Several Marysville men went on a Ashing trip to Anglesea, N. J. this week and returned with approximately 500 pounds of fish, mostly porgles and sea bass. Included in this party were C. W. Heishley, Harper Fortenbaugh. Har vey Hippie. H. W. Williard, Elmer My ers, Chester Sheafter, James Brown hill. C. O. Beers, M. H. Griffith, J. B. Adams, Merrill King and Samuel Meles ter. 81XDAY SCHOOL IX- MORNING Marysville, Pa., Aug. 19.—The Church of God has decided to hold Sunday school at 9.30 a. m. instead of 2.30 p. m. and to-morrow this change will go Into effect. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Expert Insists There Is Fair Profit in 5-Cent Loaf Special to the Telegraph Philadelphia., Pa., Aug. 19. ls | there a reason for the price of bread being increased? This question is answered by Mrs. M. A. Wilson, food expert. In arriving at her conclusions Mrs. Wilson has the j benefit of figures furnished by one of the most successful bakers in Phila delphia. ■ • Mrs. Wilson declares that there is a reasonable profit in the five-cent loaf. "Four is very high—sß.7s in car load lots"—the expert says. "From one barrel the baker makes about 366 loaves of standard weight bread. At five cents a loaf the barrel produces $18.30. "The cost of material*, flour, yeast, shortening, sugar, salt and dimalt, is SHAFFER ERVICE ATISFIES Shaffer Service never sleeps. There are always at tentive experts to care for your car at any hour of the day or night. Shaffer's Garage is the hclme of the America's Greatest Light Six. Shaffer's Garage is now operated by the Miller Auto Company. B. F. BARKER, Manager Phone 4119 50-68 South Cameron St. $lO.lB a barrel. This leaves a profit of $7.12, from which the cost of labor, machinery, rent, deprecitation and the numerous other incidetals must be de- ■ ducted. The larger the baking plant ' the greater will be the margin of pro- j fit. Modern baking machinery, by de- ( veloping- gluten, has done much to in crease the output of the baker." Action on Mechanicsburg Trolley License Postponed Special to the Telegraph Mechanicsburg, Pa., Aug. 19. At 1 an adjourned meeting of bojrough council Thursday evening no definite action was taken on the ordinance lm-1 posing a license fee for the use of I Main street by tho Valley Traction I Company. Action was deferred until j the next meeting. 'AUGUST 19, 1916. DR. ROEDEL DIES AT LEBANON Special to the Telegraph Lebanon, Pa., Aug. 19. Dr. Henry H. Roedel, 84, for more than a half century a physician and surgeon In the Lebanon Valley, died to-day at his home hero. t Do You Know When You KING OSCAR 5c CIGARS ARE JUST WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR BECAUSE OF THEIR UNIFORM HIGH QUALITY. SMOKE ANOTHER AND BE CONVINCED. JOHN C. HERMAN & CO. HARRISBURG, PA, ROUNSLEY-CHARLES Millerstown, Pa., Aug. 19. Miss Helen Rounsley, daughter of Mrs. Samuel Rounsley and J. Otis Charles of Duncannon, were married at 5 o'clock last evening in the Methodist Episcopal Church, by the Rev. Ch&rlM F. Himes. 9
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