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Show Gelatine Worries Federal Officers What to Do With Confiscated Consignment Proves Puzzle to Officials. Without recourso to a cook book. F. B. Kaynor, United States food :ind drug inspector, ami Lueian II. Smyth, deputy dep-uty I'm ted States marshal, aro trying to devise a way. ot' disposing of3'.'0 pounds of gelatine. Gelatine is tho iirisloerat of tho phie family. Nature n?es it to fasten tho feet of pigs and calves to tho ends ot their legs. Cooks use it ns a common carrier tor flavors invoiced to the human hu-man pnlate. In its sinion pure state, a freshly dished up mound of gelatine looks like a lump of rock esndy doing the hesitation waltz. AH of these facts were brought ou t in a con fori' nee between be-tween the two federal officers vest er-day er-day afternoon, but noun of them suggested sug-gested a possible use for n barrel of gelat i no condemned by 1' nelo Sam as being unfit for food because of the presence in it of arsenic in quantity calculated cal-culated to do harm lo t lie customer. An attempt is to bo made to sell the condemned goods to someone who can make use of it other than for food. It is suggested Hint it might be used for glue, or for siting. The barrel would be worth $!"0 at tho regular market price if it were pure. As it is. it will probnblv bo sold for a few dollars. |