Show bood in this age ct mad scrambling tor the djilas mankind is fortunate if be knows what he ie eating lately the health commissioners of san francisco have been making tests of the food products for sale in the grocery stores of that city and in every line of goods adulterated articles haye beeb discovered but the perfection of the art of adulterating appears to have been reached in connecticut the famed state of wooden the state chemist purchased from leta ilera samples of the bariou food product offered to the public and an analytis a decidedly unpleasant ion for the purchaser eer endeavoring to obtain a wholesome unadulterated article black pepper was found to be mixed with as indigestible an article as sawdust shells of cocoanuts and clay while ground mustard contained flour clay and plaster of paris colored with caritus yellow a poison clevea kinds of around coffee contained no coffee and the adulterations were mixtures of anything and everything warranted to give water coffee color the coffae was an imitation made of starch ground and in coffee shape cream of tartar was not cream ot tartar and honey for family and medical use was glucose syrup to sit down to a breakfast table in connecticut and partake of a steak pep S sawdust a cup of coffee made of round starch and dirt and biscuits containing cream of tartar spread with glucose syrup might extend the stomach sufficiently to give one the sensation of having bad a square meal but otherwise we would judge the experience peri ence would be anything but most enjoyable and then to take a light lunch in the evening jaet before boing to bed aej eat a sandwich made of cold ham coated with mustard aured of plaster of paris colored with a poison would at least be productive of the nightmare if nothing more serious but the thought comes home how would it do tr test some of the food products offered for sale in utah nearly all the canned and bottled articles of which are m in tha east and come perhaps from the same source that supplies connecticut with eatables the legislature of utah should provide means for making a careful analysis of food products in the different parts of the state in order to assure to the people pure food material in articles of imbor tation even if these adulterations are not now upon the market the fact of having a pure food law would at least act as a deterrent to traffickers in such health destroying products as davs been discovered in other states |