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SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1901 ADULTERATED COFFEE, tend Sunday school at Chappel he was last Sunday We guess sick. . V-'-? ’ • Dr. Miller, the magnetic healer, is doing a great deal ol good in this vicinity. He has cured sev eral and has many patients at this writing. The school at this place is flour ishing. " We wonder if the girls have car ried Mr, McMillan’s little boys back up to the tactory any more. Tho little boys were up there last spring and wanted to know which corner of the house they were going to put the factory in. They say they are going up a there and buy some cloth when the big factory ?OCER WHITE FOUND GUILTY OF VIOLATING OHIO’S PURE FOOD LAWS. Interesting Facts Concerning tne Roaating of Coffee Bronght Ont hy Scientific Expert*—Pretence of Bac teria. Toledo, O., Aug. 3.—The jury in Judge Meek’s court in this city has found James White, a local grocer, guilty of selling adulterated coffee. The prose cution was based on a package of Ar buckles Ariosa coffee. The State of Ohio, through the Pure Food Commission, prosecuted White. The case was on trial for nearly a month and attracted national atten tion. The manufacturers of Ariosa coffee conducted the defense for ' Grocer White. The best attorneys in the country were retained to defend him, but, after a short consultation, a ver- I diet of guilty w as returned by the jury. The State of Ohio considers this a big victory. Pure Food Commissioner Blackburn has been waging a warfare on spurious food articles and the de partment has been successful. The complaint of the State of Ohio was that Ariosa coffee was coated with ) a substance which concealed defects in the coffee and made it appear better than it is. The State charged this coating or glazing was a favorable me dium for the propagation of bacteria. Prof. G. A. Kirchmaier, of this city, a well known chemist, was the princi pal witness for the State. He had made scientific examinations of sam ples of Ariosa purchased from Grocer White in the open market. He found that each Ariosa berry contained an average of 300 bacteria. Mr. Kirch- | maier further testified that other cof fees he examined contained few bacte ria or none at all. He declared that the glazed coffee was not a wholesome, food product. Chemist Schmidt, of Cincinnati, cor roborated the testimony of Prof. Kirch maier. The State did not present fur ther testimony. The defense through the Arbuckles, who prepared this glazed coffee, se cured some of the most eminent chem ists and scientists in the United States to give testimony in their behalf. Prof. H. W. Wiley, of the United States Ag ricultural Department; Prof. Vaughn of Ann Arbor University; Profs. Bleile and Webber, of the Ohio State Univer sity, were called to defend Ariosa. Dr. Wiley had made a careful examination of the method of manufacturing Ario sa. He told of the 19,000,000 eggs used by the Arbuckles yearly in the prepara tion of this glazing. On this point in I cross examination, the State’s attorney deftly drew from him the information j that these eggs might be kept in cold storage by the Arbuckles for a year or two at a time. The experts who beard Dr. Wiley’s testimony were pleased to be able to * < eatcb” so famous a chemist. The doc tor at one point in his testimony ex plained very clearly how it is that the egg put Into the coffee pot by the house wife settles the coffee. He said that the heat coagulates the egg, and as it sinks to the bottom of the pot it carries the fine particles of coffee with it, and thus clarifies the drink* It is the act of coagulation in the coffee pot that does the work. Later on in his cross exam ination, ho bad to admit that when the egg was put on Ariosa coffee at the factory It became coagulated, and as egg cannot be coagulated but once, that the coating on coffee was practically no value, as a “settler” when It reached the coffee pot. Prof. Wiley acknowledged that the glazing might be a favorable medium for the propagation of bacteria, al though he would not testify positively either way because he was not a bac teriologist. Prof. Vaughn, of Ann Arbor, also a witness for the Arbuckles, said he found bacteria on Ariosa coffee. Prof. Bleile, another witness for the defense, found any number of lively bacteria on Ariosa coffee he examined, and he agreed that glazed coffee surely was a more favorable medium for the propagation of bacteria than unglazed coffee. Pure Food Commissioner Blackburn says; “The State is very much elated over its victory against this corpora tion. We are now considering the ad-. Visibility of informing every grocer in the State of Ohio that it is an infrac tion of the laws to sell Ariosa, and at the same time give warning to con* sumers that the coffee is an adulterat- 1901 Mayor—Aldermen—Sewerage. Mr. Editor :—Please permit the writer to “ruminate” just a line or two on the subject of this paper From this date as above headed until our election in December next you will see ju our local papers each week the “sugges tions” from “A Voter” or from “Many Citizens,” or “The People’s Ticket” or “The Workingmen’s Ticket,” setting forth the names of parties that some one or two— hardly ever as many as three- people making suggestions of viiamea, giving his or their names as suitable candidates for aider- men or mayor. JKW1? Now is the time that the people —in fact—should come together, ■either in mass meeting or by a .primary in due time, and select men with judgment, men with business deliberation, men with good, cool, thinking heads on atLem^nay, men with good, tried fbi siness experiences and qualifi cations, and let them reveal to the city in an open letter, over their own signatures, what their ideas *&re about public -improvements and advancement of our city. We want men who are not elected be cause they want the office, but men that can and will fill the office when elected; we are no longer a cross-roads town, we are living and growing every day. We want, and we shall look back with a pang of deep regret and sorrow if we fail >to select, such men as I have i Medium andi Fine Shoes, and at Prices J< er than we have ever sold them before. 14 Main Street ; Pushing Ahead at Pacolet. Mr. M. G. Stone, the general super intendent of the Pacolet mill at New Holland, who is permanently located here now, with his family, declares JARDENIERES, POI Ail are included in our See t*: They Will Convince Call and/See Picture Frame and Display on Second Floor. ,of cotton were streets in wagons. This i takafeJe evidence of the s nanc-ial condition ot our The recent rains have u sib^e the largest cotton 0 produced in. this section ,. corn is equally g° 0( *‘ . Mrs. Rose Abernathy 1 ed food article.” The verdict of the Jury In this case Is ot national importance because a great many other States have pure food laws iike that of Ohio, and it is natural to suppose that similar action will be taken by other Pure Food Commis sioners to prevent the sale of glazed a move fully., W. I. H©bbs dunaqan. :Mr. B. B. Brock failed to at Bent Cough Sjs Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. • ai the Signature